Archive for December, 2019
Grigory Yavlinsky on the Normandy Four summit
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 10.12.2019 Briefly about the Normandy Four meeting: it is well, that it has taken place. Now, until December 31, an exchange of prisoners will be possible – “all for all”. As for the rest… Vladimir Zelensky said that the principles on which he was building his policy were the three impossibilities: […]
Posted: December 10th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Altai branch of Yabloko celebrates Human Rights Day with a series of single-person pickets
Press Release, 10.11.2019 The Altai branch of Yabloko went on one-person pickets (that do not require coordination with the authorities) on Human Rights Day demanding from the authorities to respect the Russian Constitution and release political prisoners.
Posted: December 10th, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Stop persecution of activists opposing lawlessness with garbage deposits on Shies!
Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 4.12.2019 The Bureau of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko considers the situation in the area of the Shies railway station (the Arkhangelsk region) unacceptable due to dangerous plans for allocation of landfills for the Moscow municipal waste. This situation is a vivid example of the lack of a clear […]
Posted: December 9th, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Political Committee Decisions, Protection of Environment.
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The Moscow office of Yabloko has become a collection point for New Year’s gifts for homeless people
Press Release, 4.12.2019 From December 2 to 22, the Nochlezhka charity organisation engaged in provision of aid to homeless people collects gifts for homeless as part of the annual campaign. The gifts from homeless will include food-stuffs and things that will help a person in daily survival. The Moscow office of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya, 31) […]
Posted: December 6th, 2019 under Charity, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party demands to stop pressure on society
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 4.12.2019 The campaign of political reprisals has been intensifying in Russia. Vladimir Putin’s regime uses both state institutions and the law for prosecution of political opponents, as well as intimidation and defamation of people through specially created as well as existing criminal structures.
Posted: December 6th, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions.
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On the dangers of eliminating the international nuclear arms control system
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses its deep concern over the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the US intention to withdraw from the Open Sky Treaty, and the uncertain prospects for extending the existing or concluding […]
Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, The Russian Army.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko will open a local party branch and a branch of the Deputy’s School in Miass
Press Release, 4.12.2019 On Saturday, December 7, the first after a long pause meeting of the Miass local branch of the Yabloko party will take place in Miass, the Chelyabinsk region. The meeting will elect the Chairperson of this Yabloko branch, deputy chairs and members of the local Council. Also a meeting-lecture for those wishing […]
Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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The conference of St. Petersburg Yabloko re-elected the governing bodies of the Yabloko branch and sent delegates to the congress
Press Release, 3.12.2019 On Sunday, December 1, the 19th Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko was held. The conference elected Chairperson of the St. Petersburg branch of the party, the Regional Council and the Control and Review Commission of the branch. The conference also elected delegates to the party Congress, which will be […]
Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko opened a local party branch in Magnitogorsk
Press Release, 3.12.2019 On 30 November, Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of Yabloko, opened the local branch of the party in Magnitogorsk, the Chelyabinsk region.
Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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On Russia’s polices in the Middle East and Africa
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko notes the dangerous counterproductiveness of Russia’s policies in the Middle East: the country did not gain allies there but got bogged down in a strange, endless civil war that claimed thousands of lives. In 2015, […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko demanded from public prosecutors from 43 regions to amend the regional laws on rallies
Press Release, 3.12.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, appealed to public prosecutors of 43 regions of Russia with a request to control the changes in regional laws on rallies in order to bring them in line with the Russian Constitution. Earlier this year, the Constitutional Court passed a ruling that effectively prohibits regional authorities from refusing […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Stop torturing Alexander Shestun!
Statement by the Yabloko party, 2.12.2019 The Yabloko party is closely following the case of Alexander Shestun, former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region. During the investigation and trial, the investigators committed numerous violations, such as inappropriate conditions of detention, use of physical force, and failure to provide medical assistance to a […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2019 under Human Rights.
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Sergei Ivanenko elected new Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 30.11.2019 The Conference of the Moscow branch of Yabloko elected Sergei Ivanenko, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, new Chairman of the party’s regional branch in Moscow for a two-year term. Sergei Ivanenko is a Russian economist, candidate of economic sciences, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and member of the Federal Political Committee of […]
Posted: December 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Без рубрики.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko went on a picket for the abolition of unconstitutional restrictions on pickets and rallies
Press Release, 29.11.2019 A picket was held by the entrance to the Kaliningrad Regional Duma, which in 2012 imposed restrictions on the holding of peaceful meetings. Its organiser was the regional branch of the Yabloko party and Yabloko managed to get a permission from the authorities for this picket. Earlier Yabloko had submitted relevant appeals […]
Posted: December 2nd, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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