Archive for 'Regional and Local Elections 2021'
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 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 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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Statement by the Yabloko party in connection with the dismissal of Yabloko’s Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky district in the Pskov region
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.11.2022 Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Grazhdanin newspaper On 24 November, deputies of the Assembly of Deputies of the Pustoshkinsky District of the Pskov Region, by a majority of votes, prematurely terminated the powers of Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky District and a member of the Yabloko […]
Posted: November 25th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Deputy from Yabloko Tatyana Pasman decided to run for the post of the Chair of the Pskov city parliament
Press Release, 22.09.2022 Photo: Tatyana Pasma / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service On 22 September, Tatyana Pasman, Yabloko deputy in the Pskov City Duma, addressed her parliamentary colleagues at a session of the Pskov City Duma and explained her decision to run for the post of the Chair of the Duma as follows: […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Candidates-spoilers bearing the same family names are put forward against Yabloko candidates in the forthcoming Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 22.07.2022 Photo by Yevgeny Pavlenko / Kommersant Candidates-spoilers bearing the same family names or names sounding nearly identical have been put forward against at least eleven Yabloko candidates for Moscow municipal elections. Seven doppelgängers bear the same family names as Yabloko candidates and four have surnames sounding very close to the surnames of […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court decision to bring Viktor Shalyakin to administrative liability for “illegal campaigning” canceled
Press Release, 25.05.2022 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On May 24, Judge of the Novgorod District Court overturned the decision of the court of a lower instance to bring Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, to administrative liability for violating election campaigning rules […]
Posted: May 26th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lyubov Zhiltsova, teacher and a deputy from Yabloko, will be tried in the Pskov region for a photo with a pacifist poster
Press Release, 20.04.2022 Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova / Photo by pskov.yabloko.ru On 25 February, Lyubov Zhiltsova, a deputy of the Palkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov Region from Yabloko, published on her personal page on the VKontakte socail network her photo with a sheet of paper with a slogan “No ** ***”. On 18 April, […]
Posted: April 21st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Views, Без рубрики.
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A criminal case for criticising the authorities filed in Kemerovo against a former Yabloko candidate for the State Duma
Press Release, 19.04.2022 Photo: Vyacheslav Chernov / Photo from social networks On 18 April, the Investigative Committee of the Kemerovo Region, basing on a report from the deputy head of the regional Centre for Counteracing Extremism, opened a criminal case against Vyacheslav Chernov, a civil activist, entrepreneur, and a candidate for the State Duma from […]
Posted: April 21st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The offices of the ex-candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko Oleg Mandrykin were searched
Press Release, 9.02.2022 Photo: Oleg Mandrykin and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov (left). / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service All the offices of the real estate agency Variant in Severodvinsk, the Arkhangelsk region, headed by Oleg Mandrykin, one of the leaders of the STOP-SHIES coalition [a public movement against organisation of a giant landfill instead […]
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Oleg Vinogradov expelled from the Yaroslavl branch of Yabloko for imposture and forgery
Press Release, 14.01.2022 Photo: Oleg Vinogradov / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party The Federal Bureau of Yabloko expelled from the party Oleg Vinogradov, former Chairman of the Yaroslavl regional branch of the party. The reason was his falsification of documents of the primary organisations of the branch, as well as imposture […]
Posted: January 15th, 2022 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko is from now on represented in each territorial electoral commission of the region
Press Release, 8.12.2021 Photo: Ekaterina Novikova, a new member of the territorial electoral commission of the city of Pskov from the Yabloko party The Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region approved all 22 candidates for commission members nominated by the regional branch of the Yabloko party; whereas 13 electoral commission members from Yabloko are appointed […]
Posted: December 9th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Negative Selection*
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2021 (*Negative selection is a mechanism prioritising and ensuring selection of the worst. See, for example, here) The State Duma elections ended exactly one month ago. We approached these elections in a situation when the system had been consolidated and had started moving definitely and consciously to an aggressive-repressive model of relations with […]
Posted: October 27th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Two million Moscow pensioners will receive an increase to their pension in 2022
Press Release, 20.10.2021 Photo: Vladimir Ryzhkov (centre) before handing the signatures in the Moscow Mayor’s Office The increase in the “Moscow allowance” to pensioners in Moscow [a regional allowance which is decided by regional authorities] was a key point in the electoral programme of Vladimir Ryzhkov, a recently elected Moscow City Duma deputy from Yabloko. […]
Posted: October 25th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A faction of the Yabloko party created in the Petrozavodsk City Council
Press Release, 14.10.2021 Photo: Photo collage by the Yabloko Press Service A faction of the Yabloko party has been created in the Petrozavodsk City Council, Karelia. It includes two deputies from Yabloko: Dmitry Rybakov and Olga Tuzhikova. Dmitry Rybakov became the leader of the faction, he headed the list of the party candidates in the […]
Posted: October 18th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in 2021 are dishonest!
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 7.10.2021 Photo: the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Yabloko thanks the voters who voted for our [candidates] list and our candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. We appreciate your stance very much and we are certain that Yabloko received many more votes than […]
Posted: October 13th, 2021 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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Yabloko municipal deputies in Ryazan voted against representatives of United Russia when electing heads of municipal councils
Press Release, 4.10.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The first meetings of the Municipal Councils of Deputies of the new convocation of the Kriushinsky rural settlement of the Klepikovsky region and the Dubrovichy rural settlement of the Ryazan region were held. In the past elections journalist Maria Rakcheyeva was elected a deputy from the […]
Posted: October 13th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko filed about 150 lawsuits challenging the election results in certain precincts
Press Release, 1.10.2021 Photo by Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant The regional branch of the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg has filed about 150 administrative lawsuits in courts challenging the results of voting at polling stations where the most flagrant violations of electoral legislation were recorded during the elections of deputies to the city’s Legislative Assembly […]
Posted: October 4th, 2021 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, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko: the status of a “foreign agent” for Sofia Ivanova means state recognition of her merits in the fight against election fraud
Press Release, 2.10.2021 Photo by the Golos branch in Ryazan The Ryazan branch of the Yabloko expresses its support to Sofia Ivanova, head of the Ryazan organisation of the Golos movement (a movement in protection of voters rights conducting independent observation over elections), as the Ministry of Justice entered her into the register of so-called […]
Posted: October 3rd, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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