Archive for 'Regional and Local Elections'
The Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg adopted the “Vishnevsky Amendment” to the electoral law envisaging that doppelgangers of candidates must indicate their previous names and surnames if they chanced these a year prior to elections
Press Release, 6.04.2023 Photo: Photo of a poster with information about the candidates for the elections of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg showing Boris Vishnevky (right) and his doppelgangers On Wednesday, 5 April, the Parliament of St. Petersburg adopted amendments to the city legislation on elections. From now on the “doppelgangers” of candidates must […]
Posted: April 7th, 2023 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko recruits observers for the upcoming elections
Press Release, 29.03.2023 Photo: Training of citizens who are going to work at polling stations as observers / Photo by the Saratov branch of Yabloko This year, a large number of municipal election campaigns will be held in the Saratov region. Local self-government is the most important mechanism for the implementation of democracy, which unfortunately […]
Posted: March 29th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko prepares for the elections: a party conference scheduled, a discussion about the programme held, and formation of electoral commissions began
Press Release, 28.03.2023 Photo by the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko Past weekend, the Regional Council of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko appointed the conference of the regional branch, which will put forward a list of Yabloko candidates for deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. The conference will take place in June. Also the […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The City Court of St. Petersburg will consider the appeal of Yabloko against the decision on the court of the first instance, which refused to annul the results of the voting at polling station No. 177 with fake electoral commission members
Press Release, 27.03.2023 Photo: Elizaveta Metyolkina, a member of precinct electoral commission No. 177, according to the heads of electoral commission No. 177 and Territorial Electoral Commission No. 2, she was born in 1999 / Photo by Petersburg Yabloko On 28 March, the St. Petersburg City Court will consider the appeal of Dmitry Anisimov, a […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Elections, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Kirov branch of Yabloko announces recruitment of precinct electoral commissions members from the Yabloko party with a casting vote
Press Release, 21.03.2023 Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant The Kirov regional branch of the Yabloko party begins a preliminary recruitment for those wishing to become a Yabloko member or resume membership in precinct electoral commissions with a casting vote in the Kirov region.
Posted: March 21st, 2023 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko: Yelena Sorokina must leave the post of head of administration of Ryazan for a complete failure of work
Press Release, 21.03.2023 Photo: A house in the centre of Ryazan / Photo by the Internet newspaper Vid Sboku The Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party appeals to the deputies of the Ryazan City Duma with a call to dismiss Yelena Sorokina, head of the Ryazan administration, from her post, terminating the contract concluded with […]
Posted: March 21st, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Chuvashia opens recruitment of activists to the electoral commissions members with a casting vote
Press Release, 20.03.2023 Photo: Activists of the Yabloko branch in Chuvashia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko branch in Chuvashia opens recruitment of activists to the electoral commissions members with a casting vote. “Any citizen of the Chuvash Republic should not be indifferent to what is happening, both in the country and […]
Posted: March 20th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko registered two candidates for municipal by-elections in two municipalities
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Kozlyakovskaya and Oleg Voronin The St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party succeeded in registration of two candidates for municipal by-elections in Krasnoye Selo and Yuzhno-Primorsky municipal districts. Elections in these municipal districts will be held in April. The election campaign will be held under the slogan “For Peace and […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sofya Pugachyova and Nikolai Barkhatov propose to hold a referendum on the transformation of the Novorzhevsky district into a municipal district
Press Release, 20.02.2023 Photo: Sofya Pugachyova and Nikolai Barkhatov The corresponding draft resolution was submitted to the regional Assembly of Deputies on 20 February by Sofya Pugachyova, head of the Novorzhevsky district, and Nikolai Barkhatov, a deputy of the Assembly from Yabloko.
