Archive for 'Environmental Policies'
Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office punish animal abusers from the DogTown shelter in Chekhov, the Moscow region
Press Release, 16.09.2025 Photo: Conditions at the DogTown shelter / Photo from the Mona Telegram channel Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, demanding punishment for animal abusers – the owners of the DogTown dog shelter.
Posted: September 18th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Judiciary, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko party chairman Nikolai Rybakov travelled to the Pskov Region to support Yabloko candidates in the municipal elections
Press Release, 7.09.2025 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov with candidate for Pskov City Duma in district No. 3 Andrei Tsatsenko during door-to-door campaining in Pskov On 2 and 3 September, Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, together with head of the party Analytical Centre Ivan Bolshakov and head of the party staff Yevgenia Vlasova, visited the Pskov Region […]
Posted: September 10th, 2025 under Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko programme for 14 September 2025 elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 14.08.2025 Novgorod Yabloko published its programme for the regional and local elections in the Novgorod Region due on 14 September 2025. The Novgorod branch of the party states that Yabloko is participating in the elections in order to achieve the following goals:
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The threat humanity faces again. Yabloko hosted a screening and discussion of the film “Children of Hiroshima”
Press Release, 7.08.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 August, on the tragic 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow hosted a screening of the documentary film by Japanese film director Kaneto Shindo “Children […]
Posted: August 7th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: Yabloko candidates at elections of any level conduct a political campaign on the key issue of the country’s development
RIA Tomsk, 24.07.2025 Interview by Valentina Ankudinova Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko party has determined candidates for elections to the Tomsk City Duma, which will take place in September. On the eve, a pre-election conference took place in the city, attended by party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov. In an […]
Posted: July 24th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Parties, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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A voice for Peace and Freedom will be heard in Kostroma City Duma elections
Press Release, 15.07.2025 Photo: Alexander Lazutin / Photo from the personal archive Yabloko has nominated Alexander Lazutin, Chairman of the Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko and General Director of the agricultural enterprise Shunga, as a candidate for the Kostroma City Duma elections. The candidate has three days left to collect 50 signatures in support of […]
Posted: July 15th, 2025 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Natural Resources of Udmurtia will provide Yabloko with data on the quality of drinking water in Izhevsk
Press Release, 18.06.2025 Photo: Izhevsk Pond / Photo by Vyacheslav Bukharov, Wikimedia Commons The appeal to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic of Udmurtia was sent on the initiative of Elizaveta Khusnutdinova, a member of the regional Bureau of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia. Yabloko is requesting information about the quality of water […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Talevlin on Chernobyl Tragedy Remembrance Day: Humanity is not ready for full-scale use of nuclear energy
Blog post by Andrei Talevlin, 25.04.2025 Due to the explosion of the RBMK-1000 reactor (uranium-graphite channel type reactor) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 39 years ago, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory in the former Soviet Union and other countries were contaminated with hazardous materials. As a result, a significant number of […]
Posted: April 25th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin held a meeting-lecture on the organisation of civil society in counteracting the merger of business and government
Press Release, 22.04.2025 Can citizens safely and effectively resist the oligarchic system while protecting their rights? Sergei Mitrokhin’s answer is “yes, they can”. Sergei Mitrokhin, the second Chairman of Yabloko, a deputy of the State Duma of three convocations and a deputy of the Moscow City Duma of two convocations, spoke at a meeting in […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host Sergei Mitrokhin’s lecture on organization of civil society
Press Release, 10.04.2025 Photo from Sergei Mitrokhin’s Telegram channel On 17 April, Yabloko will host a lecture by the second Chairman of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin on “Organisation of Civil Society in Counteracting the Merger of Business and Power”. Sergei Mitrokhin will explain how the oligarchic system affects the rights of Moscow residents and will demonstrate […]
Posted: April 10th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Protection of Environment, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Federal bill on killing animals is being considered by the parliaments in Russian regions. Yabloko appeals to deputies with a request not to support cruelty
