Archive for 'Russia-Ukraine relations'
“There will be no winners, everyone has lost.” Nikolai Rybakov on the NTV television channel about why it is necessary to stop the bloodshed now
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 8.10.2024 The fighting in Ukraine has been going on for two and a half years. Politicians continue talking about “victory”. But no one understands that when there are so many victims, no one has won, everyone has lost. Politicians have proven that they failed to do their job by allowing so […]
Posted: October 11th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: On Politics and Violence
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 30.09.2024 Illustration: The Stoning of St. Stephen, a biblical story from The Acts of the Apostles. Hopes for internal change in Russia, whether related to Prigozhin’s rebellion, Ukraine’s invasion, or outright bets on a revolution, all concern the same fundamental issue: the permissibility of violence in politics. Attitudes toward the use […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko to host a meeting with former political prisoner Dmitry Skurikhin
Press Release, 25.09.2024 Photo: Dmitry Skurikhin by his store / Photo from social media An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners will be held in Novgorod Yabloko on 27 September with the participation of Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad Region who served an imprisonment term of 1.5 years for “discrediting the […]
Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sleepwalkers and the World
Abstracts from Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to RTVi, 17.09.2024 It is obvious to everyone that Russia and Ukraine are currently unable to conduct any meaningful peace talks, that the situation on the battlefield is at a dead end, and the number of victims of the military confrontation has been growing every day. Therefore, the only thing […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Academician Alexei Arbatov: “You have every reason to be scared, because a nuclear war is the end of our civilisation, when the survivors will envy the dead”
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 14.09.2024 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Academician Alexei Arbatov is the head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee. He is one of the […]
Posted: September 17th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko called on the Red Cross to organise humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from the combat zone in the Kursk region
Press Release, 13.09.2024 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Rybakov called on the Red Cross to become an international mediator in organising negotiations on a ceasefire and creating humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians of the Kursk region from the combat […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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WHY A CEASEFIRE IS NECESSARY TODAY
Grigory Yavlinsky for Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2024 Photo by Valery Melnikov, Kommersant WHAT IS HAPPENING? The Russian army is advancing in the Donbass. Ukraine’s armed forces are continuing their operations in Kursk Region. Russia is carrying out missile strikes on Kharkiv, Poltava and Lviv … Ukraine is shelling Donetsk and Belgorod … The Russian missiles are […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Nine candidates for peace and freedom have been elected as deputies. Yabloko analyses the voting results
Press Release, 10.09.2024 In the recent elections, nine out of 59 candidates from the Yabloko party, who campaigned under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”, were elected to municipal councils. In total, the party nominated 301 candidates, but most of them were not registered or were withdrawn for far-fetched reasons. The […]
Posted: September 10th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov on the results of the elections in St.Petersburg that were “desirable” for the authorities but obtained at the cost of growing mistrust in the elections and the destruction of legitimacy
Press Release, 9.09.2024 Photo: A ballot with an inscription “For Vishnevsky! For Yabloko!”. Alexander Shishlov, Chairman of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party and the head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, commented on the elections of the Governor of St.Petersburg and municipal deputies that took place […]
Posted: September 10th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko sums up the political results of its election campaign “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”
Press Release, 09.09.2024 In this election campaign, Yabloko nominated 301 candidates in 69 election campaigns in 19 regions of Russia, who were ready to conduct an election campaign with the key political demand – the immediate conclusion of a ceasefire agreement and the release of all political prisoners.
Posted: September 9th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Today the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision to deny Maxim Kruglov registration in the Moscow City Duma elections
Press Release, 5.09.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov with his supporters in the Supreme Court, September 5, 2024 / Photo provided by Maxim Kruglov Today the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision to deny incumbent Yabloko deputy Maxim Kruglov registration in the Moscow City Duma elections.
Posted: September 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the position of Yabloko in the September elections in St. Petersburg
Statement by the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko, 5.09.2024 Photo from Wikimedia Commons The current election campaign in Russia’s regions of Russia is taking place in the context of continuous toughening of restrictions on citizens’ rights, political censorship in the media, blocking of information on the Internet, persecution of those who disagree with […]
Posted: September 5th, 2024 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Cast your vote at elections on 8 September for peace and freedom!
On the position of the Yabloko party in the 2024 elections Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 4.09.2024 Photo: Wait for Peace / Photo from social media The Yabloko party appeals to the citizens of Russia with a call to support candidates the elections at all levels on September 8, 2024, who advocate concluding […]
Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Shishlov appealed to the Minister of Defence in connection with information about the participation of conscripts in military operations in the Kursk region
Press Release, 30.08.2024 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov, asking to organise an investigation into the information about the participation […]
Posted: August 30th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, imprisoned journalist and a member of Yabloko, wins the Free Media Awards press prize
Press Release, 27.08.2024 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev makes his final statement in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia and a member of the Yabloko party, became a prize winner of the Free Media Awards, a prestigious award for independent journalists who refuse to give in to threats. For […]
Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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From an Exchange to a Ceasefire
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 6.08.2024 We should not judge superficially about deep and contradictory political meanings of the prisoner exchange. Let us note the most important thing: this exchange literally saved several lives at once. And one more thing: if such a difficult and ambiguous process is possible, during which Moscow […]
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Viktor Zagorodnikov submitted voters’ signatures for his registration as a Yabloko candidate in the by-elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory
Press Release, 25.07.2024 Photo: Viktor Zagorodnikov at the District Electoral Commission / Photo from social media On 24 July, Viktor Zagorodnikov, a candidate in the by-election for a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in single-mandate electoral district No. 10, submitted 3,007 signatures of district residents to the electoral commission in support […]
Posted: July 25th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Yefimov registered as a candidate for by-elections to the State Duma
Press Release, 22.07.2024 Photo: Alexander Yefimov at the electoral commission of the Rostov region / Photo from the regional electoral commission’s Telegram channel Today, the electoral commission of the Rostov region registered a member of the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, entrepreneur Alexander Yefimov, as a candidate in the by-elections to the State Duma. The Southern […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate for Governor of the Kaliningrad region Roman Morozov failed to overcome the municipal filter
Press Release, 22.07.2024 Photo: Roman Morozov / Photo by the regional party branch Roman Morozov, a human rights defender and a candidate for Governor of the Kaliningrad region from Yabloko, failed to pass the municipal filter to register for the elections. Last Friday, he submitted documents to the regional electoral commission without the mandatory signatures […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The electoral commission is going to invalidate about a thousand signatures in support of the nomination of Maxim Kruglov in the elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 16.07.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov’s team before submitting signatures to the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters Maxim Kruglov, a Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma and the current deputy of the Moscow City Duma, told about the decision of the electoral commission to invalidate about a thousand signatures out […]
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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