Archive for 'Elections'
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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Yabloko candidates go on fighting for been registered in elections
Press Release, 24.07.2019 Candidates nominated by the Yabloko party are in the process of receiving registration for election campaigns at different levels throughout the country. Alexander Sorokin, Chairman of the regional branch of the party in the Tver region and environmentalist, will take part in the by-election to the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region […]
Posted: July 26th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko went to a rally against arbitrariness of the authorities in the elections in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 25.07.2017 Video: Boris Vishnevsky Over 3,000 people came out to protest against criminal arbitrariness of the authorities in banning opposition to run in the municipal and gubernatorial elections in St. Petersburg. The rally was organised with the support of the regional branch of the Yabloko party. Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction […]
Posted: July 26th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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“The composition of the Moscow City Duma be must be decided at the polling rather than the police station.”
Statement by Yabloko candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma, 25.07.2019 We are outraged by the transformation of the elections to the Moscow City Duma into a kind of special forces raid. The launch of a repressive machine demonstrates the inadequacy of the authorities, their fear of free and independent people.
Posted: July 26th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Open letter of the Yabloko party to the Central Electoral Commission
Open Letter, 25.07.2019 To the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation OPEN LETTER According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 18), the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen determine the meaning, content and application of laws, as well as the meaning of the activities of state and municipal bodies, including […]
Posted: July 25th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Police refused to investigate threats to Nikita Antonenko, Yabloko candidate to the Nizhny Novgorod Duma
Press Release, 17.07.2019 The police refused to initiate a criminal case on threats to Nikita Antonenko, activist of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko and candidate for deputy in the Nizhny Novgorod Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 24. According to law enforcement officers, they did not identify any real threat to Yabloko’s candidate.
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko candidates to conduct 14 election campaigns in 13 regions
Registration of candidates for elections goes on Press Release, 19.07.2019 Representatives of the Yabloko party will take part in 14 election campaigns of different levels in 13 regions of the Russian Federation. In many regions, registration of candidates has not ended yet. Many Yabloko candidates have not been registered in the elections or are facing […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, State Duma Elections.
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Yabloko’s Sergei Mitrokhin to head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova: The procedure of verification of signatures by electoral commissions is completely discredited. The only way out is to register all the candidates.
Press Release, 23.07.2019 Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko’s candidate to the Moscow City Duma for electoral district No 43 and member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, participated in the meeting of unregistered candidates to the Moscow parliament with Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission. Mitrokhin stated that the procedure of verification […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Yabloko appealed to the Moscow Electoral Commission on the refusal to register five candidates from the party in the elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 17.07.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and head of its election headquarters, sent five complaints to the Moscow Electoral Commission on the refusal of district electoral commissions to register Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections. Yesterday, district electoral commissions refused to register Andrei Babushkin (district No. 11), Anastasia […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko to rally against arbitrariness in the elections
Press Release, 23.07.2019 The St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party will take part in a rally against arbitrariness in the elections, which will be held in Lenin Square by the Finlandskiy Railway Station on 24 July at 19:00. Representatives of about 30 political parties, public movements and organisations of St. Petersburg plan to […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Ingush branch of Yabloko to participate in the municipal elections
Press Release, 23.07.2019 The conference of the Ingush regional branch of the Yabloko party nominated a list of candidates for deputies of the Karabulak City Council. On July 22, the Territorial Electoral Commission of the city of Karabulak certified the list of candidates for deputies of the City Council nominated by Yabloko.
Posted: July 23rd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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A rally of over 20,000 people demanded registration of representatives of Yabloko and other independent candidates at the Moscow parliamentary elections
Press Release, 20.07.2019 A rally organised with support of the Yabloko party and demanding the registration of all independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections was held in Moscow in Sakharov Prospect. Over 20,000 people took part in the action. Three of the five candidates from Yabloko, who were withdrawn from the elections, were […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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Candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma from Yabloko will give a briefing for journalists before submitting signatures to electoral commissions
Press Release, 5.07.2019 On Saturday, 6 July, Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma will hold a briefing on the progress of the subscription campaign and answer journalists’ questions in the central headquarters of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg. 2). The briefing starts at 11:00.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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The team of the Tula branch of Yabloko ready to run for the City Duma elections
Emilia Slabunova came to support the party’s candidates to the City Duma Press Release, 4.07.2019 The Tula branch of Yabloko nominated a list of candidates to run in the City Duma elections. It includes 20 candidates sharing democratic values. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova came to support the team of the regional branch.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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St.Petersburg electoral commissions refuse to register Yabloko candidates for municipal elections
Press Release, 4.07.2019 Electoral commissions of several municipal districts of St. Petersburg refused to register Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Boris Vishnevsky: I was not registered in the gubernatorial election, because I am dangerous for acting Governor Beglov
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 2.07.2019 Dear friends, I sincerely thank everyone who supported my participation in the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg. I have been travelling around 84 of the 111 municipalities for three weeks after my nomination by the Yabloko conference. In each of them, I handed my personal letter to each […]
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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Yabloko complained to the Central Electoral Commission and the Investigative Committee for the fraud during collection of voters’ signatures in support of nomination of acting Governor of St.Petersburg Alexander Beglov
Press Release, 28.06.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova sent a complaint to the Central Electoral Commission about fraud in collecting signatures in support of acting Governor of St.Petersburg Alexander Beglov, who intents to run as candidate for Governor of St. Petersburg in the forthcoming election. Slabunova also asked the Investigative Committee to conduct an inspection of […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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Yabloko Chairperson demands to bring to criminal responsibility those involved in the non-admission of opposition candidates for elections in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 30.06.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova demanded that law enforcement agencies initiate a criminal case under article 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the fact of obstructing the exercise of electoral rights of candidates for deputies of the St. Petersburg municipality Yekateringofsky, and immediately release candidate from Yabloko Fyodor Gorozhanko, […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko nominated 547 candidates to run for deputies in 85 municipal councils of St. Petersburg, and nomination goes on
Press Release, 26.06.2019 The Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated 547 candidates for deputies of municipal councils in 85 of the city’s total 109 municipalities. The final number of candidates will be even larger, since the election headquarters still receive applications from potential candidates.
Posted: June 29th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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Nikolai Rybakov: Yabloko will help to collect signatures to all independent democratic candidates so that could register in the election race
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 27.06.2019 On the threashold of the Moscow City Duma elections, many again began to discuss the everlasting topic of the Russian politics – the “inability of the opposition to unite” and the intra-specific struggle of democrats hindering the common cause. In my opinion, there is no point to grieve about this: […]
Posted: June 28th, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.
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