Press Release, 17.03.2025 Photo by zastavkin/depositphotos In late February, a bill “On Responsible Treatment of Animals” was introduced to the State Duma. It gives the right to the Russian regions to independently set the time limits for keeping homeless animals in shelters, after which cats and dogs will be euthanised. The State Duma will make […]
Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An alternative plan for constructing a road in the Moscow region, developed by Yabloko’s Kirill Yankov, has been sent to the Russian government
Press Release, 18.02.2025 Photo: Kirill Yankov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service An alternative plan for a new entrance to the city of Korolyov, developed by Kirill Yankov, a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation and a member of the Party Arbitration of the Yabloko party, […]
Posted: February 20th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Omsk Yabloko proposed measures to improve work with stray animals at a meeting with the Vice-Governor of the region
Press Release, 4.02.2025 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov with Tatyana Schneider and members of Omsk Yabloko at an animal shelter in Omsk, 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Tatyana Schneider, Chair of the Omsk regional branch of the Yabloko party, met with the First Deputy Governor Dmitry Ushakov to discuss the problems of handling stray […]
Posted: February 5th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko applied to the Public Prosecutor General over the Moscow authorities’ decision to liquidate the status of specially protected natural areas in Moscow
Press Release, 21.01.2025 Photo: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin / Photo by Yuri Martyanov, Kommersant Resolution of the Moscow Government No. 3160-PP on the transformation of specially protected natural areas of regional significance into specially protected green areas deprives all 146 protected areas in Moscow of their special nature conservation status. This status, in accordance with […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Liquidation of specially protected natural areas is the path to the destruction of parks and gardens in Moscow
Statement by the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 21.01.2025 Photo: Moscow residents at a meeting with Moscow City Duma deputies from Yabloko in the Sokolniki park, Moscow, April 2024. Then the deputies managed to stop illegal construction works in the park / Photo from social media On 27 December, 2024, the Decree of the Moscow government, […]
Posted: January 21st, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko supported the humane programme of treating stray animals at the round table of animal rights activists in Murmansk
Press Release, 24.12.2024 On 21 December, Vyacheslav Paikachev, Chairman of the Murmansk regional branch of the Yabloko party, and Igor Khomechko, a member of the branch, took part in the round table of animal rights activists on the topic “The Murmansk Region for the Return of the Concept of Catch-Sterilisation-Vaccination-Return”. The concept Catch-Sterilisation-Vaccination-Return imply no […]
Posted: December 26th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands that Vladimir Putin introduce a federal emergency regime due to the environmental disaster in the Krasnodar Territory
Press Release, 23.12.2024 The corresponding appeal to the President of Russia was sent by Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, referring to the Federal Law No. 68-FZ “On the Protection of the Population and Territories from Emergencies of Natural and Man-Made Nature” dated 21.12.1994. “According to the law, it must be introduced in situations […]
Posted: December 26th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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After two years of litigation, the seizure of the St.Petersburg branch of the society for the protection of of architectural heritage was declared illegal. One of the plaintiffs was Yabloko Deputy Chair Boris Vishnevsky
Press Release, 16.12.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky by the VOOPIK office / Photo by the St.Petersbrug branch of Yabloko The City Court of St. Petersburg upheld the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court on the illegal holding of a conference of the St.Petersburg branch of VOOPIK (All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments). […]
Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia did not support the budget of Karelia for 2025 in the first reading. Deputy Emilia Slabunova innumerates the reasons
Press Release, 14.11.2024 Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 14 November, the Legislative Assembly of Karelia considered the draft budget of the Republic of Karelia for 2025 in the first reading. The Yabloko faction voted against adopting the document. The head of the faction Emilia Slabunova notes that only the […]
Posted: November 15th, 2024 under Education and Science, Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Moscow Yabloko demands to open a criminal case on the attack on environmental activist Ivan Shchekin in the Moscow region
Press Release, 13.11.2024 Photo: Ivan Shchekin after the attack on him in the Romashkinsky forest / Photo by Sergei Utrishsky The Regional Bureau of Moscow Yabloko sent an appeal to the chief of the Moscow region police Viktor Ishchenko. The appeal was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chair of the Moscow Yabloko. On 5 November, […]
Posted: November 13th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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