Archive for September, 2020
A Triumph of Lies
The sentence to Yuri Dmitriyev means the beginning of the government’s war against the society Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2020 Photo: Yuri Dmitriyev. Photo by AFP PHOTO /Scanpix/LETA The present Russian regime does not always need chemical warfare agents. Old proven tools also work well. If you need to get rid of undesired persons, shut the […]
Posted: September 30th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Where is the “influential world power”?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.09.2020 There is a war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia and Azerbaijan report hundreds of deaths. [Russia’s Foreign Minister] Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin over the phone “express concern” and urge “to prevent further escalation”. For 28 years, Russian diplomacy have been trying to produce an impression of Moscow’s mediation in the peace process, […]
Posted: September 30th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, War in Syria.
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Nikolai Rybakov to deliver lectures at the universities of Oryol, Bryansk and Volgograd
Press Release, 29.09.2020 Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov will deliver lectures for participants in the All-Russian Environmental Lawyer Competition and students studying environmental law at universities in three Russian cities. The topic of the lecture is “The main environmental problems of Russia and public participation in the protection of the environmental rights of […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Central Electoral Commission took under control the appeal of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko on non-recognition of the results of the elections to the city parliament
Press Release, 29.09.2020 Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, received an answer to his appeal to the Central Electoral Commission about non-recognition of the results of the elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. It follows from the answer the Central Electoral Commission that the appeal was forwarded for consideration […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yury Orlov, physicist and founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, passed away
Condolences, 28.09.2020 Yury Orlov was a real hero. His whole life has been evidence of this: he participated in the war, was an outstanding physicist and, like the best people of his time, advocated human rights, gradually making it his main task in life. The Moscow Helsinki Group, of which Yury Orlov was one of […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Condolences, Human Rights.
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A concert in support of political prisoners, organised by Yabloko members, was held in St. Petersburg
Based on Sever.Revlii, 29.09.2020 A concert in support of political prisoners was held at the Interior Theater of St. Petersburg. Musicians Maksim Leonidov, Maksim Ermachkov, Pyotr Olesov, Dmitry Podosenov, Mikhail Novitsky and others participated in the concert. The idea to hold such a concert belongs to Oleg Maksakov, Chairman of the Primorsky local branch of […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Oleg Komissarov elected Chairman of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 28.09.2020 The conference of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko elected a new leadership. Oleg Komissarov became the successor of Oksana Demchenko, now ex Chair of the regional branch of the party who resigned. Komissarov, leader of the largest local branch of the Krasnoyarsk Yabloko in Zheleznogorsk, was elected by a majority vote on […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko nominated the winners of the general democratic primaries for the by-election to the Yekaterinburg City Duma
Press Release, 28.09.2020 The conference of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko nominated candidates from the democratic opposition for the by-election to the Yekaterinburg City Duma. The candidates were chosen via primaries held on the initiative of Yabloko which determined the candidates during a joint preliminary vote of Yabloko and other democratic parties and political […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko will host an online lecture “Parties and Party Systems” by Yuri Korgunyuk
Press Release, 25.09.2020 On 30 September, Yuri Korgunyuk, leading researcher of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of department of Political Science of the Informatics for Democracy Foundation (INDEM), will deliver an online lecture at Yabloko’s Party University. The topic of the lecture is “Parties […]
Posted: September 25th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Без рубрики.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko will challenge in court the results of elections of deputies of the Nizhny Novgorod City Duma
Press Release, 24.09.2020 On 22 September, activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko filed several lawsuits demanding to cancel the results of early voting at dozens of city precinct electoral commissions. Also, in a number of cases, democratic candidates demand that the results of voting at polling stations on the election day 13 September […]
Posted: September 25th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko challenges voting results in municipal elections 2020
Press Release, 24.09.2020 Photo: A polling station in the village of Kamenskoye, the city of Chernyakhovsk On Monday, September 21, Nikolai Zyuzin, candidate from the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko in constituency No. 18, filed a lawsuit with the Chernyakhovsky City Court to declare protocol of the electoral commission on the results of voting at one […]
Posted: September 25th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A charitable concert in support of political prisoners to take place in St.Petersburg
Press Release, 24.09.2020 A charitable concert in support of political prisoners will be held at the Interior Theatre (Nevsky Prospect 104) on 27 September. The concert is organised with the participation of members of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the party and head of the Yabloko faction in the […]
Posted: September 24th, 2020 under Charity, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A multipolar impasse
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.09.2020 At the UN General Assembly, Vladimir Putin again spoke about a multipolar world. But a “multipolar world” means that one pole will have almost the whole world, the other will include China with North Korea, and on the third pole, apart from everyone else, Russia with Lukashenko, Novichok and missiles.
Posted: September 24th, 2020 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko does not recognise the results of elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod
Press Release, 23.09.2020 On September 20, the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party held its conference. The conference adopted a statement “On non-recognition of the results of elections of deputies of the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod of the seventh convocation”.
Posted: September 23rd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The branch of Yabloko in the Sverdlovsk region will nominate single opposition candidates for the by-election to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg
Press Release, 23.09.2020 The Sverdlovsk Region branch of the Yabloko party will nominate candidates from the united democratic coalition for the by-election to the Yekaterinburg Duma in Leninsky District No. 9 and Verkh-Isetsky District No. 3. “The Bureau of the Regional Council of Yabloko has made a historic decision. We will participate in the by-elections […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Activists supported by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko conducted a civil campaign for free access to the parks, 4,000 signatures collected
Press Release, 23.09.2020 On Monday, 21 September, Alexandr Makhankov, member of the Bureau of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko and Chairman of the local Yabloko branch in the city of Pushkin, together with representatives of the #Khochuvpark (I Want to the Park) initiative group, submitted to the reception of the Governor of St. Petersburg a […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko will host an online discussion on the progressive personal income tax
Press Release, 22.09.2020 On September 24, Yabloko will hold an online discussion on the progressive personal income tax: “On the inclusion of the requirement to introduce a progressive personal income tax into the party’s programme documents”. The discussion is organised by the Social Democratic faction of the Yabloko party.
Posted: September 22nd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Introductory lecture on contemporary investigative journalism “Legal Risks and Personal Experience of Successful Investigations” was held in Yabloko
Press Release, 22.09.2020 The Yabloko party is launching a series of open discussions on contemporary journalistic investigation. The main topic of the introductory lecture, which took place on September 17, was “Legal Risks and Personal Experience of Successful Investigations”.
Posted: September 22nd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko demanded to deprive the deputy of the Novosibirsk City Council, who cheated in the elections, of his mandate
Press Release, 22.09.2020 Representatives of Yabloko in Novosibirsk insist on revising the results of elections to the Novosibirsk City Council in single-mandate constituency No 35. The local organisation of the Yaboko party forwarded an open appeal to Tamara Kratkaya, Chair of the Novosibirsk City Municipal Electoral Commission with a demand to deprive Yevgeny Yakovenko of […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko nominated environmentalist and journalist Natalya Zubkova as a candidate for the City Council of Prokopyevsk
Press Release, 21.09.2020 The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko will take part in by-elections to the City Council of Deputies of Prokopyevsk, the Kemerovo region, which will take place on November 1. Natalya Zubkova, environmentalist and Editor-in-Chief of the independent Internet publication Novosti Kiselyovsk, became a candidate. The candidate has submitted 67 signatures of voters in […]
Posted: September 21st, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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