Archive for July, 2019
Unregistered Yabloko candidate to the Moscow City Duma submitted an application for a rally on 10 August
Press Release, 31.07.2019 Yelena Rusakova, unregistered Yabloko candidate to the Moscow City Duma in the electoral district No. 37, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for a rally on 10 August. Rusakova asks for permission to march from Strastnoy Boulevard to Academician Sakharov Prospect or conduct a rally Sakharov Prspect, or Volkhonka street […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The eight demands. What the opposition should strive to achieve
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, 29.07.2019 Open lawlessness and insolent violation of the rights and freedoms of citizens in Moscow have become more widespread in recent days and weeks: beatings of people by police and military, arrests, searches in the middle of the night, and deliberate […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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We regard the refusal to register Vera Afanasyeva as an attempt to return to the practices of gross election fraud
Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 29.07.2019 Photo: Alexander Yermishin and Vera Afanasyeva On 28 July, 2019, the Kirovsky District Court of the City of Saratov dismissed the claim of Vera Afanasyeva, candidate from the Yabloko party, to district electoral commission No. 10 for the refusal to register her as a candidate for the by-election to […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yevgeny Bunimovich, Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Moscow, demanded to check lawfulness of detention of minors at the protest action of 27 July
Press Release, 30.07.2019 Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich, Grigory Yavlinsky and Valery Borschyov Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow and registered candidate for the election to the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party, appealed to Oleg Baranov, head of the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, and Oleg Manakov, acting […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The Ingush branch of Yabloko successfully collected voters’ signatures in support of the nomination of Yabloko candidates for the Karabulak City Council
Press Release, 29.07.2019 Photo: Ruslan Mutsolgov and Yabloko activists Candidates for deputies to the City Council of Karabulak, nominated by the Ingush regional branch of the Yabloko party, submitted to the electoral commission the documents and voters’ signatures collected in support of their nomination and required for registration. The territorial electoral commission of Karabulak will have […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Leaders and activists of Yabloko participated in the action by the Mayor’s Office in Moscow. Information about detained protesters
Press Release, 27.07.2019 Members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky, Valery Borschyov, Boris Misnik, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Sergei Mitrokhin participate in the a meeting of candidates to the Moscow City Duma with voters by the Moscow Mayor’s Office.
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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More than 10,000 people signed a petition demanding an immediate convening of an emergency meeting of the Moscow City Duma after the dispersal of the Saturday protest action
Press Release, 29.07.2019 On Saturday 27 June, after the mass arrest of participants of the action in support of unregistered candidates for the elections to the Moscow City Duma, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, published a petition on the change.org platform.
Posted: July 30th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Putin’s system humiliates people, but no one is going to accept it
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.07.2019 Yesterday they beat and detained Russian citizens in Moscow, those who dared to defend their rights, speak out against humiliation and disrespect, express their outrage and protest against the perversion of the meaning of the elections in a peaceful and completely civil manner.
Posted: July 29th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr. died
Condolences, 28.07.2019 Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr. was a very good person and journalist – serious and deep. The best of his creative years fell on the time of our common hopes for change. He in many ways personified the true freedom of speech. Let his memory last forever. Sincerely, Emilia Slabunova
Posted: July 29th, 2019 under Condolences.
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Yabloko candidates go on fighting for been registered in elections
Press Release, 24.07.2019 Candidates nominated by the Yabloko party are in the process of receiving registration for election campaigns at different levels throughout the country. Alexander Sorokin, Chairman of the regional branch of the party in the Tver region and environmentalist, will take part in the by-election to the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region […]
Posted: July 26th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko went to a rally against arbitrariness of the authorities in the elections in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 25.07.2017 Video: Boris Vishnevsky Over 3,000 people came out to protest against criminal arbitrariness of the authorities in banning opposition to run in the municipal and gubernatorial elections in St. Petersburg. The rally was organised with the support of the regional branch of the Yabloko party. Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction […]
Posted: July 26th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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“The composition of the Moscow City Duma be must be decided at the polling rather than the police station.”
Statement by Yabloko candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma, 25.07.2019 We are outraged by the transformation of the elections to the Moscow City Duma into a kind of special forces raid. The launch of a repressive machine demonstrates the inadequacy of the authorities, their fear of free and independent people.
Posted: July 26th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Open letter of the Yabloko party to the Central Electoral Commission
Open Letter, 25.07.2019 To the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation OPEN LETTER According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 18), the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen determine the meaning, content and application of laws, as well as the meaning of the activities of state and municipal bodies, including […]
Posted: July 25th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Police refused to investigate threats to Nikita Antonenko, Yabloko candidate to the Nizhny Novgorod Duma
Press Release, 17.07.2019 The police refused to initiate a criminal case on threats to Nikita Antonenko, activist of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko and candidate for deputy in the Nizhny Novgorod Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 24. According to law enforcement officers, they did not identify any real threat to Yabloko’s candidate.
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko candidates to conduct 14 election campaigns in 13 regions
Registration of candidates for elections goes on Press Release, 19.07.2019 Representatives of the Yabloko party will take part in 14 election campaigns of different levels in 13 regions of the Russian Federation. In many regions, registration of candidates has not ended yet. Many Yabloko candidates have not been registered in the elections or are facing […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, State Duma Elections.
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Yabloko’s Sergei Mitrokhin to head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova: The procedure of verification of signatures by electoral commissions is completely discredited. The only way out is to register all the candidates.
Press Release, 23.07.2019 Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko’s candidate to the Moscow City Duma for electoral district No 43 and member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, participated in the meeting of unregistered candidates to the Moscow parliament with Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission. Mitrokhin stated that the procedure of verification […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko appealed to the Moscow Electoral Commission on the refusal to register five candidates from the party in the elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 17.07.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and head of its election headquarters, sent five complaints to the Moscow Electoral Commission on the refusal of district electoral commissions to register Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections. Yesterday, district electoral commissions refused to register Andrei Babushkin (district No. 11), Anastasia […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko to rally against arbitrariness in the elections
Press Release, 23.07.2019 The St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party will take part in a rally against arbitrariness in the elections, which will be held in Lenin Square by the Finlandskiy Railway Station on 24 July at 19:00. Representatives of about 30 political parties, public movements and organisations of St. Petersburg plan to […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Ingush branch of Yabloko to participate in the municipal elections
Press Release, 23.07.2019 The conference of the Ingush regional branch of the Yabloko party nominated a list of candidates for deputies of the Karabulak City Council. On July 22, the Territorial Electoral Commission of the city of Karabulak certified the list of candidates for deputies of the City Council nominated by Yabloko.
Posted: July 23rd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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A rally of over 20,000 people demanded registration of representatives of Yabloko and other independent candidates at the Moscow parliamentary elections
Press Release, 20.07.2019 A rally organised with support of the Yabloko party and demanding the registration of all independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections was held in Moscow in Sakharov Prospect. Over 20,000 people took part in the action. Three of the five candidates from Yabloko, who were withdrawn from the elections, were […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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