Archive for September, 2018
Grigory Yavlinsky to launch new books at Moscow International Book Fair
Press release, 5.09.2018 Grigory Yavlinsky will launch his new books at Moscow International Book Fair on 8 September. This the politician has two new publications. In his book “A Way to the Future” Grigory Yavlinsky presents proposals on overcoming the political and economic crisis in Russia, lifting our country out of international isolation and making […]
Posted: September 7th, 2018 under Education and Science.
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Yabloko Chair arrives in Vladimir to support party candidates in regional parliament elections
Press release, 4.09.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova arrived in Vladimir to support party candidates in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region. Deputy of the Vladimir city parliament Dmitry Kushpita heads the party list that consists of 45 candidates.
Posted: September 6th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Barnaul protests against raising the retirement age
Press release, 3.09.2018 On September 2, the Altai Krai branch of Yabloko participated in a rally against the pension reform initiated by the government. Over 1,500 people took to the streets.
Posted: September 6th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko demands of the Supreme Court to reinstate candidates in the Pskov Region
Press release, 3.09.2018 On 3 September, Yabloko filed a complaint to the head of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev in connection with the decision of the Pskov regional court to withdraw Yabloko’s candidates Gennady Kolesik and Larisa Semashko from the elections to the posts of heads of Opochetsky and Velikoluksky districts in the Pskov Region.
Posted: September 6th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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First Hundred Days of the President
by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.09.2018 What Vladimir Putin has accomplished for the three months after the inauguration and what the President should have done in the first hundred days to pull the country out of crisis and isolation Putin did not have a presidential programme: neither economic nor political, no programme at all. […]
Posted: September 5th, 2018 under Economy, Human Rights, Presidential elections 2018.
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Yabloko joins all-Russia protests against raising the retirement age
Press release, 2.09.2018 Yabloko activists participated in protest actions against raising the retirement age in 14 cities of Russia. Chair of the party Emilia Slabunova made a speech at the rally in Omsk while Yabloko’s Political Committee member Sergei Mitrokhin delivered his address in Moscow.
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Emilia Slabunova on the pension reform
01.09.2018 Dear friends! The 20,000 rubles [approx. 250 euros] rate of pension by 2024 which the President promised in his latest address is a shame! It is really hard to survive on 20,000 rubles a month even now not to mention what will be in 6 years time. https://www.facebook.com/EmiliaSlabunova/videos/1955130144785394/
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko insists on eliminating third and second shifts in schools: Russia’s revenues from oil and gas allow to do it
Press Release, 29.08.2018 Yabloko party Chairperson Emilia Slabunova sent a letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko and State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin on the need to direct additional oil and gas revenues to the elimination of third and second shifts in Russian schools.
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Economy, Education and Science.
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Eviction of the Memorial human rights society stopped
Press Release, 30.08.2018 The St.Petersburg Committee of Property suspended termination of the contract of rent of the St.Petersburg branch of the Memorial human rights society. In April 2018, the City Commission for Disposal of Property refused to Memorial in concluding their regular rent contract for a new period without explaining the reasons. In July 2018, […]
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Oksana Demchenko: We think that the government should serve people, not the other way round
3.09.2018 Chair of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko Oksana Demchenko believes that if the party representatives are elected to the city parliament, they will improve the quality of life in Krasnoyarsk. – It is the 25th anniversary of the foundation of Yabloko this year. We have many deputies across Russia and a large number of […]
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Yabloko’s programme for the 9 September 2018 elections to Krasnoyarsk City Council
30.08.2018 1. Return the citizens control over the city. Elect a new mayor via direct and competitive elections.
Posted: September 2nd, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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