Archive for June, 2025
A unique mosaic panel in a sports facility building destroyed in Udmurtia. Yabloko has filed a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office about the sports minister’s inaction
Press Release, 30.06.2025 Photo: Mosaic panel in the Izhstal Ice Palace building / Photo from social media One of the rare monuments of 1970s mosaic art – a mosaic panel possessing artistic and historical value – was situated in the foyer of the Izhstal Ice Palace building in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. Despite assurances from Udmurtia’s Minister […]
Posted: June 30th, 2025 under Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Judiciary, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies.
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Yabloko in Karelia proposed exempting outpatient clinics and hospitals from property tax. The ruling party rejected the initiative, but later passed it off as their own
Press Release, 30.06.2025 Photo: The Legislative Assembly of Karelia / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia prepared a bill to exempt state medical institutions from paying property tax. Such a measure would help direct more budget money towards improving […]
Posted: June 30th, 2025 under Education and Science, Governance, Healthcare, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Maxim Kruglov on the proposal of the head of the Presidential Human Rights Council to expel foreign families from the country: “The head of the Human Rights Council has apparently forgotten what his job is”
Press Release, 27.06.2025 Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev called for expelling migrant families from Russia if their children do not go to school. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are almost 786,000 minor foreigners in Russia. At the same time, the number of […]
Posted: June 27th, 2025 under Education and Science, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Gender Faction took part in the roundtable of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Club, dedicated to the history of the Russian women’s movement
Press Release, 26.06.2025 Photo by the Gorbachev Foundation First Deputy Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Olga Radayeva participated part in the roundtable of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Club project, which was held at the Gorbachev Foundation in June. The starting point for the discussion was the books by women’s movement historian Irina Yukina “Russian […]
Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Pskov Regional Court leaves Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party Lev Shlosberg under house arrest
Press Release, 26.06.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg /Photo by Pskov Yabloko On 11 June, the Pskov City Court ruled that Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party Lev Shlosberg should be arrested until 8 August. Shlosberg is at home, under house arrest, deprived of access to a telephone, mail, and the Internet, he is also restricted in […]
Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Moscow’s Chief Sanitary Doctor will assess, at Yabloko’s request, the coronavirus threat cited by the Moscow authorities when banning protest actions
Press Release, 26.06.2025 Photo: A mass sporting event at one of Moscow’s stadiums during the period of “coronavirus restrictions” / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant The letter to Yelena Andreyeva, Chief Sanitary Doctor of Moscow, was sent by the applicants of the pickets for the dismantling of the bas-relief depicting Joseph Stalin as the “father […]
Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Once again Yabloko in the St.Petersburg parliament proposes taking the first step toward free elections by returning the voting rights to “foreign agents”
Press Release, 25.06.2025 Photo: Alexander Shishlov at the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg /Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg parliament The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg has once again submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament its initiative to return the passive electoral right (the right to be elected) to citizens recognised […]
Posted: June 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow authorities refused to allow Yabloko to hold pickets for the dismantling of a bas-relief with Joseph Stalin in the Moscow metro. Yabloko is going to appeal the refusal in court
Press Release, 24.06.2025 Photo by Yevgeny Biyatov, RIA Novosti The formal reason for the refusal of the Prefecture of Central Administrative District of Moscow to approve Yabloko pickets was the “current epidemiological situation”. The authorities continue to refer to the decree of the Mayor of Moscow dated 8 June, 2020, which maintains the previously introduced […]
Posted: June 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Where is Seda? At its actions of writing letters to political prisoners, Yabloko will appeal to the President with a demand to investigate the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova
Press Release, 23.06.2025 Photo: Seda Suleimanova / Photo from open sources Yabloko has prepared special postcards dedicated to Seda Suleimanova, a Chechen girl who ran away from relatives who threatened her with honour killing for her refusal to agree to a forced marriage, was forcibly returned to Chechnya and, ultimately, disappeared. There has been no […]
Posted: June 24th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko lit candles in memory of the victims of World War II
Press Release, 22.06.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the 84th anniversary of the attack of the fascist Germany on the USSR, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrible tragedy that affected the lives and destinies of hundreds of millions of people – participants in the events of the first half […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: How to break the negotiating impasse?
Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 20.06.2025 Why are the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations taking so long and so painful? Because they are constantly trying to drag out the negotiations as much as possible. Who is trying? Both the sides. But one side is advancing, while the other, on the contrary, is losing increasingly more territory.
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Novgorod Yabloko nominated Viktor Shalyakin as a candidate for the post of Governor of Novgorod Region
Press Release, 20.06.2025 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo: by the Novgorod Region branch of Yabloko The Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated Viktor Shalyakin as a candidate for the post of Governor of Novgorod Region in the forthcoming elections. The conference delegates decided to nominate Viktor Shalyakin, a former military man, for the early elections of […]
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to host a public lecture by Sergei Shklyudov “The Experience of Electronic Voting in Estonia: Myths and Reality”
Press Release, 20.06.2025 Electronic voting is an extremely controversial tool. It has many supporters and many opponents. Some countries have tried to introduce electronic voting in their elections, but then inevitably returned to paper. Today, only the experience of Estonia is virtually the only example of the successful introduction of electronic voting into the electoral […]
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections.
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Yabloko invites to the screening of Marlen Khutsiev’s film “People of 1941”
Press Release, 20.06.2025 Photo: Screenshot of the film “People of 1941” On the evening of 21 June, on the threashold of a sad anniversary of fascist Germany’s attack on the USSR on 22 June 1941, we will conduct screening of Marlen Khutsiev’s film “People of 1941” paying tribute to the heroes and victims of the […]
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Chelyabinsk Yabloko launches the campaign of collection of signatures in favour of registration of Yaboko candidates in the regional parliamentary elections and asks its members and supporters for help
Press Release, 19.06.2025 The Chelyabinsk regional electoral commission has registered the list of Yabloko candidates for the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the region. Now all candidates must collect 3,000 signatures from voters in their constituency to get on the ballot. Yabloko’s signature campaign has already started and will conclude on 11 July.
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko has collected more than 450 books for the library in Novo-Steklyannoye village, Karelia
Press Release, 19.06.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko party has completed the collection of books for the library of the village of Novo-Steklyannoye in the Republic of Karelia. In just two weeks of the campaign, more than 450 books were collected, which will be transferred to the library soon.
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko has submitted an application for a series of one-person pickets in Moscow for the removal of the Stalin bas-relief at Taganskaya metro station
Press Release, 19.06.2025 Photo: Kirill Goncharov and Maxim Kruglov at the office of the Prefecture of the Central Administrative District, Moscow/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The initiators of the action are Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, as well as representatives of the Moscow branch of the party: authorised representative of the regional branch Maxim […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko announces recruitment for summer school on crypto-finance and anti-money laundering
Press Release, 19.06.2025 The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party is opening applications for the summer online school “Money Laundering in the Crypto Era: Shadow Finance, Technologies, and Systemic Countermeasures”. The school is dedicated to state policies and practices of prosecuting criminal money both in Russia and the international context.
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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The Ministry of Natural Resources of Udmurtia will provide Yabloko with data on the quality of drinking water in Izhevsk
Press Release, 18.06.2025 Photo: Izhevsk Pond / Photo by Vyacheslav Bukharov, Wikimedia Commons The appeal to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic of Udmurtia was sent on the initiative of Elizaveta Khusnutdinova, a member of the regional Bureau of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia. Yabloko is requesting information about the quality of water […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly submitted a bill to abolish the discriminatory ban on participation in elections for “foreign agents”
Press Release, 18.06.2025 Photo: Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg / Photo by the St.Petersburg parliament Press Service The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly has prepared and submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament a draft federal law on restoring passive electoral rights for Russian citizens included in the “foreign agents” registry. According to the […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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