Archive for August, 2023
A press conference “The Ingush Case. The Results” will take place in Moscow
Press Release, 31.08.2023 On Tuesday, 5 September, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party will host a press conference by lawyers and public defenders of the leaders of the Ingush protest, dedicated to the appeal against the verdict of the Kislovodsk City Court and consideration of the appeal by the Stavropol Regional Court.
Posted: August 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Basmanny Court in Moscow extended the arrest for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev for another three months
Press Release, 31.08.2023 Photo: Vasily Neustroyev Today the Basmanny Court in Moscow extended the arrest for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev for another three months. The court hearing was conducted in camera at the request of the investigator, who stated that there were state secrets in the case file. According to the Telegram channel “Freedom to […]
Posted: August 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Mikhail Gorbachev: the past, the present and … the future
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.08.2023 Photo: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev with his spouse Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva during an official visit to France. Paris, 5 July 1989 // Laurent Rebours/AP A year ago, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev passed away – the man who gave freedom to hundreds of millions of people in Russia, in the neighbouring countries and throughout […]
Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Без рубрики.
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The court will decide on the extension of the measure of restraint for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev. He is charged under six articles of the Criminal Code
Press Release, 30.08.2023 Photo: Vasily Neustroyev / Photo by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko On 31 August, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow will conduct a hearing on extending the measure of restraint for the Chairman of the Frunzensky local branch of Yabloko in St. Petersburg, Vasily Neustroyev. The hearing will begin at 11:30. The […]
Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov Yabloko to appeal in cassation all the unlawful decisions of the courts
Press Release, 29.08.2023 Photo: The team of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko The Pskov Regional Court upheld the decisions of the district courts, which canceled the legal decisions of the territorial electoral commissions on the registration of unified lists of Yabloko candidates at the elections of assemblies of […]
Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko campaigns for peace and life in the elections
Press Release, 29.08.2023 The Novgorod branch of Yabloko published its programme for the elections of deputies of the City Duma of Novgorod. The key slogan of the Yabloko election camapaign is “I Vote for Peace!”. “The 24th of February shocked everyone. A disaster happened. For many years, and especially for the past eight years, we […]
Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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It was an honour for me to listen in court the final statement of Mikhail Afanasyev, a Khakassian journalist and my colleague at Yabloko
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 29.08.2023 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the trial of Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of Yabloko and a journalist, in Abakan, Khakassia, so that to support Afanasyev who made his final statement in court today. The public prosecutor asked for six years in prison for Mikhail Afanasyev. Afanasyev had been kept in […]
Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko continues to collect signatures for peace and freedom
Telegram Channel of the Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko, 26.08.2023 The Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko announced, within a framework of its election campaign to the Yekaterinburg City Duma, a collection of signatures for declaring 2024 the Year of Peace and Freedom: this will mean calling for a ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations.
Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“They Chose Freedom”. Yabloko hosted a screening of a film by Vladimir Kara-Murza about Soviet dissidents
Press Release, 28.08.2023 On 25 August, a screening of Vladimir Kara-Murza’s documentary film “They Chose Freedom” took place in the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. The film is dedicated to the history of the dissident movement in the USSR from its emergence in the 1950s to the fall of communist power in […]
Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko MP of the Pskov Region Assembly of Deputies, Artur Gaiduk, appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office with a demand to remove the monument to Joseph Stalin erected in Velikiye Luki
Telegram Channel of the Pskov region branch of Yabloko, 22.08.2023 Photo: The Pskov regional branch of Yabloko Artur Gaiduk, Yabloko MP of the Pskov Region Assembly of Deputies, writes in his appeal addressed to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and sent on 22 August, that it is reported that the monument, opened on the territory […]
Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Journalist Mikhail Afanasyev will speak with his final statemenet in court. The Chairman of Yabloko will fly to Abakan to support him
Press Release, 28.08.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 29 August, at 9:30 a.m. local time (5:30 a.m. Moscow time), the Abakan City Court of the Republic of Khakassia will hold a hearing on the criminal case on “fakes” (Article 207.3, Part 2, Clause A of the Criminal Code of […]
Posted: August 28th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk Yabloko obtained in court a permission to picket for direct election of the mayor. The police canceled the event
Press Release, 27.08.2023 Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chair of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko (right), and members of the referendum initiative group at the campaign cube / Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko On 26 August, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court declared unlawful the actions of the Chelyabinsk Mayor’s Office to refuse Yabloko in holding a […]
Posted: August 27th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yaroslav Shcherbakov on the return of “Hyde Parks” as specially designated free speech zones where no permissions from authorities for rallies are required to the centre of Magnitogorsk: Yabloko’s victory in court over the government and the governor of the region
Yaroslav Shcherbakov’s blog post, 25.08.2023 Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov and Kira Belaya / Photo by Yaroslav Shcherbakov Today, the Second Court of Appeal in St. Petersburg canceled the decision of the Chelyabinsk Regional Court, which dismissed the case on the return of “Hyde Parks” [specially designated free speech zones where no permissions from authorities for rallies […]
Posted: August 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Nikolai Yegorov accused of “discrediting the army” is being tested for spreading “fake news about the army”
Yabloko launched fundraising among Russian citizens for an independent examination Press Release, 25.08.2023 Photo: Nikolai Yegorov with his family / Photo from the personal archive Nikolai Yegorov, Chairman of the Vologda regional branch of the Yabloko party, can be tried not only for “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of […]
Posted: August 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko launched a new issue of its journal devoted to gender equality
Press Release, 24.08.2023 On 22 August, Yabloko launched the new, 14th issue, of the journal of the Yabloko Gender Faction Znak Ravenstva (Sign of Equality) in the party office in Moscow. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the event, emphasising the importance of the struggle for gender equality and the work of the Gender Faction […]
Posted: August 24th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Yabloko honored the memory of the defenders of democracy who died under tanks during the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 22.08.2023 On 22 August, the leaders, members and activists of the Yabloko party commemorated those killed in the August 1991 coup. Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva, Deputy […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Public prosecutor asked for six years in prison for journalist and Yabloko member Mikhail Afanasyev
Press Release, 22.08.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The public prosecutor asked for six years in prison for Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of Yabloko and a journalist from Abakan. He has been kept in a pre-trial detention centre for the second year already on the charges of spreading […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The leader of Yabloko appealed to the Central Electoral Commission, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Higher Judges’ Qualifications Board in connection with the removal of seven lists of Yabloko candidates in the Pskov region
Press Release, 22.08.2023 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to the Central Electoral Commission, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Higher Judges’ Qualifications Board in connection with the situation in the Pskov region, where the courts supported by the regional electoral commission and the public […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A blow to election observers is a blow to the entire institution of elections. Chairman of Yabloko on the arrest of Grigory Melkonyants
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 18.08.2023 Photo: Grigory Melkonyants / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Grigory Melkonyants, the head of Golos [a movement of election observers], has been arrested. The authorities do not even try to hide that this is a political case, a way of settling scores with the wrong people. Vasily Piskaryov, […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, State Duma Elections, Без рубрики.
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164 Yabloko candidates are participating in the elections under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!”
Press Release, 21.08.2023 Photo: Yabloko’s banner running “10 September, 2023. Yabloko. Your Vote for Peace and Freedom!” 162 Yabloko candidates have been registered for the upcoming municipal elections. Two more candidates are participating in the by-elections of State Duma deputies in constituencies in Karachayevo-Cherkessia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In total, representatives of Yabloko campaign in […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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