Archive for May, 2017
Residents of 44 districts founded Moscow Rescue Committee
Press release, 18.05.2017 On 17 May, representatives of initiatives groups from 44 districts of Moscow founded the Moscow Rescue Committee. Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko was elected head of the committee.
Posted: May 19th, 2017 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to show a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov
Press release, 18.05.2017 On 19 May, Yabloko will show a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov by Vladimir V. Kara-Murza. “Nemtsov” is a portrait film. People, who have different political stance and different attitude to the developments of 1990s and the current government, were interviewed – those, who were close to him, when he was doing […]
Posted: May 19th, 2017 under Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Pskov branch of Yabloko calls the resident to join a bike parade
Press release, 19.05.2017 Deputy Chair of the Pskov branch Artyom Medvedev calls the resident to join the bike parade in the Velikie Luki city on 28 May.
Posted: May 19th, 2017 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches Golden Toilet Brush 2017 negative award
Press Release, 18.05.2017 The Yabloko party has announced an open selection of nominees for the negative award Golden Toilet Brush 2017. The prize is made in the form of golden toilet brush and will be awarded to the officials who make the most absurd and wasteful purchase for the state budget money.
Posted: May 18th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Pskov residents stand for withdrawal of Russia’s troops from Syria
Press release, 17.05.2017 The Pskov branch of Yabloko conducted an action called “It is time to return home” aimed at stopping Russia’s interference into the Syrian civil war. The activists gathered signatures for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. They managed to collect about 400 signatures.
Posted: May 18th, 2017 under War in Syria.
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Alexander Gnezdilov: Europe chooses social liberalism
Yabloko Deputy Chairman on the French presidential elections results 16.05.2017 The new president of France Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated at the Élysée Palace on 14 May. The youngest president in the history of the Fifth Republic will turn 40 at the end of the year. Macron, with his evident social liberal and pro-European programme, won […]
Posted: May 18th, 2017 under Foreign policy.
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Yabloko to nominate Yevgeny Roizman for governor of the Sverdlovsk Region
Press release, 16.05.2017 Yabloko is determined to nominate Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman for governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, the Urals. The party is carrying on negotiations with him at the moment.
Posted: May 17th, 2017 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections.
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Sergei Mitrokhin vs Pyotr Tolstoy: debates on housing demolition programme in Moscow
Press release, 15.05.2017 On 16 May, Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin and State Duma deputy Pyotr Tolstoy will participated in debates on the housing demolition programme announced by Moscow City Hall.
Posted: May 16th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko announces the start of the municipal election campaign in Moscow
Press release, 15.05.2017 The Yabloko is announcing the start of the municipal election campaign in Moscow and is inviting civil activists, who want to participate in the elections, to become Yabloko’s candidates.
Posted: May 16th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Yabloko supported a rally against housing demolitions in Moscow
Press release, 15.05.2017 On May 14, thousands of people participated in a rally against the plans of the City Hall to demolish about 8,000 multistory apartment buildings in Moscow and resettle 1,6 million residents. Yabloko’s representative Yelena Rusakova became a member of the organising committee of the protest action. Yabloko leaders Emilia Slabunova, Grigory Yavlinsky […]
Posted: May 15th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Boris Vishnevsky: St. Petersburg Governor answered only to one question out of ten in his report
Press release, 12.05.2017 Head of Yabloko’s faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky criticized the annual report of St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko to the deputies of the city parliament.
Posted: May 12th, 2017 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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The Central Electoral Commission refused to check questionable voting in Tatarstan
Press release, 11.05.2017 The Central Electoral Commission refused Yabloko’s request to recount votes for parliamentary election of 2016 at a number of polling stations in the Republic of Tatarstan. According to Yabloko, the video recordings, which were made at some of the polling stations, give the grounds for the intervention of the Central Electoral Commission […]
Posted: May 11th, 2017 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Boris Vishnevsky to tell about Yabloko’s history
Press release, 10.05.2017 On Friday, 12 May, head of Yabloko’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky will give a lecture on the history of the party.
Posted: May 11th, 2017 under History.
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Yabloko starts litigation for the return of direct mayoral elections in Krasnoyarsk
Press release, 10.05.2017 Maxim Bombakov, an activist of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko, sues for the return of direct mayoral election in the Siberian city of Kransnoyarsk. The regional court requested to bring the Kransnoyarsk Territory Legislative Assembly into the proceedings.
Posted: May 10th, 2017 under Elections.
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St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko commemorated victims of the Second World War
Press release, 08.05.2017 On 8 May, deputies of Yabloko’s faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and party activists commemorated victims of the Second World War laying flowers at the memorial at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery.
Posted: May 8th, 2017 under History, Street Actions.
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“The 9th of May is the day of independence and liberty”
Press release, 05.05.2017 Yabloko leaders and party activists laid wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls. Members of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee Alexei Arbatov, Sergei Mitrokhin,Grigory Yavlinsky and party Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov also participated in this anti-war memorial action.
Posted: May 6th, 2017 under History, Human Rights.
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Unidentified individuals tired to burn Yabloko activist’s house in the Tver Region
Press release, 04.05.2017 The house of Vladimir Yegorov, Chair of Yabloko’s local branch in Toropets, the Tver Region, was attacked. On May 2, unidentified individuals broke windows of his house and intended to set the place on fire.
Posted: May 5th, 2017 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Mitrokhin qualifies the appointment of Deputy Prime Minister’s son CEO as a conflict of interests
Press release, 02.05.2017 Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and head of the party’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, applied to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Government of the RF demanding to verify compliance of the appointment of Deputy Prime Ministers’s son CEO with the legislation on the prevention and management of conflict […]
Posted: May 4th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Lev Shlosberg made a speech at a rally of trade unions
Press release, 02.05.2017 On 1 May, deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg made a speech at a rally organised by trade unions. “Today a wonderful word is pronounced here – solidarity. Solidarity is our answer to injustice,” the politician said addressing the public.
Posted: May 3rd, 2017 under Street Actions.
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Federal Security Service forced a defender of the indigenous small numbered peoples to flee form Russia
Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for asylum in the USA Representative of the indigenous small numbered peoples of Russia in the UN, public person Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for political asylum in the USA. A criminal case is likely to be faked against him in Russia. The Federal Security Service threatens his friends, family and colleagues. […]
Posted: May 2nd, 2017 under Human Rights.
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