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The Novgorod District Court recognised doctor Valery Kochnev, a Yabloko candidate to the Novgorod City Duma, guilty of the “demonstration of extremist symbols”
Press Release, 4.10.2023 Photo: Valery Kochnev / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko On 3 October, the Judge of the Novgorod District Court recognised Valery Kochneva guilty of demonstration of the Nazi swastika and fined him 2.000 roubles. The defence was denied a linguistic examination of the video for the song “Zombie” by the […]
Posted: October 4th, 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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The court terminated the administrative case of “discrediting the army” against the leader of the Yakutian branch of Yabloko Anatoly Nogovitsyn
However, the police may appeal the decision of the court Press Release, 29.09.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from social media On 27 September, the judge of the Yakutsk City Court decided to terminate the proceedings in the case of an administrative offense on “discrediting the army” under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Administrative […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Trials in cases of extremism against Yabloko candidates in Novgorod Oksana Sergeyeva and Valery Kochnev postponed
Press Release, 29.09.2023 Photo: Valery Kochnev (second from left) with a support group awaiting the court hearing / Photo by the Novgorod branch of the party On 28 September, a wave of false reports about mining occurred in Veliky Novgorod. In addition to schools and kindergartens, the work of the Novgorod District Court, where hearings […]
Posted: September 29th, 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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The Saratov branch of Yabloko received a formal caution on the impermissibility of holding a public event after Yabloko announced an action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 27.09.2023 Photo: Police in the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Saratov Yabloko An official caution on the inadmissibility of actions that create conditions for the commission of crimes under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation of the established procedure for […]
Posted: September 28th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Oksana Sergeyeva and Valery Kochnev, Yabloko candidates at the past elections in Veliky Novgorod, face a trial accused of “spreading extremist symbols”
Press Release, 27.09.2023 Photo: Oksana Sergeyeva and Valery Kochnev / Photo by the Novgorod Yabloko On 28 September, the Novgorod District Court will hold two trials on administrative cases regarding the “spread of extremist symbols” against candidates for the Veliky Novgorod City Duma Oksana Sergeyeva and Valery Kochnev. It should be noted that on 29 […]
Posted: September 27th, 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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A court in St. Petersburg rejected Emilia Slabunova’s complaint about inaction of the VKontakte social media on unblocking her page. The politician’s page still remains blocked
Press Release, 22.09.2023 Photo: Screenshot of Emilia Slabunova’s page on the VKontakte social media running that her page was blocked by the demand of the Office of the Public Prosecutor General of the RF No 27-31-2022 of 25.03.2022 A judge of the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg ruled out that the VKontakte social media […]
Posted: September 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The future of the country depends on all of us
Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko Adopted on 15.09.2023, published on 22.09.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The political regime that has developed in Russia can be characterised as electoral authoritarianism evolving into a personalistic dictatorship. While the institution of elections was formally preserved, voting lost its true meaning. In the situation of […]
Posted: September 25th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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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On the Urgency and Inevitability of a Ceasefire
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 22.09.2023 Borodyanka, Kyiv district, Ukraine. March 2022 // Ales Ustsinau THE SITUATION TODAY One and a half years of hostilities have demonstrated that the largest armed conflict in Europe after World War II — the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine — will drag on for years and will be accompanied by never-ending […]
Posted: September 25th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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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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