Archive for 'Moscow City Duma Elections 2019'
Grigory Yavlinsky: Without Violence and Deceit
Statement, 2.08.2019 The situation has been escalating on the threashold of possible protest actions in Moscow. The authorities are intimidating people: dozens of criminal cases return us to the period of reprisals after Bolotnaya Square [rallies in Moscow]. On the other hand, those calling on young people to take to the streets and relying on […]
Posted: August 5th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Six activists of electoral headquarters of Yevgeny Bunimovich were detained during a street campaign
Press Release, 2,08.2019 Today, at 18:10, police detained three campaigners from the team of Yevgeny Bunimovich, registered Yabloko candidate for elections to the Moscow City Duma. The campaigners were detained near the Vodny Stadion metro station when they were handing out leaflets calling to vote for Bunimovich in the constituency No. 6 (Golovinsky, Khovrino and […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Unregistered Yabloko candidate to the Moscow City Duma submitted an application for a rally on 10 August
Press Release, 31.07.2019 Yelena Rusakova, unregistered Yabloko candidate to the Moscow City Duma in the electoral district No. 37, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for a rally on 10 August. Rusakova asks for permission to march from Strastnoy Boulevard to Academician Sakharov Prospect or conduct a rally Sakharov Prspect, or Volkhonka street […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The eight demands. What the opposition should strive to achieve
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, 29.07.2019 Open lawlessness and insolent violation of the rights and freedoms of citizens in Moscow have become more widespread in recent days and weeks: beatings of people by police and military, arrests, searches in the middle of the night, and deliberate […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yevgeny Bunimovich, Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Moscow, demanded to check lawfulness of detention of minors at the protest action of 27 July
Press Release, 30.07.2019 Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich, Grigory Yavlinsky and Valery Borschyov Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow and registered candidate for the election to the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party, appealed to Oleg Baranov, head of the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, and Oleg Manakov, acting […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Leaders and activists of Yabloko participated in the action by the Mayor’s Office in Moscow. Information about detained protesters
Press Release, 27.07.2019 Members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky, Valery Borschyov, Boris Misnik, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Sergei Mitrokhin participate in the a meeting of candidates to the Moscow City Duma with voters by the Moscow Mayor’s Office.
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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More than 10,000 people signed a petition demanding an immediate convening of an emergency meeting of the Moscow City Duma after the dispersal of the Saturday protest action
Press Release, 29.07.2019 On Saturday 27 June, after the mass arrest of participants of the action in support of unregistered candidates for the elections to the Moscow City Duma, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, published a petition on the change.org platform.
Posted: July 30th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Putin’s system humiliates people, but no one is going to accept it
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.07.2019 Yesterday they beat and detained Russian citizens in Moscow, those who dared to defend their rights, speak out against humiliation and disrespect, express their outrage and protest against the perversion of the meaning of the elections in a peaceful and completely civil manner.
Posted: July 29th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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“The composition of the Moscow City Duma be must be decided at the polling rather than the police station.”
Statement by Yabloko candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma, 25.07.2019 We are outraged by the transformation of the elections to the Moscow City Duma into a kind of special forces raid. The launch of a repressive machine demonstrates the inadequacy of the authorities, their fear of free and independent people.
Posted: July 26th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Open letter of the Yabloko party to the Central Electoral Commission
Open Letter, 25.07.2019 To the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation OPEN LETTER According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 18), the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen determine the meaning, content and application of laws, as well as the meaning of the activities of state and municipal bodies, including […]
Posted: July 25th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko candidates to conduct 14 election campaigns in 13 regions
Registration of candidates for elections goes on Press Release, 19.07.2019 Representatives of the Yabloko party will take part in 14 election campaigns of different levels in 13 regions of the Russian Federation. In many regions, registration of candidates has not ended yet. Many Yabloko candidates have not been registered in the elections or are facing […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, State Duma Elections.
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Yabloko’s Sergei Mitrokhin to head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova: The procedure of verification of signatures by electoral commissions is completely discredited. The only way out is to register all the candidates.
Press Release, 23.07.2019 Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko’s candidate to the Moscow City Duma for electoral district No 43 and member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, participated in the meeting of unregistered candidates to the Moscow parliament with Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission. Mitrokhin stated that the procedure of verification […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko appealed to the Moscow Electoral Commission on the refusal to register five candidates from the party in the elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 17.07.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and head of its election headquarters, sent five complaints to the Moscow Electoral Commission on the refusal of district electoral commissions to register Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections. Yesterday, district electoral commissions refused to register Andrei Babushkin (district No. 11), Anastasia […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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A rally of over 20,000 people demanded registration of representatives of Yabloko and other independent candidates at the Moscow parliamentary elections
Press Release, 20.07.2019 A rally organised with support of the Yabloko party and demanding the registration of all independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections was held in Moscow in Sakharov Prospect. Over 20,000 people took part in the action. Three of the five candidates from Yabloko, who were withdrawn from the elections, were […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma from Yabloko will give a briefing for journalists before submitting signatures to electoral commissions
Press Release, 5.07.2019 On Saturday, 6 July, Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma will hold a briefing on the progress of the subscription campaign and answer journalists’ questions in the central headquarters of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg. 2). The briefing starts at 11:00.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Nikolai Rybakov: Yabloko will help to collect signatures to all independent democratic candidates so that could register in the election race
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 27.06.2019 On the threashold of the Moscow City Duma elections, many again began to discuss the everlasting topic of the Russian politics – the “inability of the opposition to unite” and the intra-specific struggle of democrats hindering the common cause. In my opinion, there is no point to grieve about this: […]
Posted: June 28th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko submitted documents to the Moscow Electoral Commission on nomination of party’s candidates to run in the Moscow parliamentary election
Press Release, 10.06.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, and Valery Goryachev, Executive Secretary of the Party Bureau, submitted documents to the Moscow Electoral Commission on nomination of party’s candidates to run in the elections to the Moscow City Duma.
Posted: June 19th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to meet with new Yabloko members in Moscow
Press Release, 4.06.2019 On Thursday, 6 June, Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky will meet with new Yabloko members in the Moscow office of Yabloko. The meeting will be held as part of the #MakeYourVoiceLouder campaign. The Yabloko party has been conducting this campaign since February 2019. Over the past months, thousands of people have joined Yabloko […]
Posted: June 5th, 2019 under Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Remote electronic voting provide more opportunities for fraud
Yabloko Bureau statement, 30.05.2019 Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law “On conducting an experiment on the organisation and implementation of remote electronic voting at the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma of the seventh convocation”. The proposed system of remote electronic voting is a “black box”, which does not allow for […]
Posted: May 31st, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Nikolai Rybakov on the government’s experiment at the forthcoming Moscow City Duma elections: “Electronic voting will worsen the situation with people’s confidence in the elections”
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 29.04.2019 Today, the Moscow City Duma adopted in first reading a draft law on electronic voting at the elections of Moscow deputies. We are categorically opposed to the introduction [of the law], because it will only worsen the situation with people’s confidence in the elections.
Posted: April 29th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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