Archive for September, 2024
Chelyabinsk Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the Mayak nuclear tragedy in 1957
Press Release, 30.09.2024 September 29 marked 67 years since the Kyshtym nuclear accident – a nuclear explosion at the Mayak chemical plant. The explosion was the result of a violation of the cooling regime of the storage tank for radioactive waste. In its severity, the accident is second only to the Chernobyl and Fukushima-1 accidents. […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko elected new leadership of the branch
Press Release, 29.09.2024 Photo: Olga Tsepilova at the Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of the party On 28 September, the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party elected the governing bodies of the branch for the next two years. Olga Tsepilova, who previously held the […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: On Politics and Violence
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 30.09.2024 Illustration: The Stoning of St. Stephen, a biblical story from The Acts of the Apostles. 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko to host a meeting with former political prisoner Dmitry Skurikhin
Press Release, 25.09.2024 Photo: Dmitry Skurikhin by his store / Photo from social media An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners will be held in Novgorod Yabloko on 27 September with the participation of Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad Region who served an imprisonment term of 1.5 years for “discrediting the […]
Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko raised 1.7 million roubles at an auction in support of political prisoners and continues to accept donations
Press Release, 25.09.2024 Photo: Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky introducing his lot / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The auction featured 28 lots: works of art and personal belongings of politicians, political prisoners, writers, publicists and journalists, musicians, artists, etc. The most expensive lots of the auction were a drawing by Alexandra Skochilenko, ex-political prisoner […]
Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district in the Pskov region to challenge the voting results in court
Press Release, 23.09.2024 Photo: Yevgeny Vasiliyev / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Yevgeny Vasiliyev, a Yabloko candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district of the Pskov region, filed a lawsuit challenging the voting results at 17 polling stations out of 20 and demanded that video recordings be provided to him.
Posted: September 24th, 2024 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We just wait for any news every day.” Yabloko invites all to a charity auction and its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 20.09.2024 Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko Yabloko continues to support Russian political prisoners. On 24 September, a charity auction will be held in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow. In the coming weeks, actions of writing letters to political prisoners will be held in the Moscow branch and regional branches […]
Posted: September 21st, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosted a book launch about Nikita Khrushchev
Press Release, 18.09.2024 “Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System” is a new biography of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1953-1964), written by his great-granddaughter, a world-famous political scientist, professor at the New School in New York. On 17 September, Nina Khrushcheva spoke about the book […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The first court hearing on the merits of the case of Vasily Neustroyev from the St. Petersburg Yabloko has been scheduled on 25 September
Press Release, 18.09.2024 Photo: Vasily Neustroyev/ Photo from social media The hearing on the merits of the case against Vasily Neustroyev will take place in the St. Petersburg City Court on 25 September, after 15 months of his imprisonment. The case will be heard by a judge only, since all the defendants in the case […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Sleepwalkers and the World
Abstracts from Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to RTVi, 17.09.2024 It is obvious to everyone that Russia and Ukraine are currently unable to conduct any meaningful peace talks, that the situation on the battlefield is at a dead end, and the number of victims of the military confrontation has been growing every day. Therefore, the only thing […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Academician Alexei Arbatov: “You have every reason to be scared, because a nuclear war is the end of our civilisation, when the survivors will envy the dead”
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 14.09.2024 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Academician Alexei Arbatov is the head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee. He is one of the […]
Posted: September 17th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Pskov branch Yabloko gets new deputies in Plyussky, Dnovsky, Usvyatsky and Porkhov municipal districts
Press Release, 16.09.2024 At the September elections in the Pskov region, four lists of candidates from the Yabloko party managed to overcome the threshold, receiving from 5.46% to 13.63% of voters’ support. The interests of citizens in the deputies’ assemblies of municipal districts will be represented by seven new deputies from Yabloko. The elected candidates […]
Posted: September 16th, 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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The Ministry of Justice has added Vladimir Dorokhov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 13.09.2024 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Ministry of Justice has added Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”. Dorokhov became the eighth member of Yabloko and the third Deputy Chairman of the party to […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko called on the Red Cross to organise humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from the combat zone in the Kursk region
Press Release, 13.09.2024 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Rybakov called on the Red Cross to become an international mediator in organising negotiations on a ceasefire and creating humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians of the Kursk region from the combat […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the St. Petersburg Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Electoral Commission investigate the attack on a Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission
Press Release, 12.09.2024 Photo: The moment of the attack on the Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission /screenshot video by Fontanka.ru Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the St. Petersburg Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Electoral Commission investigate the attack on Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission Alexander Klyukov, who had […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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WHY A CEASEFIRE IS NECESSARY TODAY
Grigory Yavlinsky for Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2024 Photo by Valery Melnikov, Kommersant WHAT IS HAPPENING? The Russian army is advancing in the Donbass. Ukraine’s armed forces are continuing their operations in Kursk Region. Russia is carrying out missile strikes on Kharkiv, Poltava and Lviv … Ukraine is shelling Donetsk and Belgorod … The Russian missiles are […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites all to an auction in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 12.09.2024 We invite all to take part in a charity auction, all proceeds from which will be sent to the families of seven political prisoners. This will be the fifth event in support of those unjustly deprived of their freedom. The previous four auctions in support of political prisoners raised over 4.6 million […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to honour the memory of the repressed executed in Butovo and Kommunarka, Moscow, during Stalin’s period. We invite all to join the trip
Press Release, 12.09.2024 On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions will hold events designed to preservation of the memory of the terrible events of the Stalin period of our state and the victims of political tyranny. The Yabloko delegation in Moscow will visit […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Olga Tuzhikova’s candidacy for the post of Human Rights Commissioner in Karelia was supported by five public organisations, a head of municipality and a political party
Press Release, 12.09.2024 Photo: Olga Tuzhikova / Photo from social media The deadline for accepting documents from candidates for the post of Human Rights Commissioner in the Republic of Karelia has been closed. The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a member of Yabloko, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Historians and politicians from Yabloko discussed the causes and consequences of World War I and drew parallels with the present
Press Release, 12.09.2024 A round table dedicated to the anniversary of the beginning of World War I was held in Yabloko with the participation of Russian historians Vladimir Buldakov, Vladislav Aksyonov, Boris Kolonitsky, Konstantin Morozov and Alexander Shubin, as well as politicians from the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Mitrokhin. The discussion […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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