Archive for 'Regional and Local Elections'
The future of the country depends on all of us
Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko Adopted on 15.09.2023, published on 22.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The political regime that has developed in Russia can be characterised as electoral authoritarianism evolving into a personalistic dictatorship. While the institution of elections was formally preserved, voting lost its true meaning. In the situation of […]
Posted: September 25th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod District Court fined Yabloko City Duma candidates Anna Cherepanova, Ksenia Cherepanova and Viktor Shalyakin 4,000 roubles each for “disobedience to the police”
Press Release, 20.09.2023 Photo: Police officers blocking the car of Yabloko candidates on 9 September, 2023 / Photo by Ksenia Cherepanova Yabloko’s politicians were accused of allegedly planning to enter the premises of the precinct electoral commission at school No. 31 on the night of 9-10 September. That night, Anna Cherepanova, Ksenia Cherepanova, and Viktor […]
Posted: September 21st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Only people themselves can change the situation in Russia
YouTube channel Zhivoy Gvozd, 18.09.2023 Broadcasted live on 16.09.2023 Over 30 years, the Yabloko party has offered people in Russia a different path eleven times: eight times in parliamentary elections and three times in presidential elections. This path would never have led our country to what is happening now. We proposed to build a state […]
Posted: September 21st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Fight poverty, not the world
Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yaboko adopted on 4 September 2023, published on 14 September 2023 Photo by Oleg Kharseyev, Kommersant The document was adopted following the results of expert hearings held in Veliky Novgorod on 4 September. Yevgeniy Gontmakher, Doctor of Economics and a Yabloko member, participated in the development of the document. […]
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Candidates from Pskov Yabloko in single-mandate constituencies received voters support
Statement by the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, 13.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Despite the cancellation of registration of Yabloko’s lists of candidates, three-day and remote electronic voting, and admission of observers to polling stations only in three districts of the region, candidates from the Pskov Yabloko did not stop […]
Posted: September 13th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Dozens of thousands of Russian citizens cast their votes for Peace and for Yabloko!
Summing up the results of the elections Press Release, 11.09.2023 In the elections held on 10 September, Yabloko managed to retain representation in the city parliamets of Yekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod and Krasnokamsk (the Perm region), as well as create a faction in the city duma of Yasnogorsk (the Tula region). The team of municipal deputies […]
Posted: September 12th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Elections for peace and freedom”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.09.2023 Photo: Yabloko campaign posters “Yabloko. Your vote For Peace and Freedom!” in Yekaterinburg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 September, Russia held regular election. Everyone understands what kind of “elections” there can be in such a system, especially during the “special military operation”. Since 1996, voting in Russia […]
Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko gets mandates in four city parliaments, including the city dumas of Yekaterinburg and Novgorod
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov summed up the preliminary results of the elections of 8 – 10 September Press Release, 10.09.2023 According to preliminary data, candidates from Yabloko were elected to the city dumas of Yekaterinburg, Novgorod, Krasnokamsk (the Perm Territory) and Yasnogorsk (the Tula Region). This was stated by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov during a […]
Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, 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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Olga Kolokolova, the leader of the Yabloko branch in the Perm region, passes to the Krasnokamsk City Duma
Press Release, 10.09.2023 Photo: Olga Kolokolova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The counting of votes at the polling stations of constituency No. 6 has not yet been completed, but according to preliminary data, Olga Kolokolova, Yabloko’s candidate and the leader of the Yabloko branch in the Perm region, passes to the Krasnokamsk City […]
Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Novgorod, three Yabloko candidates for deputies of the City Duma have been detained. They can be arrested for 15 days
Press Release, 10.09.2023 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin (centre), Anna Cherepanova and Ksenia Cherepanova at the police station / Photo from social media On the night of September 9 – 10, the Novgorod police drew up protocols of violation under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“disobedience to the police”) in […]
Posted: September 10th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Citizen participation and control over voting can combat fraud
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 9.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 September, many regions of our country will hold elections at different levels: elections of local governments, legislative assemblies, and heads of regions. And in six months there will be presidential elections, which will be held within the framework of […]
Posted: September 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov City Court refused to recognise the assignment of the status of “foreign agent” to Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg illegal. The decision will be appealed
Press Release, 9.09.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo from Lev Shlosberg’s personal archive The Pskov City Court rejected Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, in satisfying his claims against the Ministry of Justice to declare illegal the order of June 16, 2023, to include the politician in the […]
Posted: September 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“You have defended the garden, which means you can do more”: the head of Yabloko called on Yekaterinburg residents to support Yabloko’s course for peace at elections
Е1.RU, 8.09.2023 Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the United Democratic Party Yabloko, visited Yekaterinburg on the eve of the elections to the City Duma. He came to support his fellow party members, talk about the strategy of peaceful change with which they are going to voters, and urge the residents of the city to take part […]
Posted: September 8th, 2023 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St.Petersburg Yabloko to challenge in court over 400 decisions on the creation of electoral commissions
Press Release, 6.09.2023 Photo by Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant The Yabloko party is appealing through the courts over 40 decisions of territorial election commissions on the formation of precinct electoral commissions and 400 decisions refusing to appoint Yabloko representatives as members of precinct electoral commissions. The lawsuit was filed in the Oktyabrsky District Court by Alexander […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the work of Yabloko’s election headquarters during the elections on 8-10 September
Press Release, 6.09.2023 The Yabloko party is taking part in 26 election campaigns in 13 regions of the country: Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Karelia, the Krasnoyarsk and the Perm Territories, the Sverdlovsk region, the Novgorod region, the Pskov region, the Moscow region, the Saratov region, the Tula region, the Rostov region, the Ryazan region, as well as Moscow […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Fundraising for an independent examination for the leader of the Vologda Yabloko is closed. We thank everyone who did not remain indifferent and helped!
Press Release, 6.09.2023 Photo: Nikolai Yegorov / Photo from Nikolai Yegorov’s personal archive We have closed the collection of donations for the Chairman of the Vologda branch of Yabloko Nikolai Yegorov, as a criminal case on “discrediting the army” was filed against him (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, 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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Russia developed a poverty management system instead of overcoming poverty. Yabloko held expert hearings on the situation with poverty in Russia
Press Release, 5.09.2023 On 4 September, a meeting of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party took place in Novgorod. The Bureau held expert hearings on the problem of overcoming poverty in Russia. The participants of the event discussed the problem and the Yabloko plan for overcoming poverty. A corresponding statement on the Bureau meeting […]
Posted: September 5th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russian Economy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the election of the Governor of the Novosibirsk Region in 2023
Decision of the Bureau of the Novosibirsk Regional Branch of Yabloko Statement by the Novosibirsk Regional Branch of the Yabloko party, 5.09.2023 Photo: Novosibirsk / Photo by Alexander Polezhaev, Wikimedia Commons The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko considers the election of the governor of the region in the current Russian situation unfree and unfair. There has […]
Posted: September 5th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the pressure on the Yabloko party candidates
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau, 4.09.2023 Photo: Yabloko poster: Yabloko. Your vote for peace and freedom! On the threashold of the single voting day on 10 September, we have to once again state the growing pressure on the candidates of the Yabloko party. A campaign of defamation and bans has been waged against our […]
Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov visited Krasnoyarsk to support Yabloko candidates in the upcoming elections
Press Release, 31.08.2023 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the Krasnoyarsk Territory to support the party’s candidates in the upcoming elections to the Krasnoyarsk City Council and the by-elections to the State Duma and to speak on local media with an appeal to the residents of the region to vote for peace and freedom, as Yabloko […]
Posted: September 4th, 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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