Archive for 'Foreign policy'
“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 causes of the national catastrophe
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No. 153, dated 15 April, 2022 Published on 21 April, 2022 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant The Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko regards the events taking place since February 24 as the collapse of the post-Soviet Russian statehood. What has happened resulted from the […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2022 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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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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A criminal case for criticising the authorities filed in Kemerovo against a former Yabloko candidate for the State Duma
Press Release, 19.04.2022 Photo: Vyacheslav Chernov / Photo from social networks On 18 April, the Investigative Committee of the Kemerovo Region, basing on a report from the deputy head of the regional Centre for Counteracing Extremism, opened a criminal case against Vyacheslav Chernov, a civil activist, entrepreneur, and a candidate for the State Duma from […]
Posted: April 21st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko applied for demonstrations “For Peace!” in Moscow and five other cities on 1 May
Press Release, 20.04.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko has applied for May Day demonstrations “For Peace!” in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Miass and Magnitogorsk. In Moscow, the applicants for the action were Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, and Andrei Morev, head of […]
Posted: April 20th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “The main purpose of the party’s work today is to stop the bloodshed”.
Press Release, 16.04.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service At the beginning of his speech at the 21st Party Congress, Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov drew the delegates’ attention to a printed replica of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, which was placed on the wall instead of the traditional banner with Yabloko party symbols. “Today’s fate of […]
Posted: April 20th, 2022 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, 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, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg fined 32,000 roubles for posting a video with the protest action of Marina Ovsyannikova on Channel One
Press Release, 18.04.2022 Photo: Zhanna Shlosberg-Kozlovich and Lev Shlosberg / Photo from social networks Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, and his wife Zhanna were fined 32,000 and 30,000 roubles, respectively, for “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”. This decision was […]
Posted: April 19th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A criminal case for “fakes” filed in Abakan, Khakassia, against Mikhail Afanasyev, journalist and a Yabloko member
Press Release, 14.04.2022 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A criminal case has been filed against Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party and Editor-in-Chief of the Novy Focus media in Abakan, Khakiassia. The Criminal case is filed under Article 207.3, Part 2, Paragraph “a”, of the Criminal Code of […]
Posted: April 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov turned to law enforcement agencies because of the attack on Dmitry Muratov
Press Release, 13.04.2022 Photo by Novaya Gazeta.Europe Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov appealed to the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs, the Public Prosecutor General, and the heads of the Investigative Committee and the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in connection with the attack on Dmitry Muratov, Editor-in-Chief […]
Posted: April 13th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Alexander Shishlov: I am urging police officers to serve only the law and the people – as the law requires
Press Release, 13.04.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, spoke at the Legislative Assembly about functioning of the law enforcement. He emphasized the importance of their strict observance of the rights […]
Posted: April 13th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova, head of the Yabloko branch in the Novgorod region, on by-elections to the Novgord City Duma of 10 April
Anna Cherepanova’s blog post, 13.04.2022 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yaboko Press Service The key things on the by-elections to the Duma of Novgorod on 10 April:
Posted: April 13th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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