Archive for 'Protection of Environment'
Activists handed 107,000 signatures to the Governor of Voronezh Region against nickel extraction
Press Release, 27.01.2017 On 25 January environmental activists of the Russian Black Earth area handed to Alexei Gordeyev Governor of the Voronezh Region, 107,000 signatures against the extraction of nickel in the region. Viktor Hlebostroyev, Deputy Chairman of the Voronezh branch of YABLOKO, participated in the action.
Posted: January 30th, 2017 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO activists in Kaliningrad attacked during a protest action
Press release, 25.01.2017 Today YABLOKO activists and Ivan Privalov, Chair of the Baltiysk city branch of YABLOKO, have been attacked during a protest action against conversion of recreation land, dunes, coast protection boards into development area.
Posted: January 25th, 2017 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Street Actions.
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“Yablokov defeated death because thousands of people carry on his vision”
Press release, 13.01.2017 A farewell ceremony for Alexei Yablokov, leader of the Green Russia faction of the party, an outstanding scientist and politician, was held in Moscow. The civil funeral took place at the ceremonial hall of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Alexei Yablokov had been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences for […]
Posted: January 16th, 2017 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demands explanations of the arrests of civil activists defending their park from expropriation by the Russian Orthodox Church
Press Release, 14.11.2016 On 14 November at 6 a.m., police arrested ten families (including children) of the activists defending Torfyanka Park in North-East Moscow form expropriation by the Russian Orthodox Church. Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, has forwarded inquiries to Alexander Drymanov, head of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee […]
Posted: November 14th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO heads mass-scale protest against development of a national park in Moscow
Press Release, 11.11.2016 On 10 November, public hearings held in the Yaroslavsky district, Moscow, demonstrated that residents rejected he project of building up the territory adjacent to Losiniy Ostrov (the “moose island”), a national park in the north-east of Moscow. Sergei Mitrokhin, Chairman of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, participated in the hearings.
Posted: November 11th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Activists of the Moscow Youth YABLOKO took part in a rally against cruely to animals
Press Release, 07.11.2016 On 5 November, activists of the Moscow Youth YABLOKO participated in the All-Russian rally against cruelty to animals organised by the Zoopomosch (Zoo Aid) group for protection of animals. The action as orgnised in protest to abuse of animals that became known after young people in Khabarovsk videoed their torturing and killing […]
Posted: November 8th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko Youth.
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Alexei Yablokov, Chair of the party’s Green Russia Faction, awarded the Bruno Schubert Prize for environmental protection
Press Release, 25.10.2016 Alexei Yablokov, Chair of the party’s Green Russia Faction, was awarded a prestigious German prize for environmental protection and fight against the risks connected with the development of the nuclear energy sector – the Bruno Schubert Prize.
Posted: October 25th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Letter by Alexei Yablokov, Chair of the YABLOKO Green Russia Faction, on awarding him the Bruno Schubert Prize
25.10.2016 Dear colleagues, First of all, I am very grateful to the Kuratorium of the Bruno Schubert Prize for awarding me with such a prestigious prize.
Posted: October 25th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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A picket against polluting production held in Sochi
Press Release, 09.10.2016 A one-person picket against polluting production of Electozink was held by Atsamaz Khadikov, leader of the North-Ossetian branch of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction and activist of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch. The picket was held by the city out-patient clinic on the 7th of October and caught attention of many people.
Posted: October 11th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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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 Youth of St.Petersburg inspected a park
Press release, 16.08.206 Alexandra Cherenko, a candidate for deputy of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, and the activists of St.Petersburg YABLOKO Youth inspected a park in the Pushkinsky district and had a meeting with the local residents.
Posted: August 16th, 2016 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO supports a protest action of the residents of Nizhny Novgorod
Press release, 29.07.2016 On July 29, the residents of the Kuzhnechikha district, Nizhny Novgorov, conducted a rally against the construction in the area. YABLOKO supported the local residents. About 150 people participated in the protest action.
Posted: August 1st, 2016 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Once again we are facing the Chernobyl threat
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 26.04.2016 Today marks 30 years since the Chernobyl tragedy, which in many aspects has been still going on.
Posted: April 26th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Moscow YABLOKO opposes the cut of children allowances for Chernobyl victims’ families
Press release, 25.04.2016 On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Moscow YABLOKO conducted a rally against the cut of children allowance for the Chernobyl victims’ families. The actions of protest were held by YABLOKO in Moscow and other cities of Russia.
Posted: April 25th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Alexei Yablokov: Chernobyl is still beside us
Press release, 22.04.2016 The consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are noticeable even 30 years after, Adviser in the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction Alexei Yablokov says. Today he has launched his book “Chernobyl: Сonsequences of the Disaster for People and Nature” at Interfax.
Posted: April 23rd, 2016 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Russia needs a dialogue with the European Union
Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, 05.05.2015 On 10 May German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes to Moscow to pay tribute to all the Soviet soldiers who fought in World War II and to honor the memory of all the killed Soviet citizens.
Posted: May 7th, 2015 under Protection of Environment, Russia-Eu relations.
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Chita branch of YABLOKO conducted picketing for protection of green spaces
Press release, 05.05.2015 The Chita branch of YABLOKO conducted picketing for protection of green spaces in the city, against tree cutting and for resignation of local housing and utilities companies managers.
Posted: May 7th, 2015 under Protection of Environment.
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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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