Archive for 'Elections'
Yabloko to host a public lecture by Sergei Shklyudov “The Experience of Electronic Voting in Estonia: Myths and Reality”
Press Release, 20.06.2025 Electronic voting is an extremely controversial tool. It has many supporters and many opponents. Some countries have tried to introduce electronic voting in their elections, but then inevitably returned to paper. Today, only the experience of Estonia is virtually the only example of the successful introduction of electronic voting into the electoral […]
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections.
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Chelyabinsk Yabloko launches the campaign of collection of signatures in favour of registration of Yaboko candidates in the regional parliamentary elections and asks its members and supporters for help
Press Release, 19.06.2025 The Chelyabinsk regional electoral commission has registered the list of Yabloko candidates for the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the region. Now all candidates must collect 3,000 signatures from voters in their constituency to get on the ballot. Yabloko’s signature campaign has already started and will conclude on 11 July.
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly submitted a bill to abolish the discriminatory ban on participation in elections for “foreign agents”
Press Release, 18.06.2025 Photo: Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg / Photo by the St.Petersburg parliament Press Service The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly has prepared and submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament a draft federal law on restoring passive electoral rights for Russian citizens included in the “foreign agents” registry. According to the […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Chelyabinsk Yabloko nominated candidates for the Chelyabinsk Region Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 16 June 2025 Yabloko proposes that South Urals residents support candidates in single-mandate constituencies participating in the elections to the Chelyabinsk Region Legislative Assembly under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. To participate in the elections, each Yabloko candidate needs to collect more than 2,500 signatures from district residents. […]
Posted: June 17th, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova warned against abuse of the “municipal filter” in the Novgorod Region gubernatorial elections
Press Release, 16 June 2025 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Novgorod regional branch of Yabloko On 14 September, early elections for the head of the region will take place in the Novgorod Region. Anna Cherepanova, Chairwoman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party and candidate in the gubernatorial elections in 2017 and […]
Posted: June 17th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Woman is a human being, not a demographic unit: the Yabloko faction in St.Petersburg parliament spoke against the ban on “incitement to abortion”
Press Release, 11.06.2025 On 11 June, the Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg adopted at third reading a law introducing administrative liability for “incitement to abortion”. This definition could encompass everything from personal conversation to medical consultation. The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg parliament is categorically against this repressive measure.
Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Elections, Gender Faction, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Novgorod Yabloko calls its supporters to participate in the local elections together with the Yabloko team
Press Release, 3.06.2025 Photo: The Novgorod Yabloko team / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko In September, elections will be held to the Dumas of 15 districts of the Novgorod region: Borovichskaya, Valdaiskaya, Volotovskaya, Lyubytinskaya, Malovisherskaya, Marevskaya, Novgorodskaya, Okulovskaya, Parfinskaya, Poddorskaya, Soletskaya, Starorusskaya, Khvoyninskaya, Chudovskaya, and Shimskaya. Novgorod Yabloko calls on its supporters to […]
Posted: June 4th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pskov Yabloko is forming a team of candidates for municipal and city elections
Press Release, 3.06.2025 In September, elections will be held to the district assemblies of Velikoluksky, Gdovsky, Dedovichsky, Kuninsky, Novosokolnichesky, Ostrovsky, Palkinsky, Pskovsky, Pustoshkinsky, Pushkinogorsky and Sebezhsky districts, as well as by-elections for a deputy of the Pskov City Duma in single-mandate district No. 3. Pskov Yabloko is forming a team of candidates and invites its […]
Posted: June 4th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A search was conducted at the home of Roman Morozov, a member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko and lawyer for political prisoner Igor Baryshnikov
Press Release, 29.05.2025 Photo: Roman Morozov / Photo by the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko The so-called “inspection of the premises” in Roman Morozov’s apartment was conducted by decision of the Chairman of the Regional Court. The ruling, which Morozov was given to read, stated that he was a “partner” of lawyer Maria Bontsler. According to […]
Posted: May 29th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court left the leader of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention for another two months
Press Release, 29.05.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Soviet Court of Ryazan left the journalist and Chairman of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention for another two months. Smirnov has been in custody for four months, since 31 January. He does not admit his guilt in the case of “extortion”. Smirnov’s […]
Posted: May 29th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky and other Yabloko leaders stand surety for imprisoned Konstantin Smirnov
Internet media VidSboku, 20.05.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The sureties to the Soviet District Court of Ryazan with a request to change the preventive measure for Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko, deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Dubrovichi rural settlement of the Ryazan […]
Posted: May 23rd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to the head of the Central Electoral Commission with Grigory Melkonyants’ final statement in court
Press Release, 21.05.2025 Photo: Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, and Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of Golos independent election observers movement, at a roundtable on organising election observation as part of the All-Russian Civil Forum, 25 November, 2017 / Photo by Golos Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of […]
Posted: May 23rd, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Voronezh Yabloko will participate in the elections to the Voronezh City Duma and asks its members and supporters for help
Press Release, 21.05.2025 Photo by Wikimedia Commons On 14 September, elections to the Voronezh City Duma will be held in Voronezh. The regional branch of the Yabloko party intends to participate in these elections. Yabloko is already preparing a democratic list of candidates who will present a real alternative in the city parliament.
