Archive for 'Elections'
“That’s how you get to be hangmen – Just keep mum”*
Grigory Yavlinsky on why his article “No to Putinism and Populism” was published on time Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.02.2021 Photo: Moscow, January 31, 2021. Photo by RIA Novosti / Yevgeny Odinokov The article “No to Putinism and Populism. On the Implications of Current Politics” sparked a discussion. One of the most frequent objections is that the […]
Posted: February 16th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party Bureau supported Grigory Yavlinsky’s proposals stated in his article
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 11.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky/Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party adopted a statement supporting the theses outlined in the article “Without Putinism and Populism” by Grigory Yavlinsky and noted the relevance of this article. The statement was submitted to the Bureau for consideration […]
Posted: February 12th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: No to Putinism and Populism
On the implications of current politics Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.02.2021 Moscow, January 31, 2021 // © RIA NOVOSTI, Yevgeni Odinokov “If my people follows Gamsakhurdia, I will have to go against my people”. Merab Mamardashvili, 1989 Almost 10 years have passed since the protests of 2011. During this period we have witnessed different street […]
Posted: February 11th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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Protests and the tasks of the opposition
Statement by the Yabloko party, 29.01.2021 A new wave of political repression, targeted against a wide range of Russian citizens, the entire protesting civil society in Russia, has emerged. The public protest is caused by people’s fatigue and unacceptability for them of the twenty years of irreplaceable authoritarian rule by Vladimir Putin and the prospects […]
Posted: January 30th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Social Policies, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Lev Shlosberg: our political opponents vacated for us the niche of normal local print media
Press Release, 28.01.2021 Photo: Sofya Pugacheva, head of the Novorzhevsky District and Yabloko member The team of the Pskov branch of Yabloko has published the next issue of the newspaper Grazhdanin (Citizen) for the residents of the Novorzhevsky District. The paper was published on donations. This issue includes a large interview with Sofya Pugacheva, head […]
Posted: January 29th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko will challenge the change in the election system in Kaliningrad
Press Release, 28.01.2021 Photo: members of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko on a picket “Let us return the right to decide to the city residents!” The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko and two voters filed a law suit in the Kaliningrad Regional Court. The law suit contests the decision of the Council of Deputies of the […]
Posted: January 28th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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School directors may get advisors on moral building and disciplinary work. Emilia Slabunova comments on the government’s initiative
Based on the Uchitelskaya Gazeta publication, 19.01.2021 Emilia Slabunova. Photo by the Yabloko Press Service School directors in ten pilot Russian regions will get advisors on moral building and disciplinary work with a rate of pay amounting to 15,000 roubles. This was announced by Minister of Education of Russia Sergei Kravtsov during his meeting with […]
Posted: January 20th, 2021 under Education and Science, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The government of St. Petersburg does not rule out checking of financial statements of 19 United Russia party municipal deputies after Yabloko’s inquiry
Press Release, 13.01.2021 The government of St. Petersburg does not rule out that Alexander Beglov, Governor of the city, initiates an inspection of 19 out of 22 municipal deputies from the United Russia party, who did not declare their families’ property in their financial statements. This follows from the answer of Alexander Belsky, Vice Governor […]
Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Goncharenko: the Electoral Commission of the Altai Territory ousted representatives of opposition from territorial electoral commissions
Alexander Goncharenko’s blog post, 12.01.2021 Towards the end of the outgoing 2020 (on 28 December), a meeting of the Electoral Commission of the Altai Territory was held in a covert way, the meeting completed the formation of territorial electoral commissions (TECs) in the Altai Territory. A total of 74 TECs have been formed in the […]
Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The head of the Zaboryevskoye settlement falsified the decision on the raise of her salary
Yabloko deputy Anatoly Kivva, who exposed the fraud, appealed to the police Press Release, 12.01.2021 Photo: Anatoly Kivva, deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Zaboryevskoye rural settlement. The Ryazan branch of Yabloko. Irina Kopylova, head of the Zaboryevskoye rural settlement, falsified the decision of the Council of Deputies to increase her wage supplement. […]
Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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After Lev Shlosberg’s appeal Public Prosecutor declared unlawful the transfer of state property to the non-profit organisation Loft
