Archive for 'Economy'
Grigory Yavlinsky: We must fight against mafia, then pensions will be decent and there will be no robbery
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 27.09.2018 Many say that they will fight against the new pension law [envisaging substantial raising the retirement age]. It is quite understandable. But even if something will be achieved, as for example, retirement for women not eight, but five years later [as compared to all these years], then tomorrow it [people’s […]
Posted: September 28th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly deputy Boris Vishnevsky on the pension reform
Boris Vishnevsly’s blog post, 26.09.2018 The State Duma passed Putin’s amendments to Putin’s initiative on raising the regiment age. The federal TV channels will no go out of their way to prise the President’s kindness. In reality this “kindness” is worth nothing. The retirement age for women will be raised from the current age of […]
Posted: September 27th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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“Raise pensions rather than the retirement age!” Yabloko protests against pension reform in 14 cities of Russia
Press release, 24.09.2018 On 22-23 September, rallies against the the government’s plan to raise the retirement age took place across Russia. Yabloko activists participated in protest actions in Sochi, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Barnaul, Murmansk, Chita, Penza, Bryansk, Lipetsk, Smolensk, Oryel and Stavropol.
Posted: September 24th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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On-line seminar on the openness and transparency of the representative bodies of local self-government to take place in Yabloko
Press Release, 21.09.2018 An on-line seminar for deputies of local self-government bodies and civil activists will be held in Yabloko’s Moscow office on Wednesday, September 26, at 19:00 (Moscow time). The organiser is the Centre for New Municipal Policies.
Posted: September 24th, 2018 under Housing and Utilities Reform.
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St.Petersburg city administration prepares to commit a criminal offense
Statement, 14.09.2018 The St. Petersburg city administration is trying to disrupt a legitimate rally of the united opposition against raising the retirement age scheduled on 16 September, 2018.
Posted: September 18th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Lev Shlosberg: This government will do everything at the expense of people
Press release, 5.09.2018 On 2 September, a rally against raising the retirement age took place in Pskov. Chair of the regional Yabloko branch and deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg delivered a speech at the rally.
Posted: September 7th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Barnaul protests against raising the retirement age
Press release, 3.09.2018 On September 2, the Altai Krai branch of Yabloko participated in a rally against the pension reform initiated by the government. Over 1,500 people took to the streets.
Posted: September 6th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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First Hundred Days of the President
by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.09.2018 What Vladimir Putin has accomplished for the three months after the inauguration and what the President should have done in the first hundred days to pull the country out of crisis and isolation Putin did not have a presidential programme: neither economic nor political, no programme at all. […]
Posted: September 5th, 2018 under Economy, Human Rights, Presidential elections 2018.
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Yabloko joins all-Russia protests against raising the retirement age
Press release, 2.09.2018 Yabloko activists participated in protest actions against raising the retirement age in 14 cities of Russia. Chair of the party Emilia Slabunova made a speech at the rally in Omsk while Yabloko’s Political Committee member Sergei Mitrokhin delivered his address in Moscow.
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Emilia Slabunova on the pension reform
01.09.2018 Dear friends! The 20,000 rubles [approx. 250 euros] rate of pension by 2024 which the President promised in his latest address is a shame! It is really hard to survive on 20,000 rubles a month even now not to mention what will be in 6 years time. https://www.facebook.com/EmiliaSlabunova/videos/1955130144785394/
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko insists on eliminating third and second shifts in schools: Russia’s revenues from oil and gas allow to do it
Press Release, 29.08.2018 Yabloko party Chairperson Emilia Slabunova sent a letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko and State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin on the need to direct additional oil and gas revenues to the elimination of third and second shifts in Russian schools.
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Economy, Education and Science.
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Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova to speak at a rally in Omsk against raising the retirement age
Press Release, 30.08.2018 On Sunday, 2 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will come to Omsk to address the rally against raising the retirement age. The Omsk branch of Yabloko is a co-organiser of the rally. Yabloko’s Tatyana Nagibina will be the anchor at the rally. The rally will take place at the address […]
Posted: August 31st, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Sanctions and Prospects
The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018 Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, […]
Posted: August 29th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will take part in the all-Russian action against the pension reform on 2 September
Press Release, 28.08.2018 On Sunday, 2 September, the Yabloko party will take part in the all-Russian action against the government’s plans to raise the retirement age. Representatives of the Yabloko party are members of the organising committee of the action. The geography and format of the actions is as follows (more details will be […]
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age on 2 September
Press Release, 20.08.2018 On Friday, 17 August, Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma in the forthcoming by-election to the Russian parliament, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age in Nizhny Novgorod on 2 September. The rally is planed on 2 September. Co-organisers of the action […]
Posted: August 27th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko picketed the State Duma during the parliamentary hearings on the pension reform
Press Release, 21.08.2018 On 21 August, a series of single-person pickets against raising the retirement age were held by the State Duma. The picketing was timed to parliamentary hearings on the pension reform. Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko and Chairman of the Moscow Rescue Committee, participated […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko picketed against the government’s pension reform by Prime Minister Medvedev’s office in Novosibirsk
Press Release, 03.08.2018 On 3 August, the Novosibirsk branch of the Yabloko party, together with the representatives of the libertarian movement, held a picket at the public reception of the ruling United Russia party. Deputies of this party voted for adoption in the first reading of the law on raising the retirement age.
Posted: August 10th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko will take part in the second wave of actions against raising the retirement age
Rallies and demonstrations will be held in Moscow and Russia’s regions on 2 September Press Release, 08.08.2018 The second wave of actions against government’s plans to raise the retirement age will begin on 2 September. The Confederation of Labour of Russia coordinating part of the protests reports that actions against the government’s reform took place […]
Posted: August 8th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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“They want to do their dirty business in silence, but we will not remain silent”
Rallies against the pension reform were held in Moscow and Russia’s regions Press Release, 30.07.2018 Rallies against raising the retirement age were held in many regions of Russia past weekend. The Yabloko party participated in the organisation of the events. In Moscow, the action in Sakharov Prospect gathered about 6,000 people. Anastasia Bryukhanova, 24-year-old municipal […]
Posted: August 7th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko offered Vladimir Putin to cancel visas to Russia not only for football fans
Visas should be cancelled also for tourists from OECD, EU and BRICS countries Press Release, 20.07.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, offered Vladimir Putin to cancel visas to Russia not only for football fans, but also for residents of countries that give Russia the largest number of tourists. According to Yabloko, visas for tourists from OECD, […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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