Archive for February, 2022
NO TO WAR! Collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine
13.02.2022 The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. We will collect signatures not only on the Internet, but also in our offices across the country. Wherever we can, and where covid sanitary restrictions allow, we will conduct picketing. The list of collection points will be published soon. Please share the […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine
Press Release, 13.02.2022 The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. Signatures under a petition to the Russian government will be collected not only on the Internet, but also in the offices of Yabloko across the country. Yabloko activists will go on pickets in the regions where covid sanitary restrictions allow. […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Alexander Korovainy will continue to work in the Yeysk District Council
Press Release, 14.02.2022 Photo: Alexander Korovainy /Photo from Alexander Korovayny’s social networks Alexander Korovainy, a member of Yabloko and ex deputy of the Yeisk District Council, was appointed assistant to Alexander Baturints, a current deputy of the Yeisk District Council and a supporter of the party.
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Three Yabloko party members were included into the ranking of public activists of the Krasnodar Territory
Press Release, 08.02.2022 Photo: Alexander Biryukov, Alexander Korovainy, and Sofia Pilyukova / Photo from social networks Alexander Korovayny, a former deputy of the Yeisk District Council from the Yabloko party, Alexander Biryukov, a Yabloko member and Deputy Chairman of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, and Sofia Pilyukova, a public activist and a Yabloko volunteer in […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The offices of the ex-candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko Oleg Mandrykin were searched
Press Release, 9.02.2022 Photo: Oleg Mandrykin and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov (left). / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service All the offices of the real estate agency Variant in Severodvinsk, the Arkhangelsk region, headed by Oleg Mandrykin, one of the leaders of the STOP-SHIES coalition [a public movement against organisation of a giant landfill instead […]
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Voting has begun on candidates for the 2021 Golden Toilet Brush anti-award, recognising the most wasteful spenders in government
Among the candidates are head of the Russian Guard, Minister of Culture, head of the Central Electoral Commission and the governors of Chelyabinsk and Novgorod Regions. Press Release, 8.02.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has opened voting (https://www.yabloko.ru/lp/brush/ ) for this year’s “Zolotoy Yorshik” (Golden Toilet Brush) Anti-Award. The […]
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky urged to check the dismissal of a teacher from a St. Petersburg school for reсiting verses by poets repressed in the Stalin’s period and labelled “enemies of the people”
Press Release, 7.02.2022 Photo by wikimapia.org Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Natalia Putilovskaya, Chair of the St.Petersburg Committee on Education, with a request to conduct a check into the actions of Svetlana Lebedeva, Principal of School No. 168, who, according […]
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin launched an investigation into how State Duma MP Alexei Tkachyov took away the Kolomna Dairy Plant from its owner
Press Release, 8.02.2022 Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko deputy of the Moscow City Duma, investigated the takeover of the Kolomna Dairy Plant from by Alexei Tkachyov, a State Duma deputy from the ruling United Russia party. Police helped Tkachyov in taking away the plant from its owner. “Reacting to the appeals of my Moscow voters (during the […]
Posted: February 9th, 2022 under The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky called on the Public Prosecutor General to launch prosecutor’s investigation into the threats of Chechen politicians and security officials to the family of a retired judge and journalists
Press Release, 4.02.2022Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo from the website of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and deputy chairman of Yabloko, sent an appeal to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General of Russia, with a request to launch prosecutor’s investigation into for signs of […]
Posted: February 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Online seminar of the Yabloko Gender faction “Reproductive rights: from prohibition to freedom to dispose of one’s own body, or vice versa”
Press Release, 4.02.2022 Photo by iofoto/depositphotos The Gender faction of the Yabloko party and the European Dialogue expert group are holding an international online seminar within the framework of the Women’s Time project: “Reproductive rights: from prohibition to freedom to dispose of one’s own body or vice versa”. The seminar will be held on 8 […]
Posted: February 8th, 2022 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches its municipal election campaign in Moscow
Press Release, 3.02.2022 Photo: Campaign co-leader Maxim Kruglov and campaign coordinators Andrei Morev, Sergei Ivanenko and Kirill Goncharov. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko approved the 2022 municipal campaign strategy and the headquarters structure. The Moscow branch of Yabloko considers the election of a sufficient […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that Vladimir Putin stop the violation of the rights of citizens in Chechnya
Press Release, 3.02.2022 Photo by Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant On 3 February, Nikolai Rybakov demanded from Vladimir Putin to restore the rights of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic.
Posted: February 3rd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Artur Gaiduk: Legislation on “foreign agents” is an instrument of pressure and repression
Press Release, 31.01.2022 Photo: Artur Gaiduk, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko At the January session, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly rejected Yabloko’s initiative to introduce a federal bill envisaging the exclusion of the concept of “foreign agents” and the related norms from Russian legislation. The bill was developed by lawyers of […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko has decided on the party candidates for by-elections to the Yekaterinburg City Duma
Press Release, 31.01.2022 Photo by the Press Service of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko The Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party presented candidates who will be nominated by the party for by-elections to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg: Sergei Loskutov, Chairman of the public movement The Green Front, in electoral district No. 2 […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A new chairman, Timofey Bezugly, will head the Yabloko branch in Chelyabinsk
Press Release, 25.01.2022 Photo: Timofey Bezugly (in the centre) / Photo by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko Timofey Bezugly was elected Chairman of the Chelyabinsk city branch of the Yabloko party. Timofey presented to the local Council of the party his programme for the development of the local branch for the […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Diplomacy of War
Russia’s Geopolitical Prospects Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 31.01.2022 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov move to their seats before their meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21, 2022. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY NEGOTIATIONS Russia has been conducting negotiations for two weeks with representatives from the US, […]
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko challenges the Public Prosecutor General’s Office recognising housing subsidies to officials already owning apartments as legal
Press Release, 31.01.2022 The Public Prosecutor General’s Office in its answer to the inquiry by the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre recognised housing subsidies to officials already owning apartments as legal. The Government Decree made an exception in the rules for high-ranking officials, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office stressed. The experts of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy […]
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Chairman of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko took part in a rally against growth of prices and tariffs
Press Release, 31.01.2022 Photo by the Press Service of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko supported the protest of residents against the increase in prices for the maintenance of housing and the growth of tariffs for housing and communal services, as well as unjustified raising of expenses for regional officials.
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Economy, Housing and Utilities Reform, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts
Press Release, 28.01.2022 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy and ex Chairman of Yabloko, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts. Such measures were taken as part of the enforcement proceedings on administrative cases of offenses in connection with Mitrokhin’s participation […]
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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