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NO TO WAR!
Statement by the Yabloko party, 24.01.2022 Photo: A column of Yabloko party demonstrators during the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov, 24 February, 2019. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko resolutely condemns the militaristic hysteria whipped up by high-ranking Russian officials and propaganda, a demonstration of readiness to start a war. Never in […]
Posted: January 26th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Oleg Vinogradov expelled from the Yaroslavl branch of Yabloko for imposture and forgery
Press Release, 14.01.2022 Photo: Oleg Vinogradov / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party The Federal Bureau of Yabloko expelled from the party Oleg Vinogradov, former Chairman of the Yaroslavl regional branch of the party. The reason was his falsification of documents of the primary organisations of the branch, as well as imposture […]
Posted: January 15th, 2022 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko stands for voter representation and against political monopoly
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 14.01.2022 The Bureau of the Yabloko party believes that the campaign to abolish elections on a party list basis, which has unfolded in many cities and regions of Russia in recent years, represents an attempt by the bankrupt ruling party to maintain a political monopoly and secure their fabricated majority.
Posted: January 15th, 2022 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A criminal case on falsification in the elections of State Duma deputies filed on the application of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 13.01.2022 Photo by bizoon/depositphotos The Investigative Committee filed a criminal case on the fact of fraud in the elections of deputies of the State Duma in the Satkinsky District of the Chelyabinsk region. A voter applied to the headquarters of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko which was engaged in election observation and said […]
Posted: January 13th, 2022 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Teacher and educator Tatyana Pasman will become a deputy of the Pskov City Duma from Yabloko
Press Release, 10.01.2022 Photo: Tatyana Pasman / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko Such a decision was made by the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko in connection with the early termination of the powers by Dmitry Permyakov, a Yabloko deputy of the Pskov city […]
Posted: January 13th, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: “The responsibility for political emigration always lies on the authorities”
Press Release, 29.12.2021 Photo: Lev Shlosberg (left) and journalist Konstantin Kalichenko / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, spoke to the Ekho Moskvi in Pskov radio station about the reasons that force opposition-minded people to leave Russia, and named those […]
Posted: December 29th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Bureau expels party members who supported Yabloko competitors in the elections
Press Release, 29.12.2021 The Yabloko Party Federal Bureau, at its meeting on 28 December, expelled from the Moscow regional branch a number of party members who grossly violated the party by-laws.
Posted: December 29th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow City Duma unanimously adopted Yabloko’s bill guaranteeing a secondary education for children in pre-trial detention centres
Press Release, 15.12.2021 Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich / Photo by the Press Service of the Moscow City Duma The Moscow City Duma adopted a bill submitted by Yevgeny Bunimovich, a member of the Yabloko faction and Chairman of the Education Commission, according to which children under investigation and kept in pre-trial detention centres are guaranteed secondary […]
Posted: December 15th, 2021 under Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St.Petersburg parliament refused to consider Yabloko’s initiative to exclude the “foreign agent” concept from the Russian legislation
Press Release, 15.12.2021 Photo: Yabloko deputies Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg The pro-government parliamentary majority in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg excluded from the agenda of the plenary session the legislative initiative of the Yabloko faction envisaging abolishing of the “foreign […]
Posted: December 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, asked the Russian Public Prosecutor General to withdraw the claim submitted to the Supreme Court to liquidate the Memorial human rights society
Press Release, 14.12.2021 Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo from Arthur Gaiduk’s Facebook page Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, considers the demands of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the Memorial human rights organisation unlawful and essentially unconstitutional, and calls on Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, to abolish the law suit against […]
Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko is from now on represented in each territorial electoral commission of the region
Press Release, 8.12.2021 Photo: Ekaterina Novikova, a new member of the territorial electoral commission of the city of Pskov from the Yabloko party The Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region approved all 22 candidates for commission members nominated by the regional branch of the Yabloko party; whereas 13 electoral commission members from Yabloko are appointed […]
Posted: December 9th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: the persecution of Alexander Korovainy is caused by political motives
Statement by the Yabloko Party Chairman, 8.12.2021 Photo: Alexander Korovainy / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, Alexander Korovainy, a Yabloko party member, was deprived of his deputy powers by the decision of the Council of Deputies of the Yeisk District of the Krasnodar Territory, on the basis of a letter from the head […]
Posted: December 8th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Ukraine and the four Duma parties of war”. Boris Vishnevsky on the hand out of the United Russia party cards to the heads of the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine
Blog post by Boris Vishnevsky, 6.12.2021 Photo by BerksiuS_Ukr / depositphotos The main event of the 20th congress of the [ruling] United Russia [party] is neither the re-election of [former Russian President and former PM] Dmitry Medvedev as Chairman of the party (but everyone understands that it is not he who is leading the party). […]
Posted: December 7th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Maxim Kruglov MP on urban policies
Press Release, 29.11.2021 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Press Service of the Moscow City Duma On Thursday, 2 December, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko party faction in the Moscow City Duma and candidate of political sciences. The topic of the lecture is “Urban […]
Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Constitutional Court upheld the application of Yabloko municipal deputies in St.Petersburg to in defending the principle of the change of power
Press Release, 26.11.2021 Photo: Yabloko municipal deputies of Liteiny District, St.Petersburg, and lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky (second from right) / Photo by Petersburg Yabloko The Constitutional Court of the RF upheld the complaint of Yabloko deputies in the St. Petersburg municipality of Liteiny District and called for a revision of the provision of the federal law […]
Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Elections, Governance, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s amendment exempts non-state universities in Moscow from property tax
This stimulates construction of new student dormitories Press Release, 24.11.2021 Photo: A student dormitory in Copenhagen / Photo by BOOKYOURSTUDY.BY The Moscow City Duma adopted an amendment submitted by the Yabloko faction envisaging exemption of non-state universities from an organization property tax. This measure will affect non-state universities with state accreditation that have student dormitories […]
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Education and Science, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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The court ruled out that Ruslan Zinatullin, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan, was involved in the “extremist organisation”
Press Release, 23.11.2021 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Press Service of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko The Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan which had recognised Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, involved in the activities of Alexei Navalny’s […]
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly introduced a legislative initiative to exclude the concept of “foreign agent” from the legislation
Press Release, 23.11.2021 The legislative initiative of the Yabloko faction proposing to completely eliminate the concept of “foreign agent” from Russian legislation has undergone legal expertise in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. The draft was prepared by Lev Levinson, an expert of the Institute of Human Rights, at the request of the deputies of […]
Posted: November 24th, 2021 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Stop destruction of federalism and local self-government in Russia
Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 19.11.2021 Photo: The authors of the bill MP Pavel Krasheninnikov and Senator Andrei Klishas. / Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant The Yabloko party regards the Klishas-Krashennikov bill “On the general principles of organising public power in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” as the final elimination of federalism and […]
Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre asked the police to check the apartments seized by former State Duma deputies without permission
Press Release, 18.11.2021 Photo by Igor Ivanko / Kommersant The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party asked the Moscow police to check the apartments where former deputies of the State Duma have been living unlawfully a month after the end of their MP term. In addition, the transfer of 17 apartments for use to […]
Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, Politics, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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