Archive for May, 2021
Alexei Chumakov: Those who do not have a million will not… go to the St.Petersburg Economic Forum
Alexei Chumakov’s blog post, 31.05.2021 Photo: GrinPhoto/depositphotos Many have already heard about the fees for participation in the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021. The topic became relevant after Anastasia Tatulova, Ombudsperson on Small Business, was invited to speak at the forum for 960,000 roubles. This is the cost of a ticket (even for small businesses), […]
Posted: May 31st, 2021 under Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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The court ruled out that the refusal of the authorities to give a permission for Yabloko’s campaign cubes in Saratov was unlawful
Press Release, 28.05.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Volzhsky District Court of Saratov declared unlawful the refusal of the authorities to give a permission for Yabloko’s campaign cubes in Saratov and ordered the city administration to review the Yabloko notifications of installation of the cubes again. Earlier, the Saratov administration had not permitted […]
Posted: May 31st, 2021 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre: the Public Prosecutor General’s Office will check the head of Komi for his inaction in the event of an oil spill
Press Release, 27.05.2021 Photo: Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Uyba. /Photo by kremlin.ru Alexei Karnaukhov, head of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party, appealed to the Public Prosecutor General of Russia with a demand to check the legality of actions in the recent event of an oil spill and the ambiguous statements of Vladimir […]
Posted: May 28th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko has made a decision on its candidates for the State Duma elections in primaries
Press Release, 27.05.2021 Photo: The results of primaries if the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko/Infographics by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko On 26 May, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko summed up the results of the primaries. The winners of the primaries will be recommended by the regional branch to the Yabloko party Congress for nomination as […]
Posted: May 28th, 2021 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Online seminar “Discrimination Against Women and the Fight for Gender Equality: European Experience and Its Applicability in Russia”
Press Release, 27.05.2021 Photo by the European Dialogue Expert Group The “European Dialogue” expert group together with the Gender Faction of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko opens a cycle of international online seminars “Time for Women” on gender equality and the advancement of women in Russia and the world. The first meeting will be […]
Posted: May 28th, 2021 under Gender Faction.
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Yabloko launches its election campaign to the State Duma by distributing 1.5 million party newspapers
Press Release, 26.05.2021 Photo: Kazan/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Residents of 53 Russian cities will receive the Yabloko party’s newspaper, timed to coincide with the launch of the election campaign. By 15 June, Yabloko plans to distribute 1.5 million newspapers. This issue of the newspaper is devoted to the most urgent topics: the […]
Posted: May 27th, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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Hijacking of a foreign plane with the aim of kidnapping one’s opponents is an outrageous international crime
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 27.05.2021 Photo: Alexei Alexandrov / RIA Novosti On 23 May, 2021, an act of state terrorism was committed in Belarus. On the direct order by Alexander Lukashenko, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was landed in Minsk with the help of deceit (false information about […]
Posted: May 27th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Alexander Kobrinsky about defending those detained at rallies in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 26.05.2021 Photo: Alexander Kobrinsky / Photo from the personal archive During unpermitted rallies on 23 and 31 January, the majority of those detained were in St. Petersburg. St.Petersburg police not only dispersed peaceful people with inexplicable cruelty, but also drove them into police vans by hundreds, so that to draw up protocols of […]
Posted: May 27th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko members Viktor Shalyakin and Vitaly Bovar, detained at the municipal deputies congress, received fines
Press Release, 25.05.2021 Photo: Vitaly Bovar (right) / Photo from Vitaly Bavar’s Facebook page Late in the evening of 24 May, the Novgorod District Court imposed fines on Viktor Shalyakin, the Chairman of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, and Vitaly Bovar, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the St. Petersburg municipality Vladimirsky […]
Posted: May 26th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Acad. Sakharov said that dialogue can be a solution to any problem.” An exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Academician opened in the Yabloko office
Press Release, 21.05.2021 Full video recording of the opening: An exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the outstanding Soviet academic and human rights defendert Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov opened in the Moscow office of the Yabloko party. An exhibition of photographs and quotes of Acad. Sakharov was prepared by the Sakharov Centre * and was to […]
Posted: May 25th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “I demand to stop police pressure on the leaders of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and release all the detainees”.