Posted: May 21st, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko calls on its members and supporters to become a Yabloko candidate for peace and freedom in the Ivanovo region in September municipal elections
Press Release, 19.05.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press service The regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Ivanovo region is preparing to participate in election campaigns of different levels and invites candidates and volunteers to cooperate. Municipal elections in the Ivanovo region will be held in almost all cities and districts of the region. […]
Posted: May 19th, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Melkonyants sentenced to five years in prison in the “undesirable” organisation case. Commentaries by Yabloko leaders
Press Release, 14.05.2025 Photo: Grigory Melkonyants in the Basmanny Court, Moscow, at one of the hearings / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 14 May, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced electoral expert Grigory Melkonyants, Сo-Сhairman of the Golos independent election observers movement, to five years of imprisonment under the article on the activities […]
Posted: May 14th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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The Electoral Commission refused to register initiative groups for a local referendum in the Pskov District
Press Release, 1.05.2025 Photo by Wikimedia Commons This is already the fifth refusal to register initiative groups that residents of the Pskov Region have received from the regional Electoral Commission. Previously, residents of the Gdovsky, Sebezhsky, Ostrovsky and Pushkinogorsky Districts declared their legal right to determine the structure of local government in a referendum. The […]
Posted: May 6th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod District Duma rejects residents’ initiative to hold a local referendum
Press Release, 1.05.2025 Photo: The Novgorod District Duma meeting / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko Residents of the Novgorod District of the Novgorod Region proposed to restore, with the help of referendum, liquidated and preserve existing administrations in large settlements, establish the number of deputies at 40 people for broader representation and feedback, […]
Posted: May 6th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov Region Electoral Commission denies the right of residents of Sebezhsky and Pushkinogorsky districts to determine the method of electing districts heads in referendums
Press Release, 29.04.2025 Photo: The emblem of the Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region The Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region refused to register referendum initiative groups in Sebezhsky and Pushkinogorsky Districts considering that direct elections of the head of the municipality do not comply with regional legislation.
Posted: April 29th, 2025 under Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko ready to defend medical workers coerced into joining the pro-government United Russia party through administrative pressure
Press Release, 28.04.2025 Photo: A memo handed to the medical workers how to fill in an application form to become member of United Russia and where to bring the application Several employees of medical institutions in St.Petersburg have approached deputies from the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly. Medical workers reported being forced to […]
Posted: April 28th, 2025 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Sergei Mitrokhin held a meeting-lecture on the organisation of civil society in counteracting the merger of business and government
Press Release, 22.04.2025 Can citizens safely and effectively resist the oligarchic system while protecting their rights? Sergei Mitrokhin’s answer is “yes, they can”. Sergei Mitrokhin, the second Chairman of Yabloko, a deputy of the State Duma of three convocations and a deputy of the Moscow City Duma of two convocations, spoke at a meeting in […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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