Archive for September, 2023
Fight poverty, not the world
Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yaboko adopted on 4 September 2023, published on 14 September 2023 Photo by Oleg Kharseyev, Kommersant The document was adopted following the results of expert hearings held in Veliky Novgorod on 4 September. Yevgeniy Gontmakher, Doctor of Economics and a Yabloko member, participated in the development of the document. […]
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko raised 3.361 million roubles at an auction in support of eight political prisoners
Collection of donations is going on Press Release, 13.09.2023 UPD. The total amount collected in support of political prisoners together with donations which came after the auction, as of 14 September at 20:00 (Moscow time), is 3.674.276 roubles. In total, 23 lots were sold at the auction: works by contemporary artists, as well as things, […]
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Member of the Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region from Yabloko Yelena Mayatnikova: “The violations require to recognise the election of the Governor of the Pskov region as invalid”
Press Release, 13.09.2023 Photo: Yelena Mayatnikova / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko Yelena Mayatnikova, a member of the Pskov Regional Electoral Commission from Yabloko, wrote a special dissenting opinion on the resolution on the protocol of the results of the gubernatorial elections in the Pskov region. “The elections of the governor of the […]
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputy Chairman of Moscow Yabloko will challenge in court the decision of the Ministry of Justice to include him in the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 13.09.2023 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 14 September, the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow will hold the first hearing on the claim of the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko, Andrei Morev, against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Morev demands to cancel the decision […]
Posted: September 13th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Candidates from Pskov Yabloko in single-mandate constituencies received voters support
Statement by the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, 13.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Despite the cancellation of registration of Yabloko’s lists of candidates, three-day and remote electronic voting, and admission of observers to polling stations only in three districts of the region, candidates from the Pskov Yabloko did not stop […]
Posted: September 13th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Dozens of thousands of Russian citizens cast their votes for Peace and for Yabloko!
Summing up the results of the elections Press Release, 11.09.2023 In the elections held on 10 September, Yabloko managed to retain representation in the city parliamets of Yekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod and Krasnokamsk (the Perm region), as well as create a faction in the city duma of Yasnogorsk (the Tula region). The team of municipal deputies […]
Posted: September 12th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Elections for peace and freedom”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.09.2023 Photo: Yabloko campaign posters “Yabloko. Your vote For Peace and Freedom!” in Yekaterinburg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 September, Russia held regular election. Everyone understands what kind of “elections” there can be in such a system, especially during the “special military operation”. Since 1996, voting in Russia […]
Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko gets mandates in four city parliaments, including the city dumas of Yekaterinburg and Novgorod
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov summed up the preliminary results of the elections of 8 – 10 September Press Release, 10.09.2023 According to preliminary data, candidates from Yabloko were elected to the city dumas of Yekaterinburg, Novgorod, Krasnokamsk (the Perm Territory) and Yasnogorsk (the Tula Region). This was stated by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov during a […]
Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, 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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Olga Kolokolova, the leader of the Yabloko branch in the Perm region, passes to the Krasnokamsk City Duma
Press Release, 10.09.2023 Photo: Olga Kolokolova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The counting of votes at the polling stations of constituency No. 6 has not yet been completed, but according to preliminary data, Olga Kolokolova, Yabloko’s candidate and the leader of the Yabloko branch in the Perm region, passes to the Krasnokamsk City […]
Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Novgorod, three Yabloko candidates for deputies of the City Duma have been detained. They can be arrested for 15 days
Press Release, 10.09.2023 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin (centre), Anna Cherepanova and Ksenia Cherepanova at the police station / Photo from social media On the night of September 9 – 10, the Novgorod police drew up protocols of violation under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“disobedience to the police”) in […]
Posted: September 10th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Citizen participation and control over voting can combat fraud
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 9.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 September, many regions of our country will hold elections at different levels: elections of local governments, legislative assemblies, and heads of regions. And in six months there will be presidential elections, which will be held within the framework of […]
Posted: September 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov City Court refused to recognise the assignment of the status of “foreign agent” to Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg illegal. The decision will be appealed
Press Release, 9.09.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo from Lev Shlosberg’s personal archive The Pskov City Court rejected Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, in satisfying his claims against the Ministry of Justice to declare illegal the order of June 16, 2023, to include the politician in the […]
Posted: September 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“You have defended the garden, which means you can do more”: the head of Yabloko called on Yekaterinburg residents to support Yabloko’s course for peace at elections
Е1.RU, 8.09.2023 Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the United Democratic Party Yabloko, visited Yekaterinburg on the eve of the elections to the City Duma. He came to support his fellow party members, talk about the strategy of peaceful change with which they are going to voters, and urge the residents of the city to take part […]
Posted: September 8th, 2023 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Schoolchildren in Dubrovichy, the Ryazan region, were provided with textbooks after Yabloko deputy Konstantin Smirnov intervened
Press Release, 8.09.2023 Photo: Emin Jafarov, Kommersant The Minister of Education of the Ryazan Region, Olga Shchetinkina, informed Konstantin Smirnov, a deputy of the Dubrovichy settlement from the Yabloko party and Editor-in-Chied of the online media Vid Sboku (Side View), that all the necessary textbooks, that had not been delivered to the school in the […]
Posted: September 8th, 2023 under Economy, Education and Science, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court sentenced Mikhail Afanasyev to 5.5 years in prison in the case of “fakes about the army”
Press Release, 7.09.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Mikhail Afanasyev, Editor-in-Chief of the Novy Focus online media, a Yabloko member and two-time winner of the Andrei Sakharov Prize “For Journalism as an Act of Conscience”, was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison in a criminal case on “fakes about the […]
Posted: September 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host a launch of the books by journalist and human rights defender Eva Merkacheva
Press Release, 6.09.2023 Photo: Eva Merkacheva / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 14 September, the Yabloko party will host a launch of the books by Eva Merkacheva: “The City of the Doomed. An Honest Report on Seven Penal Colonies for Life-Sentenced Prisoners”, “Who Lives Well in Russia. How Prisons Work in Modern Russia” […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“If we spoke from a position of law, they would have been acquitted.” Yabloko summed up the results of the Ingush case
Press Release, 6.09.2023 Photo: Ruslan Mutsolgov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 5 September, a press conference “The Ingush case. The Results” was held at the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. Public defenders spoke about the four-year history of the Ingush case and the appeal of the verdict: Ruslan Mutsolgov, […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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St.Petersburg Yabloko to challenge in court over 400 decisions on the creation of electoral commissions
Press Release, 6.09.2023 Photo by Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant The Yabloko party is appealing through the courts over 40 decisions of territorial election commissions on the formation of precinct electoral commissions and 400 decisions refusing to appoint Yabloko representatives as members of precinct electoral commissions. The lawsuit was filed in the Oktyabrsky District Court by Alexander […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the work of Yabloko’s election headquarters during the elections on 8-10 September
Press Release, 6.09.2023 The Yabloko party is taking part in 26 election campaigns in 13 regions of the country: Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Karelia, the Krasnoyarsk and the Perm Territories, the Sverdlovsk region, the Novgorod region, the Pskov region, the Moscow region, the Saratov region, the Tula region, the Rostov region, the Ryazan region, as well as Moscow […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Fundraising for an independent examination for the leader of the Vologda Yabloko is closed. We thank everyone who did not remain indifferent and helped!
Press Release, 6.09.2023 Photo: Nikolai Yegorov / Photo from Nikolai Yegorov’s personal archive We have closed the collection of donations for the Chairman of the Vologda branch of Yabloko Nikolai Yegorov, as a criminal case on “discrediting the army” was filed against him (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, 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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