Archive for June, 2022
It took the court three attempts to finally dismiss the case of “illegal campaigning” against the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the city of Novgorod
Press Release, 29.06.2022 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin after being attacked / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko The court of the first instance dismissed the case on the distribution of Yabloko campaign postcards “Ksenia Cherepanova Is for Peace” by Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the Novgorod city branch of Yabloko, due to the absence of any […]
Posted: June 30th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Morev, Deputy Сhairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, will be tried for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 28.06.2022 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service An administrative case under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the army”) was filed against Andrei Morev, Deputy Сhairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and head of the Yakimanka Moscow district. Morev learned that an administrative protocol was […]
Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov proposed to the government to remove anti-coronavirus restrictions on crossing the Russian border
Press Release, 28.06.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Russian citizens continue to face travel restrictions at the vehicle checkpoints at the Russian border. The restrictions were established by the Russian government in March 2020 and have not yet been lifted, despite a sharp decrease in the morbidity and the abolition […]
Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will take part in three election campaigns
Press Release, 26.06.2022 Photo: members of the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party On 24 June, the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party held its conference. The conference made a decision on participation of candidates from the party in the elections that will be held in the region in September.
Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Yefimov called on the Ombudsman and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Volgograd Region to check the conditions of detention of prisoners of war
Based on the publication on the V1.ru web-site, 26.06.2022 Photo: Alexander Yefimov/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party from Volgograd, appealed to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Volgograd Region, the regional Public Monitoring Commission performing public control over the conditions of […]
Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Human rights activist Nikolai Kavkazsky received ten days of arrest and lost his right to participate in the Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 25.06.2022 Photo: Nikolai Kazkazsky in the police station / Photo from social networks The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has appointed ten days of administrative arrest to Nikolai Kavkazsky, a member of the regional Council of the Moscow Yabloko and human rights activist.
Posted: June 28th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police seized the laptop and phone of Sofya Pugacheva, head of the Novorzhevsky district in the Pskov region, in the case of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 24.06.2022 Photo: Sofya Pugacheva / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service On the morning of 24 June, the police inspected the premises of the administration of the Novorzhevsky district of the Pskov region as part of an administrative case initiated under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“Public […]
Posted: June 28th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko asks Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tatarstan to conduct a check on the case of politically motivated expelling of a student from university
Press Release, 22.06.2022 Photo: Denis Mokrishin / Photo from social networks The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan forwarded an inquiry to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tatarstan asking to conduct a check on the case of Denis Mokrushin, a student of Kazan State Architecture and Development University, who had been facing pressure from the university administration […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Today this date [the day of remembrance of the victims of the Second World War] has become an open bleeding wound and our common immense responsibility”
81 years ago Hitler attacked the Soviet Union Press Release, 21.06.2022 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky, Nikolai Rybakov and Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the night of June 21-22, members of the Yabloko party traditionally gathered on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow to lay flowers at the 1941 memorial plaque in Victory Park […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under History, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov Regional Court sent the case of Lyubov Zhiltsova, a teacher and a deputy from Yabloko, on “discrediting the army” for a new trial
Press Release, 21.06.2022 Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova and Vladimir Danilov / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko On 17 May, the Pechorsky District Court dismissed the case of Yabloko’s Lyubov Zhiltsova, a teacher and a deputy of the Palkino District Assembly in the Pskov region, due to lack of corpus delicti. […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The court fined Yabloko’s Valentina Komkova for “failure to comply with the lawful demands by the police”
Press Release, 21.06.2022 Photo: Valentina Komkova / Photo by Sergei Krasnoeyev The Miass City Court found Valentina Komkova, Chairwoman of the Miass branch of Yabloko, guilty of “failing to comply with the lawful demands by the police” and fined her 4,000 roubles. Komkova provided legal assistance to a woman detained for making an anti-war inscription […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Russian telecommunications supervising service Roskomnadzor responded to Yabloko’s inquiries about the reasons for blocking social networks pages of Yabloko’s politicians
Press Release, 14.06.2022 Photo: “Ban yourself!” / Photo by Emin Jafarov, Kommersant From the beginning of the so-called “special military operation”, members of the Yabloko party, who had previously been under the scrutiny of the authorities and law enforcement agencies, were subjected to tremendous pressure. Dozens of activists were detained and arrested, homes of seventeen […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Activist from Activist from Khanty-Mansiysk, West Siberia, fined 80,000 roubles under two protocols on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 5.06.2022 Photo: Ivan Menshenin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Ivan Menshenin, a member of the Yabloko party in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, West Siberia, and a candidate for the State Duma in 2021, was fined twice under Article 20.3.3, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the armed forces […]
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A new book by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva “Behind Civilization” is available for download
Press Release, 03.06.2022 A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind. How and Why Russia Failed to Become a Law-Governed State” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva is available for download in the Library section of the Yabloko party website.
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Moscow City Duma MP Sergei Mitrokhin fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies
Press Release, 2.06.2022 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, was fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies (Article 20.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The decision was made today by the Khamovniki Court of Moscow.
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocks the page of Boris Vishnevsky
More than 11.500 people have been following his page Press Release, 2.06.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocked the page of Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the party. The social network referred […]
Posted: June 6th, 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.
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Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, has got compensation for the illegal actions of the police
Press Release, 2.06.2022 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Anna Cherepanova, Chairwoman of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, obtained compensation for moral damage and material damage in connection with the illegal actions of the Novgorod police to bring her to administrative liability. The federal budget will pay the opposition […]
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Constitutional Court to consider the legality of restricting participation in elections for “persons involved in extremist organisations”
Press Release, 2.06.2022 Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Nikolai Kuzmin / Photo from social networks Two complaints were filed with the Constitutional Court of Russia against the constitutionality of the norms of the Russian electoral legislation, which established restrictions on participation in elections for “persons involved in the activities of extremist organisations”.
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, will be tried for “arbitrariness” in protecting the interests of Moscow residents
Press Release, 1.06.2022 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin in the police station / Photo from social networks On 31 May, police detained Sergei Mitrokhin, a Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and an ex Chairman of Yabloko, during his meeting with residents of the Khamovniki […]
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko held “An Evening of Letters to Political Prisoners” action
Press Release, 1.06.2022 Photo from social networks The Saratov branch of Yabloko held “An Evening of Letters to Political Prisoners” action in the Saratov office of the party. In a few hours, 15 people – members of the regional branch, supporters and civil activists – signed 111 postcards that will be sent to prisons to […]
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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