Archive for March, 2021
For every man, there’s a law to convict him under
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.03.2021 Photo: Participants of the Municipal Forum in a police van. Photo by Avtozak Live Police detained over 170 municipal deputies in Moscow. This is how the authorities are fighting the pandemic and “undesirable organisations” [the Russian law “on undesirable organisations” gives prosecutors the power to extrajudicially declare foreign and international organisations […]
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded to open a criminal case on the fact of extrajudicial killings in Chechnya
Press Release, 16.03.2021 Photo: The law enforcement forces in Grozny, Chechnya. Photo by Said Tsarnayev / RIA Novosti On 15 March, Novaya Gazeta published another part of the investigation into extrajudicial killings of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic. With reference to the publication, this was also reported by other media, in particular, RBC. […]
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Yabloko held an interregional seminar in Krasnoyarsk
Press Release, 15.03.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman of the party Ivan Bolshakov held the third interregional seminar with regional headquarters in Krasnoyarsk on March 12 – 14. The seminar was attended by heads and employees of Yabloko branches from nine […]
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by Yabloko deputies of the Moscow parliament on political terror on behalf of the Moscow police
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 15.03.2021 Photo: Detention of Sergei Mitorkhin These days, the whole country has been witnessing a new round of a systemic campaign aimed at suppressing opposition politics in Russia. Past week, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, presented to the Moscow City Duma his […]
Posted: March 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Members of Kalmykian branch of Yabloko go on picking against unjustified tax breaks for large companies
Press Release, 12.03.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Kalmykian branch of Yabloko On 11 March, members of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Kalmykia held single pickets near the People’s Khural of Kalmykia (the parliament of Kalmykia) demanding to abolish the practices of unreasonable granting of tax benefits to certain business companies. […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Economy, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko held an interregional seminar in Yekaterinburg
Press Release, 12.03.2021 On 6-7 March, 2021, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov held seminars with regional headquarters of the party in Yekaterinburg. The participants of the seminars discussed the party’s coalition policy and the upcoming election campaign to the State Duma. In total, leaders and activists of Yabloko regional branches from […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Investigative Committee refused to conduct an investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny at the request of Yabloko regional MPs Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 11.03.2021 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk / Photo by Artyom Avanesov The Main Military Investigation Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia believes that the appeal of the deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg with the demand […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Emilia Slabunova calls the government of Karelia to abandon cutting of the forests around the settlements of the indigenous Vepsian people
Press Release, 11.03.2021 Photo from the official website of the Administration of the Ryboretsky Vepsian rural settlement Emilia Slabunova, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, calls the parties of the lease agreement concluded between the timber industry company OOO DOK Kalevala and the Republic of […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko deputies in the Moscow City Duma ask the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case on the possible fact of the poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza by the Federal Security Service
Press Release, 9.03.2021 Four deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma signed an appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, with a request to open a criminal case on the fact of media reports about the possible poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. by officers of the Federal Security […]
Posted: March 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky spoke at the international conference The Man Who Changed the World timed to coincide with Mikhail Gorbachev’s 90th birthday
Press Release, 5.03.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Olga Zdravomyslova, Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation, and Pavel Palazhchenko, head of the International Contacts and Press Service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko party Chairman, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, took part in the international […]
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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The Yabloko Party University will host Alexander Sungurov’s lecture on human rights
Press Release, 8.03.2021 On Friday, 12 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a Zoom lecture by Alexander Sungurov “Human Rights: Fundamentals of the Concept and Unresolved Problems”. The lecture will begin at 19:00. The lecture will cover the following issues:
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights.
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“The Soviet and the Russian woman: how have the roles changed?” Online conference of Yabloko’s Gender faction
Press Release, 4.03.2021 On Thursday, 4 March, Yabloko’s Gender held a Zoom conference “The Soviet and the Russian woman: how have the roles changed?” The conference was dedicated to the 8 of March International Women’s Day. Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the faction, Olga Radayeva, First Deputy Chair of the faction, Tatiana Ovcharenko, Marina Karavayeva, Olga […]
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, History, Human Rights.
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Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk demand from the head of the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case into the attempted murder of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr.
Press Release, 5.03.2021 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg / Photo: Artyom Avanesov More than three weeks have passed since the publication of the investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider about the circumstances of the two attempts on murder on politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., but […]
Posted: March 5th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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Alexei Karnaukhov: The State Duma hides inquiries under the carpet
How the pro-government United Russia party stole Yabloko’s initiative and passed it off as its own Press Release, 4.03.2021 Since June, the State Duma was supposed to publish parliamentary inquiries on the website. It is a surprisingly good initiative: this way you can track whose interests the deputies are promoting and disclose the use of […]
Posted: March 5th, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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The reform in the Yabloko party: as it is, rather than as interpreted by Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Press Release, 4.03.2021 On 3 March, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published an article on the reform of the Yabloko party. The text by Darya Garmonenko, like many other texts by this author, is replete with errors and distortions. We publish the full text of the commentary of the Deputy Chairman of the party Ivan Bolshakov: – The […]
Posted: March 4th, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO Sister-parties.
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On the preparation of the party for the elections in 2021
Federal Political Committee Decision No. 137, 3.03.2021 Having heard and discussed the reports of the Chairman of the Party Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman of the Party Ivan Bolshakov on the preparation for the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, representative bodies of the state power and local self-government bodies […]
Posted: March 4th, 2021 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Political Committee Decisions, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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The President who changed the world. Yabloko leaders about Mikhail Gorbachev on the occasion of his 90th birthday
Congratulations, 2.03.2021 On 2 March, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the first President of the USSR, turns 90. Yabloko leaders congratulate Mikhail Gorbachev on his anniversary and speak about the role of his personality in history.
Posted: March 2nd, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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A man with a lively mind and sensitive heart. Sergei Kovalev, Russian legendary human rights defender and member of Yabloko, turns 91!
Congratulations, 2.03.2021 On March 2, Sergei Adamovich Kovalev, a member of the Yabloko party, the legendary human rights defender and the first Ombudsman for Human Rights in Russia, turns 91. On behalf of the party, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulates Sergei Kovalev on his birthday:
Posted: March 2nd, 2021 under Greetings.
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Yabloko at the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov
Yabloko activists honoured the memory of the murdered politician throughout Russia Press Release, 1.03.2021 Photo: Nizhni Novgorod, the region where Boris Nemtsov was Governor in 1991-1997 On February 27, Yabloko members went to rallies, single pickets and other events in many regions of Russia so that to commemorate murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. In Moscow, […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What threatens Putin and what threatens Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Politics, Protests in Russia, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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