Archive for August, 2024
Yabloko in Voronezh supported the candidacy of civil activist Alexander Dudchenko for the post of Mayor of the city
Press Release, 15.08.2024 Photo: Alexander Dudchenko / Photo from Alexander Dudchenko personal archive In August, the Mayor of the city of Voronezh will be elected. Earlier, the head of the city, Vadim Kstenin, resigned. Direct elections of the Mayor were canceled in 2016, and for six years already, since 2018, the Mayor has been “elected” […]
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky fined for “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”
Press Release, 15.08.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky outside the courthouse / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg fined Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, 15,000 roubles under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the […]
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod District Court refused to remove Yabloko candidate Ksenia Cherepanova from the register of persons affiliated with a “foreign agent”
Press Release, 14.08.2024 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 13 August, the Novgorod District Court considered the claim of Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate in the by-elections of the Novgorod Regional Duma, against the Ministry of Justice. The politician demanded to be removed from the register of “persons affiliated with […]
Posted: August 14th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Court of Appeal rejected Maxim Kruglov’s claim against the Moscow City Court’s decision to deny the politician registration in the Moscow City Duma elections
Press Release, 13.08.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The First Court of Appeal in Moscow rejected the appeal of deputy of the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov against the Moscow City Court’s decision to deny him registration as a candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections. The panel of judges […]
Posted: August 14th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko on participation in gubernatorial elections under the conditions of the special military operation and the municipal filter: we offer a political alternative and speak up about peace and freedom
Press Release, 9.08.2024 Photo: Yabloko candidates for the 2024 gubernatorial elections Roman Morozov, Vladimir Dorokhov, and Yaroslav Shcherbakov Yabloko’s election campaigns for the gubernatorial elections have ended. Three candidates from the party in the Kaliningrad, Tula and Chelyabinsk regions did not pass the so-called municipal filter – collection of a certain number of signatures of […]
Posted: August 9th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko was denied registration in the Tula City Duma elections
Press Release, 8.08.2024 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov at the Tula Region Electoral Commission / Photo from social media On 7 August, Yabloko presented its objections to the regional electoral commission concerning the results of verification of 2,361 signatures of city residents in support of the Yabloko list of candidates. Yabloko was going to campaign under the […]
Posted: August 8th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny turns 65!
Yabloko sends its warmest congratulations to the Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the party Press Release, 7.08.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 7 August,Viktor Kogan-Yasny, Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, head of the public organisation “Regional Civil Initiative – the […]
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Greetings.
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From an Exchange to a Ceasefire
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 6.08.2024 We should not judge superficially about deep and contradictory political meanings of the prisoner exchange. Let us note the most important thing: this exchange literally saved several lives at once. And one more thing: if such a difficult and ambiguous process is possible, during which Moscow […]
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate for Irkutsk City Duma Pavel Kharitonenko defends in court voters’ signatures in support of his nomination
Press Release, 6.08.2024 Photo: Pavel Kharitonenko / Photo from social media Yabloko candidate for Irkutsk City Duma, Pavel Kharitonenko, will seek his registration in the elections in court. Earlier, District Electoral Commission No. 28 invalidated eight signatures out of 67 provided by the Yabloko candidate in support of his nomination, with six acceptable defective signatures. […]
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky asked the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg to send a request to the Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the law on “foreign influence”
Press Release, 6.08.2024 Photo: Vitaly Isakov and Boris Vishnevsky at a meeting of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of the party Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, is challenging the status of “foreign agent” unlawfully assigned to him […]
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Tula Region Electoral Commission rejected signatures for the nomination of Yabloko’s candidates, having made up the data of voters. The party is going to appeal this decision
Press Release, 6.08.2024 The Tula Region Electoral Commission is going to refuse registration of the Yabloko list of candidates for the elections to the Tula City Duma. The working group of the electoral commission, based on the results of checking 2,316 signatures in support of the nomination of the list, considers 256 signatures invalid, i.e. […]
Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Electoral commissions registered 32 candidates from Pskov Yabloko to participate in 11 election campaigns
Press Release, 6.08.2024 Photo: Chairman of the Pskov Yabloko Artur Gaiduk at the conference on nominating candidates / Photo by the regional branch of the party Registration certificates were handed to Yevgeny Vasiliye, Yablooko’s candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district, captain of the first rank in the reserve, head of the […]
Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We are guarding the memory of the place where almost 7,000 people found their last refuge.” Yabloko delegation visited Sandarmokh, the place of mass executions and burials during the Soviet period
Press Release, 5.08.2024 Photo: Anatoly Razumov, head of the Centre for Returned Names at the Russian National Library, and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov A delegation of the Yabloko party, led by party leader Nikolai Rybakov and head of the party faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova, visited the Sandarmokh – the site […]
Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow branch of Yabloko nominated candidates for snap elections of the Kurkino district council of Deputies in Moscow
Press Release, 2.08.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Conference of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party decided to nominate seven Yabloko candidates for the snap elections of municipal deputies in the Kurkino district of Moscow. Each of the candidates will have to collect 14 signatures of district residents in support of their […]
Posted: August 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In the Moscow Region the authorities are trying to remove Yabloko candidates from the elections with the help of other political parties
Press Release, 2.08.2024 Photo: Delegates of the Moscow Regional Yabloko Conference / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko On 2 August, the Territorial Electoral Commission of Sergiyev Posad will decide to refuse to register the Yabloko list of six people and two candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the elections of deputies of the District Council. […]
Posted: August 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Multiple increases in court fees will deprive millions of citizens of access to justice
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 2.08.2024 Photo by Andrei Zhdanov, Kommersant The State Duma has adopted amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, which will increase the amount of state fees for court cases for both individuals and organisations. For example, the fee for challenging a decision or action of a […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod Regional Court refuses to remove the “foreign agent” label from Ksenia Cherepanova, Yabloko’s candidate to the Regional Duma
Press Release, 2.08.2024 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko Yabloko considers the court’s decision unlawful and unfounded, it will be appealed. At the same time, Ksenia Cherepanova filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation demanding to exclude her from the register of persons “affiliated with a […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We can only welcome freedom for people who have not committed any crimes.” Yabloko leaders on the prisoner exchange
Press Release, 1.08.2024 Photo: Footage from the airport in Ankara with planes from countries participating in the prisoner exchange / Photo: a screenshot of the broadcast of the Turkish TV channel NTV The main event of today is the prisoner exchange between Russia, the USA, Germany, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Belarus. Those to whom we […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Nikolai Rybakov: There should be no political prisoners in Russia and they should all be released
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram blog post, 1.08.2024 Freedom for people who have not committed any crimes, those who have advocated for a better future for the country can only be welcomed. But in principle, there should be no political prisoners in Russia and they should all be released.
Posted: August 1st, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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110 years since Russia entered World War I. Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims
Press Release, 1.08.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service 110 years ago, on 1 August, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and our country entered World War I. More than 10 million servicemen from all sides fell victim to it, over 22 million were wounded. Russia’s losses in the war amounted to over three million […]
Posted: August 1st, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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