Archive for August, 2018
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova to speak at a rally in Omsk against raising the retirement age
Press Release, 30.08.2018 On Sunday, 2 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will come to Omsk to address the rally against raising the retirement age. The Omsk branch of Yabloko is a co-organiser of the rally. Yabloko’s Tatyana Nagibina will be the anchor at the rally. The rally will take place at the address […]
Posted: August 31st, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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The Buryat Regional Association for Lake Baikal will be headed by Natalia Tumureyeva, environmentalist and Chair of the regional branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 30.08.2018 Natalia Tumureyeva succeeded Sergei Shapkhayev, renowned academic and environmentalist, as head of the Buryat Regional Association on Lake Baikal. Natalia Tumureyeva is a former student of Sergei Shapkhayev, environmentalist and head of the local branch of the Yabloko party.
Posted: August 31st, 2018 under Protection of Environment.
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Emilia Slabunova: If there are Yabloko deputies in the City Duma of Yekaterinburg, it will be a new page in the history of the city
Press Release, 29.08.2018 The leaders of Yabloko went to the Russian regions to support Yabloko candidates in the 9 September elections. The party Chair Emilia Slabunova visited Yekaterinburg, the Urals, to support party candidates in the city parliament (the City Duma). Yabloko put forward a strong team of united democratic coalition in the elections to […]
Posted: August 30th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Sanctions and Prospects
The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018 Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, […]
Posted: August 29th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will take part in the all-Russian action against the pension reform on 2 September
Press Release, 28.08.2018 On Sunday, 2 September, the Yabloko party will take part in the all-Russian action against the government’s plans to raise the retirement age. Representatives of the Yabloko party are members of the organising committee of the action. The geography and format of the actions is as follows (more details will be […]
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Emilia Slabunova visits Yekaterinburg
Emilia Slabunova’s twitter, 28.08.2018 https://twitter.com/YablokoParty/status/1034440810660618240 YABLOKO Party @YablokoParty YABLOKO Party retwitted Emilia Slabunova: Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova starts her visit in Yekterinburg, the Urals, by laying flowers to the memorial to vicitms of political reprisals. This is a mournful page in Russia’s history. This should never happen again.
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov: “Democracy is an exam that society is taking every day”
Press Release, 24.08.2018 Archive photo by RIA Novosti/ Yuri Abramochkin A rally dedicated to the anniversary of the victory over the reactionary forces of the State Emergency Committee was held in the Krasnopresnensky park, Moscow, behind the Russian ‘White House’ on 22 August, on the Day of the Flag of Russia. The rally was […]
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Street Actions, Understanding Russia, Без рубрики.
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Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age on 2 September
Press Release, 20.08.2018 On Friday, 17 August, Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma in the forthcoming by-election to the Russian parliament, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age in Nizhny Novgorod on 2 September. The rally is planed on 2 September. Co-organisers of the action […]
Posted: August 27th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Congratulations to Anna Cherepanova, head of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, on the anniversary!
Birthday greetings from Emilia Slabunova 25.08.2018 Today marks the anniversary of Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko. Emilia Slabunova, the Yabloko party’s Chair, sends Anna greetings on her 45th birthday:
Posted: August 26th, 2018 under Greetings, Без рубрики.
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Yavlinsky called Prosecutor General Chaika to stop the practice of provocations of crimes
Press Release, 24.08.2018 Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, in which he called to investigate the illegal provocation of crimes by law enforcement agencies. The reason for the appeal was the so-called case of “The New Greatness” organisaiton. Anna Pavlikova. […]
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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The state represented by the Ministry of Education decided to fight against people who seek to create human conditions for orphans – their foster parents
Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 20.08.2018 Instead of providing housing to almost 160,000 Russian orphans who do not have it, saving children from family violence (according to unofficial data in 2016, more than 2,500 children aged 2 weeks to 14 years became victims of domestic violence), creating conditions for upbringingadolescents, so that they do not set […]
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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The Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko is against replacing trees with cars
Press Release, 23.08.2018 The Krasnoyarsk branch of the Yabloko party opposed the plans of the local administration to cut the green zones in the city of Krasnoyarsk for the sake of opening of vehicles service facilities there. On 22-23 August, the city administration is holding public hearings aiming to get a formal residents’ consent so […]
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Protection of Environment.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko proposed to the Human Rights Council to reform the procedure for getting permissions for rallies
Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human Rights Council, believes that the problem of transparency in getting permission to hold rallies can be resolved in court Press Release, 17.08.2018 The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko formulated its demands as to the protection of freedom of rallies in its written appeal to Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly.
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At the request of Yabloko, the Accounts Chamber and the Federal Antimonopoly Service will check the legality of the spending on the restoration of the Capitol dome in Havana, Cuba
Press Release, 17.08.2018 Yabloko party Chairperson Emilia Slabunova sent an appeal to Alexei Kudrin, Chairman of the Russian Accounts Chamber, demanding to check the effectiveness of spending Russia’s budget funds for the restoration of the Capitol’s dome in Havana, the capital of Cuba. At the same time, Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre appealed to the Federal […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Emilia Slabunova: Russia’s Flag Day should be a holiday of honour and pride for the people
The Yabloko party took part in the march and rally on the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over the attempted coup d’etat in 1991 Press Release, 22.08.2018 Today, on Russia’s Flag Day, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party took part in the action dedicated to the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over attempted […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Yabloko picketed the State Duma during the parliamentary hearings on the pension reform
Press Release, 21.08.2018 On 21 August, a series of single-person pickets against raising the retirement age were held by the State Duma. The picketing was timed to parliamentary hearings on the pension reform. Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko and Chairman of the Moscow Rescue Committee, participated […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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It is unacceptable to impede the activities of the Memorial [human rights society]
The [authorities] are evicting the St. Petersburg branch of the organisation from its office Statement by the Yabloko party, 17.08.2018 The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko is outraged by the attempts of the St. Petersburg Administration to evict the Memorial charitable historical and educational human rights organisation from its office in Razezhey Street, 9, in […]
Posted: August 21st, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko picketed against the government’s pension reform by Prime Minister Medvedev’s office in Novosibirsk
Press Release, 03.08.2018 On 3 August, the Novosibirsk branch of the Yabloko party, together with the representatives of the libertarian movement, held a picket at the public reception of the ruling United Russia party. Deputies of this party voted for adoption in the first reading of the law on raising the retirement age.
Posted: August 10th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko revealed a cartel on purchase of medicines in the Mari El Republic
The republican department of the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service in Mari El filed a case against the participants of the collusion Press Release, 03.08.2018 The republican department of the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service in Mari El filed a case on the violation of the antimonopoly legislation in the procurement of medicines for public healthcare institutions in the […]
Posted: August 10th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “You know that this is illegal, but you want to curry favour with Putin”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook post, 09.08.2018 Photo: Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik It is already five months, that 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova, 19-year-old Maria Dubovik, 21-year-old Vyacheslav Kryukov, 25-year-old Sergey Gavrilov, 25-year-old Ruslan Kostylenkov, 30-year-old Dmitry Poletayev and 31-year-old Pyotr Karamzin are in Moscow pre-trial detention prisons. Another four people under investigation on the case of creating an […]
Posted: August 9th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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