Archive for August, 2016
Central Election Commission restores YABLOKO’s list of candidates in Novgorod Region
Press release, 12.08.2016 Today the Central Election Commission has settled YABLOKO’s claim against the Election Commission of the Novgorod Region, which denied registration of the party list of candidates in Novgorod Region parliamentary election.
Posted: August 12th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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Police detained YABLOKO parliamentaray candidiates during their meeting with mothers who are on hunger strike
Press release, 12.08.2016 Today, August 12, police officers have detained YABLOKO’s parliamentary candidates Yulia Galyamina and Mikhail Peskov at the meeting with the mothers of many children, who are holding a hunger strike by the offcie of the ruling United Russia party. An ambulance was called because Mikhail Peskov had heart problems.
Posted: August 12th, 2016 under Elections, Parliamentary Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO’s activist attacked in the Sverdlovsk Region
Press release, 11.08.2016 On 9 August, a man attacked a woman-activists, who campaigned for Yuri Pereverzev, Chair of the Sverdlovsk branch of YABLOKO and a candidate for deputy of the regional parliament.
Posted: August 12th, 2016 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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Girgory Yavlinsky launches YABLOKO platform ahead of elections
Liberal International, 11.08.2016 With the support of party leaders and candidates ahead of the upcoming elections in Russia, Russian United Democratic Party (YABLOKO – LI full-member) founder and candidate, Grigory Yavlinsky, has presented a new YABLOKO platform and introduced his colleagues running for office in September.
Posted: August 11th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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St.Petersburg YABLOKO claims that all candidates and parties must have equal access to state media
Press release, 11.08.2016 The St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO forwarded an appeal to the city election commission demanding to compel the state media to proved free printing area to all participants of the elections.
Posted: August 11th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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Novgorod branch of YABLOKO protests against the refusal to register the party list of candidates in the regional parliament elections
Press release, 11.08.2016 Today YABLOKO’s candidates for deputies of the Novgorod Region Duma have conducted a protest action against the refusal of the regional election commission to register the party’s list of candidates. A series of one-person pickets took place outside the Government of the Novgorod Region.
Posted: August 11th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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Galina Shirshina: The only legitimate government is the one that was elected
Member of YABLOKO’s federal list of candidates in the State Duma election made a visit to Kazan [800 kilometers east of the capital] Press release, 10.08.2016 “The budget of Kazan [the Republic of Tatarstan] and Petrozavodk [the Republic of Karelia] in terms of one person per year is nearly the same and makes 18 thousand […]
Posted: August 10th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Novosibirsk Region government assists the ruling United Russia party
Press release, 10.08.2016 The Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO addressed an appeal against the actions of the regional government, which assists the ruling United Russia party, to the regional election commission.
Posted: August 10th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Court withdrew YABLOKO’s list of candidates from elections to Kursk Region parliament
Press release, 10.08.2016 On August 9, the Kursk Regional Court withdrew YABLOKO’s list of candidates from the elections to the Kursk Region parliament on the grounds of the LDPR party’s appeal. YABLOKO will challenge the decision in the Supreme Court.
Posted: August 10th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on Turkey, Syria, migrants in Europe and Donald Trump
Press release, 09.08.2016 YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky answered the question of the journalists on the developments in Turkey, Russia’s military operation in Syria, migration crisis in Europe and presidential election in the USA at the press conference in Interfax.
Posted: August 10th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO leaders commented on the active phase of the election campaign
Press release, 08.08.2016 At a press conference dedicated to the start of the election campaign YABLOKO leaders Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky told the journalists about the active phase of the party’s election campaign which will start in the end of August.
Posted: August 9th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova: YABLOKO nominated over 2000 candidates in 2016
Press release, 08.08.2016 YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova has told the journalists about YABLOKO’s participation in federal, regional and municipal elections in 2016 at the press conference in Interfax today.
Posted: August 8th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Grigory Yavlinsky presented a new YABLOKO at the press conference
Press release, 08.08.2016 A new YABLOKO – this is how Grigory Yavlinsky called the democratic coalition, which was formed on the basis of the party list of candidates to the State Duma. Very different people, who have a shared vision of the perspectives, the future of our country, shared principles and ideals, entered the coalition, […]
Posted: August 8th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Truck Drivers Association addressed YABLOKO
Press release, 08.08.2016 The Truck Drivers Association called YABLOKO to abolish the laws hampering the development of traffic network and motor freight transportation in case the party enters the parliament. At a round table party Chair Emilia Slabunova said that YABLOKO would support the interests of truck drivers. She also said that the party electoral […]
Posted: August 8th, 2016 under Elections.
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Parliamentary candidate Sergei Mitrokhin published a report on his activity within 20 years
Press release, 05.08.2016 YABLOKO’s parliamentary candidate Sergei Mitrokhin, who is on the top ten list of party candidates to the State Duma, published a report on his activity as a deputy, politician and activist within the past 20 years.
Posted: August 8th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO leaders to tell about the election campaign
Press release, 05.08.2016 A press conference on “YABLOKO’s election campaign: numbers, details, perspectives on the federal and regional level” will take place at the Interfax press centre at 2 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Ulitsa on Monday, August 8.
Posted: August 8th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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The Central Electoral Commission registered YABLOKO to run in the parliamentary election
Press Release, 05.08.2016 The Central Electoral Commission registered the list of candidates from the YABLOKO party to run in the elections to the State Duma of the seventh convocation. The corresponding decision was adopted at the meeting of the Central Electoral Commission today, on 5 August.
Posted: August 5th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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A year passed since the government declared a war against their own people
Blog post by Emilia Slabunova, 03.08.2016 A war against food was declared in our country a year ago. On July 29, 2015, the President signed a decree “On Certain Special Economic Measures Aimed to Provide Security of the Russian Federation”, actually, aimed at destroying food brought from the countries which fall under [Russia’s] counter sanctions.
Posted: August 5th, 2016 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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All the political forces must be allowed to run in the elections
Statement by the St. Petersburg branch of YABLOKO, 04.08.2016 The St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO consistently opposes the system of gathering the voters’ signatures as a means of administrative elimination of the political forces and candidates who are out of favour of the government. The St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO faced this threshold when it was not […]
Posted: August 4th, 2016 under Elections, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Advertising company refuses to place YABLOKO’s billboards in the Altai Territory
Press release, 02.08.2016 The Gallery advertising company denied placing 27 YABLOKO’s billboards in six cities of the Altai Territory despite preliminary agreements. The company proposed to place 10 advertising boards in the cities of Barnaul and Biysk instead.
Posted: August 3rd, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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