Archive for September, 2017
Grigory Yavlinsky: What is good for Angela Merkel, is not good for…
Politicians have to win the votes of electorate in a fair competition in the system where Angela Merkel acts Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 25.09.2017 Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel will head her country for the fourth time in a row. Does it represent irremovability of power? And what about corruption? And why does Germany have no […]
Posted: September 26th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Eu relations, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky revealed the message of his presidential campaign: free elections, free economy and free people
Press Release, 21.09.2017 On 21 September, Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, whom the party intends to nominate for the 2018 presidential election, revealed the key messages of his election campaign at a press conference at the Interfax news agency. The press conference was also attended by deputy heads of Yabloko Nikolay Rybakov […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2017 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Presidential elections 2018, Russian Economy, The Russian Army, War in Syria.
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Viktor Sheinis, one of the authors of the Russian Constitution, on the proposal to restrict the President’s right to use the Russian armed forces abroad: “YABLOKO’s bill raises the problem of separation of powers”
Press Release, 20.09.2017 Viktor Sheinis, one of the authors of the Russian Constitution, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee and chief researcher of the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on the party’s legislative initiative to restrict the President’s right to use armed forces abroad.
Posted: September 21st, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Yabloko deputy illegally deprived of mandate in Chekhov, the Moscow Region
Press release, 19.09.2017 On 19th September, the territorial electoral commission of the Checkov city district, the Moscow Region, made a decision to withdraw the mandate from deputy Nikolai Dizhur. He headed Yabloko’s list of candidates that gained nearly 7 per cent in the election of 10th September. According to the territorial electoral commission, Dizhur failed […]
Posted: September 21st, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Yabloko stands for St. Petersburg
The annual report of Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly of the 6th conviction Press release, 18.09.2017 Dear residents of St. Petersburg, A year ago you entrusted us to represent your interests in the city parliament.
Posted: September 20th, 2017 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Yabloko deputy headed a municipal council in Moscow for the first time
Press release, 20.09.2017 On 19th September, Yabloko’s municipal deputy in the Gagarinsky district Elena Rusakova was elected head of the municipal council by secret ballot. Rusakov is one of the most active and effective municipal deputies in Moscow. She was elected to the municipal council for a second term.
Posted: September 20th, 2017 under Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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“From “We are the power here!” slogan we decided to proceed to action”
A second meeting of the elected municipal deputies took place in Yabloko, 15.09.2017 On 14th September, a second meeting of the elected municipal deputies and the party leadership took place in Yabloko office. Yabloko decided to ask the participants of the meeting why they decided to run in the elections as Yabloko candidates, what problems […]
Posted: September 20th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Yabloko published new books
The new book that Yabloko launched at the Moscow International Book Fair are now available on the party website Press release, 19.09.2017 Yabloko’s library was enriched by new books published by the party and its leaders of late. The books were launched at the Moscow International Book Fair at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre in the […]
Posted: September 19th, 2017 under Education and Science.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to give a press conference on the results of the Time to Return Home campaign and the plans for his presidential campaign
Press release, 19.09.2017 On Thursday, 21st September, a press conference on the results of Yabloko’s Time to Return Home anti-war campaign and the plans for Grigory Yavlinsky’s presidential campaign will take place at the central office of the Interfax news agency.
Posted: September 19th, 2017 under Elections, Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Vishnevsky: Residents of St. Petersburg know that Yabloko is the first to come to help
Press release, 14.09.2017 Deputy of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly spoke about his activity during the summer period on air of the Partburo radio programme. He participated in the meetings of the working group on the inventory of green space in St. Petersburg and tried to seek a referendum on the future of St. Isaac’s Cathedral […]
Posted: September 18th, 2017 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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“This is the first time that so many new people enter Russia’s politics”
The elected municipal deputies gathered in Yabloko for the first time Press release, 13.09.2017 Yesterday, 12 September, the first meeting of the newly elected municipal deputies took place in Yabloko’s office. Yabloko had a very good result in the Moscow municipal elections winning 176 mandates, which made Yabloko the second largest party in Moscow (after […]
Posted: September 14th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Vladimir Lukin: “What we are talking about: about offences or interests?”
Former Russia’s Ambassador to the United States and now a Senator of the Federation Council, answers the questions of Novaya Gazeta about the diplomatic duel between the Russian Federation and the United States Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2017 Novaya Gazeta: Has the American side violated the norms of international law with regard to Russian missions in the […]
Posted: September 14th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Russian liberals emerge as second largest party in Moscow after regional election
Liberal International, 12.09.2017 Challenging the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin a liberal coalition, of which Yabloko (LI full member) is a part, has become the second largest party in the capital, Moscow, after regional elections throughout the country last weekend.
Posted: September 13th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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YABLOKO wins the municipal elections in Moscow
Press Release, 11.09.2017 According to data as of 8 am MSK, YABLOKO obtained 180 mandates in 51 municipal councils in Moscow in the elections of 10 September. In the Gagarinsky district, where President Putin voted, all 12 members of the council are now representatives of YABLOKO. In five other districts YABLOKO has a majority.
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Presidential Elections.
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YABLOKO won the elections in six Russian regions: from Pskov in the North-West to Sakhalin in the Far East
Press Release, 11.09.2017, as of 14:00 In regional and local elections of 10 September YABLOKO’s managed to overcome the five per cent threashold in the Pskov region in the North-West, the Moscow region and the Sakhalin region in the Far East. YABLOKO candidates also won in their constituencies in the elections in the Krasnodar Territory, […]
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko to open a Centre for New Municipal Policy
Press release, 11.09.2017 Yabloko will open a Centre for New Municipal Policy, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova said during a briefing on Monday. The Centre will coordinate the activity of Yabloko’s large team of municipal deputies including those, who were elected in Moscow and other regions on 10th September.
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Electoral Commission is trying to deprive Yabloko and independent candidates of the majority in the local council of the Timiryazyevsky district, Moscow
Press release, 11.09.2017 According to Yabloko’s candidate for municipal deputy in the Timiryazevsky district Yulia Galyamina, the territorial electoral commission made a decision to recount the votes at the polling station No. 435. As a result, the coalition of Yabloko deputies (five candidates were elected; there are 15 members in the council on the whole) […]
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Sergei Mitrokhin on the election results
FB post by Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow YABLOKO, 11.09.2017 Congratulations to all the deputies who passed from YABLOKO and our support and all the civil activists whom we supported on behalf of the Moscow Rescue Committee. The total number of such deputies allow us to count on our participation in the Moscow mayoral […]
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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YABLOKO success in the elections of 10 September
Press Release (UPDATED as of 13:00), 11.09.2017 YABLOKO succeeded in the elections to regional and local parliaments held yesterday in Russia. YABLOKO’s teams also managed to overcome the five per cent threashold in in 19 municipalities in Russia, where elections on party lists were preserved (the Pskov region, the Moscow region and the Sakhalin region) […]
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the election results
Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 11.09.2017 Dear friends, Thank you for hearing us, that you came and supported us yesterday [at the elections]! You voted for YABLOKO! 180 deputies were elected yesterday from the YABLOKO party in 51 Moscow district. We became the second party as of the number of municipal deputies in the capital of […]
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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