Archive for September, 2022
Every fifth candidate from Yabloko was removed from the municipal elections in Moscow
Press Release, 9.09.2022 Photo: A team of Yabloko candidates in the Basmanny district in Moscow / Photo from social media The municipal election campaign in Moscow, unprecedented as of the number of deregistered Yabloko candidates, has reached the finish line. One day remains before the voting in September 9-11, and some candidates still continue to […]
Posted: September 8th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko rejects the so-called Smart Voting
Statement by the Yabloko party, 7.09.2022 Photo: leaflets of Yabloko candidates “For Peace and Freedom” We are against the so-called Smart Voting [reduced to voting for any pro-government political party but the ruling United Russia] re-announced by Leonid Volkov [head of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters]. We, as before, categorically do not share his position: voting “for […]
Posted: September 7th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Honest journalism has been announced be a crime”. Yabloko leaders on the 22 years verdict to journalist Ivan Safronov and revocation of licence from Novaya Gazeta
Press Release, 6.09.2022 Photo: Ivan Safronov / Photo by Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant On 5 September, the Moscow City Court sentenced 32-year-old journalist Ivan Safronov to 22 years in a strict regime colony on the charges of “treason”. On the same day, the Moscow Basmanny District Court revoked the registration of the print version of Novaya […]
Posted: September 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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In Moscow and the Russian regions Yabloko appointed observers to polling stations and electoral commissions engaged in remote electronic voting
Press Release, 6.09.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 5 September, the regional branches of the Yabloko party and the candidates nominated by the party to run in the regional and local elections submitted lists of observers to the electoral commissions. The regional branches of Yabloko in Moscow, Pskov and Novgorod also sent their […]
Posted: September 6th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko is preparing to participate in the monitoring system for the remote voting in the Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 4.09.2022 The Moscow branch of the Yabloko party has officially applied to the Moscow Electoral Commission to organise the deployment of the Remote Electronic Voting node at the party’s technical facilities, to which Yabloko IT specialists will have access.
Posted: September 5th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The on-line conference Marathon in Memory of Mikhail Gorbachev organised by Yabloko brought together participants from different countries
Press Release, 3.09.2022 Full video of the conference The online conference Marathon in Memory of Mikhail Gorbachev, organised by the Yabloko party, lasted eight hours. The speeches of the participants were broadcast on the Yabloko YouTube channel. Politicians, statesmen and public figures, writers, journalists and human rights activists from Russia, the USA, Mexico and Italy […]
Posted: September 5th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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The pacifist campaign of the Yabloko candidate running in the municipal elections in St.Petersburg will be checked for “extremism”
Press Release, 3.09.2022 Photo: Alexander Makhankov’s campaign leaflet “I and Yabloko Stand for Peace!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Alexander Makhankov, a Yabloko candidate for deputies of the municipal council of the Pushkinsky District of St.Petersburg, was warned that his campaign products were sent for examination on suspicion of the presence of “extremism” […]
Posted: September 5th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow City Court upheld the removal of Maria Volokh from the municipal elections
Press Release, 2.09.2022 Photo: Maria Volokh / Photo from social media On 1 September, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Tverskoy District Court to remove Maria Volokh, a candidate for Moscow municipal deputies from Yabloko, from the elections. Earlier, District Judge sided with the Territorial Electoral Commission of the Tverskoy District in […]
Posted: September 2nd, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, 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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On 3 September, Yabloko to conduct on-line conference dedicated to Mikhail Gorbachev
Press Release, 2.09.2022 On 3 September, the day of funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yabloko will conduct on-line conference The Gorbachev Marathon dedicated to the President of the USSR. Politicians, public figures, and journalists will share their memories of the USSR President.
Posted: September 2nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Actions in support of political prisoners were held in Yabloko regional branches.
Press Release and photo report, 1.09.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the St.Petserburg Legislative Assembly and Deputy Chair of Yabloko, writing a letter / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 26 August, an action of writing letters to political prisoners was held at the offices of the regional branches of the Yabloko party. Yabloko […]
Posted: September 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Another action of writing letters to political prisoners will be held in the Saratov branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 31.08.2022 Photo by the Saratov branch of Yabloko On 4 September, an action of writing letters and postcards to political prisoners will be held at the Saratov Yabloko office. The action will start at 18:00.
Posted: September 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky: Yabloko has always advocated peace and saving people’s lives
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 30.08.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service After Grigory Yavlinsky recalled, on 24 August, the priority steps proposed by the Yabloko party back in February to prevent deaths in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the need to conclude a ceasefire agreement, a stream of accusations fell upon Yabloko […]
Posted: September 1st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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“He gave us hope and a chance – for freedom and life without fear”
Condolences from the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, 31.08.2022 Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev / Photo by the Gorbachev Foundation
Posted: September 1st, 2022 under Condolences, History, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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