Archive for June, 2021
The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma demands an investigation into the brutal detention of a woman who refused to wear a mask at the Multifunctional Public Services Centre
Press Release, 28.06.2021 Photo by irek-murtazin.livejournal.com According to Novaya Gazeta, the police dragged a handcuffed woman out of the building of the Multifunctional Public Services Centre on the asphalt and left her lying in the street unconscious before taking her to the police station. However, the woman told to the police officers that her daughter […]
Posted: June 29th, 2021 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will present its list of candidates for the State Duma elections at the party Congress
Press Release, 29.06.2021 This weekend, 3-4 July, a congress of the Yabloko party, that will nominate the party candidates for the Russian parliamentary elections, will take place in Moscow. The meeting on 3 July will be closed to journalists. The party’s Youtube channel will broadcast political reports delivered by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Chairman of […]
Posted: June 29th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov held a working meeting with PACE representatives
Press Release, 29.06.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 29 June, a meeting between Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and the PACE delegation led by PACE co-rapporteurs Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Ria Oomen-Ruijten (Netherlands, EPP/CD) took place in the Moscow office of Yabloko. The delegation is in Russia on a mission to assess […]
Posted: June 29th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Geneva 2021: What Is Russia Left With?
“I am leaving the same way I came” Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.06.2021 The Geneva summit ended as expected without any significant breakthroughs. Ambassadors will be able to return to their places of work in Moscow and Washington, consultations will continue, mass media will find out who “won” in the negotiations, both sides will deal with […]
Posted: June 21st, 2021 under Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Без рубрики.
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Abduction of women from a shelter is a violation of human rights by security forces
Statement by the Yabloko Gender Faction, 15.06.2021 Photo: Halimat Taramova / screenshot of the publication on Svetlana Anokhina’s Instagram page On 10 June, Chechen and Dagestan security forces broke into a crisis centre in Makhachkala, Dagestan, kidnapping Khalimat Taramova and her girlfriend Anna Manylova (the latter was later released). Human rights defender Svetlana Anokhina and […]
Posted: June 18th, 2021 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko: One of the main reasons for the failure of coronavirus vaccination in Ryazan is organisational chaos in the healthcare system
Press Release, 18.06.2021 On 16 June, Yelena Sorokina, the head of the Ryazan city administration, said that “unfortunately, the number of cases of coronavirus infection has not been decreasing in the city,” and asked “the heads of Ryazan enterprises to think over the ways of encouraging, for example, granting days off, to employees who took […]
Posted: June 18th, 2021 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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After the publication by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, the Public Prosecutor’s Office will conduct an audit of the luxurious business trip of Chelyabinsk officials to Dubai
Press Release, 18.06.2021 The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Chelyabinsk Region initiated an audit of the validity of budgetary spending of the Mayor of Chelyabinsk Natalya Kotova and the Minister of the Regional Ministry of Economic Development Natalia Lugacheva on flights and accommodation in the five-star Hilton Hotel in Dubai in May – June 2021. […]
Posted: June 18th, 2021 under Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolay Rybakov: the Central Electoral Commission will bear the liability for election violations
Press Release, 16.06.2021 Video by the Yabloko Press Service On 16 June, the Central Electoral Commission held a meeting on the appeals from the Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov and the Ombudsman in St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov sent to the head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova, with a proposal not to introduce a three-day […]
Posted: June 18th, 2021 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Freedom in Russia and our human dignity are our responsibility. No one, including President Biden, will solve these problems for us
What to expect from the Geneva summit Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 16.06.2021 Joe Biden was “asked” at the G7 meeting and the NATO summit, to speak toughly with Putin. And so it will be: we will hear some new words about the “red lines” and about the price that the Kremlin will have to pay. […]
Posted: June 17th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-US Relations.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko calls on the regional Ombudsman to respond to massive violations of citizens’ rights during protest actions
