Archive for January, 2020
MPs from the ruling United Russia party introduced a bill on the liquidation of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 17.01.2020 State Duma deputies from the ruling United Russia Gadzhemet Safaraliyev, Yevgeny Marchenko and Valentin Subbot introduced amendments to the law on political parties to the lower house of the Russian parliament to liquidate the Yabloko party for “diminishing the authority of the state in the international arena”. The explanatory note to the […]
Posted: January 17th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Political Parties, Politics, Situation in Crimea, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Putin’s proposals mean masking of the conservation of the system
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 16.01.2020 The initiatives contained in the annual Address of President Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly do not cause illusions. No significant changes or democratisation of the system is expected. The declared initiatives are targeted at strengthening the political system that has developed over the past 20 years and maintaining Putin […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights.
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The leader of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Tatarstan and other opponents of the construction of the waste incineration plant arrested
Press Release, 16.01.2020 The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan (Tatarstan) sentenced the participants of the movement against the construction of a waste incineration plant near Osinovo to arrest and fines. Yelena Izotova, one of the leaders of the movement and Chair of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Tatarstan, was arrested for five days for participating […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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“Putin is preparing a new public post for himself.” Yabloko leaders on the President’s Address to the Federal Assembly
Press Release, 15.01.2020 I his annual Address to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed amending the Russian Constitution, apparently aimed at preserving him at the top of state power even after 2024, when his presidential term expires. Much was said about overcoming poverty in the country, which he has been leading for more […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov on the Address of Vladimir Putin to the Russian palriament
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 15.01.2020 Today’s Presidential Address [to the parliament] has finally returned us to the Leonid Brezhnev [stagnation] period [in the USSR]: slow reading of the text written on paper, silent audience but bursting into applause at the right moments. Certainly, the directors of the event counted on resounding success of the promises […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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President’s Address to the nation: the conclusions
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.01.2020 Vladimir Putin has spoken with an Address to the Federal Assembly. People want change, the President said. And he proposed to amend the Constitution. So that no international courts, no international law would any longer interfere with the Construction of an isolated authoritarian (that is, sovereign, as Putin thinks) state. So […]
Posted: January 15th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: Putin has submitted proposals aimed at maintaining his system of power
Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 15.01.2020 The main thing in Putin’s proposals today: First. Isolation of Russia from the system of international law, that is, the impossibility of protecting the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens on the basis of international law. This virtually means Russia’s withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human […]
Posted: January 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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The police opened a criminal case after threats to the assistant to deputy from Yabloko Konstantin Kiselyov
Press Release, 14.01.2020 The police in Yekaterinburg opened a criminal case under Article 119 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat of death or serious bodily harm) at the request of the assistant to Konstantin Kiselyov, deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. Such answers came to Emilia Slabunova, ex Yabloko Chair […]
Posted: January 14th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Без рубрики.
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Nikolay Rybakov on climate change and what measures the Russian authorities need to take to reduce the threat of forest fires
Facebook page by Nikolai Rybakov, 10.01.2020 Winter holidays in Moscow, St. Petersburg and in many cities of the country passed almost without snow. At the same time, news lines were filled with reports of large-scale fires in Australia, the area of which is four times larger today than the area of the forest that burnt […]
Posted: January 14th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy.
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Yabloko activists to lay flowers at the site of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova
Press Release, 14.01.2020 On Sunday, 19 January, activists of the Yabloko party will lay flowers at the site of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in Prechistenka street, Moscow. Markelov and Baburova were killed that day in 2009 by neo-Nazis from the BORN group.
Posted: January 14th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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Nina Dumnova: Lack of economic growth in Russia did not affect the growth of welfare of Russian billionaires
Press Release, 9.01.2020 Despite the fact that last year the Russian economy grew by only 1 per cent and is still in the midst of a deep recession, this did not affect the growth of the welfare of Russian billionaires. They got good dividends in 2019. Thus, the total fortune of all Russian billionaires has […]
Posted: January 13th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko demands to institute criminal proceedings against General Director of the regional oil refinery for air pollution
Press Release, 9.01.2020 Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko, appealed to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request to institute criminal proceedings against Alexei Demakhin, General Director of the Ryazan Oil Refinery, a subsidiary of Rosneft. The leader of the regional branch of Yabloko notes that the regulatory authorities and […]
Posted: January 13th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Anatoly Golov supported one-person pickets of the Green Coalition
Press Release, 9.01.2020 On Saturday, 4 January, initiative groups that are members of the Green Coalition held a series of one-person pickets in Nevsky Prospekt, St.Petersburg. The purpose of the action is to draw attention to the environmental problems of St. Petersburg and building up of urban gardens and parks. Anatoly Golov, member of the […]
Posted: January 13th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Без рубрики.
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