Archive for 'Elections'
Leaders of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko vouched for Vladislav Barabanov
Press Release, 27.08.2019 Photo: Vladislav Barabanov, photo by Vlad Dokshin, Novaya Gazeta The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko collects personal guarantees to change the measure of restraint to Vladislav Barabanov charged under the “Moscow riots” case.
Posted: September 3rd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow Regional Court removed three candidates from Yabloko to the City Council election in Sergiev Posad
Press Release, 29.08.2019 The Moscow Regional Court overturned the decision of the City Court of Sergiev Posad and withdrew Nikita Smirnov and Boris Fadeyev, Yabloko candidates, from the City Council elections. The court also dismissed the appeal of another candidate Igor Bolshakov, who had previously been removed from the election by the city court.
Posted: September 3rd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Emilia Slabunova visited Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, to support Yabloko candidates in the election to the Assembly of City Representatives
Press Release, 29.08.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova arrived in Vladikavkaz, capital of North Ossetia-Alania, on a two-day visit so that to support Yabloko candidates in the election to the Assembly of City Representatives.
Posted: September 3rd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko leaders will meet with visitors of the Moscow Book Fair
Press Release, 2.09.2019 The stand of the Yabloko party (R-6) will function at the Moscow International Book Fair which will be held in Pavilion No. 75 of VDNKh exhibition (Exhibition of Economic Achievements) from September 4 through to September 8.
Posted: September 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Gender Faction, History, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections.
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Emilia Slabunova will visit Novgorod to support party candidates in elections
Press Release, 3.09.2019 On 3 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will visit Novgorod, north-west Russia, to support party candidates in elections of different levels that will be held in the region.
Posted: September 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Nikolai Rybakov met with voters and Yabloko candidates in Chelyabinsk Elections will be held in Chelyabinsk region on 8 September
Press Release, 1.09.2019 On Saturday, August 31, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, met with Yabloko candidates for deputies to the Council of Chelyabinsk Districts and local residents. The politician visited the socio-political exhibition, which annually takes place in the park named after Yuri Gagarin. A meeting of voters with candidates for deputies […]
Posted: September 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Tatarstan branch of Yabloko held an action under the slogan “I Want Changes”
Based on Idel.Realii publication, 15.08.2019 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin On 15 August, activists of the Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party held an action “I Want Changes” in the centrer of Kazan. Yabloko members and supporters conducted a series of one-person pickets that do not require a permission from the authorities. The action was timed to the […]
Posted: August 16th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky prepared a bill on “deanonymisation” of law enforcement officers
Press release, 16.08.2019 After violent beatings of peaceful protesters in Moscow by masked police officers, Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, proposed to “deanonimise” law enforcement officers by placing their individual numbers on uniforms and helmets of police and the Russian Guard officers during public events that […]
Posted: August 16th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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The Moscow City Court will consider the appeal against the arrest of Valery Kostenok on 21 August
Press Release, 15.08.2019 The Moscow City Court will consider an appeal against the preventive measure for Valery Kostenok, activist of the Yabloko party, on Wednesday, 21 August, at 12:30. The hearing will take place in the room No. 225.
Posted: August 15th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky stood surety in court for Kostantin Kotov accused of “repeated violations of the order of holding mass events”
Press Release, 14.08.2019 Photo: Konstantin Kotov Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Party’s Federal Political Committee, came to the Presnensky District Court of Moscow to personally vouch for the civil activist Konstantin Kotov, who is accused of “repeated violations of the order of holding public events” under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code envisaging up […]
Posted: August 15th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “I have not seen any “mass-scale riots” in the streets of Moscow”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s blog post, 9.08.2019 Twelve people have already been arrested on the so-called “mass-scale riots case”. They want to ruin the lives of these young people for general intimidation. I was at all the rallies and processions of recent weeks, including 27 July. I did not see any “mass-scale riots” in the streets of […]
Posted: August 15th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko took part in the All-Russian Campaign for Fair Elections and Against Arbitrariness of the Authorities in several regions
Press Release, 12.08.2019 Regional branches of the Yabloko party took part in the All-Russian Campaign for Fair Elections and Against Arbitrariness of the Authorities held on 10 August. Party members attended rallies and pickets in Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Irkutsk and other cities.
Posted: August 14th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko asks Public Prosecutor General and Commissioners for Human Rights of Russia and Moscow to check the lawfulness of opening of criminal cases on Moscow protests
Press Release, 14.08.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, asked Public Prosecutor General to check the lawfulness of the criminal case on the mass riots and the use of violence against representatives of the authorities after the protests in Moscow, as well as the lawfulness of the detention of the persons involved in the […]
Posted: August 14th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko’s Valery Kostenok is a defendant in a trumped-up case of “mass riots”
Press Release, 14.08.2019 Photo: Karina Gradusova / Yabloko Press Service 20-year-old Valery Kostenok is a third-year student at Kosygin’s Russian State University, Faculty of Standardization and Metrology. He came to Yablopko in 2017. Valery participated in municipal elections, worked in the presidential campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky in 2018, and was a volunteer in the election […]
Posted: August 14th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow City Court overturned the decision of the district electoral commission not to register Sergei Mitrokhin as candidate to the Moscow City Duma election
Press Release, 13.08.2019 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin at the mass rally for fair elections in Sakharov Prospect, August 10, 2019. “The Moscow City Court made a decision that upheld Mitrokhin’s administrative claim, overruled the decision of the district electoral commission not to register him as a candidate, and ordered the district electoral commission for elections to […]
Posted: August 13th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko’s Valery Kostenok enjailed for two months
Press Release, 12.08.2019 The Moscow Basmanny Court sent Valery Kostenok to a pre-trial detention centre for two months, despite the fact that the public prosecutor’s office requested that he is placed under home arrest. Yabloko activist became the 14th defendant in the “mass riots” case in Moscow on July 27.
Posted: August 13th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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“The protest must turn into political one.” 50,000 people went to a rally for fair elections and against arbitrariness
Press Release, 10.08.2019 Nearly 50,000 people took part in a rally for fair elections and against arbitrariness, which took place in Sakharov Prospect in Moscow on 10 August. Three municipal deputies from Yabloko – Yelena Rusakova, Andrei Morev and Yelena Filina were members of the organising committee of the action.
Posted: August 12th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Valery Kostenok pleaded not guilty of “mass-scale riots”
Press Release, 11.08.2019 Yabloko’s Valery Kostenok is charged with “mass-scale riots” (Article 212 Part 2 of the Criminal Code). Tomorrow, on 12 August 12 the Basmanny Court will determine a preventive measure for him. Kostenok will spend this night in the detention center.
Posted: August 12th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The Investigative Committee conducted a search in the home of Yabloko member Valery Kostenok
Press Release, 11.08.2019 According to Valery Kostenok, Yabloko member, eight people rang at the door of the apartment where he lives and presented themselves as the Investigative Committee. They said that they have a search warrant and asked to open, otherwise, they promised to break the door.
Posted: August 12th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky called on Governor of St.Petersburg not to transfer the House of Radio under hotel, restaurants and Teodor Currentzis’s orchestra
Press Release, 9.08.2019 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, urged Alexander Beglov, interim Governor of St. Petersburg, to immediately intervene in the situation with the resettlement of the residents of the House of Radio and preserve the historical intended purpose of the building.
Posted: August 9th, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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