Archive for April, 2016
Grigory Yavlinsky: “They are trying to draw Russia into another war”
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 03.04.2016 Alarming news come from the Caucasus. In Karabakh there are active military actions with already a lot of victims from both the Azerbaijani and the Armenian side. Perhaps it is Turkey that has been tacitly pushing Baku to a military conflict with Yerevan. Russia has obligations before Armenia under the Collective […]
Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Foreign policy.
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On the mobbing of Mikhail Kasyanov
Grigory Yavlisky’s Facebook page, 03.04.2016 A hate campaign has been unleashed against Mikhail Kasyanov. The state has set an entire pack on him: the Federal Security Service with its wiretapping, peeping and informers, the Ministry of Interior with provocatively inactive and posing police, unbridled paid “public activists” who look like criminals, and, certainly, the state […]
Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Condolences of the death of Hans-Dietrich Genscher, ex Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany
Condolences by Grigory Yavlinsky, 02.04.2016 Hans-Dietrich Genscher was the politician who for many decades have been defining the level and content of international relations in Europe. His scope of thinking, vision of the future, the ability to find a compromise without concessions in the main thing made his tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs of […]
Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Без рубрики.
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Kalmykia branch of YABLOKO conducted a street action in support of Constitution
Press release, 31.03.2016 Today, on 31 March, the Kalmykia branch of YABLOKO has conducted a street action demanding to observe the Constitution of the Russian Federation and provide the observance of the rights and freedoms of the citizens in accordance with the fundamental law of the state.
Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions.
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YABLOKO succeeded in recalling the bill on prohibition of street actions in main pedestrian street of Nizhny Novgorod
Press release, 31.03.2016 Today, on 31 March, the Lagislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region made a decision to cancel consideration of the bill on prohibition of public events at Bolshaya Pokroskaya Ulitsa (the main street of the city) from the agenda.
Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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Moscow YABLOKO opposes to the appointment of Tatyana Moskalkova to the post of Ombudsperson
Press release, 31.03.2016 On 30 March, the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO addressed the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation with an appeal to reject the candidacy of Tatyana Moskalkova, police Major General, to the post of Ombudsperson.
Posted: April 2nd, 2016 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO asks Prime Minister Medvedev to return state subsidies to socially-oriented non-profit organisations
Press Release, 31.03.2016 YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabunova asks Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to save the country’s sole Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind and review the conditions for granting subsidies to socially-oriented non-profit organisations.
Posted: April 1st, 2016 under Social Policies.
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As elections loom, Kremlin applies ‘ethical standards’ to muzzle critics
The Christian Science Monitor, by Fred Weir, 29.03.2016 … Russia’s oldest liberal party, Yabloko, has seen several of its local lawmakers censured or deprived of deputy status for breaking such rules over the past few months. Nevertheless, Alexander Gnezdilov, the party’s deputy chairman, insists that Yabloko will attempt to participate in both local and national […]
Posted: April 1st, 2016 under Elections, Parliamentary Elections 2016, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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