Archive for September, 2016
Emilia Slabunova: 12 years of the State Duma without YABLOKO led to ruining of the Russian science and research
Press Release, 14.09.2016 Twelve years of the State Duma without YABLOKO led to ruining of the Russian science and research. Such a statement was made by YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova at an extraordinary meeting of the Moscow branch of the trade union of the Russian Academy of Sciences today.
Posted: September 16th, 2016 under Elections, St.Petersburg Gubernatorial Elections 2014, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Sergei Mitrokhin calls the Central Electoral Commission to withdraw Moscow Mayor from parliamentary election
Press release, 13.09.2016 Moscow YABLOKO leader, parliamentary candidate Sergei Mitrokhin claims that the incumbent Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who is running in the parliamentary election, is abusing his position in office. Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded his claim to the head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova.
Posted: September 15th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Dmitry Gudkov obtained 30 thousand signatures for installation of a memorial plaque to Boris Nemtsov
Press release based on the article by Radio Liberty, 13.09.2016 YABLOKO parliamentary candidate Dmitry Gudkov and journalist Timofey Dzyadko brought 30 thousand signatures for installation of a memorial plaque to Boris Nemtsov on Moscow’s Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, where he was murdered, to Moscow City Hall.
Posted: September 15th, 2016 under Elections, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Parliamentary elections in Russia: another Putin show
ALDE, 19.09.2016 Commenting on the results of the Parliamentary elections in Russia on Sunday 18 September, ALDE Party President Hans van Baalen said: “The Duma elections were yet another Putin show, without a free and fair chance for the opposition.”
Posted: September 14th, 2016 under Elections, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, The ALDE party.
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YABLOKO launched Economic Manifesto
Press Release, 12.09.2016 On 12 September, YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky and the country’s leading economists Yevgeny Gontmakher, Igor Nikolayev, Mikhail Subbotin and Sergei Ivanenko launched YABLOKO’s Economic Manifesto.
Posted: September 14th, 2016 under Economy, Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Grigory Yavlinsky:”This system can not be reformed, it should be replaced like a broken TV set”
Press release, 10.09.2016 YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky presented his book “Peripheral authoritarianism. How and Where Russia Has Come” at the 29th International Book Fair at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre in Moscow.
Posted: September 13th, 2016 under Education and Science, Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Work schedule of YABLOKO election head-quarters on the voting day 18 September
Press Release, 12.09.2016 On 18 September, call-centre of the of YABLOKO’s “hot line” for monitoring election violations will begin receiving calls from all over Russia. The call-centre is located in the central office of the party in Moscow.
Posted: September 13th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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The Supreme Court of Karelia dismissed YABLOKO’s appeal on withdrawal of the party list of candidates in the elections to the Petrozavodsk City Council
Press Release, 12.09.2016 Today the Supreme Court of Karelia dismissed YABLOKO’s appeal on withdrawal of the party list of candidates in the elections to the Petrozavodsk City Council.
Posted: September 13th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, Situation in Karelia.
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Lev Shlosberg’s parliamentary campaign announcement
Video, 12.09.2016 No matter how hard it is, we are going to clean the government machine from the rust of corruption and will put it to rights, so that the government will work in the interest of people not against them. Lev Shlosberg. One for all and all for one.
Posted: September 12th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Nikolai Rybakov: what kind of a country is it with such level of aggression?
Blog post by Nikolai Rybakov, 09.09.2016 There has been an attack on the camp of Greenpeace volunteer firefighters in Kuban [the Krasnodar region, South Russia]. Shall we go on tolerating this?
Posted: September 9th, 2016 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO candidate’s accounts in the social networks and e-mail boxes hacked
Press Release, 08.09.2016 Accounts in the social networks and e-mail boxes of Elena Rusakova, YABLOKO candidate to the State Duma and municipal deputy in Moscow, e-mails of her supports helping her in the campaign were hacked this night.
Posted: September 9th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Yevgeny Roizman, oppositional Mayor of Ekaterinburg, to support YABLOKO in the parliamentary elections
Press Release, 09.09.2016 YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky, who is on a pre-election visit to Yekaterinburg, met with Mayor of the city Yevgeny Roizman. The main topics of the meeting were the situation with local self-government in Russia and the upcoming elections to the State Duma. Yevgeny Roizman assured Grigory Yavlinsky in his support of the […]
Posted: September 9th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to launch the Economic Manifesto of the YABLOKO party
Press Release, 09.09.2016 On Monday, 12 September, Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO leader in the elections to the State Duma, and economists Igor Nikolayev and Yevgeny Gontmakher will launch the Economic Manifesto of the party.
Posted: September 9th, 2016 under Economy, Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Famous Russian human rights defenders Svetalna Gannushkina and Sergei Kovalyov called head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to debate
Press Release, 08.09.2016 Svetlana Gannushkina, renowned human rights defender, Chair of the Grzhdanskoy Sodeystviye (Civil Assistance) Committee and candidate to the State Duma running in YABLOKO regional group in Chechnya, and Sergei Kovalyov, her representative, famous human rights defender, member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and Co-Chair of YABLOKO Human Rights Faction, called Ramzan Kadyrov, […]
Posted: September 9th, 2016 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Emilia Slabunova informed the Central Electoral Commission of the pressure on YABLOKO candidates
Press Release, 07.09.2016 YABLOKO filed 54 complaints of violations to local election commissions and the prosecutor’s office during this election campaign. YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova informed the Central Electoral Commission of this on 7 September. The party is going to summarize all the violations and submit a complaint to the Central Electoral Commission.
Posted: September 8th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Renowned writer Vladimir Voinovich becomes YABLOKO election representative at State Duma election
Previously the Central Electoral Commission registered actor Oleg Basilashvili and poet Igor Irtenyev as YABLOKO election representatives Tass, 07.09.2016 On Wednesday the Central Electoral Commission registered a group of YABLOKO election representatives at the elections to the State Duma – one of them is Vladimir Voinovich, a renowned writer, author of the novels “Moscow 2042” […]
Posted: September 8th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Famous Russian human right defenders Svetlana Gannushkina and Sergei Kovalev call head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to debate
Press Release, 07.09.2016 Svetlana Gannushkina, renown human rights defender and head of YABLOKO regional group in Chechnya in the parliamentary election, and Sergei Kovalyov, her representative, famous human rights defender, member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and Co-Chair of YABLOKO Human Rights Faction, are going to call Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya and candidate for […]
Posted: September 7th, 2016 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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A discussion on recovering referendums in Moscow took place in YABLOKO election campaign headquarters
Press release, 06.09.2016 The use of referendums to solve the issues of public importance in Moscow has become a major topic of YABLOKO election campaign in the capital of Russia. At the moment the officials make any decisions concerning the urban development of Moscow without regard to the opinion of the residents. A discussion on recovering referendums in […]
Posted: September 7th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO’s motion on referendum against naming a bridge after former Chechen President referred to St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly
Press release, 05.09.2016 The Electoral Commission of St. Petersburg approved of YABLOKO’s motion on a referendum against the decision to name the bridge across the Duderhof canal after Akhmad Kadyrov, former Chechen President, unanimously. The motion will be referred for consideration of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, which will decide whether the questions proposed by […]
Posted: September 6th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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“We have not forgotten how the state abandoned defenseless children and their mothers in Beslan”
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 03.09.2016 A terrorist attack taking the lives of 334 people, including 186 children, happened in Belsan, [North Ossetia], twelve year ago. We express our deepest sorrow and condolences to all the relatives and friends of the innocent victims. Terrorism and terrorists taking the lives of innocent people can not be […]
Posted: September 6th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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