Archive for 'Russia-Ukraine relations'
The Novgorod District Court fined Yabloko City Duma candidates Anna Cherepanova, Ksenia Cherepanova and Viktor Shalyakin 4,000 roubles each for “disobedience to the police”
Press Release, 20.09.2023 Photo: Police officers blocking the car of Yabloko candidates on 9 September, 2023 / Photo by Ksenia Cherepanova Yabloko’s politicians were accused of allegedly planning to enter the premises of the precinct electoral commission at school No. 31 on the night of 9-10 September. That night, Anna Cherepanova, Ksenia Cherepanova, and Viktor […]
Posted: September 21st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Only people themselves can change the situation in Russia
YouTube channel Zhivoy Gvozd, 18.09.2023 Broadcasted live on 16.09.2023 Over 30 years, the Yabloko party has offered people in Russia a different path eleven times: eight times in parliamentary elections and three times in presidential elections. This path would never have led our country to what is happening now. We proposed to build a state […]
Posted: September 21st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Fight poverty, not the world
Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yaboko adopted on 4 September 2023, published on 14 September 2023 Photo by Oleg Kharseyev, Kommersant The document was adopted following the results of expert hearings held in Veliky Novgorod on 4 September. Yevgeniy Gontmakher, Doctor of Economics and a Yabloko member, participated in the development of the document. […]
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko raised 3.361 million roubles at an auction in support of eight political prisoners
Collection of donations is going on Press Release, 13.09.2023 UPD. The total amount collected in support of political prisoners together with donations which came after the auction, as of 14 September at 20:00 (Moscow time), is 3.674.276 roubles. In total, 23 lots were sold at the auction: works by contemporary artists, as well as things, […]
Posted: September 14th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Candidates from Pskov Yabloko in single-mandate constituencies received voters support
Statement by the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, 13.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Despite the cancellation of registration of Yabloko’s lists of candidates, three-day and remote electronic voting, and admission of observers to polling stations only in three districts of the region, candidates from the Pskov Yabloko did not stop […]
Posted: September 13th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Dozens of thousands of Russian citizens cast their votes for Peace and for Yabloko!
Summing up the results of the elections Press Release, 11.09.2023 In the elections held on 10 September, Yabloko managed to retain representation in the city parliamets of Yekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod and Krasnokamsk (the Perm region), as well as create a faction in the city duma of Yasnogorsk (the Tula region). The team of municipal deputies […]
Posted: September 12th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Elections for peace and freedom”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.09.2023 Photo: Yabloko campaign posters “Yabloko. Your vote For Peace and Freedom!” in Yekaterinburg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 September, Russia held regular election. Everyone understands what kind of “elections” there can be in such a system, especially during the “special military operation”. Since 1996, voting in Russia […]
Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko gets mandates in four city parliaments, including the city dumas of Yekaterinburg and Novgorod
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov summed up the preliminary results of the elections of 8 – 10 September Press Release, 10.09.2023 According to preliminary data, candidates from Yabloko were elected to the city dumas of Yekaterinburg, Novgorod, Krasnokamsk (the Perm Territory) and Yasnogorsk (the Tula Region). This was stated by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov during a […]
Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Citizen participation and control over voting can combat fraud
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 9.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 September, many regions of our country will hold elections at different levels: elections of local governments, legislative assemblies, and heads of regions. And in six months there will be presidential elections, which will be held within the framework of […]
Posted: September 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov City Court refused to recognise the assignment of the status of “foreign agent” to Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg illegal. The decision will be appealed
Press Release, 9.09.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo from Lev Shlosberg’s personal archive The Pskov City Court rejected Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, in satisfying his claims against the Ministry of Justice to declare illegal the order of June 16, 2023, to include the politician in the […]
Posted: September 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“You have defended the garden, which means you can do more”: the head of Yabloko called on Yekaterinburg residents to support Yabloko’s course for peace at elections
Е1.RU, 8.09.2023 Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the United Democratic Party Yabloko, visited Yekaterinburg on the eve of the elections to the City Duma. He came to support his fellow party members, talk about the strategy of peaceful change with which they are going to voters, and urge the residents of the city to take part […]
Posted: September 8th, 2023 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court sentenced Mikhail Afanasyev to 5.5 years in prison in the case of “fakes about the army”
Press Release, 7.09.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Mikhail Afanasyev, Editor-in-Chief of the Novy Focus online media, a Yabloko member and two-time winner of the Andrei Sakharov Prize “For Journalism as an Act of Conscience”, was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison in a criminal case on “fakes about the […]
Posted: September 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Fundraising for an independent examination for the leader of the Vologda Yabloko is closed. We thank everyone who did not remain indifferent and helped!
Press Release, 6.09.2023 Photo: Nikolai Yegorov / Photo from Nikolai Yegorov’s personal archive We have closed the collection of donations for the Chairman of the Vologda branch of Yabloko Nikolai Yegorov, as a criminal case on “discrediting the army” was filed against him (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) […]
Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the pressure on the Yabloko party candidates
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau, 4.09.2023 Photo: Yabloko poster: Yabloko. Your vote for peace and freedom! On the threashold of the single voting day on 10 September, we have to once again state the growing pressure on the candidates of the Yabloko party. A campaign of defamation and bans has been waged against our […]
Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Bashkiria commemorating victims of the World War II: No more wars!
Press Release, 4.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria On 3 September, the anniversary of the end of World War II, activists of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Bashkiria, according to their long-term tradition, laid flowers at the monument to the victims of the battles in August-September 1945.
Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov visited Krasnoyarsk to support Yabloko candidates in the upcoming elections
Press Release, 31.08.2023 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the Krasnoyarsk Territory to support the party’s candidates in the upcoming elections to the Krasnoyarsk City Council and the by-elections to the State Duma and to speak on local media with an appeal to the residents of the region to vote for peace and freedom, as Yabloko […]
Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An administrative protocol on the demonstration of extremist symbols drawn up against another Yabloko candidate in Novgorod. Both the candidates can be deprived of the opportunity to be elected
Press Release, 1.09.2023 Photo: Oksana Sergeyeva / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko Police drew up an administrative protocol on the “demonstration of extremist symbols” – a photo with a flag with two white and one blue stripes – against Oksana Sergeyeva, a Yabloko candidate for the Novgorod City Duma.
Posted: September 1st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A charity poetry event will be held in Chelyabinsk. Registration of participants is open
Press Release, 31.08.2023 The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko and the public project TyNeOdin74 (YouAreNotAlone74) will hold a charity poetry party. We will reсite the poems of people who were repressed – in memory of them and in support of those who have been and are being subjected to political persecution now.
Posted: September 1st, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Basmanny Court in Moscow extended the arrest for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev for another three months
Press Release, 31.08.2023 Photo: Vasily Neustroyev Today the Basmanny Court in Moscow extended the arrest for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev for another three months. The court hearing was conducted in camera at the request of the investigator, who stated that there were state secrets in the case file. According to the Telegram channel “Freedom to […]
Posted: August 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko campaigns for peace and life in the elections
Press Release, 29.08.2023 The Novgorod branch of Yabloko published its programme for the elections of deputies of the City Duma of Novgorod. The key slogan of the Yabloko election camapaign is “I Vote for Peace!”. “The 24th of February shocked everyone. A disaster happened. For many years, and especially for the past eight years, we […]
Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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