Posted: February 21st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Novgorod opposed the change in the city’s charter, which would reduce the number of deputies elected on party lists in the Duma
Press Release, 10.02.2023 On 9 February, the administration of Novgorod held public hearings on changing the Charter of the city. The ruling United Russia party decided to change, on the threshold of elections, the ratio between deputies that should be elected on party lists and single-mandate deputies. Up to the present, the Novgorod City Duma […]
Posted: February 10th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko demanded from the police to return the illegally seized paintings by Yelena Osipova
Press Release, 06.02.2023 Photo: Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the St. Petersburg Yabloko on 31 January, 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Shishlov, sent inquiries to the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry […]
Posted: February 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The state to compensate moral damage for unlawful persecution to Viktor Shalyakin, the leader of the local branch of Yabloko in Novgorod
Press Release, 01.02.2023 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 30 January, the Novgorod District Court satisfied the claims Viktor Shalyakin, head of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Finance of Russia for compensation of his expenses connected […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police seized 19 Yelena Osipova’s paintings about peace from the office of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 01.02.2023 Photo: The Exhibition / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The police seized 19 paintings about peace by artist and activist Yelena Osipova. The paintings were exhibited at the office of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko at Spalernaya 13. On Wednesday, 1 February, police officers came to the Yabloko office, cordoned […]
Posted: February 1st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The office of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko cordoned off by the police
Press Release, 01.02.2023 Photo by the St.Petersburg Yabloko Police came to the office of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg at Shpalernaya 13, on Wednesday, 1 February. Police officers cordoned off the premises and said that they had received a call about a bomb threat.
Posted: February 1st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov Regional Court upheld the decision of the court of a lower instance, did not apply to the Constitutional Court and did not satisfy Svetlana Vasilkova’s complaint
Press Release, 20.01.2023 Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service On 20 January, the administrative board of the Pskov Regional Court considered the appeal of Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky district elected from Yabloko, about the early termination of her powers by the district assembly of deputies. The deputies of […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The apartment of Stanislav Shmakov, Yabloko’s ex-candidate to the Tomsk Regional Duma, searched, after which Shmakov disappeared
Press Release, 11.01.2022 Photo: Stanislav Shmakov / Photo from social media On the morning of 11 January, a search was conducted in the apartment of Stanislav Shmakov in Tomsk. Stanislav Shmakov is an assistant to the deputy of the City Duma from Yabloko David Avetyan and was Yabloko’s candidate in the regional Duma elections in […]
Posted: January 11th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Svetlana Vasilkova appealed against the court refusal to recognise her dismissal from the post of head of the Pustoshkinsky district as illegal
Press Release, 10.01.2023 Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo from the Grazhdanin newspaper Svetlana Vasilkova appealed (https://eng.yabloko.ru/30000-2/ ) the decision of the Opochetsky District Court, which recognised her dismissal from the post of head of the Pustoshkinsky District as legal. On 9 January, the Pustoshkinsky District Court received her appeal.
Posted: January 11th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow City Duma deputies of the “Moscow Mayor’s team” blocked the bill of Maxim Kruglov on the mandatory reports of Moscow officials to the Moscow city parliament
Press Release, 28.12.2022 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, proposed to make members of the Moscow Government, heads of sectoral and functional executive bodies of Moscow, and local governments report annually to the Moscow City Duma on their work. […]
Posted: December 28th, 2022 under Elections, Governance, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Opochetsky District Court upheld the decision of pro-government deputies to arbitrarily dismiss Yabloko’s head of the district Svetlana Vasilkova basing on “their inner conviction”. The decision of the court will be appealed in the regional court.
Press Release, 22.12.2022 Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko On 21 December, the Opochetsky District Court announced the decision on the suit of Yabloko’s Svetlana Vasilkova to challenge her dismissal from the post of head of the Pustoshkinsky district of the Pskov region. As follows from the decision, Svetlana Vasilkova’s demands were “partially […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow City Court upheld the decision on the fine for “discrediting the army” to the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Andrei Morev
Press Release, 14.12.2022 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Tagansky District Court, which found Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko and the former head of the Yakimanka District Council in Moscow, guilty of “discrediting the army”. Morev was fined 50,000 […]
Posted: December 14th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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