Archive for October, 2016
Leader of a civic organisation supporting indigenous peoples of the Amur Region joined YABLOKO
Press release, 12.10.2016 Leonid Sungorkin, leader of a civic organisation supporting the culture, rights and freedoms of the indigenous peoples of the Amur Region, joined YABLOKO.
Posted: October 14th, 2016 under Human Rights.
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Russians do not trust the Duma formed at the fraudulent elections
Press Release, 13.10.2016 Public confidence in the State Duma has dropped for the year by almost two-fold – from 40 to 22 per cent, as shown by the poll conducted by the Levada Centre a week after the elections. The State Duma demonstrated the worst indicators of public trust among other the state power bodies. […]
Posted: October 14th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Yabloko Youth launches a campaign against conscription system
Press release, 10.10.2016 Moscow YABLOKO Youth launched a campaign against conscription and for transfer of the army on a contract basis.
Posted: October 13th, 2016 under Human Rights, Youth Policies.
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Leaders of St. Petersburg YABLOKO commemorated Anna Politkovskaya
Press release, 09.10.2016 On October 7, a ceremony commemorating Anna Politkovskaya was held in St. Petersburg. YABLOKO’s deputies of the city parliament Boris Vishnevsky and Mikhail Amosov as well as Deputy Chair of the party Nikolai Rybakov participated in the memorial action.
Posted: October 12th, 2016 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Voronezh YABLOKO commemorated Anna Politkovskaya
Press release, 09.10.2016 On October 7, the Voronezh branch of YABLOKO commemorated Anna Politkovskaya. The activists participated in a rally dated for the 10th anniversary of the murder of the journalist.
Posted: October 11th, 2016 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO’s candidate in the past election dismissed from his post in Pskov State University
Press release, 10.10.2016 Igor Skoptsev, YABLOKO candidate in the past election, was dismissed from his post of senior departmental assistant of the informatics in Pskov State University. The dismissal took place after a resident of Velikiye Luki city complained to Governor Turchak via his web-site that “a person continuously criticising the Governor and the authorities […]
Posted: October 11th, 2016 under Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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A picket against polluting production held in Sochi
Press Release, 09.10.2016 A one-person picket against polluting production of Electozink was held by Atsamaz Khadikov, leader of the North-Ossetian branch of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction and activist of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch. The picket was held by the city out-patient clinic on the 7th of October and caught attention of many people.
Posted: October 11th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Moscow YABLOKO laid flowers to the memorial to Anna Politkovskaya
Press release, 09.10.2016 On October 7, the 10th anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the Moscow branch of YABLOKO laid flowers to the memorial to the journalist.
Posted: October 11th, 2016 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Ten years without Anna Politkovskaya
Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook page, 07.10.2016 She was braver than one is allowed to be in Russia. She was more honest than one is allowed to be in Russia. She was more talented than one is allowed to be in Russia.
Posted: October 9th, 2016 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Tambov branch of YABLOKO held a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya
Press Release, 07.10.2016 Today, on 7 October, the Tambov regional branch of the YABLOKO party held pickets memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Posted: October 9th, 2016 under Human Rights.
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“We can not tolerate a lesser evil fearing that a greater evil may come”
Blog post at the Ekho Moskvi website by Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (the Yabloko faction), 07.10.2016 Today, we will gather by the Solovetsky Stone on Troitskaya Square in St. Petersburg to commemorate Anna Politkovskaya.
Posted: October 9th, 2016 under Human Rights.
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Today YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova celebrates her birthday
Today YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova celebrates her birthday. In such difficult times she courageously took up the task of leading the union of democratic forces in Russia. We in YABLOKO are grateful to you for this and are glad to send you our heartiest congratulations!
Posted: October 9th, 2016 under Congratulations/Condolences.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian Guard
Blog post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 06.10.2016 President began preparing for the new political season with the decree on granting special powers of the National Guard, already renamed into the Russian Guard. This department will get about 100 proxies, including maintenance of the wartime regime, planning joint activities with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, […]
Posted: October 7th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Greetings on the Teachers’ Day from Emilia Slabunova
Greetings on the Teachers’ Day from YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova, 05.10.2016 Dear Colleagues! Happy Teachers’ Day!
Posted: October 6th, 2016 under Congratulations/Condolences.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demands that the election results in Babushkinsky single mandate constituency, Moscow, must be overturned
Press release, 05.10.2016 Moscow YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin filed a claim with the Moscow city Court demanding to overturn the election results in Babushkinsky single mandate constituency, Moscow.
Posted: October 6th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Krasnoyarsk will protest against election fraud in a rally
Press Release, 04.10.2016 On Wednesday, 5 October, a joint rally of different political parties under the slogan “For Fair Elections” will take place in Krasnoyarsk. It is expected that the rally will bring together over 5,000 people who want to express their protest against the rigged elections in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Posted: October 5th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO disputes the election results in Kirovsky District of St. Petersburg
Rosbalt, 03.10.2016 YABLOKO representatives are going to dispute the results of the election to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in the Kirovsky district. The claim concerns the election results at 25 polling stations, YABLOKO candidate Andrei Palevich told the Rosbalt news agency.
Posted: October 5th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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Birthday greetings to Alexei Yablokov, head of the Green Russia Faction and Federal Political Committee member
Greetings from Emilia Slabunova, 03.10.2016 Dear Alexei Vladimirovich, Happy birthday! You are a strong, fearless person who knows how to soldier on and fight! We believe in you, your sense of duty and ability to man up.
Posted: October 4th, 2016 under Congratulations/Condolences.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: A Sheepish Rejection
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 01.10.2016 The responsibility for the shameful denial of the war, and, consequently, for the loss of passengers from the shot down [MH17] aircraft lies on Europe too… But the principle of identification of the main culprit – the one who started it – is not cancelled. And Russia began it all.
Posted: October 4th, 2016 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Alexander Gnezdilov: Analyzing the results of the elections
Blog post by Alexander Gnezdilov, 29.09.2016 According to the official data, YABLOKO lost 1,200,992 votes [in the election]. Where have they gone, and why? United Russia has lost 3,843,909 votes since 2011 (and it is according to the official figures only), and it has lost about 16 million votes since 2007.
Posted: October 4th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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