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The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko is under pressure from the law enforcement
Chairman of the branch Vitaly Ilyin, activists Valentin Grushevsky, Alexander Kalashnik and Denis Shakin are under pressure Press Release, 12.03.2022 Photo: Vitaly Ilyin / Photo from social networks The Chairman of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko and activists of the regional branch were fired from their jobs and fined under the new “anti-war” article, also […]
Posted: March 16th, 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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Yabloko MPs in the St.Petersburg parliament Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky called for the abolition of laws imposing penalties for anti-war protests
Press Release, 15.03.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky sent an appeal to the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and deputies of the State Duma demanding to immediately cancel the amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian […]
Posted: March 15th, 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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The Moscow Mayor’s Office refused to give a permission to Yabloko for the march “For Peace!”
Press Release, 5.03.2022 Photo: Peace March in 2014. Moscow The Department of Regional Security of the Moscow government officially refused the Yabloko party to hold the march “For Peace!” both on 12 and 13 March.
Posted: March 5th, 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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Vladimir Beradze, a Yabloko member in Rostov-on-Don, arrested
Press Release, 4.03.2022 Photo: Vladimir Beradze / Photo from social networks On 3 March, the police in Rostov-on-Don detained Vladimir Beradze, a member of the Yabloko party. He is one of the applicants for the action “For Peace and Friendship Between Peoples”. The police approached Beradze in the street and checked his documents, and then […]
Posted: March 4th, 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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Kirill Rumyantsev, a Yabloko activist in Saratov, threatened with expulsion from the university for a picket for peace
Press Release, 4.03.2022 Photo: Kirill Rumyantsev during his single picket The Press Service of the Yabloko party received was a voice recording of a conversation between Kirill Rumyantsev, an activist of the party and a fourth year student of the Saratov State Law Academy, and Alexander Zemlyansky, the Director of the Academy’s Institute of Justice.
Posted: March 4th, 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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Yabloko appealed to the Red Cross and WHO calling them to give the party the opportunity to organise the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of the dead
Press Release, 3.03.2022 Photo by Marina Movdavskaya / Kommersant Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, International Red Cross President Peter Maurer, head of the Russian Red Cross Pavel Savchuk, and WHO representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic, urging them to provide an opportunity for Yabloko for practical […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Vologda branch of Yabloko notified the mayor’s office of a rally for peace
Press Release, 3.03.2022 The Vologda regional branch of the Yabloko party submitted a notification to the Vologda administration about holding a rally in Revolution Square, next to the Eternal Flame monument, on 12 March from 11:00 to 12:00. The purpose of the rally is to express the attitude towards the “special operation” in Ukraine. The […]
Posted: March 3rd, 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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The Pskov branch of Yabloko initiated a rally for 1,000 people
Press Release, 3.03.2022 Photo: Artur Gaiduk, Nikolai Kuzmin and Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party Deputies from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk (the Pskov Regional Assembly), Nikolai Kuzmin (the Assembly of Deputies of the Zavelichenskaya Volost of the Pskov District) and Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of the […]
Posted: March 3rd, 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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Unidentified people destroyed the office of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, where Yabloko was collecting signatures for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 2.03.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Unidentified persons broke into the office of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party at Bolshaya Pokrovskaya 7, on 2 March, at about 3:00 p.m. Eight people neutralised the security guard of the building, locked themselves in the office of the party along with […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko party calls that it immediately be given the opportunity to create a humanitarian corridor for exchanging war prisoners and the bodies of the dead
Press Release, 2.03.2022 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko party officially demands that it immediately be given the opportunity to organise the process of exchanging prisoners and the bodies of the dead. Party leader Grigory Yavlinsky published this on his web-site. “In Russia, the concealing of victims has been […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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We consider this war a crime destroying the future of Russia
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, 2.03.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Every day mass detentions of participants in peaceful anti-war protests take place in St. Petersburg. They are kept in the police for many hours, they are not allowed lawyers, […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Federal Security Service and the Chief Department for Countering Extremism searched the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory
Press Release, 2.03.2022 Today at 6:30 in the morning, the Federal Security Service and the Chief Department for Countering Extremism searched the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory. At that moment, in addition to Zheleznyakova, there were her son and his wife, and her young grandson in […]
Posted: March 2nd, 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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80,000 Russians signed Yabloko’s petition for peace
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 1.03.2022 80,000 Russian citizens have signed the Yabloko anti-war petition, one of the first Russian petitions against the war. Probably, yet this number exceeds the number of victims that the war has already brought: civilians and military on both sides. However, if the war continues, it will lead to even greater […]
Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko notified the Moscow Mayor’s Office of holding a demonstration in Moscow for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 1.03.2022 Photo: Maxim Kruglov and Andrei Morev co-applicants of the action and deputy chairmen of the Moscow branch of Yabloko in the Moscow Mayor’s Office Yabloko filed a notification with the Moscow Mayor’s Office that an anti-war march would be held in Moscow (from Strastnoy Boulevard to the intersection of Academician Sakharov Prospect […]
Posted: March 1st, 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.
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Police go on detaining Yabloko activists due to their anti-war stance
Press Release, 1.03.2022 Over the past three days, police have detained at least 19 Yabloko members in Moscow, the Chelyabinsk, the Sverdlovsk, the Saratov and the Samara regions and the Republic of Bashkortostan for their anti-war stance, including Chairpersons of the Bashkirian and Samara regional branches of Yabloko Kristina Abramicheva and Anton Rubin, and Yabloko […]
Posted: March 1st, 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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In St. Petersburg Yabloko was denied approval for a rally for peace
Press Release, 28.02.2022 Photo: Lenin Square in St.Petersburg, a specially designated site for holding public actions without any permissions from the authorities / Photo from topspb.tv The administration of the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg banned a rally for peace with Ukraine referring to the anti-COVID decree of the city government, which prohibits holding public […]
Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, 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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Yabloko deputies in regional parliaments called on Vladimir Putin to stop the hostilities in the territory of Ukraine
Press Release, 28.02.2022 Photo: President Putin’s meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. / Photo from Kremlin.ru The Yabloko factions in the parliaments of Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Pskov region and Karelia initiated appeals from their legislative assemblies to President Putin calling him to immediately stop hostilities in […]
Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police are persecuting Yabloko members across Russia for their actions for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 27.02.2022 Photo: Alexander Kudelkin (left) and Maxim Petlin (centre) in a police wagon / Photo from social networks The persecution of members and activists of the Yabloko party continues throughout the country. The reason for the persecution is the tough stance for peace with Ukraine, which the party consistently defends. The pretext for […]
Posted: February 28th, 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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Across Russia Yabloko activists take part in rallies for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 27.02.2022 Photo: Saratov/Photo from social networks Activists of the Yabloko party are participating in pickets for peace with Ukraine in those cities where public actions are not prohibited by anti-COVID restrictions [that imply criminal punishment even for single pickets]. Single pickets were held in Ivanovo, Saratov, Krasnodar, Yeysk, Miass, Chelyabinsk, Pskov, Vladivostok, Ufa, […]
Posted: February 28th, 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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Over 60,000 people have signed Yabloko’s appeal for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 25.02.2022 Over 60,000 people have signed Yabloko’s appeal for peace with Ukraine as of 25 February, 13:30. Almost two thirds of them signed within the past 24 hours.
Posted: February 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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