Archive for August, 2017
For Human Rights in Altai newspaper celebrates its 15th anniversary
Press release, 30.08.2017 On 29 August, a round table on the role of mass media in human rights protection was held in Barnaul. The event was dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the For Human Rights in Altai newspaper.
Posted: August 31st, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Moscow City Court reinstated four YABLOKO municipal candidates in Koptevo district, Moscow
Press release, 30.08.2017 Today Moscow City Court has reinstated the registration of municipal candidates from the YABLOKO party Andrei Simonov, Anton Chernykh, Tatyana Agafonova-Lenskaya and Andrey Natalchuk in the Koptevo district.
Posted: August 30th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Head of the Territoral Electoral Commission of the Koptevo District, Moscow, was dismissed from his post for withdrawal of YABLOKO candidates
Press Release, 29.08.2017 The Moscow Electoral Commission has dismissed Sergei Mityusov, head of the Territorial Electoral Commission of Koptevo, Moscow, who appealed to the court, demanding to withdraw four candidates from the YABLOKO party from the Moscow municipal elections. In addition, the Moscow Electoral Commission has banned the territorial commission to execute the court decisions […]
Posted: August 29th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Court withdraws four YABLOKO municipal candidates in Moscow
Press Release, 28.08.2017 On 28 August, the Koptevsky District Court of Moscow annulled the registration of candidates from the YABLOKO party Andrei Simonov, Anton Chernykh, Tatyana Agafonova-Lenskaya and Andrey Natalchuk in the municipal elections.
Posted: August 29th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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The sentence to Zaletskaya, Kravchuk and Kornilova must be reviewed
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.08.2017 The Yabloko party is outraged by the sentence to Olga Zaletskaya, Anastasia Kravchuk and Alexandra Kornilova. The judicial system of Russia once again proved that it is ready to serve any interests of the executive branch of power. The authorities of the Republic [of Karelia] turned the law into […]
Posted: August 28th, 2017 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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The murder of Ivan Skripnichenko is another crime of the regime
Statement by Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 25.08.2017 Ivan Skripnichenko, a member of Yabloko, a civil activist, who was a volunteer guard at a makeshift memorial to Boris Nemtsov [on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge], has passed away. He probably died as a result of injuries sustained after he was attacked by […]
Posted: August 28th, 2017 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Alexander Gnezdilov: “The sacrifice of Komar, Usov and Krichevsky must not come to naught”
Yabloko Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov commemorated the defenders of the White House, 23.08.2017 On August 22, a rally in memory of the coup of 1991 took place in Moscow. The participants of the action commemorated Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov, who died on the night of August 20 to August 21, 1991, defending […]
Posted: August 25th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Altai branch of Yabloko commemorated victims of Stalinism
Press release, 23.08.2017 On 23d August, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, Yabloko’s candidates for deputies of the Barnaul City Duma, the Altai Territory, laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of political reprisals and held a moment of silence.
Posted: August 25th, 2017 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Court backs the decision of the territorial electoral commission on withdrawal of Oleg Rodin from city parliament elections
Press release, 21.08.2017 On 18 August, Sovetsky district court upheld the decision of the territorial electoral commission on the withdrawal of Oleg Rodin, deputy Chair of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, from the elections to the city parliament.
Posted: August 24th, 2017 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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The right to elect a Mayor: Yabloko’s activist in Kransoyarsk to appeal to the Supreme Court
Press release, 22.08.2017 Maxim Bombakov, a Yabloko’s activists in the city of Krasnoyarsk, will appeal to the Supreme Court of Russia in an attempt to vindicate the right of the residents of Krasnoyarsk to elect a Mayor at equal and direct elections.
Posted: August 24th, 2017 under Elections.
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The arrest of Kirill Serebrennikov is an act of intimidation of the creative community
Press release based on the statement by the Yabloko party, 22.08.2017 Today the Yabloko party has released a statement in support of Kirill Serebrennikov, an art director of Moscow’s Gogol Centre, who has been arrested earlier today. Yabloko claims that the persecution of the art director must be stopped immediately.
Posted: August 22nd, 2017 under Human Rights.
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The man who attacked Natalia Nadler must be brought to responsibility!
Press release based on the statement by Yabloko’s Green Russia faction and the Leningrad Region branch of Yabloko, 18.08.2017 Yabloko’s Green Russia faction and the Leningrad Region branch of Yabloko released a statement demanding to bring the man who attacked Natalia Nadler to responsibility. On 10 August, Natalia Nadler, the head of the local Yabloko […]
Posted: August 21st, 2017 under Human Rights.
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The Great Terror and Modern Bolshevism
By Grigory Yavlinsky, 15.08.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky web-site Today it turns 80 years since the beginning of the Great Terror [unleashed by Joseph Stalin]. They say, why speaking about it again, because everything has already been said, and the present political topics are different. Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and even Vladimir Putin spoke of […]
Posted: August 18th, 2017 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Tags: #TheGreatTerror #OvercomingStalinsLegacy #ModernBolshevism
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Condolences on the acts of terror in Catalonia on behalf of Grigory Yavlinsky
18.08.2018 Thirteen people were killed, over a hundred people were injured. There were acts of terror in the centre of Barcelona and in Cambrils, and explosions in Alcanar. These are new bloody spots on the map of Europe. They are new but I am afraid that they are not the last ones. Murdering unarmed civilians […]
Posted: August 18th, 2017 under YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Head of Yabloko’s local branch attacked: a man slashed her face with a metal sheet
Press release, 17.08.2017 On 10 August, Natalia Nadler, the head of the local Yabloko branch in the city of Volzhsk, the Leningrad Region, was attacked. She had rebuked a man, who had made a fire of ruberoid and tires at the allotment neighbouring her cottage. The man had taken a metal sheet and had slashed […]
Posted: August 17th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Rostov Region branch of Yabloko collected over 1,000 signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from war in Syria
Press release, 14.08.2017 The Rostov Region branch of Yabloko collected over 1,000 signatures as part of the Time to Return Home campaign aimed at Russia’s withdrawal from military conflicts and allotment of federal budget funds to Russia’s domestic development.
Posted: August 16th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Orenburg branch of Yabloko collected over 1,000 signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from war in Syria
Press release, 14.08.2017 The Orenburg branch of Yabloko collected over 1,000 signatures as part of the Time to Return Home campaign aimed at Russia’s withdrawal from military conflicts and allotment of federal budget funds to Russia’s domestic development.
Posted: August 16th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Voronezh branch of Yabloko collected over 1,200 signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from war in Syria
Press release, 14.08.2017 The Voronezh branch of Yabloko collected over 1,200 signatures as part of the Time to Return Home campaign aimed at Russia’s withdrawal from military conflicts and allotment of federal budget funds to Russia’s domestic development.
Posted: August 16th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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The leader of the Orel branch of YABLOKO called Alexander Prokhanov to debate on the issue of installing a monument to Joseph Stalin in the city
Press Release, 15.08.2017 According to newsorel.ru, Alexander Nagolyuk, Coordinator of YABLOKO electioral headquarters in Orel, challenged conservative writer and publicist Alexander Prokhanov, whose Izborsk Club offered to put a monument to Joseph Stalin in Orel.
Posted: August 16th, 2017 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Nationalism in the USA and Russia
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog post on the Ekho Moskvy website, 13.08.2017 The developments in Charlottesville, Virginia, make us put a question – what is the reason for such a surge of national radicalism in the USA? I have no doubt that the main reason is Trump and his nationalist rhetoric before the elections as well as […]
Posted: August 15th, 2017 under Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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