Archive for 'Russian Economy'
Lev Shlosberg about the Pskov region budget: We observe chronic budget deficiency
Press Release, 29.12.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, member of the conciliatory commission on the draft regional budget from the Yabloko faction, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Local Self-Government of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies Deputies of the regional parliament adopted the budget of the […]
Posted: December 30th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? INSTITUTIONALISATION OF VALUES
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 6) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 28.12.2020 New manifestations of sociological, psychological and economic laws in global socio-political life have acquired absolutely unprecedented scales. Reality is determined more and more by the spread of the fourth industrial revolution to the socio-political sector. This concerns new generation information […]
Posted: December 28th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko began collecting signatures against the appropriation of municipal land by heads of a construction company in Alekanovo
Press Release, 25.12.2020 Konstantin Smirnov, deputy of the Dubrovsky Rural Settlement Council of Deputies, Chairman of Ryazan branch of Yabloko and Editor-in-Chief of vidsboku.com, began collecting signatures from residents against the impending decision to transfer a large plot of land to the heads of the Zeleny Sad construction company.
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Members of Kalmykian branch of Yabloko picket against unjustified tax benefits for the companies Fortum and Rosnano
Press Release, 25.12.2020 Sanal Molotkov, a member of the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia, held a single picket [such pickets do not need any permissions from the authorities] against unjustified provision of tax benefits by the regional authorities to the Fortum and Rosnano companies. The action took place in front of the building of the government […]
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Our economy is state capitalism. A group of people has all the income, and the people bears all the expenses
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 24.12.2020 The leader of the Yabloko party shared his views on the ending 2020. The leader of the Yabloko party has always had a special critical view of what was happening around him and had his own recipes how to fix it. He shared this special view of the outgoing 2020 in the […]
Posted: December 24th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has published an investigation into luxurious gifts from the Chelyabinsk Governor
Press Release, 23.12.2020 Photo: a screenshot of the main page of the investigation The Chelyabinsk branch of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has found purchases of luxury goods for gifts from the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler. Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre asks the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Main Control Department to […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko calls the City Duma to decline the draft budget of Ryazan for 2021 due to its non-transparency and large administrative and faked expeditures
Press Release, 17.12.2020 The Ryazan branch of Yabloko calls deputies of the Ryzan City Duma to decline the draft budget of Ryazan for 2021 and the planning period of 2022-23 when considering the document on December 17. According to Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the regional branch of the party, there are at least three reasons […]
Posted: December 18th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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All amendments of the Pskov Yabloko deputies to the regional budget for 2021 are devoted to healthcare
Press Release, 11.12.2020 Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly 18 amendments and 25 proposals to the draft budget of the Pskov region for 2021. All the amendments are targeted at the increase of funding for health care. Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg […]
Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Residents of the village of Iset, with the support of the Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko, wrote to Prime Minister Mishustin with a demand to deal with overcharges for heating
Press Release, 10.12.2020 “We pay a lot of money for heating.” Such a statement was made by 400 residents of the Iset village of the Verkhnyaya Pyshma urban district. Residents sent an appeal to Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin demanding to deal with the overcharged tariffs for heating. The initiator of the appeal was […]
Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Economy, Housing and Utilities Reform, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Сhairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko plans to discuss issues of concern for Yabloko at a meeting of the regional Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 10.12.2020 Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to the Legislative Assembly of the region with a request to admit him to participate in the next meeting of the regional parliament on December 15. The regional branch of the party notes that according to the law on political […]
Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Russia has no objections to compensating for damage from corruption
The Russian Ministry of Justice responded positively to the proposal of Yabloko Press Release, 9.12.2020 Photo: Picture by Transparency International The Russian Ministry of Justice plans to agree with all the authorities Russia’s accession to the convention on civil liability for corruption. Such a response came from the Ministry to Yabloko’s proposal to guarantee everyone […]
Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Economy, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Moscow Mayor’s Office will take into account only one of 57 amendments submitted by municipal deputies to the Moscow budget via the Yabloko faction
Press Release, 9.12.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov, leader of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov, leader of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, submitted 57 proposals prepared by Moscow municipal deputies to the second reading of the Moscow budget for 2021. According to the present legislation, Moscow municipal deputies do […]
Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: the federal policies of interbudgetary relations remain repressive
Press Release, 27.11.2020 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly in the first reading adopted the draft regional budget for 2021 and for the planning period of 2022 and 2023 / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov region Administration Pskov parliamentarians considered in the first reading the draft budget of the region […]
Posted: November 28th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demanded from Prime Minister and Chairman of the Accounts Chamber to reconsider the allocation of funds to the aid to Syria
Press Release, 12.11.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin demanding to reconsider the allocation of budget funds for provision of financial aid to Syria. On Wednesday, 11 November, it became known that Russia allocated more than USD 1 billion for […]
Posted: November 12th, 2020 under Economy, Foreign policy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, War in Syria.
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Rybakov urged Putin to change environmental policy and allow NGOs to conduct environmental monitoring
Press Release, 14.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin a roadmap to change environmental policy against the backdrop of events in Kamchatka. The head of Yabloko proposes, among other things, creating a federal register of objects of accumulated environmental damage, instructing the government to amend the regulation plan in the field […]
Posted: October 16th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy.
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Russian regions: inequality of opportunities
Grigory Yavlinsky on the fact that well-being and career in Russia depend on the place of birth Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2020 It is well known that the well-being and career of a person in Russia directly depends on the region in which he/she was born and raised. Inequality and injustice begin in our country from […]
Posted: October 16th, 2020 under Economy, Federalism, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia.
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Pay for COVID!
Statement by the Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko Party, 5.10.2020 We support the All-Russian campaign of medical workers “Pay for COVID!”, who demand full and timely payment of incentive and insurance premiums to healthcare workers for their labour in the conditions of the coronavirus infection. Dozenss of thousands of medical and support personnel have […]
Posted: October 6th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Democratic faction, Social Policies.
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A multipolar impasse
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.09.2020 At the UN General Assembly, Vladimir Putin again spoke about a multipolar world. But a “multipolar world” means that one pole will have almost the whole world, the other will include China with North Korea, and on the third pole, apart from everyone else, Russia with Lukashenko, Novichok and missiles.
Posted: September 24th, 2020 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will host an online discussion on the progressive personal income tax
Press Release, 22.09.2020 On September 24, Yabloko will hold an online discussion on the progressive personal income tax: “On the inclusion of the requirement to introduce a progressive personal income tax into the party’s programme documents”. The discussion is organised by the Social Democratic faction of the Yabloko party.
Posted: September 22nd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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THE DAY AFTER
On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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