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 24.05.2021 Photo from the Anna Cherepanova Facebook page On Saturday, 22 May, the authorities of Novgorod (North-West Russia) carried out another police action targeted at the intimidation of civil society. The unlawful dispersal of the congress of municipal deputies from different Russian cities (Zemsky Congress) and the detention of its […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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International conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Academician Andrei Sakharov
Full video recording and Press Release, 22.05.2021 On 21 May, the birthday of Academician Andrei Sakharov, Yabloko held an international zoom-conference dedicated to his centenary.
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Airplane hijacked: any criminal and terrorist methods without any restrictions will be used in Belarus and Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 23.05.2021 Photo: Roman Protasevich /Photo from social networks Opposition journalist Roman Protasevich [from Belarus] was kidnapped by special services in Minsk. For this purpose, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was forced to land at the Minsk airport by means of provocation (under the pretext of […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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Police came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko. The police plans to bring the Chair of the regional party office to administrative responsibility
Press Release, 24.05.2021 Photo: Ksenia Sverdlova / Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko Police officers came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko. The police said that they were looking for the Chair of the regional branch of the party, Ksenia Sverdlova, so that to bring her to […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Defender
To the 100th anniversary of Academician Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.05.2021 Photo: Andrei Sakharov. The 1st Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR, 1989 The prosperity of Russia is possible only if our country develops as a free and democratic state. This condition was once very precisely formulated by Academician Sakharov. Andrei Dmitriyevich […]
Posted: May 21st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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A photo exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Acad. Andrei Sakharov banned by the Moscow Mayor’s Office will be held at the Yabloko office
Press Release, 20.05.2021 Photo: Academician Andrei Sakharov / Photo by Sergei Guneyev, RIA Novosti The photo exhibition of the Andrei Sakharov Center* “Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov: Anxiety and Hope”, which will not take place in Chistoprudny Boulevard due to the ban of the Moscow Mayor’s Office, will be held at the central office of the Yabloko […]
Posted: May 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Understanding Russia.
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Women’s election campaigns. History of success. An online conference in the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 19.05.2021 Photo: Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, and Yelena Rusakova, head of the municipal district Gagarinsky, Moscow / Photo by the Press Service of the Moscow branch of Yabloko On May 27, the Yabloko Party University will hold a conference (in Zoom) dedicated to successful election campaigns of women […]
Posted: May 20th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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For the first time Yabloko received over 10% in the elections to the Saratov Regional Duma
Press Release, 18.05.2021 Photo: Campaign leaflet by Ksenia Sverdlova By-elections to the regional parliament of the Saratov region took place past week-end. Yabloko’s candidates ran in three of the four vacant single-mandate constituencies. Ksenia Sverdlova, Chair of the regional department of Yabloko, ran in the Volzhsky district, Ilya Kozlyakov, Deputy Chairman of the party branch, […]
Posted: May 18th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Discrimination based on political views is becoming cynical, open and widespread. Where is the Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation?
Blog post by Emilia Slabunova, 17.05.2021 The trade union of the Moscow metro reports mass dismissals of workers – at least 50 people lost their jobs since the beginning of May. However, different figures are quoted: 100 and 200 people. They differ, since not everyone has yet applied to the trade union for protection. The […]
Posted: May 18th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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After a member of the Kursk branch of Yabloko applied to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the refusal of the local authorities to give a permission to a picket in the Pristensky district was declared unlawful
Press Release, 17.05.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the Pristensky District municipality The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Kursk Region recognised the refusal of the local authorities to give a permission for a single picket in the village of Pristen as unreasonable and unlawful. The Public Prosecutor’s Office found that the refusal of the […]
Posted: May 18th, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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