Archive for 'Elections'
Collection of signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from the war in Syria launched in Khabarovsk within the framework of Grigory Yavlinsky presidential election campaign
Press Release, 03.07.2017 Collection of signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from the war in Syria was launched in Khabarovsk within the framework of the Time to Return Home campaign targeted at allotting federal budget funds to Russia’s domestic development , not to foreign policy ambitions and adventures. Time to Return Home is a part of Grigory […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Collection of signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from the war in Syria launched in Chelyabinsk within the framework of Grigory Yavlinsky presidential election campaign
Press Release, 03.07.2017 Collection of signatures for Russia’s withdrawal from the war in Syria was launched in Chelyabinsk within the framework of the Time to Return Home campaign targeted at allotting federal budget funds to Russia’s domestic development , not to foreign policy ambitions and adventures. Time to Return Home is a part of Grigory […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Yabloko nominated 931 candidates for municipal deputies in Moscow and will nominate even more
Press release, 30.06.2017 The Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko nominated 931 candidates for municipal deputies in 119 districts of Moscow on June 29. Next week more candidates will be nominated and it is likely that the party will nominate over a thousand candidates on the whole.
Posted: June 30th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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Democracy with a filter
Yabloko’s candidates continue the struggle for the right to participate in the gubernatorial elections Press release, 29.06.2017 This week the Vedomosti newspaper reported referring to its sources in the Kremlin that the new leadership of the internal policy bloc of the Presidential Administration decided not to adhere to the principle of competition in the gubernatorial […]
Posted: June 29th, 2017 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections.
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Yabloko to nominate about 900 candidates for Moscow municipal deputies
Press release, 27.06.2017 The Yabloko party is holding meetings with Muscovites and activists who want to participate in the forthcoming municipal elections. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky and Moscow Yabloko Chair Sergei Mitrokhin are present at the meetings. On 29 June, the regional council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko will nominate […]
Posted: June 27th, 2017 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yekaterinburg oppositional Mayor Yevgeny Roizman announced his support of Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign Time to Return Home
Press Release, 22.06.2017 Yekaterinburg oppositional Mayor Yevgeny Roizman, whose candidacy was officially nominated by Yabloko to run in the election of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region, said that he shared the ideas of the Time to Return Home campaign launched by Grigory Yavlinsky. The key idea of the campaign is that Russia should stop spending […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2017 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections.
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YABLOKO nominated oppositional Mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevnegy Roizman candidate to the post of Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region
Press Release, 21.06.2017 The Yabloko party has nominated Yevgeny Roizman, Mayor of Yekaterinburg, candidate in the gubernatorial elections of the Sverdlovsk region. This decision was adopted by the Federal Bureau of the party. According to the results of the secret ballot, nine our of ten members of the Bureau present at the meeting voted for […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2017 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections.
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Conference of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated Anna Cherepanova candidate to the post of Governor of the Novgorod Region
Press release, 22.06.2017 On 21 June, the conference of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated Chair of the regional party branch Anna Cherepanova candidate to the post of Governor of the Novgorod Region. All the twelve delegates supported her candidacy.
Posted: June 22nd, 2017 under Gubernatorial Elections.
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Yabloko Federal Bureau has just nominated (nine 9 votes for out of ten, and one abstained) Yevgeny Roizman, oppositional Mayor of Yekaterinburg, candidate in the gubernatorial elections in the region. Photo by Alexander Kobrinsky, Bureau member.
Posted: June 21st, 2017 under Gubernatorial Elections.
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Grigory Yavlinsky urges Russian citizens to join the campaign for Russia’s withdrawal from military conflicts
Press Release, 21.06.2017 Yabloko launches the all-Russian campaign Time to Return Home. The party will collect signatures in 40 regions of Russia, so that Russia’s federal budget funds are spent on Russia’s domestic development, rather than on foreign policy ambitions and adventures, including the war in Syria. Such a statement was made by Yabloko’s presidential […]
Posted: June 21st, 2017 under Elections, Foreign policy, Presidential Elections, War in Syria.
