Archive for 'Elections'
Police searched the office of the Moscow branch of Yabloko for extremist literature
Press Release, 27.03.2019 The police withdrew samples of campaign materials from the office of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya 28, Moscow) and intends to check them for extremism.
Posted: March 28th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Presidential elections 2018, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov on in the persecution of the Moscow branch of Yabloko
FB post by Nikolai Rybakov, 27.03.2019 Today, we have two news related to the prosecution of our party. I will start with the good one: The criminal case against Lev Shlosberg [MP of the Pskov Region parliament and head of the Yabloko branch in Pskov] and the Pskov Yabloko was closed due to the absence […]
Posted: March 27th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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A rally “Free Elections for St. Petersburg!” took place in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 25.03.2019 A mass rally “Free Elections for St. Petersburg!” was held in St. Petersburg on 24 March. The rally was timed to the 30th anniversary of the first free elections to the Supreme Soviet [parliament] of the USSR. Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky was a co-anchor of the rally. About 800 people – members and […]
Posted: March 26th, 2019 under Elections, Без рубрики.
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Live Without Fear
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.03.2019 In the twentieth year of Putin’s rule, an understanding of freedom in Russia was reduced to the discussion of punishment for posts and likes on the Internet. But what is real freedom? This is primarily life without fear: – when people are not afraid of the police, the National Guard (Rosgvardia) […]
Posted: March 25th, 2019 under Elections, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The first court hearings on the lawsuit of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko to the City Duma on challenging decisions replacing the mayoral election took place.
Press Release, 22.03.2019 The first hearings on the lawsuit of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko to the City Duma were held in the Chelyabinsk Regional Court. The regional branch of the party asks the court to invalidate the decisions of the City Duma approving the regulations on the procedure for holding a competition to select […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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An Unreal Victory and a Real Defeat
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.03.2018 A year has passed since the presidential election. Many then were saying that the voting itself did not matter, that the result was predetermined, that there were more important things… As a result, a year ago Vladimir Putin received a mandate to change nothing in the country, to keep everything as […]
Posted: March 22nd, 2019 under Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
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Come to the rally “Free Elections for St.Petersburg!”
Press Release, 19.03.2019 On Sunday, 24 March, a rally “Free Elections for St.Petersburg!” will be held. The rally is marking the 30th anniversary of the first free elections to the Supreme Soviet [parliament] of the USSR. 30 years ago, on 26 March, 1989, the first for the entire Soviet history free elections of deputies were […]
Posted: March 19th, 2019 under Elections, History, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Nikolay Rybakov: The Alexander Korovainy case is another episode of the authoirties’ struggle against people who want to change the life in the country for the better
Press Release, 16.03.2019 In the Krasnodar Territory, a lawsuit was filed against Alexander Korovainy, deputy of the Yeisk District Council from the Yabloko party, for his repost on Facebook of a MBH-Media’s picture on the rise in prices. Alexander Korovainy was accused of “carrying out the activity of an undesirable organisation” (Article 20.33 of the […]
Posted: March 18th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Memorandum of Political Alternative
Decision No 109 of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 12.03.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the party adopted a new version of the “Memorandum of Political Alternative” at its meeting on 1 March. This document is mandatory for signing by party candidates in elections of all levels.
Posted: March 13th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Memorandum of Political Alternative, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Russia-Ukraine relations, Situation in Crimea, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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On the preparation of proposals for the reform of the electoral system of the Russian Federation
Decision No 107 of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 6.03.2019 In 2018, the electoral system of modern Russia celebrated its 25th anniversary. At this time political organisations, movements and political parties were born. However, today confidence of Russians in elections has dropped to almost a zero level, almost like in Soviet times, when elections were not […]
Posted: March 11th, 2019 under Elections, Political Committee Decisions.
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No to persecution of Moscow municipal deputies
The authorities must abolish reprisals against the dissenting Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 28.02.2019 Photo: Andrei Morev, municipal deputy from Yabloko and head of minicipality. The Moscow authorities lost the municipal elections in 2017 in a number of [Moscow] districts, and began systematically intimidate municipal deputies. Pressure on municipal deputies is openly criminal and includes […]
Posted: March 5th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Regional and Local Elections.
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Video address by Nikolay Rybakov to Public Prosecutor General and head of the Investigation Committee on the case of Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 22.02.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, recorded a video address to Yury Chaika, Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigation Committee of Russia, in connection with prosecution of Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, by law enforcement agencies and criminals.
Posted: February 22nd, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Pskov Yabloko receives threats from some criminals. Who has sent them?
Lev Shlosberg’s Facebook page, 21.02.2019 Dear friends, Unfortunately the situation is far from being calm and peaceful in Pskov. Last morning, an unidentified man (allegedly an acting or former employee of the law enforcement or secret services) stuck a piece of paper on the sign of the public reception office of a deputy of the […]
Posted: February 21st, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the criminal case against Lev Shlosberg and the Pskov branch of Yabloko, and the possibility of change in Russia: This is an anti-constitutional act suppressing legal opposition
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 15.02. 2019 On 15 February, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and Yabloko founder, commented to the Ekho Moskvi radio station on a criminal case against the Pskov branch of Yabloko and Lev Shlosberg, Pskov Yabloko leader and MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly. Yavlinsky noted that the search […]
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Criminal case against Pskov Yabloko is a case against the whole party and against the Russian Constitution
Statement, 14.02.2019 The Yabloko party expresses a categorical protest against the search conducted by the Investigation Department of the Investigation Committee of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pskov Region in the premises of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party on 13 February. A politically motivated forceful persecution of opposition […]
Posted: February 15th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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The Pskov office of Yabloko is being searched
Press release, 13.02.2019 The Investigation Committee is conducting a search in the office of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party, as Dmitry Permyakov, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch confirmed to the Press Service.
Posted: February 14th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Yabloko urges the Electoral Commission of the Saratov region to check the information on systematic election fraud
Press Release, 12.02.2019 The Saratov regional branch of the Yabloko party appealed to the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region with a request to check on the facts given in an interview with Inna Dozorova, the former head of the Saratov Kindergarten N 83, where she told that she had had to participate in the […]
Posted: February 13th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Parliamentary Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2016, Без рубрики.
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“We have never betrayed our principles and have always stood firm”. Interview with Sergei Ivanenko, deputy head of the Yabloko party
Specially for Yabloko website by Svetlana Prokudina, 12.01.2019 Sergei Ivanenko, Yabloko Deputy Chair, has turned 60 on 12th January. Sergei Victorovich is one of Grigory Yavlinsky’s closest colleagues. He was actively involved in the foundation of the Yabloko party. Ivanenko played one of the key roles in the work of Yabloko’s faction in the State […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2019 under Elections, History, Human Rights, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko Liberal Club to discuss the experience of German liberals with Julius von Freytag-Loringhoven
Press release, 25.01.2019 Yabloko’s Liberal Club will discuss the experience of German and European liberals on 30th January, Wednesday. The Free Democratic Party of Germany had been either part of the ruling coalition or parliamentary opposition since the end of World War II. However, the party did not pass the 5 per cent threshold in […]
Posted: January 28th, 2019 under Elections, Russia-Eu relations.
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Yabloko discussed the draft of the electoral system reform with experts
Press release, 25.01.2019 The Yabloko party has launched a draft of Russia’s electoral system reform inviting the main experts in the field to discuss it. The draft was launched by Elena Dubrovina, member of the Central Election Commission (1999-2016), head of Yabloko’s Centre for Legislative Initiatives and member of the Federal Political Committee. According to […]
Posted: January 27th, 2019 under Elections.
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