Archive for 'Foreign policy'
Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko, fined 30,000 roubles for repost of a video from Novaya Gazeta
Press Release, 13.04.2022 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from social networks On April 13, the judge of the Yakutsk City Court found found Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko, guilty of “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation” and fined him 30,000 roubles.
Posted: April 13th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky signed a bailment for the artist Alexandra Skochilenko, accused of “spreading fake news about the armed forces”
Press Release, 12.04.2022 Photo: Alexandra Skochilenko / Stihi.ru Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, signed a bailment for the artist Alexandra Skochilenko, who, according to the investigation, “spread false information about the Russian army”. Vishnevsky sent a guarantee letter to the Vasileostrovskiy District […]
Posted: April 12th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Goncharenko, leader of the Altai branch of Yabloko, convicted on the charge of “discrediting the armed forces”
Press Release, 12.04.2022 Photo: Alexander Goncharenko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 11 April, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Barnaul found Alexander Goncharenko, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Altai regional branch of Yabloko, guilty under a new article on “discrediting the armed forces of […]
Posted: April 12th, 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’s Ksenia Cherepanova came second in the by-elections to the Novgorod City Duma
Press Release, 12.04.2022 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo from social networks The results of the by-elections for a mandate of the Novgorod City Duma of the sixth convocation in single-mandate constituency No. 3, for which the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party nominated Ksenia Cherepanova, have been summed up.
Posted: April 12th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Oksana Vladyka, head of the Yabloko branch in Arkhangelsk, received seven days of arrest for disobeying the police
Press Release, 11.04.2022 Photo: Oksana Vladyka / Photo from social networks It was reported today that Oksana Vladyka, the head of the Yabloko branch in Arkhangelsk and human rights activist, was detained in Arkhangelsk. The detention was connected with a protocol drawn up against her under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“disobedience […]
Posted: April 11th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Rospotrebnadzor refuses to lift the restriction on holding public events in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 8.04.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yelena Smirnova, acting head of the St. Petersburg Rospotrebnazdor (the Russian consumer safety watchdog), sent a response to the request of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly to lift the existing ban on holding public events in St. Petersburg. The St.Petersburg department of Rospotrebnazdor […]
Posted: April 8th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky asked the Investigative Committee of Russia to check Timofei Sergeytsev’s article entitled “What Russia should do to Ukraine” for violation of the legal norms banning inciting hatred and calls for unleashing an aggressive war
Press Release, 6.04.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky/ Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg, believes that the publication by Timofei Sergeytsev’s entitled “What Russia should do to Ukraine” violates two articles of the Criminal […]
Posted: April 7th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“I didn’t see any cases of violation of the rights of the child, but this is a reason to think about it”
St. Petersburg Ombudsperson for Children’s Rights answers Yabloko’s question about inadmissibility of involving children in actions supporting the “special operation” Press Release, 6.04.2022 Photo: Anna Mityanina / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of […]
Posted: April 7th, 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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St.Petersburg State University decided not to expel 20 students detained at peaceful anti-war actions. Earlier, the Yabloko faction had spoken up in their defenсe.
Press Release, 5.04.2022 Photo by Creative Commons The St.Petersburg newspaper Fontanka reported that following the results of the meeting of the Rector and the staff at St Petersburg University, they decided not to expel 20 students who were detained at peaceful anti-war actions. Now the University plans only to administer reprimands to the students. On […]
Posted: April 5th, 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, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky signed an open appeal to the Russian Investigative Committee demanding to investigate the war crimes in Bucha, the Kyiv region
Press Release, 4.04.2022 Photo from the official website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, put his signature under an open appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, with a call to investigate the […]
Posted: April 4th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov calls to international investigation of killings of civilians in Bucha and brining the perpetrators to justice
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 4.04.2022 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov called to international investigation of killings of civilians in Bucha and demanded to bring the perpetrators to justice. “I am shocked by the horrifying photographs of murdered civilians from the town of Bucha in the Kyiv region. There are no and cannot be any justifications for […]
Posted: April 4th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Stop killing Ukrainians and stop killing Russian soldiers. Stop it!”
Youtube channel Zhivoi Gvozd (Live Nail), complete transcript and English susbtitles in the video, 19.03.2022 Vitaly Dymarsky: Since I was instructed, Grigory Alexeyevich, to ask you the first question… Grigory Yavlinsky: Yes, please. Vitaly Dymarsky: But I have two of them. Absolutely hackneyed: “who is to blame?” and “what to do?”. Where do we start? […]
Posted: March 30th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy.
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The Chairman of the local branch of Yabloko in Novgorod is accused of “spreading false information” about the “special operation”
Press Release, 30.03.2022 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo from social networks Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, was charged with an administrative offense under Article 13.15, Part 9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation – “dissemination of knowingly unreliable socially significant information under the […]
Posted: March 30th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A protocol on a violation under the article on “discrediting the armed forces” was drawn up against Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 30.03.2022 On 24 February, two weeks before the adoption of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses introducing liability for “discrediting the use of the Russian armed forces”, Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko, posted on his VKontakte social media page a picture with two words, the first of which […]
Posted: March 30th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“The state protects its own values”. St.Petersburg Ombudsperson answers the questions of the Yabloko faction about the expulsion of students for their participation in anti-war actions
Press Release, 30.03.2022 Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg from the Yabloko faction, held a debate with Svetlana Agapitova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, about the expulsion of students for their participation in anti-war actions. The question was asked during the Ombudsperson’s annual report to the St.Petersburg parliament. Boris […]
Posted: March 30th, 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, Без рубрики.
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The authorities of the Chelyabinsk region had to permit public events after the law suit of the Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 29.03.2022 Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov and Vasily Moskovets / Photo from social networks On 28 March, the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region signed an order to lift coronavirus restrictions, in particular, an unconstitutional ban on holding public events. The suddenly issued order at the end of the working day and after the official registration […]
Posted: March 29th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The website of Lev Shlosberg and the page of Emilia Slabunova on a social network Vkontakte were blocked on the order of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office
Press Release, 28.03.2022 Photo: Emilia Slabunova and Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Party Press Service On 27 March, the social network VKontakte blocked (https://vk.com/id15847921 ) the page of Emilia Slabunova, tMP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and a former Chairperson of […]
Posted: March 29th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky: I receive hundreds of appeals from voters asking me to do everything possible to stop the bloodshed
Press Release, 28.03.2022 Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, spoke on the air of the Partburo programme about the problems that St. Petersburg residents have most often addressed to him. Vishnevsky said that topics of great concern to the residents of the city were […]
Posted: March 29th, 2022 under Economy, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Russia is committing suicide”
Forum24, Czech Republic, 25.03.2022 Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Petr Hlaváček Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky. February 2019 / Photo: by the Yabloko Party Press Service On 13 March, Grigory Yavlinsky gave an interview to the Czech media Forum24. The leader of the Yabloko party spoke about the situation in Russia against the backdrop of hostilities in […]
Posted: March 28th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Activists of the Kemerovo branch Yabloko received fines for single pacifist pickets
Press Release, 25.03.2022 The Zavodskoy District Court of Kemerovo found Yabloko’s Alexander Kalashnik and Nikolai Kovalchuk guilty of violating the procedure for holding mass events in Kemerovo. They received fines of 3,000 roubles and 1,000 roubles, respectively, under Article 20.6.1, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. On February 27, […]
Posted: March 28th, 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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