Archive for July, 2020
The New Greatness case means the old ignominy
Only provocateurs, sadists and rapists should be tried. But all of them in this case are representatives of the state Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.07.2020 The New Greatness case is fabricated. Neither investigators nor prosecutors conceal this. Four law enforcement officers who directly fabricated this criminal case are witnesses in the case: they themselves created an […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “The administration of the Arkhangelsk region provokes an explosion of protests like in Khabarovsk”
Statement by the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, 27.07.2020 Photo: Oleg Mandrykin, Yabloko candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk region In the Arkhangelsk region, Oleg Mandrykin was nominated for the post of Governor. He represents the STOP-SHIES coalition – a protest movement to prevent the construction of landfills in the region, consisting of 36 […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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On the assessment of the plebiscite on Constitutional amendments of July 1, 2020 and the tasks of the party
Federal Political Committee Decision No. 134, 27.07.2020 Having heard and discussed the report of Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee [of the Yabloko party], the YABLOKO Federal Political Committee decided: Confirm the standpoint that the entire procedure of the so-called “popular vote”, as well as the very introduction of amendments to the Basic […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Political Committee Decisions, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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The Yabloko party stands for people’s rule and federalism
Statement by Yabloko Bureau, 24.07.2020 The latest events in the Khabarovsk Territory [when thousands of people came into the streets after Governor of the region they voted for against the ruling party candidate was arrested and dismissed from his post] showed the failure of the concept of the vertical of power and the entire Putin […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Elections, Federalism, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko’s list was removed from the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region
Press Release, 24.07.2020 On July 24, the regional electoral commission of the Chelyabinsk region decided to refuse registration to Yabloko candidates for the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region. The Yabloko party submitted to the electoral commission 13,878 voters’ signatures in support of nomination of the party candidates, as required by law, […]
Posted: July 27th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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The district electoral commission refused to register the Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko for the election of the City Duma
Press Release, 27.07.2020 On July 24, the district electoral commission for constituency No 25 decided to deny registration for the elections to the City Duma for Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. The electoral commission recognized 16 signatures out of 146 for the nomination of Alexei Sadomovsky as invalid. (Collection […]
Posted: July 27th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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Member of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko was fired from job for a single picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 23.07.2020 The management of the Central Kislovodsk military health centre dismissed activist of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko Ronald Ayrapetyan from his job as a waiter in the canteen of the health centre. He was told that “an employee with opposition views cannot work in their canteen” and was offered to write a […]
Posted: July 27th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Is the name of the mastermind a state secret?
Investigative Committee denies European lawmakers access to the Nemtsov case files By Boris Vishnevsky, Member of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and Yabloko Deputy Chair Novaya Gazeta, 13.07.2020 On June 19, the European Court of Human Rights communicated Zhanna Nemtsova’s complaint over the official investigation into the death of her father Boris Nemtsov who was assassinated […]
Posted: July 16th, 2020 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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About the Future
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 02.07.2020 Photo by Kristina Kormilitsyna / Kommersant As a result of the special operation carried out by the authorities to destroy Russian statehood, the Constitution, with amendments of 2020 and “resetting” the presidential terms personally for Vladimir Putin, was removed from the legal framework. The process of destruction of law throughout […]
Posted: July 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance.
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Lev Shlosberg: A court decision means that society can influence key decisions of the authorities
Press Release, 8.07.2020 Photo: Svetlana Prokopyeva after the trial Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, expressed his opinion that journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva did not end up with the six years in the colony, as the Public Prosector had been asking, thanks to the wide publicity, which did not allow lawlessness to […]
Posted: July 10th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko party requires an open and public examination of the lawsuit banning the activities of the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant!
Appeal by the Bureau of the Yabloko Party, 9.07.2020 The Yabloko party has always supported and will continue to support the struggle of residents of the Chelyabinsk region against the unlawful construction by AO The Russian Copper Company, which is fully controlled by offshore companies, of the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant, a first-class hazard […]
Posted: July 10th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko’s Olga Pokrovskaya: I cannot be certain of the reliability of the results of the All-Russian vote on Constitutional amendments in St. Petersburg
A dissenting opinion of the Yabloko member of the St.Petersbrug Electoral Commission Press Release, 9.07.2020 Olga Pokrovskaya, member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission with a casting vote from the Yabloko party and Chair of the Party Arbitration, refused to vote for approving the protocol of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission on the results of […]
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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Tomsk Yabloko activists are summoned to police for participation in Yabloko’s campaign against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 9.07.2020 Members and supporters of the Tomsk regional branch of the Yabloko party are summoned to the police, where they have to give explanations about a group photo in which activists are pictured with leaflets “I am for the Constitution without nullification and amendments”.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist receives threats because of his protest against Putin’s reset of his presidential terms
Press Release, 8.07.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Stavropol Territory, received threats from unidentified persons. The activist found a note with threats in his postbox on 8 July. The note ran that if Ronald Ayrapetyan came out again to protest against Putin, he would go to jail.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The law is targeted against those who are telling the truth about the annexation of Crimea
Ivan Bolshakov on the new law on the inadmissibility of violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation Ivan Bolshakov’s Facebook post, 8.07.2020 They introduced the first bill for implementation of the new Constitution – [targeted at] declaring those who allegedly call for a violation of the territorial integrity of the country as extremists.
Posted: July 8th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Statement in connection with the arrest of journalist Ivan Safronov
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 7.07.2020 Ivan Safronov, former correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, was detained on suspicion of treason. The apartment of Taisiya Bekbulatova, Editor-in-Chief of Kholod.Media, was searched. Journalists’ colleagues were detained during [solidarity] single pickets [that do not require any permissions from the authorities] near the Federal Security Service building in Moscow.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Arkhangelsk branch of Yabloko nominates Oleg Mandrykin, representative of the STOP-SHIES coalition, as candidate for Governor in the forthcoming election
Press Release, 6.07.2020 Photo: Oleg Mandrykin On June 21, the conference of the Arkhangelsk regional branch of Yabloko nominated Oleg Mandrykin, representative of the STOP-SHIES coalition, as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk region in the forthcoming election.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko elected new governing bodies
Vitaly Ilyin elected Chairman of the Yabloko regional branch Press Release, 6.07.2020 On July 5, the Kemerovo regional branch of the Yabloko party held a conference on the election of its governing bodies. The conference was attended by 11 delegates from Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated candidates for the upcoming municipal elections in the Nizhny Novgorod region
Press Release, 6.07.2020 On July 4, the Conference of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party was held. The Conference nominated candidates for the coming municipal elections in the Nizhny Novgorod region, as well as the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sentence to journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva must be canceled
Statement by the Yabloko party, 6.07.2020 The Bureau of the Yabloko party considers the conviction of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva not only the result of a fabricated “case”, but also the actual destruction of the right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by Article 29 of the Constitution of Russia. Despite the fact that the sentence is […]
Posted: July 6th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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