Archive for 'Elections'
Alexander Shishlov proposed to the government to remove anti-coronavirus restrictions on crossing the Russian border
Press Release, 28.06.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Russian citizens continue to face travel restrictions at the vehicle checkpoints at the Russian border. The restrictions were established by the Russian government in March 2020 and have not yet been lifted, despite a sharp decrease in the morbidity and the abolition […]
Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will take part in three election campaigns
Press Release, 26.06.2022 Photo: members of the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party On 24 June, the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party held its conference. The conference made a decision on participation of candidates from the party in the elections that will be held in the region in September.
Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Human rights activist Nikolai Kavkazsky received ten days of arrest and lost his right to participate in the Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 25.06.2022 Photo: Nikolai Kazkazsky in the police station / Photo from social networks The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has appointed ten days of administrative arrest to Nikolai Kavkazsky, a member of the regional Council of the Moscow Yabloko and human rights activist.
Posted: June 28th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Moscow City Duma MP Sergei Mitrokhin fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies
Press Release, 2.06.2022 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, was fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies (Article 20.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The decision was made today by the Khamovniki Court of Moscow.
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocks the page of Boris Vishnevsky
More than 11.500 people have been following his page Press Release, 2.06.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocked the page of Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the party. The social network referred […]
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Constitutional Court to consider the legality of restricting participation in elections for “persons involved in extremist organisations”
Press Release, 2.06.2022 Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Nikolai Kuzmin / Photo from social networks Two complaints were filed with the Constitutional Court of Russia against the constitutionality of the norms of the Russian electoral legislation, which established restrictions on participation in elections for “persons involved in the activities of extremist organisations”.
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, will be tried for “arbitrariness” in protecting the interests of Moscow residents
Press Release, 1.06.2022 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin in the police station / Photo from social networks On 31 May, police detained Sergei Mitrokhin, a Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and an ex Chairman of Yabloko, during his meeting with residents of the Khamovniki […]
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko is forming a team for the municipal elections in the Altai Territory
Press Release, 30.05.2022 On 28 May, an expanded meeting of the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Yabloko branch in the Altai Territory was held. The Bureau discussed the political and socio-economic situation in the country and in the region and the tasks of the regional branch of Yabloko.
Posted: May 30th, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow City Duma did not support Yabloko’s amendments to the Electoral Code of Moscow
Press Release, 25.05.2022 Photo: The Moscow City Duma / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow City Duma did not support Yabloko’s amendments to the Moscow Electoral Code on the return of a mixed electoral system and the possibility to appoint election observers from public associations. Yabloko’s amendments to the Electoral Code of Moscow […]
Posted: May 27th, 2022 under Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The court decision to bring Viktor Shalyakin to administrative liability for “illegal campaigning” canceled
Press Release, 25.05.2022 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On May 24, Judge of the Novgorod District Court overturned the decision of the court of a lower instance to bring Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, to administrative liability for violating election campaigning rules […]
Posted: May 26th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly did not dare to consider the statement by the Yabloko faction on the protection of freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”
Press Release, 25.05.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The pro-government majority of St.Petersburg parliament excluded from the agenda of the plenary session Yabloko’s draft statement on the protection of citizens’ rights to freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”: 37 parliamentarians voted for the […]
Posted: May 26th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky: The sooner there is peace, the less there will be wounded and dead, the less there will be tragedies and losses
Press Release, 25.05.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, made a speech in the St. Petersburg parliament on the issue of amending the regional Social Code on the provision of social support and payments […]
Posted: May 25th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva will be launched on 31 May
Press Release, 20.05.2022 A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind. How and Why Russia Failed to Become a Law-Governed State” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva will be launched in the Moscow office of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg. 2) on Tuesday, 31 May, at 18:00.
Posted: May 20th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office of St.Petersburg established that a propaganda video with scenes of violence had been shown to fourth grade pupils at School No. 321
Press Release, 11.05.2022 Photo by wikimapia.org An inspection conducted by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of St.Petersburg and the district administration after an appeal by Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, established that violations of the law on information had taken place in School No. 321. The inspectors […]
Posted: May 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction of the St.Petersburg parliament called on the head of the interior for St. Petersburg to conduct another check into non-admission of lawyers to those detained at peaceful actions
Press Release, 12.05.2022 Photo by Pyotr Ivanov Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, appealed to Roman Plugin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, with a request to conduct another check into the facts […]
Posted: May 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A communist MP of the State Duma will ask the Moscow Mayor to deprive Yabloko’s Sergei Mitrokhin of his Moscow MP mandate for criticising Russia’s military operation
Press Release, 6.05.2022 On 17 May, Nina Ostanina, a communist MP of the State Duma, plans to ask the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a special meeting of the State Duma dedicated to Moscow deputies who disagreed with the special operation, to deprive them of their deputies’ mandates. According to Ostanina, Sergei Mitorkhin, Yabloko MP […]
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction submitted to the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg a draft statement on the protection of the rights of citizens to freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”
Press Release, 5.05.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky, MPs of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, submitted to the St. Petersburg parliament a draft statement on the protection of citizens’ constitutional rights to freedom of information. Yabloko proposes […]
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the situation in Russia and the prospects of the Party
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No. 152, dated 15 April, 2022 Published on 21 April, 2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A great disaster on the scale of a national catastrophe, threatening the very existence of Russia, happened to our country. An authoritarian government acting according to Bolshevik models plunged Russia […]
Posted: April 26th, 2022 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Three administrative protocols at once drawn up against the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Novgorod
Press Release, 20.04.2022 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin /Photo from social networks On 20 April, Viktor Shalyakin, a member of the Regional Council of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko Party and the Chairman of the city branch of the party, got three protocols at once on an administrative offense. This was reported by Anna Cherepanova, the […]
Posted: April 21st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lyubov Zhiltsova, teacher and a deputy from Yabloko, will be tried in the Pskov region for a photo with a pacifist poster
Press Release, 20.04.2022 Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova / Photo by pskov.yabloko.ru On 25 February, Lyubov Zhiltsova, a deputy of the Palkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov Region from Yabloko, published on her personal page on the VKontakte socail network her photo with a sheet of paper with a slogan “No ** ***”. On 18 April, […]
Posted: April 21st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Views, Без рубрики.
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