Archive for June, 2020
The Yabloko branch in Bashkiria calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the WW2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa during the epidemic
Press Release, 17.06.2020 Albert Khusainov, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria, sent an appeal to the head of the region Radiy Khabirov. The leader of the regional branch of Yabloko calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the World War 2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa […]
Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Condolences on the death of Academician Andrei Vorobyov
17.06.2020 We deeply grieve over the death of Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov, a wonderful person and a great doctor, who was close to us. Sincerely, the Yabloko party *** Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov (November 1, 1928 – June 15, 2020) – Soviet and Russian hematologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR and the […]
Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yelena Dubrovina: The new law on the population register violates basic constitutional rights of citizens
Special for the web-site of Yabloko, 17.06.2020 Photo: Yelena Dubrovina The Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko party prepared an expert opinion on the federal law “On the Unified Federal Information Register Containing Information on the Population of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as the Law “On the Register”), which has recently entered […]
Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The European Court for Human Rights awarded EUR 19.500 to the head of Yabloko’s environmental faction beaten by police during a demonstration in 2007
Press Release, 16.06.2020 Photo: bruised Olga Tsepilova On 16 June, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued a decision on the case of the participants of the March of Dissent who were beaten by the police forces during the March in St.Petersburg on April 15, 2007. Riot policemen roughly dispersed about 60 people, […]
Posted: June 16th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko party nominated candidates for elections of deputies of the Ryazan Regional Duma
Press Release, 16.06.2020 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov On 15 June, the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Ryazan Region was the first among political parties to nominate its candidates for deputies of the Ryazan Regional Duma. The list of candidates is topped by Konstantin Smirnov, journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the online magazine Vid Sboku (Side […]
Posted: June 16th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We openly declare our categorical disagreement with Vladimir Putin and refuse him our confidence”
Yabloko deputies in the Pskov region signed a parliamentary appeal against Putin’s lifelong rule Press Release, 15.06.2020 Photo: The Pskov Yabloko team at a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Yabloko branch in Pskov. November 16, 2019. Photo by Alexander Sidorenko More than 350 deputies of regional and municipal parliaments from 39 regions […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly.
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The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre opposed the classified purchases of the Russian Guard, the Federal Security Service and the Russian Federal Space Agency
The Finance Ministry bill leads to the non-transparency and corruption in public procurement Press Release, 15.06.2020 The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has prepared an independent anti-corruption examination of the bill of the Russian Ministry of Finance on classifying purchases for law enforcement agencies and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). The experts of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Boris Vishnevsky called on the Central Electoral Commission and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check on the coercion of state employees to take absentee voting certificates to vote for Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 15.06.2020 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent appeals to the Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central electoral Commission, and Sergei Litvinenko, Public Prosecutor of St.Petersburg. Vishnevsky asked them to investigate into the situation of mass-scale coercion of […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Oleg Rodin: Officials are trying to intimidate residents of Kuznechikha who are opposed to the construction of McDonald’s in the green zone
Press Release, 15.06.2020 On 13 June, local residents met in front of House No 19 Rokossovsky street with a correspondent of the Vesti Privolzhye (Vesti Volga Region) newspaper so that to tell about the construction of a McDonald’s restaurant under the windows of their houses. After the correspondent left, police officers began to surround residents […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Russia will be free!
Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 12.06.2020 In the photo: A rally for freedom – for the abolition of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR on the leading role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, February 4, 1990. 30 years ago, on June 12, 1990, a declaration on Russia’s sovereignty was adopted. […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko asked pro-government newspapers AIF, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Rossiyskaya Gazeta to publish Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution, as they published Putin’s
Press Release, 11.06.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent official letters to the editors-in-chief of pro-government Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Argumenti I Fakti (AIF) newspapers. Rybakov asked the newspapers publish in their print versions and on their websites Yabloko’s publications with alternative opinions regarding amendments to the Constitution.
Posted: June 11th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko’s billboards against Putin’s constitutional amendments stolen in Sakhalin
The law enforcement do nothing about it Press Release, 9.06.2020 Theft of Yabloko’s billboards against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution and a “reset” of his presidential terms has been going on in the city of Korsakov in Sakhalin since 30 May. The billboards ran: “We are for the popular election of mayors” and “We are […]
Posted: June 11th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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On the principled unacceptability of voting on Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Decision No 132 of 5.06.2020 by the Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 8.06.2020 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko thinks that amendments to the Constitution of Russia, initiated by President Putin, represent demolishing of the foundations of the constitutional system of our country, the Russian legal system as a whole.
Posted: June 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Political Committee Decisions.
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On the 70th anniversary of murdered Yabloko MP and journalist Yury Shchekochikhin Yabloko will conduct a Zoom-marathon: we will read his texts live on-line
Press Release, 8.06.2020 On June 9, 2020, journalist and politician Yury Shchekochikhin would have turned 70. Yury Shchekochikhin was an MP of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma. He was also renowned in Russia as a pillar of Russian investigative journalism. He died on July 3, 2003, due to poisoning. Those who committed and […]
Posted: June 9th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko in Kalmykia held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina
Press Release, 8.06.2020 Colleagues of Larissa Yudina, members of the Kalmyk branch of Yabloko held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina, opposition journalist, human rights activist, politician and Co-Chair of the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia.
Posted: June 9th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, Без рубрики.
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LI President endorses ALDE Party statement concerning arrests in Russia
Press Release, 5.06.2020 Liberal International, the world federation of liberal political parties, has endoresed the statement made by ALDE on the latest arrests in Russia. Yabloko has been member of Liberal International since 1998. Here goes the text from Liberal International: LI President Hakima el Haite endorses the statement made by ALDE Party President and […]
Posted: June 8th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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“Freedom of expression is inviolable!” Yabloko deputies demand from the head of the Moscow police to give explanations on the arrests of protesters
Press Release, 5.06.2020 Photo: Arrest of Maxim Kruglov The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma demands immediate admission of Yabloko deputies from the head of the Moscow police chief Oleg Baranov. An official letter of this was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Chairman of the faction, and was sent to the police department in Moscow […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Yabloko demanded resignation of the heads of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, as well as the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory for the accident in Norilsk
Press Release, 4.06.2020 Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov called on the Russian authorities to dismiss all those responsible for concealing information about the accident in Norilsk, as well as make systemic changes in the field of environmental protection. “We consider it necessary to dismiss Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss, head of […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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The disaster in Norilsk; the unlearned lessons of Chernobyl
We demand resignation of those responsible for concealing information and introduce systemic changes in the field of environmental protection Statement by the Yabloko party, 4.06.2020 The large-scale disaster which happened with the spill of oil products at Thermal Power Plant No 3 of the city of Norilsk on May 29 demonstrates the fragility and inefficiency […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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After Lockdown
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020 CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if […]
Posted: June 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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