Archive for December, 2022
With the wishes of freedom and peace
The Yabloko offices hosted final actions of 2022 in support of political prisoners Press Release, 29.12.2022 Photo: Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Over the past two weeks, the regional offices of the Yabloko party have hosted the final actions of 2022 in support of political prisoners. Since the middle of the year, […]
Posted: December 29th, 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’s Office ordered the police of the Sosnovsky district, the Chelyabinsk region, to re-examine the statement of Yaroslav Shcherbakov about fraud in the elections to the State Duma in 2021
Press Release, 29.12.2022 Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sosnovsky district of the Chelyabinsk region were ordered to re-examine the statement of violation of the law on elections at polling station No. 2164 in the village of Chipyshevo, sent by the Chairman […]
Posted: December 29th, 2022 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow City Duma deputies of the “Moscow Mayor’s team” blocked the bill of Maxim Kruglov on the mandatory reports of Moscow officials to the Moscow city parliament
Press Release, 28.12.2022 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, proposed to make members of the Moscow Government, heads of sectoral and functional executive bodies of Moscow, and local governments report annually to the Moscow City Duma on their work. […]
Posted: December 28th, 2022 under Elections, Governance, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An exhibition of children’s letters to Santa Claus “Letter ** ***** *****” opened in Yabloko
Press Release, 28.12.2022 On 28 December, an exhibition of children’s letters “Letter *** *****” opened at the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. The authors of the letters are children of Ukrainian refugees who are under care of the Civic Assistance Committee and the Lighthouse Charity Foundation.
Posted: December 28th, 2022 under Charity, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Rostov-on-Don Yabloko branch held a charity event for the elderly people who are under care of the Old Age in Joy Foundation
Press Release, 26.12.2022 Photo by the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko On 24 December, activists of the Rostov-on-Don regional branch of the Yabloko party held a New Year’s charity event called “A Yabloko Pie” (in Russian “yabloko” means an “apple”). The participants baked apple pies under the guidance of chefs from the partner restaurant Shamaika House […]
Posted: December 27th, 2022 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Director of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre on the implications of Russia’s withdrawing from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 26.12.2022 Photo: Alexei Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Russian government proposed to the President to withdraw from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption. Such a withdrawal maintains the line towards the break with European legal standards and will throw […]
Posted: December 26th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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“They should have awarded Svetlana Gannushkina for her support of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, but they appointed her a “foreign agent”
The leaders of Yabloko speak in defence of Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Yabloko Political Committee Press Release, 24.12.2022 Photo: Svetlana Gannushkina / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Throughout this year, the Ministry of Justice of Russia, almost without a break, assigned once a week the title of “foreign agent” to people whose […]
Posted: December 26th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will arrange a New Year’s party for children – Ukrainian refugees
Press Release, 25.12.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 25 and 27 December, the Yabloko party will host a New Year’s party in its Moscow office for 250 children – Ukrainian refugees who are under care of the Civic Assistance Committee and the Lighthouse Charity Foundation helping refugees. Yabloko has prepared an extensive festive […]
Posted: December 26th, 2022 under Charity, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Public hearings on Yabloko’s proposal to perpetuate the memory of Soviet dissident Anatoly Marchenko will be held in Tatarstan
Press Release, 23.12.2022 Photo: Anatoly Marchenko / Photo from the family archive Public hearings on Yabloko’s proposal to perpetuate the memory of Soviet dissident Anatoly Marchenko will be held in Tatarstan. This was announced by the head of the Chistopol municipal district.
Posted: December 23rd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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To prevent the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group means not taking another step towards dictatorship
Statement by the Yabloko party, 23.12.2022 Photo: The lecture by Valery Borshchyov, Co-Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, at Yabloko on 21 December, 2022 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice to liquidate the Moscow Helsinki Group and ban its activities is another step towards turning the Russian state […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Opochetsky District Court upheld the decision of pro-government deputies to arbitrarily dismiss Yabloko’s head of the district Svetlana Vasilkova basing on “their inner conviction”. The decision of the court will be appealed in the regional court.
