Archive for 'Russia-Eu relations'
Boris Vishnevsky on Vladimir Putin’s article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians” of July 2021, and the Russian parliamentary elections of 2021 as a lost chance to prevent the 24th of February
Boris Vishnevsky’s Telegram Channel VishNevskoyoeVremya, 12.07.2022 Exactly one year ago, on 12 July, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians”. It actually denied Ukraine’s right to statehood and sovereignty. It stated that the Ukrainian state had no right to a significant part of its territories, which […]
Posted: July 19th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Russia-2022: Underlying Causes
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 2.06.2022 The most important specific of Russian national disasters is that they can all be attributed to the inadequate capability documented in culture to respond adequately to the challenges of history. Alexander Akhiezer1 In order to understand what has happened in Russia and before we even attempt to contemplate what comes next, […]
Posted: July 4th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“From Dublin to Vladivostok, we are all Europeans.” Members of the European Parliament addressed the Russian society
Press Release, 5.04.2022 Photo by Vladimir Sergeyev / RIA Novosti Members of the European Parliament addressed the people of Russia, reassuring Russian citizens that no one either threatens the country, or wishes it harm, and called for the completion of the “special operation” in Ukraine. The appeal was signed by the leaders of the Renew […]
Posted: April 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The ALDE party, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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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 Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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