Archive for 'Environmental Policies'
The Irkutsk branch of Yabloko called on the authorities to take urgent measures to extinguish forest fires in Siberia and the Far East
Press Release, 7.08.2019 Members of the Irkutsk regional branch of the Yabloko party held single-person pickets. The action was dedicated to forest fires raging in Siberia, including in the Irkutsk region and Yakutia. Yabloko activists called on the authorities to take urgent measures to deal with the environmental disaster.
Posted: August 8th, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko activists from the Krasnoyarsk branch of the party rally for resignation of Governor
Press Release, 5.08.2019 Yabloko activists from the Krasnoyarsk branch of the party took part in the rally for resignation of Alexander Uss, Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The discontent of more than two thousand people who came out to rally in Krasnoyarsk was caused by the lack of actions by the authorities in the situation […]
Posted: August 5th, 2019 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Emilia Slabunova filed a complaint with the Presidential Council for Culture on the fact that studio of film director Mikhalkov plans to film a fire in a historical wooden village in Karelia
Press Release, 18.06.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, filed a complaint with Karen Shakhnazarov, Vice Chairman of the Council for Culture and Arts under the President of Russia, on the fact that studio of film director Nikita Mikhalkov plans to film a fire in the […]
Posted: June 18th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “It is not profitable for a regional operator to introduce separate collection of grabage”
Press Release, 24.05.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman and environmentalist, visited Kostroma on 23 May. Rybakov met with Valentina Yamshchikova, deputy of the Kostroma City Council and Co-Chair of the regional ecological movement “In the Name of Life”. Rybakov and Yamshchikova discussed environmental problems of the Kostroma region and environmental protection measures implemented in the […]
Posted: May 27th, 2019 under Protection of Environment, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko held an all-Russia action in memory of the victims of the Chernobyl tragedy
Press Release, 26.04.2018 n 26 April, turns 33 years since one of the largest disasters in the history of the nuclear industry – the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. About 400 million people worldwide were exposed to radiation. According to experts, up to 830,000 people were directly or indirectly involved in liquidation of […]
Posted: April 30th, 2019 under Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Nikolay Rybakov will meet with the democratic public in Kemerovo
Press Release, 25.04.2019 On 26 April, Friday, Nikolai Rybakov, politician, environmentalist, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, will arrive in Kemerovo. During the visit, Rybakov will meet with members and supporters of the party, as well as with urban environmental activists.
Posted: April 26th, 2019 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan was one of the initiators of the republican referendum on garbage landfill facilities
Press Release, 25.04.2019 A meeting of the initiative group on holding a referendum in Tatarstan on the need to hold local referendums in the constructing waste management facilities with a capacity of more than 40,000 tons per year was held by the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan. The initiative group included twenty-five residents of the Republic […]
Posted: April 26th, 2019 under Elections, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko will launch a rally in memory of the Chernobyl tragedy in Moscow and the regions
Press Release, 25.04.2019 On 26 April, turns 33 years since one of the largest disasters in the history of the nuclear industry – the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. About 400 million people worldwide were exposed to radiation. According to experts, up to 830,000 people were directly or indirectly involved in liquidation of […]
Posted: April 26th, 2019 under Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Yabloko Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov met with students in Bryansk and Volgograd
Press Release, 23.04.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, as an expert on the environmental organisation Bellona, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and environmentalist, gave a lecture to the students in Bryansk and Volgograd.
Posted: April 26th, 2019 under Protection of Environment.
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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 Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko demanded from regional Public Prosecutor to investigate fraud with land in the city of Baltiysk
Press Release, 16.04.2019 Photo: Sergei Dustin at his one-person picket. Sergei Dustin, member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, picketed the Kaliningrad Oblast Public Prosecutor’s Office with a placard “Does Baltiysk need a blind Public Prosecutor?” The activist called on the supervisory authority to pay attention to the inaction of Dmitry Prokhorov, Public Prosecutor of […]
Posted: April 18th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko activists sentence to fines of 47,000 roubles and 90 hours of compulsory community service for an anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk
Press Release, 11.04.2019 Photo: the rally in Arkhangelsk Trials over participants and organisers of the rally against the plans of the authorities to create landfills in the Arkhangelsk region for the storage of Moscow garbage go on for the second day. Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk, was assigned […]
Posted: April 12th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment.
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Deputy Chair of the Arkhangelsk branch of Yabloko fined 16,000 roubles for participation in the anti-garbage rally and Yabloko’s organiser of the action faces the second arrest
Press Release, 10.04.2019 Prosecution of the organisers and participants of the anti-garbage rally of 7 April goes on in Arkhangelsk. On the evening of 10 April, Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the environmental protest in Arkhangelsk and member of the Regional Council of the Yabloko party, was detained for the third time.
Posted: April 11th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko held a rally against the “garbage reform” in Yekaterinburg
Yabloko Deputy Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in the rally Press Release, 8.04.2019 On Sunday, 7 April, a rally against the “garbage reform” was held in Yekaterinburg. The action was organized by the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party. Residents are dissatisfied with the unreasonable increase of tariffs for waste disposal and lack of […]
Posted: April 10th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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The organiser of the Arkhangelsk anti-garbage rally from Yabloko arrested for three days
Press Release, 8.04.2019 On the evening of 7 April, the court of the Lomonosovsky district of Arkhangelsk arrested Yury Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk and member of the Yabloko party, for three days.
Posted: April 9th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko to Prime Minister Medvedev: We need to develop a programme to identify diseases related to unfavourable environmental situation
Press Release, 4.04.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, offered to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to set up a state programme to identify diseases related to unfavourable environmental situation. According to Slabunova, the data on these diseases will ensure truly sustainable development of the territories, adequate goals and objectives for the health care system, […]
Posted: April 5th, 2019 under Protection of Environment.
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“Golden Pen 2018”Award: Yabloko’s Lina Zernova won the special prize “For High Quality of Journalistic Work”
Press Release, 25.03.2019 The ceremony of the “Golden Pen – 2018” award for journalists took place in St. Petersburg. Lina Zernova, member of Yabloko St. Petersburg and Co-Chair of the Guild of Environmental Journalists of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, won the special prize of the for High Quality […]
Posted: March 26th, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment, Без рубрики.
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The Altai branch of Yabloko will monitor the progress of “garbage reform” in the region
Press Release, 21.03.2019 Alexander Goncharenko, leader of the Altai branch of Yabloko, sent appeals to Ivan Gilev, Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Altai Territory, as well as to Vladimir Popryadukhin, regional Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, asking them to answer a number of questions about the “garbage reform” that […]
Posted: March 21st, 2019 under Protection of Environment.
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Natalia Tumureyeva: Russia needs a law on environmental education
Press Release, 21.03.2019 Natalya Tumureyeva, Chairperson of the Yabloko in Biryatia, became a participant in the meeting of the heads of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, with environmental activists from Russian regions. The meeting was attended by Ivan Valentik, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, and representatives of 80 […]
Posted: March 21st, 2019 under Protection of Environment.
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The Rostov-Don branch of Yabloko demanded from the authorities to publish information about the volume of garbage accumulated by the region for the past two years
Press Release, 19.03.2019 The Rostov-Don branch of Yabloko sent inquiries to the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage (Rosprirodnadzor) in the Southern Federal District and the Minister of Nature Management and Ecology of the Rostov-Don Region. The regional office of the party demanded to provide information on the volume of municipal solid waste […]
Posted: March 21st, 2019 under Environmental Policies.
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