Archive for July, 2022
The electoral commission of the Krylatskoye district in Moscow refused to register the second Yabloko candidate for the municipal elections – Stanislav Yelagin
Press Release, 28.07.2022 Photo: Stanislav Yelagin / Photo from social media The electoral commission of the Krylatskoye district in Moscow refused to register another candidate for the municipal elections from the Yabloko party – Stanislav Yelagin, the current municipal deputy, city historic preservation and environmental activist. The formal reason for the refusal to register Yelagin […]
Posted: July 29th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate for Governor of the Novgorod region Anna Cherepanova does not recognise the elections due to fraud with the municipal filter
Press Release, 27.07.2022 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 27 July, Anna Cherepanova, a candidate for Governor of the Novgorod region from the Yabloko party, submitted documents for registration to the Electoral Commission, despite the fact that she was unable to collect the required number of signatures from municipal deputies […]
Posted: July 28th, 2022 under Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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In the Komi Republic, a Yabloko member fined 60,000 roubles for “discrediting the army” and “insulting the authorities”
Press Release, 27.07.2022 Photo: Vera Zabaluyeva / Photo from Vera Zabaluyeva’s personal archive On 30 March, the City Court of Ukhta fined Yabloko member Vera Zabaluyeva 60,000 roubles under the Articles on “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and “insulting the authorities” (Article 20.1 Part 3 of the […]
Posted: July 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko regional branches to hold actions of sending letters of support to political prisoners
Press Release, 26.07.2022 The Yabloko party holds actions in support of political prisoners in different Russian regions. Any Russian citizen can participate. The participants of the actions can bring their own postcards and write words of support to any political prisoner, as well as sign postcards specially printed by Yabloko for politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and […]
Posted: July 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Ivan Kotkov, a Yabloko member in the Pskov region, fined twice for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 25.07.2022 Photo: Ivan Kotkov / Photo from Ivan Kotkov’s personal archive Ivan Kotkov, a member of the Yabloko party in the city of Velikiye Luki, Pskov region, was fined twice for “discrediting the army”. The first time he was brought to administrative responsibility for a sticker on his car, the second time for […]
Posted: July 26th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Protests fail to affect politics not only in Russia, but also in the world”
Corriere Della Sera, 22.07.2022 Photo: Peace March in Moscow in 2014 / Photo by Yevgeny Nadalinsky, Kommersant On 16 July, the influential Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera published an interview with Grigory Yavlinsky on the situation in connection with the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Unfortunately, there are fragments in the Corriere Della Sera publication […]
Posted: July 25th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Candidates-spoilers bearing the same family names are put forward against Yabloko candidates in the forthcoming Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 22.07.2022 Photo by Yevgeny Pavlenko / Kommersant Candidates-spoilers bearing the same family names or names sounding nearly identical have been put forward against at least eleven Yabloko candidates for Moscow municipal elections. Seven doppelgängers bear the same family names as Yabloko candidates and four have surnames sounding very close to the surnames of […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow authorities are trying to prevent Yabloko candidate Alexei Krapukhin from running in the municipal elections in the Moscow district of Krylatskoye
Press Release, 20.07.2022 Photo: Alexei Krapukhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow authorities are trying to prevent Alexei Krapukhin, a member of the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and Yabloko candidate in the forthcoming Moscow municipal election, from running in the municipal elections in the Moscow district of Krylatskoye […]
Posted: July 21st, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Andrei Morev arrested for 15 days and may be deprived of the right to participate in elections
Press Release, 20.07.2022 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and head of the Yakimanka district of Moscow, was arrested for 15 days for “demonstrating extremist symbols”.
Posted: July 20th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky on Vladimir Putin’s article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians” of July 2021, and the Russian parliamentary elections of 2021 as a lost chance to prevent the 24th of February
Boris Vishnevsky’s Telegram Channel VishNevskoyoeVremya, 12.07.2022 Exactly one year ago, on 12 July, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians”. It actually denied Ukraine’s right to statehood and sovereignty. It stated that the Ukrainian state had no right to a significant part of its territories, which […]
Posted: July 19th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Chairman of the Kabardino-Balkarian branch of Yabloko turns 70! Yabloko congratulates Khakim Kuchmezov on his anniversary
Congratulations, 18.07.2022 Photo: Khakim Kuchmezov / Photo by the Yaboko Press Service On 18 July, Khakim Kuchmezov, Chairman of the Kabardino-Balkarian branch of Yabloko, turns 70. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Ryabakov congratulates Khakim Kuchmezov on his anniversary.
Posted: July 19th, 2022 under Greetings, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko deputies in Petrozavodsk City Council applied to the Public Prosecutor’s Office because of cutting of forest area in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, with the permission of the authorities
Press Release, 15.07.2022 Photo: A logged area near the Savin Navolok Park, Petrozavodsk / Photo by the Karelian Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko faction in the Petrozavodsk City Council sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Karelia, asking to conduct an inspection in connection with the cutting down of woods […]
Posted: July 19th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Pivovarov sentenced to four years in prison and an eight-year ban on political activities
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram Channel, 15.07.2022 Photo: Andrei Pivovarov A court in Krasnodar sentenced Andrei Pivovarov, a public figure and former candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, to four years in prison and an eight-year ban on political activities.
Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Letters to the victims of the “censorship article”: postcards to Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev can be taken at the office of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 18.07.2022 Photo: postcards to Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev: “Freedom to Vladimir Kara-Murza and all political prisoners!” “Freedom to Mikhail Afanasyev and all political prisoners!” Yabloko has printed postcards in support of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev, who are in custody on criminal cases about “fakes about the army”. In Moscow, one can […]
Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko office in Moscow is collecting guarantees for Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov so that the court would release them on bail
Press Release, 15.07.2022 Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov The Yabloko party in Moscow has started collection of guarantees for politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov, the author of the Protest MGU Telegram Channel, so that they could be released on bail. Kara-Murza and Ivanov are now under arrest on criminal charges of “fakes about […]
Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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It was only Yabloko which for the second time voted against sending Ryazan officials to Donbas at the expense of local budgets.
Based on Vidsboku, 15.07.2022 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo from social media On 14 July, the Council of Deputies of the Dubrovskiy Rural Settlement of the Ryazan District adopted a model decision to pay from the municipal budget for business trips of administration employees to the Donbass. It should be noted that this municipality was […]
Posted: July 15th, 2022 under Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“This is the initiative of workers for the money of advertisers.” The management of St.Petersburg subway answered the question of Yabloko about “Z-advertising”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service “Z-posters” in the St. Petersburg subway are placed on the initiative of the trade union of workers, on the money of an advertising agency. That is how the subway management responded to Yabloko’s request about the legality of placing Z-signs in St.Petersburg metro.
Posted: July 14th, 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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Yabloko member Konstantin Kononenko fined in Barnaul for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 The Zheleznodorozhny District Court in Barnaul, the Altai Territory, fined Konstantin Kononenko, an activist of the Yabloko party, 30,000 roubles under an administrative article on “discrediting the army.”
Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko member Vladimir Fateyev fined twice in Tambov for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 Photo: Vladimir Fateyev / Photo from social media On 11 July, the Tambov Regional Court upheld the decision of the Sovietsky Court of the city of Tambov on the guilt of Vladimir Fateyev, musician and a member of the Yabloko party, in “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code […]
Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lyubov Zhiltsova, Yabloko deputy in the Pskov region, fined in the case of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova / Photo from pskov.yabloko.ru Lyubov Zhiltsova, teacher and Yabloko deputy of the Palkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov Region, was fined 30,000 roubles for “discrediting the army” for a photo with the words “No ** ***!”
Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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