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Tomsk Yabloko activists are summoned to police for participation in Yabloko’s campaign against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 9.07.2020 Members and supporters of the Tomsk regional branch of the Yabloko party are summoned to the police, where they have to give explanations about a group photo in which activists are pictured with leaflets “I am for the Constitution without nullification and amendments”.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist receives threats because of his protest against Putin’s reset of his presidential terms
Press Release, 8.07.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Stavropol Territory, received threats from unidentified persons. The activist found a note with threats in his postbox on 8 July. The note ran that if Ronald Ayrapetyan came out again to protest against Putin, he would go to jail.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The law is targeted against those who are telling the truth about the annexation of Crimea
Ivan Bolshakov on the new law on the inadmissibility of violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation Ivan Bolshakov’s Facebook post, 8.07.2020 They introduced the first bill for implementation of the new Constitution – [targeted at] declaring those who allegedly call for a violation of the territorial integrity of the country as extremists.
Posted: July 8th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: They wanted to get a “holiday of nullification” – but they got an obvious disgrace
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 2.07.2020 The main result of the caricatured “nationwide vote” is directly opposite to what the Kremlin intended. The indicators of the allegedly unanimous support of the “amendments to the Constitution” that are joyfully broadcasted by the Central electoral Commission do not matter. The fact that it would be announced that there […]
Posted: July 6th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Без рубрики.
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Life and politics do not end on July 1
Ivan Bolshakov on the results of the “All-Russia vote” on Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments Facebook post by Ivan Bolshakov, 2.07.2020 A miracle has not happened and could not happen. Certainly, the results announced by the Central Electoral Commission have nothing to do with reality. The “All-Russian voting” was reduced to an absurd post-modern show humiliating […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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An insult to public intelligence. Grigory Yavlinsky on the “popular vote” on Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.06.2020 Photo: a voting station. A “popular vote” to amend the Constitution is like a rape. That is, it resembles coercing into something that you initially did not want and what should not have happened, and the longer and more persistently they persuade you, the more disgusting it becomes. Now people, even […]
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s regional branches hold actions against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 29.06.2020 The Yabloko party has been conducting a nation-wide campaign against the “reset” of the presidential terms of Vladimir Putin. Members of the regional branches of the Yabloko party protest against the eternal rule of Vladimir Putin. The campaign Speak Up Against the Reset of Presidential Terms includes picketing, distribution of stickers and […]
Posted: June 29th, 2020 under Без рубрики.
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The Levada Centre: Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution are more popular among Russians than Putin’s amendments
Press Release, 21.06.2020 Photo 1 If there was an alternative vote, only a quarter of Russians (25%) would support the amendments of President Vladimir Putin. These are the data of a sociological survey conducted by the Levada Centre on the request of Yabloko from June 11 to 17. The survey involved 1,516 people over 18 […]
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Без рубрики.
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Public Constitutional Council proposed to Vladimir Putin to postpone the vote on Constitution amendments and make it alternative
23.06.2020 Open address to the President of the Russian Federation Respected Mr. President, A nationwide representative opinion poll conducted by the Levada Centre a few days ago shows that 28% of Russian citizens are ready to vote for the package of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation – the Constitution of Free People […]
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Без рубрики.
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Not only the “reset” of the presidential terms
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.06.2020 The action of the authorities to amend the Constitution of Russia has approached the finish line. Both in terms of content and form, the amendments proposed by Putin to the Basic Law of the country, as well as the so-called “popular vote” are, as is well known already, unlawful (see the […]
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The authorities hinder the Saratov branch of Yabloko to freely disseminate information about the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 25.06.2020 More than five advertising agencies refused to place Yabloko’s banners with a slogan I AM AGAINST THE RESET [OF PRESIDENTIAL TERMS] because of “fear of the city administration”. The companies are afraid to lose the bid for the right to placement of advertising structures. This was stated by the manager of the […]
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host an online lecture by Yelena Dubrovina “Why we should not vote for the amendments to the Constitution?”
Press Release, 22.06.2020 An online lecture by Yelena Dubrovina, lawyer and member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, will be held at Yabloko’s Party University. The lecture will be held on the Zoom platform on June 23, beginning at 16.00.
Posted: June 22nd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Без рубрики.
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The ECHR communicated the complaint of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko on contestation of the results of the 2016 elections to the regional parliament
Press Release, 22.06.2020 Photo: Anna Cherepanova on a single picket. On June 11, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party in the case of contestation of the results of the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma in 2016. Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, Без рубрики.
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Activists protecting the Kamenny Bor park from building-up and supported by Yabloko won the case in the Supreme Court of Karelia
Press Release, 19.06.2020 The Supreme Court of Karelia satisfied the claim of Olga Tuzhikova, Ilya Shkvarin and Valery Alekseev, the residents of the capital of Karelia Petrozavodsk, to the city administration, who demanded that the change of the status of part of the territory of the Kamenny Bor park (where the construction of a kindergarten […]
Posted: June 19th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The democratic opposition supported the nomination of Yabloko’s Alexander Lazutin as a candidate for Governor of the Kostroma region
Press Release, 17.06.2020 The Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko, the environmental movement For Life, and the public organisation People’s Power decided to support the nomination of Alexander Lazutin, Chairman of the Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko and Director General of Shunga agricultural enterprise, as a candidate for the gubernatorial elections that will be held in […]
Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yelena Dubrovina: The new law on the population register violates basic constitutional rights of citizens
Special for the web-site of Yabloko, 17.06.2020 Photo: Yelena Dubrovina The Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko party prepared an expert opinion on the federal law “On the Unified Federal Information Register Containing Information on the Population of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as the Law “On the Register”), which has recently entered […]
Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky called on the Central Electoral Commission and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check on the coercion of state employees to take absentee voting certificates to vote for Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 15.06.2020 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent appeals to the Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central electoral Commission, and Sergei Litvinenko, Public Prosecutor of St.Petersburg. Vishnevsky asked them to investigate into the situation of mass-scale coercion of […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko in Kalmykia held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina
Press Release, 8.06.2020 Colleagues of Larissa Yudina, members of the Kalmyk branch of Yabloko held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina, opposition journalist, human rights activist, politician and Co-Chair of the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia.
Posted: June 9th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, Без рубрики.
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The disaster in Norilsk; the unlearned lessons of Chernobyl
We demand resignation of those responsible for concealing information and introduce systemic changes in the field of environmental protection Statement by the Yabloko party, 4.06.2020 The large-scale disaster which happened with the spill of oil products at Thermal Power Plant No 3 of the city of Norilsk on May 29 demonstrates the fragility and inefficiency […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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After Lockdown
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020 CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if […]
Posted: June 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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