Archive for May, 2018
Grigory Yavlinsky’s greetings to writer and Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich on her jubilee
Grigory Yavlinsky: “Svetlana Alexievich directly succeeds to the great Russian literature” 31.05.2018 On 31 May, Svetlana Aleksandrovna Alexievich, writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature, turns 70. Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky sends his greetings to Svetlana Alexievich:
Posted: May 31st, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on twitter on the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko
30.05.2018 – 0:39 A demonstrative political murder once again. Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist, radical critic of Putin and Russian politics has been killed. This is very bad. This is a sign that, according to the plan of those who ordered this murder, everyone should understand. And be ready. Incredible grief for the relatives. Deepest condolences
Posted: May 30th, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Tough, courageous and free journalism turns deadly today
Statement of the Yabloko party in connection with the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko 29.05.2018 Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko has been murdered in Kiev. A courageous, honest and tough man. Arkady Babchenko saw the goal of his life in the search for truth and delivery of this truth to each of us. As always in […]
Posted: May 30th, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to open TAdviser SummIT
Participants of the event will discuss the role of digital technologies in the development of the state and business Press Release, 28.05.2018 On Wednesday, 30 May, politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky will speak at the opening of TAdviser SummIT. The elite of the Russian IT market will gather at the event to discuss the role […]
Posted: May 28th, 2018 under Economy, Russian Economy.
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We invite journalists to observe counting of votes in the primaries of Yabloko
The voting will end on 29 May at 9 p.m. Press Release, 28.05.2018 Voting in Yabloko’s primaries so that to determine a party the candidate for the post of the Mayor of Moscow from will end on Tuesday, 29 May, at 21:00. The Counting Commission will open the ballot box and begin counting the votes […]
Posted: May 28th, 2018 under Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Blockchain technology was for the first time used in Russia by Yabloko for voting in the debates at Yabloko’s primaries
Press Release, 26.05.2018 The final of the debates of participants in Yabloko’s primaries for the party candidate on the post of Mayor of Moscow will take place in the Yabloko party. The final debate was preceded by qualifying rounds, the winners of which were determined by the voting of viewers on the Internet. For the […]
Posted: May 26th, 2018 under Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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The Government of Despair
Grigory Yavlinsky on what we can expect from the “new” Russian government Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 21.05.2018 What does the composition of the “new” government tell us? That the situation won’t get any better. Outwardly everything will look just as it did, but to all intents and purposes things will be much worse. Objectively this […]
Posted: May 23rd, 2018 under Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Russian Economy.
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Congratulations to Sergei Mitrokhin on his anniversary!
Your activity in Yabloko in defending the rights of citizens, and Muscovites, in particular, is uncompromising Greetings from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky, 20.05.2018 Today, Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, turns 55. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman […]
Posted: May 21st, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences.
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Yabloko’s Mikhail Amosov asked Public Prosecutor’s Office for detailed information on violation of prisoners’ rights in Penal Colony Settlement No 8
Press Release, 18.05.2018 Mikhail Amosov, Yabloko MP in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, considers the response from the Leningrad region Public Prosecutor’s Office on his appeal on the issue of possible violations of the rights of convicts held in the Penal Colony Settlement No 8 to be formal and unsatisfactory. According to the parliamentarian, it is […]
Posted: May 21st, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Another attack on David Kankia, Coordinator of the election observers movement Golos in the Krasnodar Territory
Press Release, 18.05.2018 Two unidentified persons whose faces were hidden by hoods attacked David Kankia, Coordinator of the election observers movement Golos in the Krasnodar Territory, on May 18 at about 1 p.m.
Posted: May 21st, 2018 under Human Rights, Presidential elections 2018.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Putin bears personal responsibility for the life and physical condition of imprisoned Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site 20.05.2018 Oleg Sentsov went on a hunger strike. The Ukrainian film director in the Russian prison is put in such conditions when this desperate step is the only way to draw attention to the situation of people persecuted in our country exclusively for political reasons. These people were convicted not for committed […]
Posted: May 20th, 2018 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko received the first applications from potential candidates for the mayoral election from the party
Press Release, 18.05.2018 Yabloko’s organizational committee for holding the primaries within the party so that to determine its candidate in the Moscow mayoral election, received signatures of the first potential candidates: Sergei Mitrokhin, the leader of the Moscow branch of the party, economist Igor Nikolayev and Andrei Morev, head of the Yakimanka Municipal Council.
Posted: May 18th, 2018 under Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Yabloko will choose its candidate for the post of the Moscow Mayor from 37 people who expressed their desire to run from the party
Press Release, 16.05.2018 As of May 16, Yabloko’s organizational committee for conducting primaries that should determine the candidate for post of the Mayor of Moscow from the Yabloko party, received applications from 37 potential candidates; 22 of them have already begun collecting signatures in favour of their participation in the preliminary voting. This was announced […]
Posted: May 18th, 2018 under Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Yabloko provides legal assistance to detainees at protest rallies on 5 May
Press Release, 05.05.2018 A headquarters for provision of legal assistance to citizens detained at the protest rallies held in different cities of Russia on 5 May opened in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow. Yabloko’s Russian web-site gives telephones of its public reception office and party’s lawyers who provide legal assistance to the detained […]
Posted: May 16th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko leaders and activists paid tribute to the victims of the Second World War
Press Release, 04.05.2018 On 4 May, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid wreaths and flowers to the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden by the Kremlin wall and honoured the memory of those killed in the Second World War by a minute of silence. Yabloko […]
Posted: May 16th, 2018 under History.
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