Archive for November, 2020
Murino will become the first city in the Leningrad region with a design code for city development
Press Release, 30.11.2020 The first design code in the Leningrad Region that will change the look of the city will be developed in the city of Murino, which borders on St. Petersburg. This was announced on 26 November by Dmitry Kuzmin, head of the Murino urban settlement and a member of the Yabloko party, during […]
Posted: November 30th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Emilia Slabunova on the Russian school
Press Release, 30.11.2020 On Thursday, December 3, the Yabloko Party University will hold a Zoom-lecture by ex-Chair of Yabloko Emilia Slabunova on “The Russian School: Between the Past and the Future”. The lecture will start at 19:00.
Posted: November 30th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Education and Science, Social Policies.
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Lev Shlosberg: the federal policies of interbudgetary relations remain repressive
Press Release, 27.11.2020 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly in the first reading adopted the draft regional budget for 2021 and for the planning period of 2022 and 2023 / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov region Administration Pskov parliamentarians considered in the first reading the draft budget of the region […]
Posted: November 28th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Tula branch of Yabloko submitted its candidates to 11 territorial electoral commissions of the region
Press Release, 27.11.2020 The Tula branch of Yabloko submitted candidacies of the party representiatives to the key eleven territorial electoral commissions of the region. The respective electoral commissions cover 75 per cent of the population of the Tula region. Within a month, the regional electoral commission should complete the formation of electoral commissions.
Posted: November 27th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Gender Faction hosted international conference “Situation with Protection of Women’s Rights in the situation of COVID lockdowns. International Experience”
Press Release, 27.11.2020 On 24 November, on the threashold of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November) and the launch of this year’s international campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence” Yabloko Gender Faction conducted international on-line conference “Situation with Protection of Women’s Rights in the situation of COVID […]
Posted: November 27th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko party demanded from Prime Minister Mishustin not to cut payments to medical workers
Press Release, 26.11.2020 Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, in which he urges the head of government to amend Decree No. 1762 on the state measures of social support and to increase payments to health workers in the situation of the COVID pandemic, as well as […]
Posted: November 26th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies.
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After Yabloko’s appeal, 26 regions lifted restrictions on street actions
Press Release, 26.11.2020 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko, at a picket against the amendments to the Constitution, on 23 June, 2020 A year after Yabloko’s appeal to the Public Prosecutor’s Offices of 43 Russian Federation subjects with a demand to bring regional laws on rallies in line with the Constitution, […]
Posted: November 26th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Professionalism Versus Insanity
Statement on the resumption of the activities of the Public Constitutional Council Novaya Gazeta, 25.11.2020 The Public Constitutional Council, which we established in January 2020 in response to the President’s initiative to amend the Constitution of the Russian Federation, warned at the same time that the adoption of the proposed amendments to the Basic Law […]
Posted: November 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko demands that Governor Beglov stops the attempts to deprive opposition municipal deputies of their mandates
Press Release, 25.11.2020 Photo: Anna Karulicheva, municipal deputy from Yabloko, St.Peterburg Yekaterina Kuznetsova, Chair the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, issued a statement demanding from Governor Alexander Beglov to stop the attempts to deprive Yabloko municipal deputy Anna Karulicheva of her mandate in the Narvsky District Municipality.
Posted: November 25th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An honest and throb-hearted journalist. Lydia Grafova passed away
Condolences from Nikolai Rybakov, 23.11.2020 On 23 November, the famous journalist and human rights activist Lidia Ivanovna Grafova passed away at the age of 83. Lidia Ivanovna collaborated with Yabloko in the protection of migrants’ rights. In 2016, she became the party’s accredited agent in the elections to the State Duma, and in 2018 she […]
Posted: November 25th, 2020 under Condolences.
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Candidates from Yabloko came second and third in the by-elections to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg
The elections were accompanied by massive early voting, vote-buying and low turnout Press Release, 23.11.2020 Vladislav Postnikov, Yabloko’s candidate in the by-election to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg in single-mandate constituency No. 3, came second (20.8% versus 28% for the United Russia candidate). Potnikov won among voters who voted on the election day. Dmitry Trynov, […]
Posted: November 25th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Trump wins even in defeat
On the prospects for Trumpism and the threat of fascism Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 23.11.2020 Donald Trump and Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Debate Virtually the whole world has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US presidential elections. The regime in Russia is upset and taken aback. It has been rumoured that the powers-that-be will congratulate Biden […]
Posted: November 23rd, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre: officials in Dzerzhinsk ordered a lease for 5.5 million roubles. Two Kia Optima will cost the budget 1.5 times the market price
Press Release, 23.11.2020 Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko and Director of the regional branch of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, appealed to the Control and Audit Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Nizhny Novgorod Region demanding to check the reasonabless of the purchase at the indicated price of car […]
Posted: November 23rd, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko initiated a collective statement on the inadmissibility of canceling the mixed system in municipal elections
Press Release, 20.11.2020 The Saratov branch of Yabloko held a round table and invited to it all the registered political parties of the Saratov region. Following the meeting, which was attended by representatives of the parties A Just Russia, Parnas, Russian National Union, as well as the all-Russian movement #Changes, a statement was adopted demanding […]
Posted: November 21st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko calls on the regional government to open data on the causes of excess mortality in the region
Press Release, 19.11.2020 Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, sent an inquiry to the regional Ministry of Healthcare demanding to open data on the reasons for the increase in mortality in 2020. The analysis of open data of Rosstat (the Russian statistical agency) in the Chelyabinsk region shows that 2,043 more deaths […]
Posted: November 20th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Tatyana Nagibina: In the midst of the pandemic in Omsk, the regional administration bought new cars for officials
Tatyana Nagibina blog post, 19.11.2020 What a “happiness” it is to live in the Omsk region, as our “achievements” put us ahead of all Russian regions. How our officials love to excel! Our officials do not cease to amaze us with their ideas on how to help themselves, come up with something so that to […]
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Elections, Healthcare, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Officials of the Dubna district fulfilled the demand of the Tula branch of Yabloko: the tender for the purchase of an expensive car is canceled
Press Release, 18.11.2020 The administration of the Dubna district of the Tula region fulfilled the demand of the Tula branch of Yabloko and cancelled the tender for the purchase of an expensive car for the needs of the administration. The corresponding entry appeared on the state procurement portal. This happened after the Tula branch of […]
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov on the adoption of the bill on the immunity guarantees to the President
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 18.11.2020 Today in the State Duma was adopting, in the first reading, a bill on guarantees of immunity to the President after his leaving office and members of his family. The main argument was that the President should have a free hand… (!!!)
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2021.
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On the search in the house of Alexander Korovainy, leader of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Krasnodar
Statement by Nikolai Rybakov and Olga Tsepilova, 18.11.2020 Today, on 18 November, 2020, a search was conducted in the private house of Alexander Korovainy, Chairman of the Krasnodar regional branch of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Yeisk City Council. The search began at 6 o’clock in the morning
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Tula branch of Yabloko demands to cancel the tender for the purchase of an expensive car for the needs of the Dubna district Administration in the Tula region
Press Release, 16.11.2020 The regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Tula region discovered on the public procurement website that the administration of the Dubna district decided to purchase a new Mitsubishi Outlander for 1,895,000 roubles. Activists of the Tula branch of Yabloko note that the car will most likely be used by the […]
Posted: November 17th, 2020 under Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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