Archive for 'Elections'
Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky urged St.Petersburg authorities not to punish doctors for publicising the problems of the system to combat coronavirus
Press Release, 28.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Oleg Ergashev, Vice Governor of St.Petersburg. Vishnevsky asked Ergashev to take measures to prompt and daily publication of clear and precise statistics on hospitals treating patients with coronavirus, the […]
Posted: April 30th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Emilia Slabunova calls for resignation of the Karelian Ombudsperson for plagiarism in the report on the human rights situation in Karelia in 2019
Press Release, 29.04.2020 Emilia Slabunova, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, believes that Larissa Boychenko, Human Rights Ombudsperson in the Republic of Karelia, should be dismissed. Slabunova came to the conclusion about the incompetence of the Ombudsperson after reading the report of the […]
Posted: April 29th, 2020 under Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Lev Shlosberg considers the selective state support of small and medium-sized businesses a violation of the Constitution and federal law
Press Release, 23.04.2020 Photo by TASS: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction and leader of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, sent an appeal to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asking him to provide aid to all small and medium-sized businesses, regardless of the industry […]
Posted: April 24th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly.
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After Yabloko’s release of the video about the Tula Regional Duma spending budget money on expensive cars, regional MPs decided to allocate money to buying ambulances
Press Release, 23.04.2020 The Tula Regional Duma refuses large purchases of expensive cars for the regional parliaments and allocates these 5 million roubles for the purchase of ambulances. Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula Yabloko, noted that this happened exactly 24 hours after Yabloko’s publication of the video about the purchase by the Tula Regional […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky organised collection of aid for St. Petersburg doctors
Press Release, 23.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and leader of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, together with members of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, organised fundraising for the purchase of personal protective equipment for doctors working in St. Petersburg medical institutions.
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Emilia Slabunova: Additional financial aid to teachers will increase the effectiveness of distance learning
Based on Gubernia Daily, 16.04.2020 Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, member of the Yabloko party’s Federal Political Committee and Honored Teacher of Russia, criticised the education system for failing to organiae distance learning for pupils in self-isolation. The parliamentarian called on officials and deputies of the regional parliament to recognise the […]
Posted: April 16th, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia.
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Yabloko MPs of the Moscow City Duma demand from the Moscow authorities to proceed from the presumption of innocence of citizens and check digital passes introduced during COVID-19 epidemic selectively
Press Release, 15.04.2020 The Yabloko faction in Moscow City Duma appealed to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, in connection with large queues of passengers to enter metro stations and traffic jams at entrances to Moscow that emerged on April 15 after the introduction of digital […]
Posted: April 15th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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“Not border stones, but masks”. Yabloko: Moscow Mayor must change the priorities of city budget in favour of support to citizens
Press Release, 11.04.2020 The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma made a package of proposals to the Moscow government aimed at providing socio-economic support to residents of Moscow in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. The document proposes to redistribute the funds envisaged in the budget for 2020 from long-term infrastructure and entertainment projects to […]
Posted: April 15th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Boris Vishnevsky asked St.Petersburg Governor to give a clear definition of the term “self-isolation” in order to end the arbitrariness of law enforcement
Press Release, 14.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, asked St.Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov to give a clear definition of the term “self-isolation” in order to end the arbitrariness of law enforcement. The term is mentioned in the decree of the Government of St. Petersburg “On measures […]
Posted: April 14th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Boris Vishnevsky called on the police to provide social assistance to elderly residents of St.Petersburg sent to “self-isolation”
Press Release, 13.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, called on Roman Pugin, head of the St. Petersburg police, to consider the possibility of involving police officers in providing social assistance to elderly residents of St. Petersburg who are forcibly sent to “self-isolation” and are deprived of […]
Posted: April 13th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky proposes to grant a rent waiver to entrepreneurs and NGOs renting their premises from St. Petersburg until the end of the quarantine
Press Release, 10.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, submitted to the city parliament a bill envisaging a rent waiver on non-residential premises for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as non-profit organisations they rent from the city of St.Petersburg for the entire period of validity of […]
Posted: April 10th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Boris Vishnevsky: Hand out masks, not St. George ribbons*!
Boris Vishnevsky blog post, 6.04.2020 * St. George ribbons in Russia are considered to be a symbol of the USSR victory in the Second World War. The Russian government, instead of allocating funds for the purchase of the necessary number of personal protection equipment (masks, respirators, gloves, protective suits and so on), which are lacking […]
Posted: April 9th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky requested information from St.Petersburg officials about the situation with personal protection equipment in the city, as well as interaction with manufacturers
Press Release, 6.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent a request to Oleg Ergashev, Vice Governor of St.Petersburg city, as well as Kirill Soloveichik, head of the Committee on Industry and Trade.
Posted: April 9th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Democrats of the Altai Territory, Unite!
Statement by the Bureau of the Regional Council of Altai branch of Yabloko, 5.03.2020 Russia is experiencing a political crisis associated with an attempt to change the spirit and letter of the Constitution, growth of reprisals in the country, [all this] against the backdrop of ongoing foreign policy adventurism (in eastern Ukraine and Syria) and […]
Posted: March 5th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Grigory Yavlinsky, “I have bailed and am bailing for Konstantin Kotov. Freedom to all political prisoners!”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 2.03.2020 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky holding a placard “Freedom to Kotov!” The court of cassation has overturned the sentence to Konstantin Kotov [political prisoner of the Moscow “riots” case], the case was sent for revision, and Kotov was sent to a pre-trial detention centre for two months. Kotov did not commit any […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Без рубрики.
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A quarter of the deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly supported Yabloko’s amendment to the Russian Constitution
Press Release, 28.02.2020 The Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies have considered four bills on amendments to the Constitution of Russia. Parliamentary representatives from the Yabloko faction Lev Shlosberg and Arthur Gaiduk made a proposal to the Regional Assembly to put forward such legislative initiatives to the State Duma of Russia. The voted of the Regional […]
Posted: February 28th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly.
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One hundred years of lawlessness: is Putin legitimate?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 18.02.2020 Konstantin Aranovsky, Judge of the Constitutional Court, called the USSR an illegitimate state, and the Soviet state bodies “illegal party-state power bodies”, which cannot be regarded as “legal predecessors of constitutional state power”. This is an accurate and true definition.
Posted: February 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk for the second time submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly a package of bills on the need to government to respect the people
Press Release, 3.02.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk Yabloko MPs of the Pskov Regional Assembly Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk for the second time submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly a package of bills on the need to government to respect the people. Yabloko’s bills represent a direct political and legal response to […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Без рубрики.
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The political situation in Russia at the beginning of 2020 and the need for real change
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 28.01.2020 The 2020 Presidential Address [to the Federal Assembly], amendments to the Constitution hastily introduced [by the government], and formation of a new government of the Russian Federation testify to the policies of the authorities that led the country into a dead end are maintained. The main thing […]
Posted: January 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy.
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The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma proposes to give the Moscow parliament the right to approve appointment of top Moscow officials
Press Release, 27.01.2020 The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma proposes that the Moscow parliament should have the right to approve appointment and dismissal by the Mayor of top Moscow officials such as Vice Mayors, ministers of the city government, districts heads, heads of local administrations, while the same candidacy cannot be submitted for […]
Posted: January 28th, 2020 under Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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