Archive for 'YABLOKO’s faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly'
After Alexander Shishlov was accused of “discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”, he began getting threats and insults
Press Release, 11.08.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, appealed to the Public Prosecutor of St.Petersburg Viktor Melnik in connection with the fact that after initiating administrative proceedings against him (at the initiative of the St. Petersburg […]
Posted: August 17th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s St.Petersburg MP Alexander Shishlov accused of “discrediting the Armed Forces”
Press Release, 29.07.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Petrogradsky District of St.Petersburg filed a protocol on an administrative offense against Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and a member of the Federal Political Committee […]
Posted: August 1st, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky on Vladimir Putin’s article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians” of July 2021, and the Russian parliamentary elections of 2021 as a lost chance to prevent the 24th of February
Boris Vishnevsky’s Telegram Channel VishNevskoyoeVremya, 12.07.2022 Exactly one year ago, on 12 July, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians”. It actually denied Ukraine’s right to statehood and sovereignty. It stated that the Ukrainian state had no right to a significant part of its territories, which […]
Posted: July 19th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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“This is the initiative of workers for the money of advertisers.” The management of St.Petersburg subway answered the question of Yabloko about “Z-advertising”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service “Z-posters” in the St. Petersburg subway are placed on the initiative of the trade union of workers, on the money of an advertising agency. That is how the subway management responded to Yabloko’s request about the legality of placing Z-signs in St.Petersburg metro.
Posted: July 14th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Vice Governor of St. Petersburg answered Yabloko that it was allowed to place Z-signs in the subway without any documents or justifications
Press Release, 4.07.2022 Photo: Kirill Polyakov/ Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Kirill Polyakov, who is responsible for transport in St.Petersburg, responded to the appeal by the deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov. They […]
Posted: July 5th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov: “This is not just a fight against the so-called foreign influence”
The practice of adopting such laws shows that parliamentary activity has degraded Rosbalt*, 30.06.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The State Duma adopted a unified law “On control over the activities of persons under foreign influence”. Now new restrictions are being introduced for foreign agents. They will be deprived of […]
Posted: July 4th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov proposed to the government to remove anti-coronavirus restrictions on crossing the Russian border
Press Release, 28.06.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Russian citizens continue to face travel restrictions at the vehicle checkpoints at the Russian border. The restrictions were established by the Russian government in March 2020 and have not yet been lifted, despite a sharp decrease in the morbidity and the abolition […]
Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocks the page of Boris Vishnevsky
More than 11.500 people have been following his page Press Release, 2.06.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocked the page of Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the party. The social network referred […]
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly did not dare to consider the statement by the Yabloko faction on the protection of freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”
Press Release, 25.05.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The pro-government majority of St.Petersburg parliament excluded from the agenda of the plenary session Yabloko’s draft statement on the protection of citizens’ rights to freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”: 37 parliamentarians voted for the […]
Posted: May 26th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky: The sooner there is peace, the less there will be wounded and dead, the less there will be tragedies and losses
Press Release, 25.05.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, made a speech in the St. Petersburg parliament on the issue of amending the regional Social Code on the provision of social support and payments […]
Posted: May 25th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office of St.Petersburg established that a propaganda video with scenes of violence had been shown to fourth grade pupils at School No. 321
Press Release, 11.05.2022 Photo by wikimapia.org An inspection conducted by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of St.Petersburg and the district administration after an appeal by Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, established that violations of the law on information had taken place in School No. 321. The inspectors […]
Posted: May 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction of the St.Petersburg parliament called on the head of the interior for St. Petersburg to conduct another check into non-admission of lawyers to those detained at peaceful actions
Press Release, 12.05.2022 Photo by Pyotr Ivanov Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, appealed to Roman Plugin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, with a request to conduct another check into the facts […]
Posted: May 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction submitted to the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg a draft statement on the protection of the rights of citizens to freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”
Press Release, 5.05.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky, MPs of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, submitted to the St. Petersburg parliament a draft statement on the protection of citizens’ constitutional rights to freedom of information. Yabloko proposes […]
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov: I am urging police officers to serve only the law and the people – as the law requires
Press Release, 13.04.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, spoke at the Legislative Assembly about functioning of the law enforcement. He emphasized the importance of their strict observance of the rights […]
Posted: April 13th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky signed a bailment for the artist Alexandra Skochilenko, accused of “spreading fake news about the armed forces”
Press Release, 12.04.2022 Photo: Alexandra Skochilenko / Stihi.ru Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, signed a bailment for the artist Alexandra Skochilenko, who, according to the investigation, “spread false information about the Russian army”. Vishnevsky sent a guarantee letter to the Vasileostrovskiy District […]
Posted: April 12th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Rospotrebnadzor refuses to lift the restriction on holding public events in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 8.04.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yelena Smirnova, acting head of the St. Petersburg Rospotrebnazdor (the Russian consumer safety watchdog), sent a response to the request of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly to lift the existing ban on holding public events in St. Petersburg. The St.Petersburg department of Rospotrebnazdor […]
Posted: April 8th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky asked the Investigative Committee of Russia to check Timofei Sergeytsev’s article entitled “What Russia should do to Ukraine” for violation of the legal norms banning inciting hatred and calls for unleashing an aggressive war
Press Release, 6.04.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky/ Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg, believes that the publication by Timofei Sergeytsev’s entitled “What Russia should do to Ukraine” violates two articles of the Criminal […]
Posted: April 7th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“I didn’t see any cases of violation of the rights of the child, but this is a reason to think about it”
St. Petersburg Ombudsperson for Children’s Rights answers Yabloko’s question about inadmissibility of involving children in actions supporting the “special operation” Press Release, 6.04.2022 Photo: Anna Mityanina / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of […]
Posted: April 7th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St.Petersburg State University decided not to expel 20 students detained at peaceful anti-war actions. Earlier, the Yabloko faction had spoken up in their defenсe.
Press Release, 5.04.2022 Photo by Creative Commons The St.Petersburg newspaper Fontanka reported that following the results of the meeting of the Rector and the staff at St Petersburg University, they decided not to expel 20 students who were detained at peaceful anti-war actions. Now the University plans only to administer reprimands to the students. On […]
Posted: April 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky signed an open appeal to the Russian Investigative Committee demanding to investigate the war crimes in Bucha, the Kyiv region
Press Release, 4.04.2022 Photo from the official website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, put his signature under an open appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, with a call to investigate the […]
Posted: April 4th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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