Archive for October, 2020
Yabloko Chairman proposed to put a memorial plaque at the site of murder of musician Timur Kacharava
Press Release, 8.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Rybakov sent an appeal to the General Director of the Bukvoed bookstore chain with a request to put a memorial plaque on the wall of the bookstore in memory of Timur Kacharava, St. Petersburg musician, anti-fascist activist, and one of the organisers of the Food Instead of Bombs movement in […]
Posted: October 8th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Rybakov urged Vice PM Tatyana Golikova to support families with disabled children amid coronavirus restrictions
Press Release, 8.10.2020 Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova with a request to help families raising children with disabilities and young people with disabilities of working age with severe multiple developmental disabilities, due to the difficulties arising against the background of the introduction of coronavirus restrictions.
Posted: October 8th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Andrei Babushkin, Russia’s Human Rights Committee member, demanded that President review the legislation in connection with self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina
Press Release, 8.10.2020 Andrei Babushkin, member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and member of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, sent appeals to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Presidential Adviser Valery Fadeyev calling them to revise legislation, in particular, the law on fakes, and to conduct an investigation into […]
Posted: October 8th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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14th tragic anniversary since the murder of Anna Polytkovskaya, journalist and human rights activist. The customers are unpunished
FB post by Nikolai Rybakov, 7.10.2020 Today is [the 14th anniversary from] the day of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. I brought flowers from Yabloko to the place of her death. 14 years have passed – only one year is left to investigate. Customers are not announced and not held liable. And murders continue.
Posted: October 7th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Federal Antimonopoly Service filed a case on creation of a cartel on provision of public amenities in Moscow
Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre initiated the case worth 323 million roubles Press Release, 7.10.2020 The Moscow Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has filed a case on violation of antimonopoly laws against six companies. The case was opened after an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Policy of the Yabloko party about a cartel on […]
Posted: October 7th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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“The goals and objectives of the party in the present conditions”. Online discussion of the Social Democratic and the Gender Faction of Yabloko
Press Release, 6.10.2020 On 8 October, the Social Democratic and the Gender actions of the Yabloko party will hold an online discussion “The goals and objectives of the party in the present conditions”. Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, Maxim Petlin, Bureau member, Anatoly Golov, Chair of the Social Democratic Faction, […]
Posted: October 7th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Political Parties, Social Democratic faction, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko: The head of the administration of the Zaboryevsky settlement is trying to disrupt the work of the deputies who demand order in the activities of the municipal authorities
Press Release, 5.10.2020 A tense situation has developed in the relationship between the administration and the Council of Deputies in the Zaboryevsky rural settlement (one of the largest settlements, includes 15 settlements near Ryazan) over the past month. The head and new deputies of the Council were elected a year ago. Irina Kopylova, representing the […]
Posted: October 6th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pay for COVID!
Statement by the Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko Party, 5.10.2020 We support the All-Russian campaign of medical workers “Pay for COVID!”, who demand full and timely payment of incentive and insurance premiums to healthcare workers for their labour in the conditions of the coronavirus infection. Dozenss of thousands of medical and support personnel have […]
Posted: October 6th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Democratic faction, Social Policies.
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Yabloko will host an online lecture by Konstantin Kiselyov “Politician in the opposition: how is it possible in Russia at the local level”
Press Release, 4.10.2020 On 6 October, a Zoom-lecture by Konstantin Kiselyov will be held at the Yabloko Party University. The topic of the lectures is “A politician in the opposition: how is it possible in Russia at the local level”. The lecture begins at 19:00. Konstantin Kiselyov has PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Deputy of […]
Posted: October 6th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Powerlessness in politics and indifference of society gives rise to despair, a feeling of complete deadlock and it… kills
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2020 On 16 January, 1969, Jan Palach, a 20-year-old student of the Faculty of Philosophy, set himself on fire in the very center of Prague, in Wenceslas Square. He took this step in protest against the indifference of society, which resigned itself to the end of democratic reforms, known as the Prague […]
Posted: October 5th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Nikolai Rybakov demanded from the Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case under the article “incitement to suicide” in connection with the death of journalist Irina Slavina
Press Release, 4.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee initiate a criminal case under the article “incitement to suicide” over the tragic death of Irina Slavina, Editor-in-Chief of Koza Press, who set herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy […]
Posted: October 5th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Nikolai Rybakov delivered lectures in Oryol and Bryansk
Press Release, 2.10.2020 On September 30 – October 1, Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov visited Oryol and Bryansk, where he delivered lectures for participants in the All-Russian Environmental Lawyer Competition and students studying environmental law at universities in three Russian cities.
Posted: October 5th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: the visit of the Pskov delegation to Belarus represents a manifestation of support to the Lukashenko regime
Press Release, 2.10.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction / PLN Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction and member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, regards the visit of the Pskov Region delegation headed by the Governor to Belarus on 28 September as […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow Region Court withdrew candidates from Yabloko from the elections of deputies of the Council of Shatura on the basis of fraud by the electoral commission
Press Release, 2.10.2020 The Moscow Region Court removed eight registered candidates from Yabloko, as well as two independent candidates, from early elections to the Council of Deputies of Shatura. Lawsuits against opposition candidates were sent to court by candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, LDPR, and A Just Russia. It should be […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko supported nomination of Yelena Plotnikova to the post of head of the Yemanzhelinsky urban settlement
Press Release, 2.10.2020 Yelena Plotnikova, a member of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party and an expert on environmental safety, submitted documents to participate in the competition for the post of the head of the Yemanzhelinsky urban settlement. The nomination of Yelena Plotnikova to the post of the head of Yemanzhelinsk was supported […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Supreme Court chose not to stop the violation of the law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights” by the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, 1.10.2020 The Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the lower court’s decision not to consider Yabloko’s claim challenging the decision of the Central Electoral Commission on three-day early voting. “The Supreme Court confirmed the reluctance of the judiciary to delve into the violations of the Central Electoral […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections 2020, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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An online lecture “Parties and Party Systems” by Yuri Korgunyuk held in the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 01.10.2020 An on-line lecture by 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), was held at the Yabloko Party University on 30 September. The topic of the lecture […]
Posted: October 1st, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko will send its representatives to the territorial electoral commissions
Press Release, 1.10.2020 In connection with the formation of new lists of territorial electoral commissions members in the Ivanovo region, the regional branch of the Yabloko party is starting to select members of the commissions with the right of a casting vote.
Posted: October 1st, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The apartment of the Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko was searched. The activist’s arm was dislocated and equipment confiscated
Press Release, 1.10.2020 On 1 October, a search was carried out in the apartment of Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. Early in the morning the police burst into the apartment, began to beat Sadomovsky on the floor, dislocated his arm, despite the fact that the Deputy Chairman of the […]
Posted: October 1st, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko will again try to challenge in the Supreme Court the resolution of the Central Electoral Commission on a three-day voting
Press Release, 30.09.2020 On October 1, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will consider the complaint of Yabloko about the refusal of the Supreme Court to consider the party’s claim against the Central Electoral Commission which had issued a resolution on a three-day voting in elections.
Posted: October 1st, 2020 under Elections, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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