Archive for 'Economy'
Yabloko asked Prime Minister Mishustin to protect couriers and volunteers
Press Release, 10.04.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asking him to adopt a decree on the protection of delivery service employees and volunteers of social services. According to the head of the party, this document is needed against the background of increasing risks that these categories of citizens […]
Posted: April 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Boris Vishnevsky proposes to grant a rent waiver to entrepreneurs and NGOs renting their premises from St. Petersburg until the end of the quarantine
Press Release, 10.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, submitted to the city parliament a bill envisaging a rent waiver on non-residential premises for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as non-profit organisations they rent from the city of St.Petersburg for the entire period of validity of […]
Posted: April 10th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Boris Vishnevsky: Hand out masks, not St. George ribbons*!
Boris Vishnevsky blog post, 6.04.2020 * St. George ribbons in Russia are considered to be a symbol of the USSR victory in the Second World War. The Russian government, instead of allocating funds for the purchase of the necessary number of personal protection equipment (masks, respirators, gloves, protective suits and so on), which are lacking […]
Posted: April 9th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky requested information from St.Petersburg officials about the situation with personal protection equipment in the city, as well as interaction with manufacturers
Press Release, 6.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent a request to Oleg Ergashev, Vice Governor of St.Petersburg city, as well as Kirill Soloveichik, head of the Committee on Industry and Trade.
Posted: April 9th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko calls on the Governor to ensure compliance with the sanitary-epidemiological measures at the industrial enterprises of the region
Press Release, 7.04.2020 The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko called on Alexei Teksler, Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, to ensure compliance with the sanitary-epidemiological measures by the collectives of industrial enterprises the region is rich with. Yabloko activists note that key industrial enterprises of the Chelyabinsk region resume or continue their work, but their employees do […]
Posted: April 9th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies.
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Yabloko invited governors to redirect funds allocated to campaign for Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution to healthcare
Press Release, 7.04.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the heads of several Russian regions. He called for redirection of funds allocated to the regional budgets for campaigning on the all-Russian voting on constitutional amendments to the needs of healthcare and aid to citizens in a difficult situation.
Posted: April 8th, 2020 under Activities, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Governance, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Anna Cherepanova called on the Governor of the Novgorod region to take urgent anti-crisis measures to help people
Appeal by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, 6.04.2020 Photo: Anna Cherepanova Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Duma of Veliky Novgorod, sent an appeal to Governor Andrei Nikitin to immediately take anti-crisis measures and provide aid to people and businesses.
Posted: April 7th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Yabloko Bureau: 10 per cent of Russia’s GDP should be allocated for direct financial support of citizens and the private businesses
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 3.04.2020 The situation in Russia has been rapidly changing for the worse. The number of people affected by COVID-19 infection has been growing every day. In most regions, bans and restrictions have been imposed on the work of enterprises and organisations in public catering, trade, tourism, culture, sports, entertainment and […]
Posted: April 6th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko launched a web-site on measures to support citizens and businesses affected by the COVID-19 epidemic
Press Release, 2.04.2020 The web-site will generate proposals on measures to support those affected by the quarantine measures and the economic crisis. In addition, the website contains the proposals of the Yabloko party, as well as support measures voiced by federal and regional authorities.
Posted: April 2nd, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Where can Russia get the money?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.04.2020 The USA directs 9 per cent of its GDP to support people and the economy, the UK about 14 per cent and Germany over 20 per cent. Russia has so far allocated only 0.3 per cent of its GDP for medicine, aid to private businesses and the population. Where to get […]
Posted: April 1st, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko calls on the Governor to abolish fees for capital repairs of housing and reduce tariffs for utilities in the region
Press Release, 1.04.2020 The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko called on Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, to abolish fees for capital repairs of housing in the situation of quarantine for COVID-19 and compensate for 30 per cent of residents payments for utilities at the expense of the regional budget.
Posted: April 1st, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, Social Policies.
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Yabloko sends its emergency programme to combat COVID-19 pandemic to the Russian President, government and parliament
Press Release, 31.03.2020 Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov sent the authorities a programme of socio-economic and political measures developed by the party to overcome the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The document was sent to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, members of both houses of parliament, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, as well as to the […]
Posted: March 31st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko proposed a programme of urgent measures to support citizens and business people during the COVID-19 pandemic
Press Release, 28.03.2020 According to Yabloko, the Russian authorities should provide all possible support to citizens facing the threat of not only becoming infected with coronavirus, but also losing their means of subsistence, as well as private businesses. The party has developed a programme of urgent measures, consisting of 20 points of a socio-economic measures […]
Posted: March 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky sent to St.Petersburg Governor his proposals for helping citizens who suffer from COVID-19 quarantine
Press Release, 25.03.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Alexander Beglov, Governor of the city. Vishnevsky proposed a number of specific measures that will facilitate the life of St.Petersburg residents during quarantine caused by COVID-19.
Posted: March 25th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Social Policies.
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He lied again
Boris Vishnevsky’s commentary on Vladimir Putin’s statement that the middle class in Russia is 70% of the population Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 19.03.2020 While discussing the coronavirus and Putin’s decree on appointing, despite everything, of a “nationwide vote” on amendments to the Constitution, in the evening I noticed something else, […]
Posted: March 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko rallied against overcharged fees for heating
Press Release, 3.03.2020 On 29 February, the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko took part in a rally of Ufa residents against unreasonably high prices for heating. Over 500 people took part in the action.
Posted: March 4th, 2020 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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The political situation in Russia at the beginning of 2020 and the need for real change
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 28.01.2020 The 2020 Presidential Address [to the Federal Assembly], amendments to the Constitution hastily introduced [by the government], and formation of a new government of the Russian Federation testify to the policies of the authorities that led the country into a dead end are maintained. The main thing […]
Posted: January 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy.
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Amendments to the Constitution have to be developed by those who will live here
Grigory Yalvinsky’s Facebook page, 22.01.2020 The breakdown of the Constitution proposed by the President and furnished with decorative procedures, is not only an already familiar manifestation of disrespect for the people, but also, above all, a manifestation of the political vector: towards not only preserving the current system, but making it even more authoritarian, closed […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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President makes a move to g1
Emilia Slabunova on the key amendment to the Constitution Novaya Gazeta, 22.01.2020 The most intriguing thing in the draft amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, introduced by the President to the State Duma, the most intriguing thing is the paragraph “g.1” proposed by him to Article 83, which defines the powers of the […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies.
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“There are no changes, there is a cementing of power”
Nikolai Rybakov on Radio Free Europe 17.01.2020 On January 16, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in the Facing the Event programme hosted by Yelena Rykovtseva. The guests of the studio – Sergey Obukhov, former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fishman, journalist from the Dozhd television channel, and […]
Posted: January 21st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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