Archive for 'Regional and Local Elections'
Yabloko went to a rally against arbitrariness of the authorities in the elections in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 25.07.2017 Video: Boris Vishnevsky Over 3,000 people came out to protest against criminal arbitrariness of the authorities in banning opposition to run in the municipal and gubernatorial elections in St. Petersburg. The rally was organised with the support of the regional branch of the Yabloko party. Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction […]
Posted: July 26th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Police refused to investigate threats to Nikita Antonenko, Yabloko candidate to the Nizhny Novgorod Duma
Press Release, 17.07.2019 The police refused to initiate a criminal case on threats to Nikita Antonenko, activist of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko and candidate for deputy in the Nizhny Novgorod Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 24. According to law enforcement officers, they did not identify any real threat to Yabloko’s candidate.
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko candidates to conduct 14 election campaigns in 13 regions
Registration of candidates for elections goes on Press Release, 19.07.2019 Representatives of the Yabloko party will take part in 14 election campaigns of different levels in 13 regions of the Russian Federation. In many regions, registration of candidates has not ended yet. Many Yabloko candidates have not been registered in the elections or are facing […]
Posted: July 24th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, State Duma Elections.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko to rally against arbitrariness in the elections
Press Release, 23.07.2019 The St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party will take part in a rally against arbitrariness in the elections, which will be held in Lenin Square by the Finlandskiy Railway Station on 24 July at 19:00. Representatives of about 30 political parties, public movements and organisations of St. Petersburg plan to […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Ingush branch of Yabloko to participate in the municipal elections
Press Release, 23.07.2019 The conference of the Ingush regional branch of the Yabloko party nominated a list of candidates for deputies of the Karabulak City Council. On July 22, the Territorial Electoral Commission of the city of Karabulak certified the list of candidates for deputies of the City Council nominated by Yabloko.
Posted: July 23rd, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The team of the Tula branch of Yabloko ready to run for the City Duma elections
Emilia Slabunova came to support the party’s candidates to the City Duma Press Release, 4.07.2019 The Tula branch of Yabloko nominated a list of candidates to run in the City Duma elections. It includes 20 candidates sharing democratic values. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova came to support the team of the regional branch.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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St.Petersburg electoral commissions refuse to register Yabloko candidates for municipal elections
Press Release, 4.07.2019 Electoral commissions of several municipal districts of St. Petersburg refused to register Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies.
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Boris Vishnevsky: I was not registered in the gubernatorial election, because I am dangerous for acting Governor Beglov
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 2.07.2019 Dear friends, I sincerely thank everyone who supported my participation in the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg. I have been travelling around 84 of the 111 municipalities for three weeks after my nomination by the Yabloko conference. In each of them, I handed my personal letter to each […]
Posted: July 5th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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Yabloko complained to the Central Electoral Commission and the Investigative Committee for the fraud during collection of voters’ signatures in support of nomination of acting Governor of St.Petersburg Alexander Beglov
Press Release, 28.06.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova sent a complaint to the Central Electoral Commission about fraud in collecting signatures in support of acting Governor of St.Petersburg Alexander Beglov, who intents to run as candidate for Governor of St. Petersburg in the forthcoming election. Slabunova also asked the Investigative Committee to conduct an inspection of […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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Yabloko Chairperson demands to bring to criminal responsibility those involved in the non-admission of opposition candidates for elections in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 30.06.2019 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova demanded that law enforcement agencies initiate a criminal case under article 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the fact of obstructing the exercise of electoral rights of candidates for deputies of the St. Petersburg municipality Yekateringofsky, and immediately release candidate from Yabloko Fyodor Gorozhanko, […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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Yabloko nominated 547 candidates to run for deputies in 85 municipal councils of St. Petersburg, and nomination goes on
Press Release, 26.06.2019 The Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated 547 candidates for deputies of municipal councils in 85 of the city’s total 109 municipalities. The final number of candidates will be even larger, since the election headquarters still receive applications from potential candidates.
Posted: June 29th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019.
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Anna Cherepanova submitted to the Veliky Novgorod parliament a bill on the direct election of the head of the city and heads of municipal districts
Press Release, 24.05.2019 The bill on the direct election of the heads of Novgorod and heads of municipal districts was submitted to the Duma of Veliky Novgorod by Anna Cherepanova, MP of the Veliky Novgorod Duma and Chair of the Novgorod Yabloko. A similar bill was also submitted by the deputies of the Duma of […]
Posted: May 27th, 2019 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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The Vologda branch of Yabloko participated in the rally “We demand!”
Press Release, 22.04.2019 On 20 April, a rally of the city opposition was held in Vologda under the slogan “We demand!”. The speakers demanded that the authorities abolish their tariffs for garbage collection and revise their project for improvement of the Vologda embankment. Members of the Vologda branch of Yabloko took part in the […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Housing and Utilities Reform, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019.
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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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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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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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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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Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko to recruit candidates for municipal elections
Press release, 25.12.2018 The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko began recruiting candidates for the forthcoming municipal elections. In 2019 the residents of the regions will have to elect 472 municipal deputies.
Posted: December 26th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko on the runoff mayoral elections in Novosibirsk
Press release based on a statement by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, 16.10.2018 The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko released a statement putting forward an initiative to reintroduce mayoral runoff elections. The statement was addressed to Novosibirsk Mayor Anatoly Lokot and city parliament MPs.
Posted: October 16th, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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