Archive for 'Russia-Ukraine relations'
New court hearings on the case of Yabloko’s Mikhail Afanasyev begin
Press Release, 28.03.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev with his wife Yelena and two younger children / Photo from the personal archive On 29 March, the Abakan City Court will launch hearings on the criminal case of “fakes about the army” against journalist Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party and a laureate of the Andrei […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Federal Political Committee of Yabloko: “We are not going to leave Russia and will fight for its future”
Press Release, 28.03.2023 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Political Committee, and Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Political Committee On 24 March, a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, a collegial governing body that formulates the party’s position on major political issues between congresses, took place at the central […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Alexander Shishlov: “A Stalinist state with its main feature – the priority of the state over the individual – is being reproduced in Russia”
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A basis for Russia’s cardinal civilizational U-turn and the country’s leaving the mainstream development of human civilization is being created in Russia. Such a statement was made by Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“This is the stem that does not allow one to bend down.” Actions of writing letters to political prisoners to be held in Moscow and Russian regions
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: A drawing by imprisoned journalist and blogger Yan Kotelevsky: a prisoner is breaking the chains of censorship, religion, mortgage, ignorance, slavery, and dictatorship. In the next two weeks, Yabloko will hold its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners. The actions will take place at the central office of the […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Anatoly Nogovitsyn fined 200,000 roubles for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 21.03.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 21 March, the Yakutsk City Court found Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and imposed on him a fine of […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The chief of St.Petersburg police promised Yabloko to return the seized paintings by artist Yelena Osipova by May
Press Release, 23.03.2023 Photo: Artist Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Roman Plugin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, said that the paintings by the […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Lev Shlosberg on legal possibilities to conduct politics in Russia after the start of the “special operation”
Press Release, 23.03.2023 On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Legal Possibilities to Conduct Politics in Russia after 24 February, 2022: the Risks and Opportunities for the Yabloko Party”. The lecturer was Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and head of the Pskov branch of […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started” by Denis Volkov
Press Release, 22.03.2023 Photo: Denis Volkov / Photo from social media On 21 March, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started”. The lecturer was Denis Volkov, Director of the Levada Centre.
Posted: March 22nd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Anatoly Nogovitsyn: “We need to live in such a way that we can look into each other’s eyes in the future.” On 21 March, the court will announce the decision on the case of Yabloko’s Anatoly Nogovitsyn
Press Release, 20.03.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from the personal archive On 20 March, a trial on the case of “discrediting the army” by Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, was held in the Yakutsk City Court. The politician made his last appearance before the court. The decision will be […]
Posted: March 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Lev Shlosberg on legal possibilities to conduct politics in Russia after the start of the “special operation”
Press Release, 17.03.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Legal Possibilities to Conduct Politics in Russia after 24 February, 2022: the Risks and Opportunities for the Yabloko Party”. The lecturer is Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and head of […]
Posted: March 17th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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An exhibition of paintings calling for peace, which had to be held in the St. Petersburg Yabloko office, risks turning into a criminal case on “fakes”
Press Release, 17.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the St. Petersburg Yabloko on 31 January, 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The paintings by the artist Yelena Osipova, which the police seized from the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, have, according to the police, “text inscriptions […]
Posted: March 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko proposes amnesty for those accused under criminal articles on military censorship
Press Release, 16.03.2023 Photo by chikennnsem@gmail.com/depositphotos Artur Gaiduk, Yabloko MP in the Pskov Regional Assembly, exercising the right of regional parliaments to initiate bills in the State Duma, submitted to the Pskov regional parliament a draft resolution for the State Duma “On Announcing an Amnesty”. Yabloko proposes to release from serving their sentences those who […]
Posted: March 16th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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MP of the Moscow City Duma Kruglov to the head of the Moscow police department: “The Moscow police has turned into a tool for political reprisal”
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Oleg Baranov, head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow / Photo by the Moscow City Duma Today, deputies of the Moscow City Duma heard a report by Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, on work […]
Posted: March 16th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On 20 March, the court may make a decision on the criminal case of the leader of the Yakutia branch of Yabloko Anatoly Nogovitsyn on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 20 March, a hearing will be held in the Yakutsk City Court at which the last word of the accused will be heard, and the judge will make a decision on the criminal case against Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutia […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko registered two candidates for municipal by-elections in two municipalities
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Kozlyakovskaya and Oleg Voronin The St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party succeeded in registration of two candidates for municipal by-elections in Krasnoye Selo and Yuzhno-Primorsky municipal districts. Elections in these municipal districts will be held in April. The election campaign will be held under the slogan “For Peace and […]
Posted: March 15th, 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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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Dr. Yevgeny Gontmakher on Russia’s social policies after the start of the “special operation”
Press Release, 14.03. 2023 The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Russian Social Policies after 24 February, 2022” by Yevgeny Gontmakher, Doctor of Economics, professor at the Higher School of Economics, a member of the Public Constitutional Council, and a member of the Yabloko party.
Posted: March 14th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies.
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The Gender Faction of Yabloko held a round table on the forms of work in the conditions of a “special operation”
Press Release, 13.03.2022 On 10 March, the Gender Faction of Yabloko held a round table on the new forms of work in the conditions of a “special operation”. Participants and members of the faction, as well as candidate members and supporters of the party took part in the event.
Posted: March 14th, 2023 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko raised 71.000 roubles at the auction in support of those persecuted for political reasons
Press Release, 13.03.2023 Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko On 11 March, the Chelyabinsk branch of the Yabloko party together with the “You Are Not Alone 74” project, held a charity auction in support of those persecuted for political reasons in the South Urals. During the auction, 49 lots were sold for a total […]
Posted: March 13th, 2023 under Charity, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: About actions by sheer force
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 11.03.2023 Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service As is well known, there were wars in Europe after 1945: the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, – and very tough confrontations on the verge of a large-scale use of force: the GDR in 1953, Hungary […]
Posted: March 13th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office canceled the decision of the investigation on non-initiation of a criminal case against a telephone terrorist who had allegedly mined the office of the St. Petersburg Yabloko
Press Release, 9.03.2023 Photo: The exhibition / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Central District of St. Petersburg canceled the decision of the investigator of the district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs which refused to initiate a criminal case on a false report about mining of the […]
Posted: March 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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