Archive for 'Environmental Policies'
Moscow Public Prosecutor to examine lawfulness of the decision on demolition of historical buildings
Press Release, 29.01.2015 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor of the city of Moscow Sergei Kudeneyev demanding to examine the information that the protocol of the Commission on Moscow urban development and historical heritage, which decided to demolish tenement Privalov’s historical houses in the centre of the city, was falsified.
Posted: January 30th, 2015 under Environmental Policies.
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Construction of waste incineration plant was cancelled
Press release, 14.01.2015 UPD.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered to cancel the construction of a waste incineration plant in the south-east of Moscow. YABLOKO will observe the development of the situation.
Posted: January 14th, 2015 under Environmental Policies.
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Where will they take radioactive waste from Angarsk?
Press Release, 04.12.2014 The Krasnoyarsk branch of YABLOKO’s environmental faction “Green Russia” has expressed its deep concern about the poor quality of the documents submitted for public discussion on the assessment of environmental impact of the project envisaging decommissioning of storage facilities of 310 OAO Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Complex.
Posted: December 7th, 2014 under YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Liquidation of the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus is the Adygei authorities’ crime
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 26.11.2014 The decision to liquidate the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus that has been taken by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Adygei is the revenge for the successful long-term activity of the organisation.
Posted: November 28th, 2014 under Environmental Policies, Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Vladimir Poutine réduit au silence les activistes écologistes russes
02.12.2014 La cour suprême de la république d’Adyguée dans le Nord Caucase russe a décidé le 21 novembre la liquidation de l’ONG écologiste russe Veille écologiste du Caucase du Nord. L’ONG intervient pour la préservation de l’environnement de la région de Krasnodar et de Sotchi dans le Caucase russe. Elle avait alerté l’opinion publique russe […]
Posted: November 7th, 2014 under Environmental Policies.
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YABLOKO participated in rally against dog hunters in Blagoveshchensk
Press Release, 20.10.2014 The Blagoveshchensk branch of YABLOKO participated in a rally in support of the journalists who had been attacked by dog hunters and demanded to cancel the municipal contracts with dog hunters company.
Posted: October 22nd, 2014 under Environmental Policies, Street Actions.
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Court left Vitishko in colony
Press Release, 24.09.2014 The Krasnodar regional court dismissed the Krasnosar regional prosecutor’s citation on cancelation of the decision to turn the suspended sentence to Evgeny Vitishko into a full tree year jail term. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin who was present at the court hearing announced about this decision.
Posted: September 24th, 2014 under Environmental Policies, Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: There’s no bicycle infrastructure in Moscow
Press Release, 22.09.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin went to work by bicycle on the International Car-Free Day, September 22. He rode about 12 kilometers through the centre of Moscow and came to the conclusion that “there’s no bicycle infrastructure in Moscow, only separate PR-fragments”.
Posted: September 22nd, 2014 under Environmental Policies, Street Actions.
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Court hearing on Evgeny Vitishko case postponed till August 4
Press Release, 16.07.2014 The court hearing on Evgeny Vitishko case was postponed till August 4 since the Tambov penal colony settlement No 2 didn’t manage to provide conference communication with Vitishko. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin who arrived at the court hearing announced about this.
Posted: July 17th, 2014 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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A true Hero of Russia
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 03.07.2014 Today is the birthday of Yevgeny Vitishko. If our country was headed by a true patriot, he would have definitely awarded Yevgeny Vitishko with the ‘Hero of Russia’ Star. However, then Vitishko would not have been in a penal colony, and thus part of his heroic […]
Posted: July 8th, 2014 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO’s Suren Gazaryan awarded Goldman Environmental Prize
Press Release, 30.04.2014 YABLOKO’s Suren Gazaryan was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. The ceremony took place in San-Francisco on April 28.
Posted: April 30th, 2014 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO picketed Russian Atomic Energy Agency
Press Release, 28.04.2014 Today, on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, YABLOKO’s activists conducted the annual picket outside the Russian Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom).
Posted: April 27th, 2014 under Environmental Policies, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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YABLOKO conducted picketing against nickel mining
Press Release, 22.04.2014 YABLOKO conducted a series of one-person pickets outside the Natural Resources Ministry against nickel mining in the Voronezh region on the Earth Day, April 22. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Chair of the Voronezh branch of YABLOKO Tatyana Shkred participated in the cation.
Posted: April 22nd, 2014 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Conference “Unsolved environmental problems of Moscow and the Moscow region” took place in Moscow
Press Release, photographs, 05. 04. 2014 The second theoretical and practical conference called “The unsolved environmental problems of Moscow and the Moscow region” where YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Chair of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction Alexei Yablokov participated was conducted in Moscow.
Posted: April 8th, 2014 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Sergei Mitrokhin inspected Northwest chord road and problem construction objects in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district
Press Release, photograph, 25.03.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Irina Kopkina inspected the Northwest chord and found out that the contraction was frozen. The residents of the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district showed the cutover square and an illegal parking space to YABLOKO’s representatives.
Posted: March 27th, 2014 under Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO Bureau member conducted picket in support of Vitishko and Gazaryan
Press Release, 26.03.2014 YABLOKO’s Bureau member, the Green Russia faction’s activist Dmitry Rybakov conducted a series of one-person pickets in support of the ecologists Evgeny Vitishko and Suren Gazaryan in Petrozavodsk, on March 25.
Posted: March 27th, 2014 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Charity concert in support of Evgeny Vitishko conducted in Sochi
Press Release, 12.03.2014 A concert in support of Evgeny Vitishko took place in Sochi. His friends and colleagues gathered in an informal setting.The event took place despite the pressure on behalf of the authorities, said the organisers.
Posted: March 14th, 2014 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO conducted actions in support of Vitishko in the regions of Russia
Press Release, March 7, 2014 YABLOKO’s branches in Volgograd, Voronezh and Sosnovy Bor (the Leningrad region) conducted pickets and actions in support of the imprisoned environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko on March 7. Volgograd
Posted: March 9th, 2014 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO’s activists participated in international action “Free Evgeny Vitishko!”
Press Release, 03.03.2014 Activists of Amnesty International, Ecooborona and YABLOKO expressed protest against the sentence to Evgeny Vitishko. The international action “Free Evgeny Vitishko!” began on February 28. Rallies, pickets and flash mobs will take place in different cities of the world over a period of seven days. The goal of the action is to […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2014 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Action in support of Evgeny Vitishko conducted in Nizhny Novgorod
Press Release, 05.03.2014 A series of one-person pickets in support of Evgeny Vitishko was conducted in Nizhny Novgorod within the international action week “Free Vitishko!”. YABLOKO’s members and environmental activists participated in the action.
Posted: March 3rd, 2014 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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