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Lev Shlosberg claims that a municipal filter must be removed for gubernatorial candidates from the parties represented in the parliaments
Press release, 20.06.2017 Deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly, Chair of the Pskov branch of Yabloko Lev Shlosberg proposed to adopt a draft law on the withdrawal of a municipal filter for gubernatorial candidates from the parties, which have representation in the State Duma or regional parliaments. Shlosberg introduced the draft law with the […]
Posted: June 21st, 2017 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections.
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Time to Return Home
Grigory Yavlinsky blog post, 19.06.2017 Russia has been involved in the Syrian war for almost two years. According to official data, 35 our military men were killed, unofficial [data] give a much higher figure. What our soldiers and officers should give their lives for? For the endless rule of dictator Bashar al-Assad? Where is the national […]
Posted: June 20th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Yabloko launches Grigory Yavlinsky presidential campaign with collection of signatures in Russian regions for Russia’s withdrawal from military conflicts
Press Release, 19.06.2017 Today, Yabloko’s presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky came to Ryazan to launch the all-Russian campaign “Time to Return Home.” Today, Yabloko launches collection of signatures in 40 regions of Russia, so that Russia’s federal budget funds are spent on Russia’s domestic development, rather than on foreign policy ambitions and adventures, including the war […]
Posted: June 19th, 2017 under Foreign policy, Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to visit Yekaterinburg and participate in the conference of the regional Yabloko branch on the nomination of oppositional Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman as Yabloko’s candidate to the post of Governor.
Press Release, 16.06.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky to visit Yekaterinburg and participate in the conference of the regional Yabloko branch on the nomination of Yevgeny Roizman, oppositional Yekaterinburg Mayor, as Yabloko’s candidate to the post of Governor.
Posted: June 19th, 2017 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections.
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“The situation in the country can be remedied not through politicians’ provocations or police truncheons, but by means of voting in the presidential elections”
12.06.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook page Grigory Yavlinsky on the protest actions of 12 June: “Our country has celebrated the Day of Russia being divided and not free, without a clear perspective and the rule of law. Hundreds of people [were celebrating it] in police vans or in police stations. Such a “holiday”.
Posted: June 13th, 2017 under Freedom of Assembly, Presidential elections 2018.
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Greetings on the Day of Russia!
From Emilia Slabunova, 12.06.2017 Today our country celebrates its day, the Day of Russia. I am sending my greetings on the holiday to all those who care about Russia’s future.
Posted: June 13th, 2017 under Presidential elections 2018, Understanding Russia.
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Yabloko to instruct candidates for deputies how to collect voters’ signatures to get registered in the campaign
Press release, 09.06.2017 On 13 June, Yabloko will hold a webinar instructing candidates for municipal deputies how to collect voters’ signatures in order to be registered as a candidate. The webinar will be organised by Yabloko’s Centre for candidates support. Yuri Zuyev, a member of the territorial electoral commission in the Academichesky district of Moscow, […]
Posted: June 9th, 2017 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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The Pskov Region Assembly chose not to return direct elections of city mayors for Pskov and Velikiye Luky
Press Release, 08.06.2017 The Pskov Region Assembly of Deputies declined the legislative initiative by Lev Shlosberg to return to the residents of Pskov and Velikiye Luky the right to directly elect heads of these large cities of the region.
Posted: June 8th, 2017 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Anna Cherepanova elected Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
Press release, 02.06.2017 On 1 June, the conference delegates of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko elected Anna Cherepanova Chair of the regional party branch.
Posted: June 2nd, 2017 under Elections.
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European Court of Human Rights rules that election fraud took place in 2011 election in St. Petersburg
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the right to free elections had been violated Press release, 01.06.2017 The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of the complainant who had filed a petition against mass-scale election fraud of election results to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the State Duma in […]
Posted: June 1st, 2017 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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