Archive for February, 2019
Screening of a documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 8.02.2019 On Tuesday, 12 February, a documentary film “The Optimists”, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Yabloko, will be shown in the conference hall of the Moscow office of the Yabloko party. Specially for the documentary, the filmmakers recorded about 60 interviews with the founders, leaders, activists and allies of the party.
Posted: February 11th, 2019 under History, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova asked the government to save the music college from eviction from their premises in the Novgorod Kremlin
Press Release, 11.02.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova sent an appeal to Vladimir Medinsky, Minister of Culture of Russia, calling on the Minister to help the Rachmaninov Novgorod City College of Arts to retain their premises in the territory of the Novgorod Kremlin. Slabunova also appealed to the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of […]
Posted: February 11th, 2019 under Education and Science.
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Lev Shlosberg: The case against Svetlana Prokopyeva represents political terror
Press Release, 6.02.2019 The customer, organiser and executor of the criminal case against [journalist] Svetlana Prokopyeva is the Russian state. The goal of this ordered persecution is encroachment on freedom of speech and freedom of mass media in Russia, that is, the basis of the constitutional order. The Russian state has become a terrorist and […]
Posted: February 7th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “The elimination of poverty will be conducted right in the Russian Statistical Service”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.02.2019 How to increase growth rates of the economy and overcome poverty in Russia? It is very simple. It is necessary to appoint such a head to the Russian Federal Statistical Service (Rosstat) who will draw both economic growth and an increase of income of the population, and unceasingly trumpet about this […]
Posted: February 6th, 2019 under Economy, Russian Economy.
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Reprisals against the opposition mean a path to upheaval
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 4.02.2019 Blurring of distinction between peaceful opposition and revolutionaries is dangerous primarily for the state system The criminal case against Anastasia Shevchenko, activist of Otkrytaya Rossia (Open Russia), is the evidence of cynicism and elementary irrationality of the authorities. Applying house arrest to a mother of three minor children for […]
Posted: February 4th, 2019 under Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky about Russia’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty as the defeat of Putin’s foreign and defence policy
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 3.02.2019 The INF Treaty is no longer valid. Moscow announces the start of creation of new types of missiles. The threat to the security of Russia and Europe surges many-fold. Whether Russia was engaged in the development and testing of the rocket in violation of the INF Treaty, which was the […]
Posted: February 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Nadezhda Agisheva: Polling numbers of the ruling United Russia party have dropped, and any mention of difficult and important topics is blocked at all levels.
Press Release, 4.02.2019 Oppositional Perm deputies accuse the city parliament leadership of censorship The leadership of the Perm Duma has banned posting on social networks of the city parliament videos of Nadezhda Agisheva, deputy from the Yabloko party, in particular, those on raising the retirement age, problems of lonely disabled people, as well as changing […]
Posted: February 4th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech.
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“We have never betrayed our principles and have always stood firm”. Interview with Sergei Ivanenko, deputy head of the Yabloko party
Specially for Yabloko website by Svetlana Prokudina, 12.01.2019 Sergei Ivanenko, Yabloko Deputy Chair, has turned 60 on 12th January. Sergei Victorovich is one of Grigory Yavlinsky’s closest colleagues. He was actively involved in the foundation of the Yabloko party. Ivanenko played one of the key roles in the work of Yabloko’s faction in the State […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2019 under Elections, History, Human Rights, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko to participate in all-Russia protest for protection of environment and against the “waste reform” in 32 Russian regions
Press release, 1.02.2019 On Sunday, 3 February, Yabloko will take part in a protest against the “waste reform” and for the solution of other environmental problems throughout the country. Yabloko activists plan to participate in rallies and pickets in 32 regions of the country, in half of these actions the party became the organiser of […]
Posted: February 1st, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Lev Shlosberg on liquidation of district newspapers in the Pskov region: this is neither legal nor rational
Press Release, 1.02.2019 Lev Shlosberg, MP from the Yabloko faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly and head of the Yabloko branch in the Pskov region, devoted his speech before the 28th session of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies to the liquidation of the district newspapers of the Pskov region and attempts to stop this […]
Posted: February 1st, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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Yabloko to join all-Russia protest against waste treatment reform
Press release, 29.01.2019 Yabloko to participate in All-Russia protest agains the waste treatment reform. The action will take place on 3 February. Activists will join take part in protest actions in 32 regions of Russia. What is more, Yabloko will organise the actions in half of these places.
Posted: February 1st, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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