Archive for November, 2021
Nikolai Rybakov: The main thing is not to keep silent!
Press Release, 25.11.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 25 November, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov met with human rights activists and public activists who came to the building of the Supreme Court of Russia. The court is considering the claim of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the international historical and educational society […]
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Moscow City Duma supported Yabloko’s amendments to the Moscow budget for 2 billion roubles
Press Release, 24.11.2021 The Moscow City Duma supported two amendments by the Yabloko faction to the Moscow budget for 2022: on the restoration of historical monuments and on grants for Moscow universities. The financing for the implementation of these two amendments exceeds two billion roubles, they will be financed from the reserve fund.
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s amendment exempts non-state universities in Moscow from property tax
This stimulates construction of new student dormitories Press Release, 24.11.2021 Photo: A student dormitory in Copenhagen / Photo by BOOKYOURSTUDY.BY The Moscow City Duma adopted an amendment submitted by the Yabloko faction envisaging exemption of non-state universities from an organization property tax. This measure will affect non-state universities with state accreditation that have student dormitories […]
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Education and Science, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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The court ruled out that Ruslan Zinatullin, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan, was involved in the “extremist organisation”
Press Release, 23.11.2021 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Press Service of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko The Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan which had recognised Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, involved in the activities of Alexei Navalny’s […]
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow branch of Yabloko conducted re-registration of its members
Press Release, 23.11.2021 Photo: Sergei Ivanenko, Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Party Press Service On 22 November, 2021, the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Moscow regional branch of the YABLOKO party summed up the results of the re-registration of its members, which took place from 1 […]
Posted: November 24th, 2021 under Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly introduced a legislative initiative to exclude the concept of “foreign agent” from the legislation
Press Release, 23.11.2021 The legislative initiative of the Yabloko faction proposing to completely eliminate the concept of “foreign agent” from Russian legislation has undergone legal expertise in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. The draft was prepared by Lev Levinson, an expert of the Institute of Human Rights, at the request of the deputies of […]
Posted: November 24th, 2021 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko leaders called on the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow to dismiss the case against journalist and photographer Viktoria Ivleva
Press Release, 22.11.2021 Photo: Victoria Ivleva at the conference in support of the Yabloko list of candidates in the elections to the State Duma, on 16 September, 2021 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The leaders of Yabloko filed petitions with the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow calling for the termination of the administrative […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Police in Kemerovo searched the home of the Yabloko former candidate for the State Duma
Press Release, 22.11.2021 Photo: Vyacheslav Chernov / Photo by the Press Service of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko On 18 November, police in Tashtagol, a city in the south of the Kemerovo region, searched the home of Vyacheslav Chernov, former candidate to the State Duma from Yabloko in electoral district No. 104. The reason for […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko Bureau announced the re-registration of party members
Press Release, 20.11.2021 On 19 November, the Yabloko Federal Bureau appointed re-registration of party members. The re-registration is connected with the reform of the party, announced by the Yabloko party congress on 3-4 April 2021. Then the congress adopted amendments to the Yabloko by-laws, increasing the influence of party members and supporters on the decision-making […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“This is the latest move in Russia’s accelerating crackdown on civil society” – Liberal International President condemns threats to shut down Memorial
Statement by Liberal International, 18.11.2021 Liberal International’s President Hakima el Haité has condemned the Russian authorities’ threat to shut down Memorial, one of the country’s oldest and most respected human rights organisations. This is the latest blow against civic freedoms in the regime’s accelerating crackdown on government critics and human rights defenders. By labeling human rights […]
Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Stop destruction of federalism and local self-government in Russia
Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 19.11.2021 Photo: The authors of the bill MP Pavel Krasheninnikov and Senator Andrei Klishas. / Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant The Yabloko party regards the Klishas-Krashennikov bill “On the general principles of organising public power in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” as the final elimination of federalism and […]
Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre asked the police to check the apartments seized by former State Duma deputies without permission
Press Release, 18.11.2021 Photo by Igor Ivanko / Kommersant The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party asked the Moscow police to check the apartments where former deputies of the State Duma have been living unlawfully a month after the end of their MP term. In addition, the transfer of 17 apartments for use to […]
Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, Politics, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The secret life of the Ministry of Defence
Alexei Chumakov on the trends and consequences of imposing secrecy on information Special for the Yabloko web-site, 16.11.2021 Photo: Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister / Photo from Kremlin.ru The protagonists of the animated film The Secret Life of Pets – Chloe the cat, Max the terrier and Gijit the Spitz – face different adventures. Their […]
Posted: November 17th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre demanded from the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to check the “needy” ministers. Over 650 officials received subsidies for apartments, whereas some of them already had housing
Press Release, 16.11.2021 Photo: Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov (in the centre, wearing a mask) received a housing subsidy amounting to 16.6 million rubles. At that time, he owned five apartments totalling 313.5 square meters and a country house of 73.6 square meters / Photo by Roman Yarovitsyn / Kommersant The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of […]
Posted: November 17th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko’s Artur Gaiduk: “Society resisted vaccination against dangerous diseases in the past too”
Press Release, 16.11.2021 Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko Artur Gaiduk, a doctor and a deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, commented to the Press Service of the regional branch of the Yabloko party on the proposed introduction of a system of QR codes […]
Posted: November 17th, 2021 under Healthcare, Social Policies, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Liquidation of the Memorial human rights society will be Vladimir Putin’s personal decision”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.11.2021 A submission on the liquidation of the International [human rights] Society Memorial was sent to the Supreme Court of Russia. The formal pretext for this looks deliberately contrived: the absence of a “foreign agent” label in the materials of an organisation with a large number of branches and a huge document […]
Posted: November 15th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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On the pressure on civil society
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 12.11.2021 Photo by Pyotr Kassin / Kommersant After the elections to the State Duma, the authorities intensified repressions against civil society and the country’s intellectual elite, and began to crack down on independent public institutions. The lawsuit of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate Memorial, the oldest human rights […]
Posted: November 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The successors of the executioners want to erase the memory of the victims
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 12.11.2021 Photo: The office of the Memorial human rights society / Photo by Safron Golikov. Kommersant The Public Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit to liquidate Memorial International, a human rights organisation with more than 30 years of history, conducting research of political repression in the […]
Posted: November 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky demanded clarifications from the St.Petersburg government and the Russian Federal State Agency for Health and Consumer Rights after statements about mandatory vaccination of St. Petersburg residents over 60
Press Release, 10.11.2021 Photo by IgorVetushko/depositphotos Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent a number of questions to Oleg Ergashev, Vice-Governor of St.Petersburg, and Natalia Bashketova, head of the regional department of the Russian Federal State Agency for Health and Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor), about […]
Posted: November 10th, 2021 under Elections, Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction of the Moscow parliament demands that the Moscow City Duma must resume discussions of the most important issues for the city
Press Release, 10.11.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the Moscow Mayor Deputies of the Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma called on their colleagues in the Moscow parliament – deputies of the Communist Party and A Just Russia factions, to join their demands to return the Moscow City Duma regulations, according to which […]
Posted: November 10th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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