Archive for December, 2020
Lev Shlosberg about the Pskov region budget: We observe chronic budget deficiency
Press Release, 29.12.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, member of the conciliatory commission on the draft regional budget from the Yabloko faction, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Local Self-Government of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies Deputies of the regional parliament adopted the budget of the […]
Posted: December 30th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: We get an electoral system that looks like a black cat in a dark room
Press Release, 29.12.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Pskov parliamentarians adopted amendments to the Electoral Code of the Pskov Region. All parties, except for the ruling United Russia party, opposed multi-day voting in the elections, as well as voting in the yards and other similar changes, as they make […]
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We consider the activities of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region destructive and leading to the elimination of the principles of the political balance in the region
Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 29.12.2020 A year ago, at the end of 2019, there was a change in the leadership of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region. The electoral system of the region during this time fully demonstrated extremely negative consequences of personnel changes, blatant incompetence of the new leaders and […]
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Konstantin Smirnov: the votes of United Russia, A Just Russia and the Pensioners’ Party helped to allocate 20 million roubles to the wage increase for the aids of regional Duma deputies
Konstantin Smirnov’s blog post, 29.12.2020 On 24 December, the Ryazan Regional Duma, adopted by 32 votes out of 40 a decision to increase the wages for assistants of Duma deputies by more than two times – up to 60,000 roubles. This increase will require an additional 20 million roubles per year.
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko has introduced amendments to the law “On Police”: all the police stations should be equipped with video cameras
Press Release, 28.12.2020 The Yabloko party has developed and submitted to the executive and the legislative authorities amendments to the Law on Police, which envisage equipping all police stations where legally significant procedures are carried out with video cameras and audio recorders. On 8 December, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the […]
Posted: December 28th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights.
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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? INSTITUTIONALISATION OF VALUES
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 6) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 28.12.2020 New manifestations of sociological, psychological and economic laws in global socio-political life have acquired absolutely unprecedented scales. Reality is determined more and more by the spread of the fourth industrial revolution to the socio-political sector. This concerns new generation information […]
Posted: December 28th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko began collecting signatures against the appropriation of municipal land by heads of a construction company in Alekanovo
Press Release, 25.12.2020 Konstantin Smirnov, deputy of the Dubrovsky Rural Settlement Council of Deputies, Chairman of Ryazan branch of Yabloko and Editor-in-Chief of vidsboku.com, began collecting signatures from residents against the impending decision to transfer a large plot of land to the heads of the Zeleny Sad construction company.
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Members of Kalmykian branch of Yabloko picket against unjustified tax benefits for the companies Fortum and Rosnano
Press Release, 25.12.2020 Sanal Molotkov, a member of the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia, held a single picket [such pickets do not need any permissions from the authorities] against unjustified provision of tax benefits by the regional authorities to the Fortum and Rosnano companies. The action took place in front of the building of the government […]
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The pro-Mayor’s majority in the Moscow City Duma thwarted the adoption of the law on parliamentary investigations
Press Release, 24.12.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov Yesterday, on December 23, the Moscow City Duma considered the bill on parliamentary investigations submitted by Maxim Kruglov, the leader of the Yabloko faction. According to the document, any facts of violation of the city laws, the rights of Moscow residents, non-fulfillment of the budget, manipulation with city property, […]
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Our economy is state capitalism. A group of people has all the income, and the people bears all the expenses
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 24.12.2020 The leader of the Yabloko party shared his views on the ending 2020. The leader of the Yabloko party has always had a special critical view of what was happening around him and had his own recipes how to fix it. He shared this special view of the outgoing 2020 in the […]
Posted: December 24th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has published an investigation into luxurious gifts from the Chelyabinsk Governor
Press Release, 23.12.2020 Photo: a screenshot of the main page of the investigation The Chelyabinsk branch of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has found purchases of luxury goods for gifts from the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler. Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre asks the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Main Control Department to […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov will take part in the press conference “The trial of the leaders and activists of the Ingush protest”
Press Release, 22.12.2020 On December 28, Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will take part in a press conference on the start of the trial of seven leaders and activists of the Ingush protest: Akhmed Barakhoev, Malsag Uzhakhov, Zarifa Saytiyeva, Barakh Chemurziev, Musa Malsagalov, Ismayil, and Bagaudin Khautiev. The press conference will begin at 11:00. The […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“The authorities are preparing to actively rig the elections”. Deputy Chairman of Yabloko on the new composition of Moscow territorial electoral commissions
FB page by Ivan Bolshakov, 19.12.2020 The Moscow City Electoral Commission has published the names of new members of territorial electoral commissions, which will also conduct elections to the State Duma [in 2021]. It is no secret that the formation of the commissions takes place under the control of the authorities, which send loyal people […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2014, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the democratic coalition in the Altai Territory
Statement by the Yabloko branch in Altai, 21.12.2020 Increasingly more people in Russia are beginning to understand that the policy of the ruling regime has led the country to a dead end, depriving the people of the future. The multi-day voting “on stumps” on an amendment to the Russian Constitution, in order to reset the […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2020 under Education and Science, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko congratulated people with disabilities on the New Year
Press Release, 21.12.2020 The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko, with the support of sponsors and the Ufa Public Development Fund, brought New Year gifts to elderly people with disabilities in the cities of Ufa and Neftekamsk. The gifts were distributed by five Yabloko employees to 11 addresses. The regional branch plans to repeat the action in […]
Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The conference of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko re-elected the leaders of the regional department for another term
Press Release, 21.12.2020 On December 20, 2020, a conference of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Tatarstan was held. The delegates heard the reports of the Сhairman, the Bureau of the regional branch, and the Control and Audit Commission. Ruslan Zinatullin was re-elected as Chairman of the regional Yabloko. Ildus […]
Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The New Age Economy
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 5) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 18.12.2020 These days virtually all economic analysts concur that the pandemic and its consequences are exacerbating key negative trends in the global economy, such as the increasing gap between stock market indices and real economic processes, the rise in monopolies and […]
Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Five out of seven Yabloko nominees will work in the Omsk territorial electoral commissions from Yabloko
Press Release, 18.12.2020 Five out of seven Yabloko nominees will work in the Omsk territorial electoral commissions from regional branch of the Yabloko party. Four Yabloko candidates were approved to the five territorial electoral commissions of Omsk and one candidate was approved for the district territorial electoral commission.
Posted: December 18th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko calls the City Duma to decline the draft budget of Ryazan for 2021 due to its non-transparency and large administrative and faked expeditures
Press Release, 17.12.2020 The Ryazan branch of Yabloko calls deputies of the Ryzan City Duma to decline the draft budget of Ryazan for 2021 and the planning period of 2022-23 when considering the document on December 17. According to Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the regional branch of the party, there are at least three reasons […]
Posted: December 18th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko proposed that the authorities should pay compensation for blocking travel passes to pensioners and schoolchildren
Press Release, 16.12.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov in connection with regional authorities blocking of travel cards, which allow certain categories of citizens to use public transport for free or with benefits. He also called on the regional authorities to pay compensations for imposing such restrictions.
Posted: December 17th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies.
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