Press Release, 11.06.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko Deputy Chairman of the Saratov branch of Yabloko Fyodor Demyanchuk sent an open letter to the Ombudsman for Human Rights in the Saratov Region. Demyanchuk called on the regional Ombudsman to prepare a special report on massive violations of citizens’ rights […]
Posted: June 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands to initiate a criminal case into the poisoning of writer Dmitry Bykov
Press Release, 11.06.2021 Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin and Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov open a criminal case into the poisoning of the writer Dmitry Bykov with an organophosphate nerve agent. Rybakov refers to an investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider (https://theins.ru/politika/242567 ), which convincingly proved […]
Posted: June 11th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko goes on campaigning for legal protection of the participants of the rally of 21 April
Press Release, 10.06.2021 Trials of the participants of the April 21 rally in support of political prisoners continue in the Ivanovo region. Five sessions of the courts of first instance have taken place by today. In all the cases, the hearings were postponed at the request of the defence to establish additional circumstances and motions […]
Posted: June 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Exposing corruption and openly criticising the government is regarded as extremism now
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 10.06.2021 Photo by Anton Denisov / RIA Novosti The Yabloko party considers the decision of the Moscow City Court to recognise Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and related organisations as extremist to be politically motivated. This is another step targeted at banning the activities of public organisations that expose corruption […]
Posted: June 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Discussion of amendments to the Moscow budget will take place in Moscow streets this summer
Press Release, 10.06.2021 Photo: Maxim Kruglov at a meeting with residents of the Alekseyevsky district. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, as well as party candidates for the State Duma, will hold a series of street meetings with Muscovites to find out what amendments […]
Posted: June 10th, 2021 under Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the persecution of journalist Arseniy Vesnin
Statement by Nikolai Rybakov and Boris Vishnevsky, 8.06.2021 Photo: Arseny Vesnin / Photo from Arseny Vesnin’s Facebook page The Yabloko party is outraged by the persecution of Arseny Vesnin, a well-known St. Petersburg journalist, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekho Moskvi radio station in St. Petersburg, whom the Investigative Committee is trying to accuse of “libel […]
Posted: June 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulated the residents of Ingushetia on the Republic Day
Congratulations from the Yabloko party Chairman, 4.06.2021 Dear residents of Ingushetia, I would like to send you our greetings on the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Ingushetia and wish prosperity to your Republic and its people. During the years of ordeals, showing wisdom and strong will, the residents of Ingushetia fought […]
Posted: June 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The court ruled out that the refusal to give a permission to single pickets of Yabloko activists in Kaliningrad was unlawful
Press Release, 7.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the Central District Court of Kaliningrad The Central District Court of Kaliningrad declared unlawful the refusal of the administration of the city district to permit single pickets of the local branch of Yabloko, which were planned to be held near the entrances to the buildings of […]
Posted: June 7th, 2021 under 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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Alexei Chumakov: Ketchup for wunderkinds
In Kirov, winners and prize-winners of the All-Russian Academic Olympics for Schoolchildren were awarded memorable ketchup and mayonnaise. Alexei Chumakov’s blog post, 7.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the Kirov administration In Kirov, winners and prize-winners of the All-Russian Academic Olympics for Schoolchildren were awarded memorable ketchup and mayonnaise. The head of the Kirov […]
Posted: June 7th, 2021 under Political Parties, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Nikolai Rybakov: This is a law against the list of Yabloko candidates
Facebook page by Nikolai Rybakov, 4.06.2021 Photo by Natalia Seliverstova /RIA Novosti Today Vladimir Putin has signed a law prohibiting citizens associated with “extremist” organisations from being elected as deputies. The content of this law is absurd in the best traditions of the adoption of insane laws by the State Duma, and allows absolutely any […]
Posted: June 7th, 2021 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Boris Vishnevsky: This is not a Davos. This is a “vanity fair” for domestic use
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 4.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the President of Russia/ http://www.kremlin.ru The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is a depressing sight. Not only because there are many respectable men in expensive suits, traveling in expensive cars in the centre of the city (I saw myself […]
Posted: June 4th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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