Archive for May, 2022
“He spared no effort to help everyone, but he did not help himself”. Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky about Andrei Babushkin
Condolences, 14.05.2022 Photo: Andrei Babushkin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 14 May, Andrei Babushkin, a human rights defender and a member of the Yabloko party since 1999, passed away at the age of 58. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, and Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the Federal Political Committee of the party, express their […]
Posted: May 16th, 2022 under Condolences, Human Rights.
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Andrei Babushkin, human rights defender and a member of the Yabloko Bureau, passed away
Press Release, 14.05.2022 Photo: Andrei Babushkin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the night of 14 May, Andrey Vladimirovich Babushkin, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, passed away at the age of 58.
Posted: May 16th, 2022 under Condolences, Human Rights.
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Lev Shlosberg fined for the second time under the article on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.05.2022 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Judge of the Pskov City Court found Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko, guilty of committing an administrative offense under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the […]
Posted: May 16th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist and a Yabloko member from Khakassia, will remain in custody detained until 13 June
Press Release, 13.05.2022 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Supreme Court of Khakassia left unsatisfied the appeal of the lawyers of Mikhail Afanasyev, Editor-in-Chief of the online media “Noviy Focus” in Khakassia, and a member of the Yabloko party, against the decision of the Abakan City Court on the measure […]
Posted: May 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office of St.Petersburg established that a propaganda video with scenes of violence had been shown to fourth grade pupils at School No. 321
Press Release, 11.05.2022 Photo by wikimapia.org An inspection conducted by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of St.Petersburg and the district administration after an appeal by Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, established that violations of the law on information had taken place in School No. 321. The inspectors […]
Posted: May 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction of the St.Petersburg parliament called on the head of the interior for St. Petersburg to conduct another check into non-admission of lawyers to those detained at peaceful actions
Press Release, 12.05.2022 Photo by Pyotr Ivanov Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, appealed to Roman Plugin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, with a request to conduct another check into the facts […]
Posted: May 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Home of Pavel Sychyov, Yabloko candidate for the State Duma, searched in Voronezh
Press Release, 9.05.2022 Photo: Pavel Sychyov / Photo from social networks The home of Pavel Sychyov, Yabloko candidate for the State Duma and a video blogger, was searched in Voronezh about 6 a.m. The search was carried out within the framework of a criminal case on terrorism – false reports about the mining of a […]
Posted: May 12th, 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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On Victory Day the Yabloko party honoured the memory of those who died in the Second World War
Press Release, 9.05.2022 Photo: Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery, Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 9 May, the leaders and members of the Yabloko party honoured the memory of those who died in the Second World War at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow. The delegation laid flowers and a wreath at the Military Memorial. This […]
Posted: May 12th, 2022 under History, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“I believe in a new Russia but Putin is going nowhere”
Fierce critic of Putin and a former political opponent, Grigory Yavlinsky talks to Index about fear, lies and violence in today’s Russia Index on Censorship, 05 May 2022, BY JP O’MALLEY Russian politician, academic and economist Grigory Yavlinsky, who became known with his plan for a smooth transition from the Soviet regime to a free-market […]
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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A communist MP of the State Duma will ask the Moscow Mayor to deprive Yabloko’s Sergei Mitrokhin of his Moscow MP mandate for criticising Russia’s military operation
Press Release, 6.05.2022 On 17 May, Nina Ostanina, a communist MP of the State Duma, plans to ask the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a special meeting of the State Duma dedicated to Moscow deputies who disagreed with the special operation, to deprive them of their deputies’ mandates. According to Ostanina, Sergei Mitorkhin, Yabloko MP […]
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Police filed a protocol on “discrediting the army” against ex-Chair of the Saratov branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 6.05.2022 Photo: Ksenia Sverdlova /Photo from social networks A protocol on “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) was drawn up against Ksenia Sverdlova, ex-Chair of the Saratov regional branch of the Yabloko party.
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction submitted to the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg a draft statement on the protection of the rights of citizens to freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”
Press Release, 5.05.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky, MPs of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, submitted to the St. Petersburg parliament a draft statement on the protection of citizens’ constitutional rights to freedom of information. Yabloko proposes […]
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Miass, the Chelyabinsk region, held a May Day march “For Peace!”
Press Release, 4.05.2022 The local branch of Yabloko in Miass, the Chelyabinsk region, held a May Day march under the slogan “For Peace!”. Members and supporters of the Miass branch of Yabloko, together with activists of other socio-political organisations who joined Yabloko, marched through the centre of the city with a pacifist slogan written […]
Posted: May 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pskov municipal deputy Nikolai Kuzmin fined for publishing a video with the action of Marina Ovsyannikova during the broadcast of Channel One
Press Release, 5.05.2022 Photo: Nikolai Kuzmin / Photo from social networks The Pskov City Court fined Nikolai Kuzmin, a municipal deputy from Yabloko, 30,000 roubles under an article about “discrediting the actions of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.”
Posted: May 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg receives a second protocol of violation against him on “discrediting the armed forces”
Press Release, 27.04.2022 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A second protocol of violation under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation on “discrediting the armed forces” was drawn up against Lev Shlosberg, the leader of the Pskov Yabloko and a member of the […]
Posted: May 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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