Archive for 'Foreign policy'
A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva will be launched on 31 May
Press Release, 20.05.2022 A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind. How and Why Russia Failed to Become a Law-Governed State” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva will be launched in the Moscow office of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg. 2) on Tuesday, 31 May, at 18:00.
Posted: May 20th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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The Pskov Regional Court ruled out that the searches in Lev Shlosberg’ and Yabloko activists’ homes were illegal
Press Release, 19.05.2022 The Pskov Regional Court satisfied the complaint by Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, Nikolai Kuzmin, a municipal deputy, and Yekaterina Novikova, a member of the Yabloko Regional Council, against an illegal decision of the city court to open a […]
Posted: May 19th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky, Lev Shlosberg and five regional deputies from Yabloko vouched for Vladimir Kara-Murza in court
Press Release, 18.05.2022 Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, the Moscow City Court will consider the appeal of politician Vladimir Kara-Murza against the ruling of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow on the choice of a measure of restraint in the form of detention. Kara-Murza has been in jail since […]
Posted: May 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Court dismissed the charges of “discrediting the army” against Lyubov Zhiltsova, teacher and deputy from Yabloko in the Pskov region
Press Release, 17.05.2022 Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova / Photo by pskov.yabloko.ru The Pechorsky District Court dismissed the case of “discrediting the army” against Lyubov Zhiltsova, a mathematics teacher and a deputy of the Palkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov Region from Yabloko. On 25 February, Lyubov Zhiltsova published on her personal page on the VKontakte network […]
Posted: May 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg fined for the second time under the article on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.05.2022 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Judge of the Pskov City Court found Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko, guilty of committing an administrative offense under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the […]
Posted: May 16th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist and a Yabloko member from Khakassia, will remain in custody detained until 13 June
Press Release, 13.05.2022 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Supreme Court of Khakassia left unsatisfied the appeal of the lawyers of Mikhail Afanasyev, Editor-in-Chief of the online media “Noviy Focus” in Khakassia, and a member of the Yabloko party, against the decision of the Abakan City Court on the measure […]
Posted: May 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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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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Home of Pavel Sychyov, Yabloko candidate for the State Duma, searched in Voronezh
Press Release, 9.05.2022 Photo: Pavel Sychyov / Photo from social networks The home of Pavel Sychyov, Yabloko candidate for the State Duma and a video blogger, was searched in Voronezh about 6 a.m. The search was carried out within the framework of a criminal case on terrorism – false reports about the mining of a […]
Posted: May 12th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“I believe in a new Russia but Putin is going nowhere”
Fierce critic of Putin and a former political opponent, Grigory Yavlinsky talks to Index about fear, lies and violence in today’s Russia Index on Censorship, 05 May 2022, BY JP O’MALLEY Russian politician, academic and economist Grigory Yavlinsky, who became known with his plan for a smooth transition from the Soviet regime to a free-market […]
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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A communist MP of the State Duma will ask the Moscow Mayor to deprive Yabloko’s Sergei Mitrokhin of his Moscow MP mandate for criticising Russia’s military operation
Press Release, 6.05.2022 On 17 May, Nina Ostanina, a communist MP of the State Duma, plans to ask the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a special meeting of the State Duma dedicated to Moscow deputies who disagreed with the special operation, to deprive them of their deputies’ mandates. According to Ostanina, Sergei Mitorkhin, Yabloko MP […]
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Police filed a protocol on “discrediting the army” against ex-Chair of the Saratov branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 6.05.2022 Photo: Ksenia Sverdlova /Photo from social networks A protocol on “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) was drawn up against Ksenia Sverdlova, ex-Chair of the Saratov regional branch of the Yabloko party.
Posted: May 6th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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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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The Yabloko branch in Miass, the Chelyabinsk region, held a May Day march “For Peace!”
Press Release, 4.05.2022 The local branch of Yabloko in Miass, the Chelyabinsk region, held a May Day march under the slogan “For Peace!”. Members and supporters of the Miass branch of Yabloko, together with activists of other socio-political organisations who joined Yabloko, marched through the centre of the city with a pacifist slogan written […]
Posted: May 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pskov municipal deputy Nikolai Kuzmin fined for publishing a video with the action of Marina Ovsyannikova during the broadcast of Channel One
Press Release, 5.05.2022 Photo: Nikolai Kuzmin / Photo from social networks The Pskov City Court fined Nikolai Kuzmin, a municipal deputy from Yabloko, 30,000 roubles under an article about “discrediting the actions of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.”
Posted: May 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg receives a second protocol of violation against him on “discrediting the armed forces”
Press Release, 27.04.2022 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A second protocol of violation under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation on “discrediting the armed forces” was drawn up against Lev Shlosberg, the leader of the Pskov Yabloko and a member of the […]
Posted: May 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the situation in Russia and the prospects of the Party
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No. 152, dated 15 April, 2022 Published on 21 April, 2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A great disaster on the scale of a national catastrophe, threatening the very existence of Russia, happened to our country. An authoritarian government acting according to Bolshevik models plunged Russia […]
Posted: April 26th, 2022 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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On the priority steps to bring to an end the killing of people in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No. 154, dated 15 April, 2022 Published on 21 April, 2022 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant The tragedy in Ukraine has been going on and even unfolding. No one now can and does not want to answer how many people have really died there. The UN data on […]
Posted: April 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Three administrative protocols at once drawn up against the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Novgorod
Press Release, 20.04.2022 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin /Photo from social networks On 20 April, Viktor Shalyakin, a member of the Regional Council of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko Party and the Chairman of the city branch of the party, got three protocols at once on an administrative offense. This was reported by Anna Cherepanova, the […]
Posted: April 21st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lyubov Zhiltsova, teacher and a deputy from Yabloko, will be tried in the Pskov region for a photo with a pacifist poster
Press Release, 20.04.2022 Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova / Photo by pskov.yabloko.ru On 25 February, Lyubov Zhiltsova, a deputy of the Palkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov Region from Yabloko, published on her personal page on the VKontakte socail network her photo with a sheet of paper with a slogan “No ** ***”. On 18 April, […]
Posted: April 21st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Views, Без рубрики.
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