Archive for May, 2020
Yabloko Chairman demanded that the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg police release the participants detained during one-person picketing
Press Release, 29.05.2020 Detention of Kirill Gontcharov. Photo by Novaya Gazeta Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an official appeal to the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to release the detained participants of one-person picketing and stop the detentions. “Exiting the isolation regime, […]
Posted: May 29th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Freedom to Ilya Azar!
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 28.05.2020 Photo: Ilya Azar picketing in front of the Moscow Interior Department on Petrovka street on May 26. The Yabloko party is outraged by the unlawful prosecution of the journalist and Moscow municipal deputy Ilya Azar, who was sentenced by court to 15 days of administrative arrest for a one-person picket […]
Posted: May 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Housing for young people, resettlement of communal apartments and construction of metro. Boris Vishnevsky amended the law on adjusting the budget of St. Petersburg
Press Release, 27.05.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, made three amendments to the law on adjusting the city’s budget for 2020. Vishnevsky proposes to preserve the previously planned expenses for the programme Affordable Housing to Young People, which the Governor wants to reduce by a total […]
Posted: May 28th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The conference of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko elected new governing bodies of the branch. Igor Pleshkov re-elected Chairman
Press Release, 28.05.2020 The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko held a conference, which elected the governing bodies of the party’s regional branch for the next two years. During the secret ballot, Igor Pleshkov was unanimously re-elected as Chairman. His deputies were Olga Ivanova and Yelena Voitekhovich. Olga Ivanova was also elected to the Federal Council of […]
Posted: May 28th, 2020 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko calls the regional authorities to support the regional ground electric transport companies
Press Release, 26.05.2020 Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, appealed to Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, with a demand to include the MP Nizhegorodelectrotrans and MUP Express in Dzerzhinsk companies into the list of enterprises affected by the coronavirus pandemic that should receive aid from the […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan continues picketing against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 26.05.2020 The Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party organised a protest action calling to turn down Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution. Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of the party, held a one-person picket [which does not require any permissions from the authorities). He is certain that since the government […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko appealed to Public Prosecutor General after more than 200 students were expelled from the Russian State Social Sciences University. One of the expelled is a member of Yabloko
An appeal by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 27.05.2020 The Federal Bureau of Yabloko appealed to Public Prosecutor General of Russia after more than 200 students were unlawfully expelled from the Russian State Social Sciences University during the pandemic when they could not even appeal the decisions of the university management. One of the expelled […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Wisdom, experience and understanding of people. Anatoly Sidakov turns 80!
Press Release, 26.05.2020 May 26 marks the 80th anniversary of Anatoly Kazbekovich Sidakov, renowned Caucasian human rights defender, leader of the North Ossetian branch of the Yabloko party, and editor of the Mir Kavkazu (Peace to Caucasus) newspaper. Yabloko party’s Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the party, […]
Posted: May 26th, 2020 under Greetings.
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The Omsk branch of Yabloko calls the authorities for more carefully control of the amount of harmful substances in the vehicles exhaust gases
Press Release, 25.05.2020 Chair the Omsk Yabloko Tatyana Nagibina sent an appeal to President Vladimir Putin, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Dmitry Kobylkin, and Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage. The leader of the regional branch of Yabloko calls the authorities to adopt measures for reduction of pollution of the Omsk air […]
Posted: May 25th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yelena Dubrovina on the latest amendments to the electoral law: repression instead of reform
Specially for the web-site, 25.05.2020 On 20 May, 2020, the Federation Council [the upper chamber of the Russian parliament] approved three laws relating to the electoral process in the Russian Federation. All the three laws are repressive, toughly restrictive, and significantly impede the exercise of constitutional electoral rights of citizens. They facilitate creation of additional […]
Posted: May 25th, 2020 under Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky prepared a draft decision of the St. Petersburg parliament on no confidence in Governor Beglov
Press Release, 22.05.2020 Photo: Governor Beglov and Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and the head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent to the Legal Department of the city parliament a draft decision on […]
Posted: May 22nd, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The vicious circle of inaction
While federal and regional officials shift responsibility to each other, the estate of the Vasilchikovs and the Stroganovs in the village of Volyshovo has been perishing Press Release, 20.05.2020 Photo: Here and below are the photos of the manor house of the Vasilchikovs-Stroganovs in the village of Volyshovo is perishing In February 2020, Lev Shlosberg, […]
Posted: May 22nd, 2020 under Protection of Environment, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Emilia Slabunova: One should not be surprised at the quality of Russian education with such an attitude
The Karelian parliament did not support Yabloko’s proposal to compensate teachers for the cost of distance teaching Press Release, 22.05.2020 The legislative assembly of Karelia refused to support the appeal of the Yabloko faction to the head of the Russian government Mikhail Mishustin on the problems of the Russian education system in the context of […]
Posted: May 22nd, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Altai branch of Yabloko proposes to reallocate 37 million roubles of the Barnaul budget from holidays and souvenirs to support of citizens and business
Press Release, 21.05.2020 An expert group under the Bureau of the Yabloko party in the Altai Territory, headed by Andrei Tkachenko, discovered over 37 million roubles in the budget of Barnaul that the authorities of the regional capital had planned to spend on gifts and celebrations. The Altai branch of Yabloko suggested that the city […]
Posted: May 21st, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova appealed to the Investigative Committee, Public Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to check the damage to the monument One Thousand Years of Russia with chemicals
Press Release, 20.05.2020 Anna Cherepanova, deputy of the Duma of Veliky Novgorod and Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, turned to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigative Committee and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. She demands a check on the fact of damage to the monument One Thousand Years of Russia as […]
Posted: May 21st, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Healthcare, Protection of Environment, Social Policies.
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Online conference on the situation with migrants in Russia during the pandemic
Press Release, 20.05.2020 On Tuesday, 19 May, the Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko Party, Yabloko’s Gender Faction, and the Committee for Combating Xenophobia held an online conference “The situation with Migrants in Russia during the Pandemic”. The situation with migrants has become much more complicated during the pandemic, and even removal of restrictions on […]
Posted: May 21st, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre demanded to check the customer of the Social Monitoring tracing application for corruption
Previously, mass media pointed to indications of fraud in the tender Press Release, 20.05.2020 Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre demanded that the Investigative Committee check the heads of the State Public Institution Information City for a crime under Article 285 of the Criminal Code. According to mass media reports, before that the contractor in the development […]
Posted: May 21st, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko demanded resignation of the head of the regional Ministry of Healthcare
Press Release, 20.05.2020 The Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party appealed to Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, with a demand to dismiss David Melik-Guseynov, Deputy Governor and Minister of Healthcare of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Earlier, the Minister published a post on his social networks criticising doctors of the Sormovskaya emergency […]
Posted: May 20th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Administration of the city of Priozersk, the Leningrad Region, intends to hold public hearings on landfill reсultivation during the pandemic
Press Release, 19.05.2020 Despite the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Leinigrad Region in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration of the Priozersky municipal district of the Leningrad Region intends to hold public hearings on the recultivation of the local landfill. District officials turned down the proposal of the Yabloko branch in the […]
Posted: May 19th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Healthcare, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko seeks that allowances to medical staff for work with COVID-19 patients are paid
Press Release, 19.05.2020 https://www.facebook.com/andrey.avtoneev/videos/1656380081166417/?t=5 On 18 May, employees of the Ivanovo ambulance station with the support of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko filed a complaint with the regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Governor of the Ivanovo region. The appeal was signed by about […]
Posted: May 19th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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