Press Release, 22.12.2022 Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko On 21 December, the Opochetsky District Court announced the decision on the suit of Yabloko’s Svetlana Vasilkova to challenge her dismissal from the post of head of the Pustoshkinsky district of the Pskov region. As follows from the decision, Svetlana Vasilkova’s demands were “partially […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Valery Borshchyov “Political Idealism: an Illusion or a Reality”
Press Release, 22.12.2022 On 21 December, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Political Idealism: an Illusion or a Reality” by Valery Borshchyov, an outstanding human rights activist, dissident, a member of the Federal Political Committee, Co-Chairman of the Yabloko’s Human Rights Faction and Co-Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group. On 1 December, Valery Borshchyov […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Yabloko collects signatures in Volgograd against the renaming of the city after Joseph Stalin
Press Release, 22.12.2022 Photo: Governor of the Volgograd Region Andrey Bocharov speaking in support of the “special operation” in front of students of the Volgograd branch of Plekhanov Russian University of Econmics / Photo by www.rea.ru Yabloko started collecting signatures in Volgograd against the renaming of the city after Joseph Stalin. The initiative on the […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow Mayor answered the questions of the deputies of the Moscow City Duma, but did not say anything new
Press Release, 21.12.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin delivered a report to the deputies of the Moscow City Duma on the results of the work of the Moscow government in 2022. After a short report on the successes in the economy, social policies, the development of transport, and the […]
Posted: December 21st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly proposed to introduce criminal liability for calls for nuclear war
Press Release, 21.12.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko faction submitted to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg a draft resolution on a legislative initiative of the St.Petersburg parliament for the State Duma on the responsibility for calls for the use of nuclear weapons. Alexander Shishlov, head of the […]
Posted: December 21st, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A call for peace with Ukraine sounded in the State Duma for the first time
Press Release, 20.12.2022 Photo by Yevgenia Vlasova On 20 December, a “government hour” was held in the State Duma, during which representatives of non-parliamentary parties could ask questions to the Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov in his speech called for peace and the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement.
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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A lecture on the alternative non-military service was held at Yabloko
Press Release, 20.12.2022 On 16 December, the Yabloko party hosted a lecture “The Constitutional Right to Alternative Civilian Service in Modern Conditions” by Anatoly Pchelintsev, Doctor of Law, Honorary Advocate of Russia, and member of the Writers’ Union of Russia. Anatoly Pchelintsev as a former a military lawyer has extensive experience in protecting the rights […]
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Do not allow for militarisation of the school! Yabloko’s appeal to deputies, senators and the Minister of Education
Appeal by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko of 15.12.2022, published on 16.12.2022 Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant Yabloko demands to put an end to the militarisation of the school: not to make elementary military training a compulsory subject, not to allow for politicised and paramilitary events to be held at schools, and stop forcing schoolchildren […]
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Education and Science, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies, Youth Policies.
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The Investigative Committee: There will be no criminal case on the torture of a participant in “poetry readings”. Rape will be checked along with poetry
Press Release, 19.12.2022 Photo: An ambulance takes Artyom Kamardin to hospital from the Investigative Committee for the Tervskoy District in Moscow / Photo from social media The Investigative Committee refuses to open a criminal case against the law enforcement officers who allegedly mocked and tortured civil activists Artyom Kamardin, Alexandra Popova and Alexander Menyukov. This […]
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Give hope to those who need it most. Yabloko holds the final actions of 2022 of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 15.12.2022 The coming days, actions in support of political prisoners will be held in the offices of the Yabloko party across Russia. Yabloko invites all, who would like to support politicians and civil activists who were unjustly convicted or under investigation, to take part in the actions. Participants of the actions can sign […]
Posted: December 19th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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