Archive for 'State Duma Elections'
Statistical Evidence Suggests Russia’s Ruling Party Cheated Its Way to Supermajority
The Moscow Times, 19.09.2016 Statistical analysis of this Sunday’s parliamentary election results appears to show evidence of some of the same irregularities that plagued the 2011 State Duma contest, according to the Slon news website. The outlet’s senior editor, Mikhail Zelensky, cites findings that suggest nearly half of all the votes recorded for United Russia, […]
Posted: September 21st, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO formed factions in three regional parliaments and gained high results in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Press release, 19.09.2016 The YABLOKO party held its factions in the Legislative Assemblies of St. Petersburg, the Republic of Karelia and the Pskov Regional Assembly. YABLOKO’s list of candidates gained 9.53 per cent of votes in St. Petersburg, 9.89 per cent in Karelia, and 6.19 per cent in the Pskov Region.
Posted: September 21st, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Yavlinsky: the new State Duma will maintain the policies towards isolation from common sense
Press release, video 19.09.2016 The leaders of the YABLOKO party Grigory Yavlinsky and Emilia Slabunova summed up the results of the voting day at the briefing which took place in the electoral headquarters of the party.
Posted: September 20th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO. Elections. Live
Press release, 18.09.2016 00:44 MSK. Deputy Chariman of YABLOKO Nikolai Rybakov noted predictability of the outcome of the vote, “Well, in my constituency chairmen of local electoral commissions ran to territorial electoral commissions [to get orders from there] without issuing copies of voting protocols. Everything is as usual”.
Posted: September 19th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Lev Ponomaryov: Only a broad democratic movement united around YABLOKO can save the country
Press release, 14.09.2016 On September 14, head of YABLOKO federal list of candidates Grigory Yavlinsly thanked the election representatives of the party for their support.
Posted: September 16th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO activists attacked in Barnaul
Press release, 16.09.2016 On September 16, unidentified persons attacked two YABLOKO activists in Barnaul, the Altai Territory.
Posted: September 16th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Nikolai Rybakov told the residents of Yekaterinburg about YABLOKO’s plans to remedy the environmental catastrophe in Russia
Press release, 14.09.2016 On 14 September, YABLOKO Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov visited in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. He told the residents of the large industrial centre what steps should be made in order to remedy the environmental catastrophe in Russia.
Posted: September 16th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO filed a claim on lifting counter sanctions with the Supreme Court
Press release, 15.09.2016 YABLOKO Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov, parliamentary candidate Dmitry Ilyushin, Bureau member Ivan Bolshakov filed a claim with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on adjudication of two decrees of the President and three regulations of the Government concerning counter sanctions [in response to sanctions imposed by the European Union over the […]
Posted: September 16th, 2016 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Emilia Slabunova: 12 years of the State Duma without YABLOKO led to ruining of the Russian science and research
Press Release, 14.09.2016 Twelve years of the State Duma without YABLOKO led to ruining of the Russian science and research. Such a statement was made by YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova at an extraordinary meeting of the Moscow branch of the trade union of the Russian Academy of Sciences today.
Posted: September 16th, 2016 under Elections, St.Petersburg Gubernatorial Elections 2014, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Sergei Mitrokhin calls the Central Electoral Commission to withdraw Moscow Mayor from parliamentary election
Press release, 13.09.2016 Moscow YABLOKO leader, parliamentary candidate Sergei Mitrokhin claims that the incumbent Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who is running in the parliamentary election, is abusing his position in office. Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded his claim to the head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova.
Posted: September 15th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO launched Economic Manifesto
Press Release, 12.09.2016 On 12 September, YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky and the country’s leading economists Yevgeny Gontmakher, Igor Nikolayev, Mikhail Subbotin and Sergei Ivanenko launched YABLOKO’s Economic Manifesto.
Posted: September 14th, 2016 under Economy, Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Lev Shlosberg’s parliamentary campaign announcement
Video, 12.09.2016 No matter how hard it is, we are going to clean the government machine from the rust of corruption and will put it to rights, so that the government will work in the interest of people not against them. Lev Shlosberg. One for all and all for one.
Posted: September 12th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO candidate’s accounts in the social networks and e-mail boxes hacked
Press Release, 08.09.2016 Accounts in the social networks and e-mail boxes of Elena Rusakova, YABLOKO candidate to the State Duma and municipal deputy in Moscow, e-mails of her supports helping her in the campaign were hacked this night.
Posted: September 9th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to launch the Economic Manifesto of the YABLOKO party
Press Release, 09.09.2016 On Monday, 12 September, Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO leader in the elections to the State Duma, and economists Igor Nikolayev and Yevgeny Gontmakher will launch the Economic Manifesto of the party.
Posted: September 9th, 2016 under Economy, Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Famous Russian human rights defenders Svetalna Gannushkina and Sergei Kovalyov called head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to debate
Press Release, 08.09.2016 Svetlana Gannushkina, renowned human rights defender, Chair of the Grzhdanskoy Sodeystviye (Civil Assistance) Committee and candidate to the State Duma running in YABLOKO regional group in Chechnya, and Sergei Kovalyov, her representative, famous human rights defender, member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and Co-Chair of YABLOKO Human Rights Faction, called Ramzan Kadyrov, […]
Posted: September 9th, 2016 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Emilia Slabunova informed the Central Electoral Commission of the pressure on YABLOKO candidates
Press Release, 07.09.2016 YABLOKO filed 54 complaints of violations to local election commissions and the prosecutor’s office during this election campaign. YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova informed the Central Electoral Commission of this on 7 September. The party is going to summarize all the violations and submit a complaint to the Central Electoral Commission.
Posted: September 8th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Renowned writer Vladimir Voinovich becomes YABLOKO election representative at State Duma election
Previously the Central Electoral Commission registered actor Oleg Basilashvili and poet Igor Irtenyev as YABLOKO election representatives Tass, 07.09.2016 On Wednesday the Central Electoral Commission registered a group of YABLOKO election representatives at the elections to the State Duma – one of them is Vladimir Voinovich, a renowned writer, author of the novels “Moscow 2042” […]
Posted: September 8th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Famous Russian human right defenders Svetlana Gannushkina and Sergei Kovalev call head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to debate
Press Release, 07.09.2016 Svetlana Gannushkina, renown human rights defender and head of YABLOKO regional group in Chechnya in the parliamentary election, and Sergei Kovalyov, her representative, famous human rights defender, member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and Co-Chair of YABLOKO Human Rights Faction, are going to call Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya and candidate for […]
Posted: September 7th, 2016 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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A discussion on recovering referendums in Moscow took place in YABLOKO election campaign headquarters
Press release, 06.09.2016 The use of referendums to solve the issues of public importance in Moscow has become a major topic of YABLOKO election campaign in the capital of Russia. At the moment the officials make any decisions concerning the urban development of Moscow without regard to the opinion of the residents. A discussion on recovering referendums in […]
Posted: September 7th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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Emilia Slabunova on feminism and women’s role in politics
Press release, 04.09.2016 On September 4, YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova began her two days’visit to Perm. She attended a women’s We-Fest festival and had a meeting with YABLOKO’s candidates.
Posted: September 6th, 2016 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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