Archive for 'Elections'
Discussion of amendments to the Moscow budget will take place in Moscow streets this summer
Press Release, 10.06.2021 Photo: Maxim Kruglov at a meeting with residents of the Alekseyevsky district. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, as well as party candidates for the State Duma, will hold a series of street meetings with Muscovites to find out what amendments […]
Posted: June 10th, 2021 under Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court ruled out that the refusal to give a permission to single pickets of Yabloko activists in Kaliningrad was unlawful
Press Release, 7.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the Central District Court of Kaliningrad The Central District Court of Kaliningrad declared unlawful the refusal of the administration of the city district to permit single pickets of the local branch of Yabloko, which were planned to be held near the entrances to the buildings of […]
Posted: June 7th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: This is a law against the list of Yabloko candidates
Facebook page by Nikolai Rybakov, 4.06.2021 Photo by Natalia Seliverstova /RIA Novosti Today Vladimir Putin has signed a law prohibiting citizens associated with “extremist” organisations from being elected as deputies. The content of this law is absurd in the best traditions of the adoption of insane laws by the State Duma, and allows absolutely any […]
Posted: June 7th, 2021 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Boris Vishnevsky: This is not a Davos. This is a “vanity fair” for domestic use
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 4.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the President of Russia/ http://www.kremlin.ru The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is a depressing sight. Not only because there are many respectable men in expensive suits, traveling in expensive cars in the centre of the city (I saw myself […]
Posted: June 4th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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“The authorities are striving to destroy the very possibility to legally engage in politics in the country”
Press Release, 1.06.2021 Photo: Dmitry Gudkov at the Yabloko congress. /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko leaders expressed solidarity with Dmitry Gudkov, Andrei Pivovarov and other opposition figures whose houses are being searched today. NIKOLAI RYBAKOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE YABLOKO PARTY: – On the eve of the elections to the State Duma, the […]
Posted: June 1st, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The court ruled out that the refusal of the authorities to give a permission for Yabloko’s campaign cubes in Saratov was unlawful
Press Release, 28.05.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Volzhsky District Court of Saratov declared unlawful the refusal of the authorities to give a permission for Yabloko’s campaign cubes in Saratov and ordered the city administration to review the Yabloko notifications of installation of the cubes again. Earlier, the Saratov administration had not permitted […]
Posted: May 31st, 2021 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko has made a decision on its candidates for the State Duma elections in primaries
Press Release, 27.05.2021 Photo: The results of primaries if the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko/Infographics by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko On 26 May, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko summed up the results of the primaries. The winners of the primaries will be recommended by the regional branch to the Yabloko party Congress for nomination as […]
Posted: May 28th, 2021 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Hijacking of a foreign plane with the aim of kidnapping one’s opponents is an outrageous international crime
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 27.05.2021 Photo: Alexei Alexandrov / RIA Novosti On 23 May, 2021, an act of state terrorism was committed in Belarus. On the direct order by Alexander Lukashenko, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was landed in Minsk with the help of deceit (false information about […]
Posted: May 27th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko members Viktor Shalyakin and Vitaly Bovar, detained at the municipal deputies congress, received fines
Press Release, 25.05.2021 Photo: Vitaly Bovar (right) / Photo from Vitaly Bavar’s Facebook page Late in the evening of 24 May, the Novgorod District Court imposed fines on Viktor Shalyakin, the Chairman of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, and Vitaly Bovar, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the St. Petersburg municipality Vladimirsky […]
Posted: May 26th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “I demand to stop police pressure on the leaders of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and release all the detainees”.
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 24.05.2021 Photo from the Anna Cherepanova Facebook page On Saturday, 22 May, the authorities of Novgorod (North-West Russia) carried out another police action targeted at the intimidation of civil society. The unlawful dispersal of the congress of municipal deputies from different Russian cities (Zemsky Congress) and the detention of its […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Police came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko. The police plans to bring the Chair of the regional party office to administrative responsibility
Press Release, 24.05.2021 Photo: Ksenia Sverdlova / Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko Police officers came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko. The police said that they were looking for the Chair of the regional branch of the party, Ksenia Sverdlova, so that to bring her to […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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For the first time Yabloko received over 10% in the elections to the Saratov Regional Duma
Press Release, 18.05.2021 Photo: Campaign leaflet by Ksenia Sverdlova By-elections to the regional parliament of the Saratov region took place past week-end. Yabloko’s candidates ran in three of the four vacant single-mandate constituencies. Ksenia Sverdlova, Chair of the regional department of Yabloko, ran in the Volzhsky district, Ilya Kozlyakov, Deputy Chairman of the party branch, […]
Posted: May 18th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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After Emilia Slabunova applied to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, thousands of Petrozavodsk parents received compensation for the kindergarten
Press Release, 11.05.2021 Photo by Paha_L/depositphotos Parents of children in the Prionezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia and Petrozavodsk have been finally paid in full the parental compensation for raising a child in kindergarten (for missed days) which is due to them according to the law. This is stated in the response of the […]
Posted: May 11th, 2021 under Healthcare, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University will hold a lecture on electoral law and the electoral process by Ilya Shablinsky
Press Release, 11.05.2021 Photo: Ilya Shablinsky / Photo from Ilya Shablinsky’s personal Facebook page On Thursday, May 20, the Yabloko Party University will hold a zoom lecture by lawyer Ilya Shablinsky. The topic of the lecture is “The electoral law and the electoral process. History and Law “. The lecture will begin at 19:00. The […]
Posted: May 11th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections.
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Yevgeny Bunimovich: “The Ministry of Education prohibits educational activities! It is like in George Orwell’s books! “
Press Release, 29.04.2021 Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich Yevgeny Bunimovich, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Education and a member of the Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, called the ameded law on educational activities represents a manifestation of censorship. The law will come into force on 1 June and will seriously limit […]
Posted: April 29th, 2021 under Education and Science, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded from the head of the Central Electoral Commission to ensure the right to public campaigning events for the candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary elections
Press Release, 28.04.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, demanding to ensure the right of candidates to hold campaigning public events in connection with the upcoming elections of deputies to the State Duma.
Posted: April 28th, 2021 under Elections, Healthcare, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan participated in the formation of a joint headquarters for independent observation of elections in the region
Press Release, 27.04.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan The Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and the Association of Tatarstan Observers signed a memorandum on the creation of a joint regional headquarters of election observers during the Forum of Kazan Opposition Forces, which took place in Kazan on 24 April. They […]
Posted: April 28th, 2021 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court dismissed the lawsuit initiated by the police and aimed at prosecution of Anna Cherepanova for her post on the Vkontakte social network
Press Release, 27.04.2021 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko The Novgorod District Court terminated the administrative case against Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and deputy of the Duma of Novgorod, due to the lack of an administrative offense. The police intended to […]
Posted: April 27th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia called on the government to stop calculating the costs of restoration works according to the standards adopted in the 1980s
Press Release, 26.04.2021 Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova and Ivan Gusev turned to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin with a proposal to make the necessary decisions to revise the coefficients for changing the costs of repair and restoration works performed at cultural heritage sites (historical and cultural […]
Posted: April 26th, 2021 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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President Putin did not give a single answer to Russians’ pressing questions. Yabloko Bureau on the President’s message to the Federal Assembly
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 22.04.2021 The Bureau of the Yabloko party notes that the presidential address of Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly did not contain a single answer to the most pressing issues for [Russian] citizens (such as drop of incomes, price rise and stagnation of the economy), neither did it contain a […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Politics, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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