Archive for 'Elections'
The police came to the leaders of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko because of the participation of the regional branch in a permitted picket for fair elections
Press Release, 8.08.2019 The police came home to Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, and Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the party branch. Police officers also came to other political and civil activists in Nizhny Novgorod. The police gave them warnings about participating in an unpermitted rally in Nizhny Novgorod on […]
Posted: August 9th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Central Electoral Commission finally removed Yabloko’s Yelena Rusakova from elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 7.08.2019 The Central Electoral Commission finally removed Yelena Rusakova, candidate from the Yabloko party, from elections to the Moscow City Duma.
Posted: August 8th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Mitrokhin to appeal to court the refusal to register him as candidate for deputy of the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 7.08.2019 Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, will appeal in court against the refusal to register him as candidate in the Moscow City Duma election. He will not appeal to the Moscow City Electoral Commission again, because he assumes that the Moscow City Electoral Commission “will do […]
Posted: August 7th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The court refused to remove Yabloko candidates from the election to the Vologda City Duma
Press Release, 5.08.2019 The Vologda City Court refused to satisfy the demands of the representatives of the LDPR party, who tried to annul registration of four out of twelve candidates from Yabloko to the Vologda City Duma. Claims of the same type were submitted to court against Yabloko candidates Dmitry Tarasov, Lyubov Kryksu, Alexei Nikitin […]
Posted: August 6th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Central Electoral Commission finally withdrew Yabloko’s Andrei Babushkin from the Moscow City Duma election.
Babuskin will challenge the law on signatures in the Constitutional Court. Press Release, 6.08.2019 The Central Electoral Commission rejected the complaint of Andrei Babushkin, candidate nominated by Yabloko to run for the Moscow City Duma election. Earlier, the Moscow City Electoral Commission supported the decision of the district electoral commission, removing Babushkin from the election […]
Posted: August 6th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Two of the three candidates from Yabloko are registered at the by-elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod
Press Release, 5.08.2019 The electoral commissions of Nizhny Novgorod registered Yabloko’s Yevgeny Dolgopolov and Nikita Antonenko as candidates for deputies of the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. Svetlana Falkonskaya was denied registration due to insufficient number of valid voter signatures.
Posted: August 6th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, State Duma Elections.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Without Violence and Deceit
Statement, 2.08.2019 The situation has been escalating on the threashold of possible protest actions in Moscow. The authorities are intimidating people: dozens of criminal cases return us to the period of reprisals after Bolotnaya Square [rallies in Moscow]. On the other hand, those calling on young people to take to the streets and relying on […]
Posted: August 5th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Six activists of electoral headquarters of Yevgeny Bunimovich were detained during a street campaign
Press Release, 2,08.2019 Today, at 18:10, police detained three campaigners from the team of Yevgeny Bunimovich, registered Yabloko candidate for elections to the Moscow City Duma. The campaigners were detained near the Vodny Stadion metro station when they were handing out leaflets calling to vote for Bunimovich in the constituency No. 6 (Golovinsky, Khovrino and […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko offers its support to candidates for municipal deputies nominated by other political parties and self-nominated candidates
Press Release, 2.08.2019 Such decision was adopted by the Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko. The principles for supporting non-Yabloko candidates are as follows:
Posted: August 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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Candidates from the Tula branch Yabloko collected 8,922 voters’ signatures to participate in the elections to the Regional Duma and the City Duma
Press Release, 1.08.2019 The Tula branch of Yabloko has collected the signatures required for registration of party candidates in the September elections to the city and regional parliaments. 6,529 residents of the region signed up for the participation of the Yabloko party in the elections to the Tula Regional Duma, 140 collectors of signatures conducted […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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St.Petersburg electoral commissions registered 370 Yabloko candidates for municipal elections.
The party appeals refusals to register another 191 candidates Press Release, 1.08.2019 Picture: registration of candidates as of St.Petserburg distrcits, the share of registered candidates is marked in green, the share of unregistered candidates is marked in red. 370 candidates for St. Petersburg municipal deputies nominated by Yabloko managed to get registration in the elections. […]
Posted: August 1st, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Territorial Electoral Commission of Karabulak rejected voters’ signatures in support of Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies elections in Ingushetia
Press Release, 1.08.2019 The working group of the territorial electoral commission of the city of Karabulak rejected 14 of the 84 signatures of citizens that the regional branch of the Yabloko party submitted to the electoral commission to take part in the elections to the City Council. After verification, the party candidates had less than […]
Posted: August 1st, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Unregistered Yabloko candidate to the Moscow City Duma submitted an application for a rally on 10 August
Press Release, 31.07.2019 Yelena Rusakova, unregistered Yabloko candidate to the Moscow City Duma in the electoral district No. 37, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for a rally on 10 August. Rusakova asks for permission to march from Strastnoy Boulevard to Academician Sakharov Prospect or conduct a rally Sakharov Prspect, or Volkhonka street […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The eight demands. What the opposition should strive to achieve
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, 29.07.2019 Open lawlessness and insolent violation of the rights and freedoms of citizens in Moscow have become more widespread in recent days and weeks: beatings of people by police and military, arrests, searches in the middle of the night, and deliberate […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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We regard the refusal to register Vera Afanasyeva as an attempt to return to the practices of gross election fraud
Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 29.07.2019 Photo: Alexander Yermishin and Vera Afanasyeva On 28 July, 2019, the Kirovsky District Court of the City of Saratov dismissed the claim of Vera Afanasyeva, candidate from the Yabloko party, to district electoral commission No. 10 for the refusal to register her as a candidate for the by-election to […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yevgeny Bunimovich, Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Moscow, demanded to check lawfulness of detention of minors at the protest action of 27 July
Press Release, 30.07.2019 Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich, Grigory Yavlinsky and Valery Borschyov Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow and registered candidate for the election to the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party, appealed to Oleg Baranov, head of the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, and Oleg Manakov, acting […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The Ingush branch of Yabloko successfully collected voters’ signatures in support of the nomination of Yabloko candidates for the Karabulak City Council
Press Release, 29.07.2019 Photo: Ruslan Mutsolgov and Yabloko activists Candidates for deputies to the City Council of Karabulak, nominated by the Ingush regional branch of the Yabloko party, submitted to the electoral commission the documents and voters’ signatures collected in support of their nomination and required for registration. The territorial electoral commission of Karabulak will have […]
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Leaders and activists of Yabloko participated in the action by the Mayor’s Office in Moscow. Information about detained protesters
Press Release, 27.07.2019 Members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky, Valery Borschyov, Boris Misnik, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Sergei Mitrokhin participate in the a meeting of candidates to the Moscow City Duma with voters by the Moscow Mayor’s Office.
Posted: July 31st, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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More than 10,000 people signed a petition demanding an immediate convening of an emergency meeting of the Moscow City Duma after the dispersal of the Saturday protest action
Press Release, 29.07.2019 On Saturday 27 June, after the mass arrest of participants of the action in support of unregistered candidates for the elections to the Moscow City Duma, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, published a petition on the change.org platform.
Posted: July 30th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Putin’s system humiliates people, but no one is going to accept it
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.07.2019 Yesterday they beat and detained Russian citizens in Moscow, those who dared to defend their rights, speak out against humiliation and disrespect, express their outrage and protest against the perversion of the meaning of the elections in a peaceful and completely civil manner.
Posted: July 29th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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