Archive for 'Elections'
Gubernatorial non-elections
Grigory Yavlinsky on the municipal filter, technocrats and the danger of doing away with politics in Russia’s regions Grigory Yavlinsky website, 10.09.2018 A Single Voting Day has taken place in Russia. It is single because the elections of mayors and heads of administrations are taking place according to a single scheme “elections without choice” designed […]
Posted: September 11th, 2018 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018, Presidential elections 2018, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Yabloko formed factions in city parliaments of Yekaterinburg and Veliky Novgorod
Press release, 10.09.2018 Following the elections on September 9 Yabloko formed factions in city parliaments of Yekaterinburg and Veliky Novgorod. The party gained 11.08 per cent of votes in the elections to Veliky Novgorod City Duma improving its result by 1.5 per cent in comparison with the elections in 2013.
Posted: September 11th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Stop prosecution and arbitrary rule in Pskov Region elections
Press release based on the statement by the Yabloko party, 7.09.2018 On 7 September, the Pskov Regional Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened criminal proceedings agains the Pskov Region branch of Yabloko for disseminating leaflets calling upon voters to spoil ballot papers in the gubernatorial elections.
Posted: September 9th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Moscow Mayor will teach pensioners to twerk
Yabloko’s investigation into Moscow Mayor’s Office project at the cost of 3 billion roubes Press release, 7.09.2018 Yabloko’s Centre for Anti-Corruption Policy made an investigation into the project “Moscow Longevity” by Moscow Mayor’s Office. It has features of political corruption because Mayor Sergei Sobyanin was involved in campaign materials. Furthermore, the project bears corruption risks […]
Posted: September 8th, 2018 under Elections, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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We could have never expected that Sobyanin would make mayoral elections so fake
Statement by the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 7.09.2018 On September 9, the government is holding the so called mayoral elections. The peculiarity of this election the incumbent mayor and the main candidate Sergei Sobyanin have chosen his opponents himself: thanks to him they received signatures of municipal deputies [to pass the municipal filter] and were […]
Posted: September 8th, 2018 under Elections, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Yabloko Chair arrives in Vladimir to support party candidates in regional parliament elections
Press release, 4.09.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova arrived in Vladimir to support party candidates in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region. Deputy of the Vladimir city parliament Dmitry Kushpita heads the party list that consists of 45 candidates.
Posted: September 6th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Yabloko demands of the Supreme Court to reinstate candidates in the Pskov Region
Press release, 3.09.2018 On 3 September, Yabloko filed a complaint to the head of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev in connection with the decision of the Pskov regional court to withdraw Yabloko’s candidates Gennady Kolesik and Larisa Semashko from the elections to the posts of heads of Opochetsky and Velikoluksky districts in the Pskov Region.
Posted: September 6th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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First Hundred Days of the President
by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.09.2018 What Vladimir Putin has accomplished for the three months after the inauguration and what the President should have done in the first hundred days to pull the country out of crisis and isolation Putin did not have a presidential programme: neither economic nor political, no programme at all. […]
Posted: September 5th, 2018 under Economy, Human Rights, Presidential elections 2018.
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Oksana Demchenko: We think that the government should serve people, not the other way round
3.09.2018 Chair of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko Oksana Demchenko believes that if the party representatives are elected to the city parliament, they will improve the quality of life in Krasnoyarsk. – It is the 25th anniversary of the foundation of Yabloko this year. We have many deputies across Russia and a large number of […]
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Yabloko’s programme for the 9 September 2018 elections to Krasnoyarsk City Council
30.08.2018 1. Return the citizens control over the city. Elect a new mayor via direct and competitive elections.
Posted: September 2nd, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Emilia Slabunova: If there are Yabloko deputies in the City Duma of Yekaterinburg, it will be a new page in the history of the city
Press Release, 29.08.2018 The leaders of Yabloko went to the Russian regions to support Yabloko candidates in the 9 September elections. The party Chair Emilia Slabunova visited Yekaterinburg, the Urals, to support party candidates in the city parliament (the City Duma). Yabloko put forward a strong team of united democratic coalition in the elections to […]
Posted: August 30th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age on 2 September
Press Release, 20.08.2018 On Friday, 17 August, Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma in the forthcoming by-election to the Russian parliament, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age in Nizhny Novgorod on 2 September. The rally is planed on 2 September. Co-organisers of the action […]
Posted: August 27th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Public Prosecutor’s Office tries to deprive municipal deputies of their assistants via court
Press Release, 18.07.2018 On 19 July, Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow will consider at a preliminary hearing the claim of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to the Council of Municipal Deputies of Yakimanka District, Moscow. The Public Prosecutor’s Office is trying to deprive the municipal deputies of the right to have assistants on a voluntary basis.
Posted: July 19th, 2018 under Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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Media publish the court decision on annulment of Yabloko’s candidates registration in Yaroslavl before the beginning of the session of the court
Emilia Slabunova’s FB post, 11.07.2018 The Telegram channel Yar[oslvl]Politics [a channel in the social media] informs that registration of Yabloko’s candidates list [in Yaroslavl] will be annulled by the decision of the court. [That is], the decision of the court has become known an hour before the court’s session! That is how our judicial and […]
Posted: July 12th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko won over the regional Duma in a trial
The refusal of the Novgorod Region Duma to give the floor to the oppositional party at the plenary meeting was recognised unlawful Press Release, 09.07.2018 On 6 July, the Novgorod District Court satisfied the claim of the regional branch of Yabloko to the regional Duma and found the refusal of the legislative body to allow […]
Posted: July 10th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Yabloko nominated Igor Yermolenko, leader of the Samara branch of the party, to run in the by-elections to the State Duma
Press Release, 09.07.2018 The Federal Bureaud of Yabloko nominated Igor Yermolenko, leader of the Samara branch of the party, to run in the by-elections to the State Duma in a single-mandate district No 158 in Samara. Igor Yermolenko was born in Buguruslan, the Orenburg region, in 1971. He has two higher educations: Samara State […]
Posted: July 9th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Yabloko nominated its candidate to run in the by-elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod
Press Release, 09.07.2018 The Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party has nominated Alexei Repnikov as its candidate for by-elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod in a single-mandate electoral district No 17. “Due to difficult conditions of the campaign, when any competition is suppressed, young politicians have virtually no chance of gaining the […]
Posted: July 9th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections.
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The Altai branch of Yabloko will participate in the elections of the Governor and deputies of the municipal councils
The conference of the Altai regional branch of the Yabloko party nominated Viktor Rau, a popular public figure in the region, Yabloko’s candidate for the Governor of the region. Press Release, 05.07.2018 Photo: Alexander Goncharenko and Viktor Rau Grigory Valynkin, a young lawyer and entrepreneur, will represent Yabloko in the by-election of a deputy of […]
Posted: July 6th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko and allies nominated candidates to run in the elections to the Yekaterinburg city parliament
Press Release, 29.06.2018 The Regional Council of the Sverdlovsk branch of Yabloko nominated a list of candidates of a united democratic coalition to run in the elections to the Yekaterinburg city parliament (City Duma). The list contains 57 candidates, this is the maximum possible number of people in the list. The meeting of the Regional […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko demands to release Alexander Shestun, head of the Serpukhov region, on his own recognizance and check the data from his video address to Putin
Press Release, 15.06.2018 Yabloko demands that the measure of restraint to Alexander Shestun, head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, is replaced by his written undertaking not to leave the country. Such a statement was issued by the Bureau of the party. Yesterday, the court arrested the politician for two months for his […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2018 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections.
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