Archive for 'Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly'
On the position of Yabloko in the September elections in St. Petersburg
Statement by the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko, 5.09.2024 Photo from Wikimedia Commons The current election campaign in Russia’s regions of Russia is taking place in the context of continuous toughening of restrictions on citizens’ rights, political censorship in the media, blocking of information on the Internet, persecution of those who disagree with […]
Posted: September 5th, 2024 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg adopted the “Vishnevsky Amendment” to the electoral law envisaging that doppelgangers of candidates must indicate their previous names and surnames if they chanced these a year prior to elections
Press Release, 6.04.2023 Photo: Photo of a poster with information about the candidates for the elections of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg showing Boris Vishnevky (right) and his doppelgangers On Wednesday, 5 April, the Parliament of St. Petersburg adopted amendments to the city legislation on elections. From now on the “doppelgangers” of candidates must […]
Posted: April 7th, 2023 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Candidates-spoilers bearing the same family names are put forward against Yabloko candidates in the forthcoming Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 22.07.2022 Photo by Yevgeny Pavlenko / Kommersant Candidates-spoilers bearing the same family names or names sounding nearly identical have been put forward against at least eleven Yabloko candidates for Moscow municipal elections. Seven doppelgängers bear the same family names as Yabloko candidates and four have surnames sounding very close to the surnames of […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in 2021 are dishonest!
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 7.10.2021 Photo: the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Yabloko thanks the voters who voted for our [candidates] list and our candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. We appreciate your stance very much and we are certain that Yabloko received many more votes than […]
Posted: October 13th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko filed about 150 lawsuits challenging the election results in certain precincts
Press Release, 1.10.2021 Photo by Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant The regional branch of the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg has filed about 150 administrative lawsuits in courts challenging the results of voting at polling stations where the most flagrant violations of electoral legislation were recorded during the elections of deputies to the city’s Legislative Assembly […]
Posted: October 4th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko retained its factions in the regional parliaments of St. Petersburg, Karelia and the Pskov region and increased its representation in the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 21.09.2021 Photo: Top row: Boris Vishnevsky, Alexander Shishlov, Emilia Slabunova. Bottom row: Inna Boluchevskaya, Artur Gaiduk, Vladimir Ryzhkov Deputies from the Yabloko party will continue to work in the regional parliaments of St. Petersburg, Karelia and the Pskov region. Vladimir Ryzhkov will become the fifth deputy from Yabloko in the Moscow City Duma. […]
Posted: September 21st, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov and Maxim Kruglov told about election violations at the briefing
Press Release, 19.09.2021 Yabloko records all types of violations during voting in the elections to the State Duma, said the leader of the party Nikolai Rybakov, speaking at a briefing. “Carousels [when same people vote several times at different precincts], stuffing of ballots, people who died indicated as voters in the voter lists, observers are […]
Posted: September 20th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko candidates participate in 56 election campaigns in 27 regions
Press Release, 13.09.2021 This year, in addition to the State Duma elections, Yabloko candidates are participating in 56 election campaigns at the regional and municipal levels in 27 regions of the Russian Federation. 975 candidates from Yabloko were registered: 654 on party lists, and 321 in single-mandate constituencies. Many of the Yabloko candidates were not […]
Posted: September 14th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A parade of clones turns into a new side show
Statement by the Yabloko party, 11.09.2021 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky (right) and two other “Boris Vishnevskys” In the evening of 9 September, the student magazine Doxa published a journalistic investigation “St.Petersburg State University is looking for students so that to “falsify the elections a little” in favour of the candidate from United Russia and the head […]
Posted: September 13th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputy Chairman of the territorial electoral commission from the United Russia party interferes with campaigning of Dmitry Khorzov, Yabloko candidate for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 1.09.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Ivan Efimov, Deputy Chairman of Territorial Electoral Commission No. 27 from the ruling United Russia party, called the police to volunteer of the campaign of Dmitry Khorzov, Yabloko candidate for the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, and virtually broke up the campaigning. According to Efimov, the […]
Posted: September 1st, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Territorial Electoral Commission No. 18 finally, after two refusals, registered Yabloko’s Ksenia Mikhailova in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Press Release, 31.08.2021 Photo: a screenshot by the Yabloko Press Service Territorial Electoral Commission No. 18 finally registered Yabloko’s Ksenia Mikhailova in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. The electoral commission had to register Mikhailova after two refusals: 11 members of the commission out of 12 present voted for the registration. Soon […]
Posted: September 1st, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A candidate from the New People party tried to remove Yabloko’s Nikolai Gromov from the elections to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly via a lawsuit
Press Release, 30.08.2021 Photo: Nikolai Gromov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Konstantin Aleksandrov, a candidate for deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly from the New People party in constituency No. 11 (Vyborgsky District), tried to remove his opponent, Yabloko’s candidate Nikolai Gromov, from the elections. The attempt was unsuccessful. The judge dismissed […]
Posted: August 31st, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Another Yabloko candidate may be removed from the State Duma elections for “extremism” – this time, on the denunciation of a deputy from the Communist party
Press Release, 29.08.2021 Photo: Galina Filchenko / Photo: Galina Filchenko’s Facebook page Galina Filchenko, a candidate for the State Duma from the Yabloko party, may be removed from the State Duma elections for “extremism” – this time, on the denunciation of a deputy from the Communist party. Ivan Utrobin, a deputy of the Kemerovo City […]
Posted: August 31st, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The City Court of St. Petersburg ordered the electoral commission to accept the documents from Yabloko’s Ksenia Mikhailova for her registration in the elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 24.08.2021 Photo: Ksenia Mikhailova / Photo from the personal archive of Ksenia Mikhailova The St. Petersburg City Court ordered Territorial Electoral Commission No. 18 to accept documents from Yabloko’s Ksenia Mikhailova and once again consider the issue of her registration as a candidate for the election of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of […]
Posted: August 26th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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After a decision of the St.Petersburg Electoral Commission, Territorial Electoral Commission No 30 of St.Petersburg had to register Boris Vishnevsky for the election to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly in a single-mandate constituency.
Press Release, 10.08.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Eleven members of the electoral commission voted for registration, and one abstained. The territorial electoral commission did not have any new complaints about the documents submitted for the registration by Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party. Today the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission overturned the […]
Posted: August 11th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Territorial Electoral Commission No.30 of St.Petersburg refused to register Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky for the election to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly in a single-mandate constituency
Press Release, 4.08.2021 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by Olga Gryaznova Territorial Electoral Commission No.30 of St.Petersburg refused to register Boris Vishnevsky, Yabloko Deputy Chairman and head of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, for the election to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly in a single-mandate constituency
Posted: August 5th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The authorities are trying to prevent three Yabloko candidates from running in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Press Release, 4.08.202 Photo by Konstantin Lenkov, Zaks.ru On 3 August, Yabloko candidates Nikolai Gromov (electoral district No. 11 – Vyborgsky District, St.Petersburg) and Ilya Siyalov (electoral district No. 8 – Krasnogvardeisky District, St.Petersburg) were denied registration in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, and the electoral commission refused to take documents […]
Posted: August 5th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg Electoral Commission voted unanimously for registration of the Yabloko list of candidates for the election to the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg
Press Release, 30.07.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 30 July, the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission voted unanimously for registration of the Yabloko list of candidates for the election to the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg. The list consists of 46 candidates.
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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