Archive for February, 2019
Yabloko laid flowers to the people’s memorial at the site of murder of Boris Nemtsov
Yabloko party’s Facebook page, 28.02.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder, Sergei Mitrokhin, ex Chairman of Yabloko, and party activists paid tribute to the memory of Boris Nemtsov four years after he was murdered by the Kremlin walls at Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge.
Posted: February 28th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Nikolay Rybakov laid flowers to the site of murder of Boris Nemtsov
Nikolay Rybakov’s Facebook page, 27.02.2019 Today, four years after politician Boris Nemtsov was shot on the bridge by the Kremlin wall, people come to the site of his murder, where the so-called people’s memorial had been created by volunteers. The authorities refused to give a permission to create a memorial, so democratic people created a […]
Posted: February 27th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leaders and activists will lay flowers to the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 26.02.2019 Photo from memorial action of 2018 On Wednesday, 27 February, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party will lay flowers to the site of murder of politician Boris Nemtsov politician on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow.
Posted: February 26th, 2019 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Actions in memory of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities were held with support of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 25.02.2019 The Yabloko party participated in the actions commemorating Boris Nemtsov. The actions took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov and other Russian cities on Sunday, 24 February, 2018. In Moscow, Yabloko activists formed a column with a banner “Yabloko is the party of peace and is against war! ”. The column was […]
Posted: February 26th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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The Bashkir branch of Yabloko picketed in defence of residents of the city of Sibay suffering from pollution
Press Release, 25.02.2019 The Bashkir branch of Yabloko conducted a series of one-person pickets (that require to permission from the authorities) in the centre of Ufa, capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, demanding to protect residents of the city of Sibay from industrial and gas pollution.
Posted: February 25th, 2019 under Protection of Environment.
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Video address by Nikolay Rybakov to Public Prosecutor General and head of the Investigation Committee on the case of Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 22.02.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, recorded a video address to Yury Chaika, Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigation Committee of Russia, in connection with prosecution of Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, by law enforcement agencies and criminals.
Posted: February 22nd, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Pskov Yabloko receives threats from some criminals. Who has sent them?
Lev Shlosberg’s Facebook page, 21.02.2019 Dear friends, Unfortunately the situation is far from being calm and peaceful in Pskov. Last morning, an unidentified man (allegedly an acting or former employee of the law enforcement or secret services) stuck a piece of paper on the sign of the public reception office of a deputy of the […]
Posted: February 21st, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“The speech of the President, who was first elected a month ago.” Grigory Yavlinsky about Vladimir Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly
Yabloko’s Facebook page, 20.02.2019 1. [I ] have not heard about ending the war and the country’s development strategy for the future. Only a set of individual, very limited social measures and a big arms race. 2.[And there is] a question: Why most of these social measures could not be implemented within the past twenty years? […]
Posted: February 21st, 2019 under Economy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the criminal case against Lev Shlosberg and the Pskov branch of Yabloko, and the possibility of change in Russia: This is an anti-constitutional act suppressing legal opposition
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 15.02. 2019 On 15 February, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and Yabloko founder, commented to the Ekho Moskvi radio station on a criminal case against the Pskov branch of Yabloko and Lev Shlosberg, Pskov Yabloko leader and MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly. Yavlinsky noted that the search […]
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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We demand to stop the pre-investigation check on municipal deputies Andrei Morev and Viktor Kotov
Statement by Yabloko Chairperson, 19.02.2019 Photo: Andrei Morev The Yabloko party expresses serious concern over the fact that Andrei Morev, Moscow municipal deputy from Yabloko, was summoned for interrogation to the Investigation Committee of the Yakimanka district of Moscow.
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Emilia Slabunova asked Public Prosecutor General of Karelia to check on the new criteria for evaluating the work of doctors
Press Release, 19.02.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko party Chairperson and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, asked Karen Gabrielyan, Public Prosecutor General of Karelia, to check on the new criteria for evaluating the work of doctors. On 14 January, 2019, the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Karelia established new indicators to evaluate […]
Posted: February 19th, 2019 under Healthcare, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the new US sanctions against Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 15.02.2019 The US Congress is preparing the next package of sanctions. Again in many countries Russia is called the main threat to the world. Moscow is put on the same “axis of evil” where once were Iraq, Libya, and now Iran and North Korea. The reasons are obvious: the annexation of […]
Posted: February 18th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko will take part in the march in memory of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Actions will be held this Sunday, 24 February Press Release, 18.02.2019 Representatives of the Yabloko party are members of the organising committees of the Boris Nemtsov March in Moscow and St. Petersburg. These actions paying tribute to the memory to the politician shot on the bridge opposite the Kremlin four years ago will be held […]
Posted: February 18th, 2019 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Criminal case against Pskov Yabloko is a case against the whole party and against the Russian Constitution
Statement, 14.02.2019 The Yabloko party expresses a categorical protest against the search conducted by the Investigation Department of the Investigation Committee of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pskov Region in the premises of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party on 13 February. A politically motivated forceful persecution of opposition […]
Posted: February 15th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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The Pskov office of Yabloko is being searched
Press release, 13.02.2019 The Investigation Committee is conducting a search in the office of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party, as Dmitry Permyakov, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch confirmed to the Press Service.
Posted: February 14th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Yabloko urges the Electoral Commission of the Saratov region to check the information on systematic election fraud
Press Release, 12.02.2019 The Saratov regional branch of the Yabloko party appealed to the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region with a request to check on the facts given in an interview with Inna Dozorova, the former head of the Saratov Kindergarten N 83, where she told that she had had to participate in the […]
Posted: February 13th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Parliamentary Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2016, Без рубрики.
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Emilia Slabunova on the trial over Yuri Dmitriyev, Chair of the Karelian branch of the human rights society Memorial
Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 12.02.2019 While the state propaganda on the Russia-24 TV channel talks about the “so-called human rights activists”, without giving them a word, and the benefits of the expedition of the Russian Military-Historical Society to Sandarmokh [the place of shooting and burial of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals in Karelia], which causes […]
Posted: February 12th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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What can you do if you are being persecuted for political reasons? Online seminar by Yabloko’s Andrei Babushkin
Press Release, 12.02.2019 On Saturday, February 16, well-known human rights activist Andrei Babushkin will conduct a seminar in the Moscow office of the party on the topic “If you became a suspect, detainee or are accused in an offence”. The seminar will be broadcast on the Internet. Andrei Babushkin is member of the Federal Bureau […]
Posted: February 12th, 2019 under Human Rights.
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Chairman of the Saratov branch of Yabloko spoke at a rally against “optimisation” of healthcare
Press Release, 11.02.2019 Alexander Yermishin, Chairman of the Saratov branch of Yabloko, demanded that the authorities should resume functioning of children’s clinic No 10 and children’s infectious diseases hospital No 6 in the Volga district of Saratov. Both medical institutions fell victim to the government’s practices of “optimisation” in the form of merger with other […]
Posted: February 12th, 2019 under Economy, Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan held a picket in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 11.02.2019 Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan, held a one-person picket in support of Anastasia Shevchenko and other political prisoners in the center of Kazan on the eve of the “Mothers’ Rage” march (demonstrations against political reprisals held in different cities and demanding freedom for political prisoners […]
Posted: February 11th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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