Statement by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov regarding the criminal case against Lev Shlosberg
2.10.2024
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today’s searches at Lev Shlosberg’s and his father’s apartment represent a continuation of the political intimidation campaign by the authorities against our comrade and the entire Pskov branch of our party.
When the authorities cannot, are not capable of conducting an honest competitive struggle with their opponents, they resort to such methods.
Yabloko will provide Lev Shlosberg with all possible support. However, I would like to note that the wheel of repression will stop only when society forms an absolute rejection and non-acceptance of the very strategy of eliminating opponents, defamation of those who disagree with the authorities and the search for enemies, internal and external.
I am now in the Sayansky District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory – in places connected with the activities of the Krasnoyarsk labour camp (Kraslag) during the years of the [Joseph Stalin’s mass-scale political repression] Great Terror [in 1937-1938]. I would like to note that many who were the organisers and executors of the repressions were subsequently ground down by the machinery created by them. This is the law of development of such a system. There is no need to repeat history. Stop.
Nikolai Rybakov,
Yabloko Chairman
Posted: October 2nd, 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.