Archive for July, 2019
Candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma from Yabloko will give a briefing for journalists before submitting signatures to electoral commissions
Press Release, 5.07.2019 On Saturday, 6 July, Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma will hold a briefing on the progress of the subscription campaign and answer journalists’ questions in the central headquarters of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg. 2). The briefing starts at 11:00.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The team of the Tula branch of Yabloko ready to run for the City Duma elections
Emilia Slabunova came to support the party’s candidates to the City Duma Press Release, 4.07.2019 The Tula branch of Yabloko nominated a list of candidates to run in the City Duma elections. It includes 20 candidates sharing democratic values. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova came to support the team of the regional branch.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Four Questions About Flooding in the Irkutsk Region
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Telegram Channel, 4.07.2019 Over a week they have been struggling with the consequences of terrible flooding in the Irkutsk region. It is already known about 20 dead and 15 missing, 6.700 houses and 32,000 people are in the disaster area, over 2.500 people are evacuated.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Economy, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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St.Petersburg electoral commissions refuse to register Yabloko candidates for municipal elections
Press Release, 4.07.2019 Electoral commissions of several municipal districts of St. Petersburg refused to register Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Boris Vishnevsky: I was not registered in the gubernatorial election, because I am dangerous for acting Governor Beglov
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 2.07.2019 Dear friends, I sincerely thank everyone who supported my participation in the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg. I have been travelling around 84 of the 111 municipalities for three weeks after my nomination by the Yabloko conference. In each of them, I handed my personal letter to each […]
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko opens free legal consulting for citizens
Press Release, 4.07.2019 The Rostov-on-Don branch of the Yabloko party opens a legal consulting bureau which will provide free advice to citizens on property and land issues, as well as housing and utilities services. Expert Oleg Zelinsky will answer the residents’ questions.
Posted: July 4th, 2019 under Housing and Utilities Reform.
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The Parliament of Karelia supported two bills submitted by Yabloko
Press Release, 3.07.2019 The Committee on Education, Culture, Sport and Youth Policy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia supported two bills by Emilia Slabunova, MP of the parliament of Karelia and Chair of the Yabloko party. The parliamentarians voted for Emilia Slabunova’s appeal to Vladimir Medinsky, Russian Minister of Culture, about improving the quality of […]
Posted: July 4th, 2019 under Education and Science, Social Policies.
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Meeting in memory of murdered journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin was held in Moscow
Press Release, 3.07.2019 On Tuesday, 2 July, a meeting in memory of Yuri Shchekochikhin, journalist and deputy of the State Duma from the Yabloko party, was held in Moscow. Yuri Shchekochikhin died 16 years ago, on 3 July, 2003, after been poisoned with an unidentified substance . The cause of death was undetermined, but there […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Audit Chamber refused to check Igor Sechin’s flights to resorts at the expense of Rosneft
According to the auditor from United Russia, no such checks are envisaged by the Audit Chamber’s plan Press Release, 1.07.2019 The Audit Chamber of Russia will not check the flights of Igor Sechin, Rosneft Chief Executive Officer, to elite resorts on a company’s plane. There will be no checks of Rosneft, because it is not […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko complained to the Central Electoral Commission and the Investigative Committee for the fraud during collection of voters’ signatures in support of nomination of acting Governor of St.Petersburg Alexander Beglov
Press Release, 28.06.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova sent a complaint to the Central Electoral Commission about fraud in collecting signatures in support of acting Governor of St.Petersburg Alexander Beglov, who intents to run as candidate for Governor of St. Petersburg in the forthcoming election. Slabunova also asked the Investigative Committee to conduct an inspection of […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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Yabloko Chairperson demands to bring to criminal responsibility those involved in the non-admission of opposition candidates for elections in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 30.06.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova demanded that law enforcement agencies initiate a criminal case under article 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the fact of obstructing the exercise of electoral rights of candidates for deputies of the St. Petersburg municipality Yekateringofsky, and immediately release candidate from Yabloko Fyodor Gorozhanko, […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The 5G Break Zone
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 24.06.2019 STALIN AND MAO: GREAT AGAIN? In his speech at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow before a concert to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, started by telling a story about Mao Zedong. It turned […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Economy, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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“An absolute liberal” renounced the liberal idea
Emilia Slabunova about Vladimir Putin’s interview with The Financial Times Emilia Slabunova’s blog post, 29.06.2019 “An absolute liberal” renounced the liberal idea. Wait for another trouble. In January 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with a number of Russian and foreign television channels, said that he was “a real liberal” and “held liberal […]
Posted: July 1st, 2019 under Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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