Press Release, 11.01.2021 At the request of Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko MP of the Regional Assembly of the Pskov Region, the Public Prosecutor of the Pskov region checked the legality of the transfer of three buildings in the historical centre of Pskov, which belonged to the Pskov city hospital, to the ANO Youth Development Centre “Loft” […]
Posted: January 11th, 2021 under The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg about the Pskov region budget: We observe chronic budget deficiency
Press Release, 29.12.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, member of the conciliatory commission on the draft regional budget from the Yabloko faction, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Local Self-Government of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies Deputies of the regional parliament adopted the budget of the […]
Posted: December 30th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: We get an electoral system that looks like a black cat in a dark room
Press Release, 29.12.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Pskov parliamentarians adopted amendments to the Electoral Code of the Pskov Region. All parties, except for the ruling United Russia party, opposed multi-day voting in the elections, as well as voting in the yards and other similar changes, as they make […]
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We consider the activities of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region destructive and leading to the elimination of the principles of the political balance in the region
Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 29.12.2020 A year ago, at the end of 2019, there was a change in the leadership of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region. The electoral system of the region during this time fully demonstrated extremely negative consequences of personnel changes, blatant incompetence of the new leaders and […]
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Konstantin Smirnov: the votes of United Russia, A Just Russia and the Pensioners’ Party helped to allocate 20 million roubles to the wage increase for the aids of regional Duma deputies
Konstantin Smirnov’s blog post, 29.12.2020 On 24 December, the Ryazan Regional Duma, adopted by 32 votes out of 40 a decision to increase the wages for assistants of Duma deputies by more than two times – up to 60,000 roubles. This increase will require an additional 20 million roubles per year.
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? INSTITUTIONALISATION OF VALUES
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 6) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 28.12.2020 New manifestations of sociological, psychological and economic laws in global socio-political life have acquired absolutely unprecedented scales. Reality is determined more and more by the spread of the fourth industrial revolution to the socio-political sector. This concerns new generation information […]
Posted: December 28th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko began collecting signatures against the appropriation of municipal land by heads of a construction company in Alekanovo
Press Release, 25.12.2020 Konstantin Smirnov, deputy of the Dubrovsky Rural Settlement Council of Deputies, Chairman of Ryazan branch of Yabloko and Editor-in-Chief of vidsboku.com, began collecting signatures from residents against the impending decision to transfer a large plot of land to the heads of the Zeleny Sad construction company.
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The pro-Mayor’s majority in the Moscow City Duma thwarted the adoption of the law on parliamentary investigations
Press Release, 24.12.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov Yesterday, on December 23, the Moscow City Duma considered the bill on parliamentary investigations submitted by Maxim Kruglov, the leader of the Yabloko faction. According to the document, any facts of violation of the city laws, the rights of Moscow residents, non-fulfillment of the budget, manipulation with city property, […]
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Our economy is state capitalism. A group of people has all the income, and the people bears all the expenses
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 24.12.2020 The leader of the Yabloko party shared his views on the ending 2020. The leader of the Yabloko party has always had a special critical view of what was happening around him and had his own recipes how to fix it. He shared this special view of the outgoing 2020 in the […]
Posted: December 24th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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“The authorities are preparing to actively rig the elections”. Deputy Chairman of Yabloko on the new composition of Moscow territorial electoral commissions
FB page by Ivan Bolshakov, 19.12.2020 The Moscow City Electoral Commission has published the names of new members of territorial electoral commissions, which will also conduct elections to the State Duma [in 2021]. It is no secret that the formation of the commissions takes place under the control of the authorities, which send loyal people […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2014, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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