Archive for 'Russia-Ukraine relations'
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko is looking for donors of lots for the auction in support of political prisoners and those persecuted for political reasons
Press Release, 27.02.2023 On 11 March, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko and the human rights project “You Are Not Alone 74” (https://t.me/tyneodin74 ) will hold a charity auction in support of political prisoners and those persecuted for political reasons. The auction will start at 15:00. Lots, which anyone can put up by filling out the […]
Posted: February 27th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: What I would say to external experts
Special for the Yabloko website, 27.02.2023 Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service What would I say should be done, if – very unlikely – some external experts asked me what is needed for Ukraine and Europe now? I would say that a “road map” is needed. For ten years and twenty […]
Posted: February 27th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Nothing can kill hope
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.02.2023 Photo by Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi / dpa This happened not on 24 February, 2022. This happened much earlier – in Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 and then again from 1999 to 2006; in Georgia in 2008; in Crimea and Donbass in 2014; in Syria in 2015; when the Russian Constitution was […]
Posted: February 26th, 2023 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko held a concert-marathon “Say Yes to Peace!” on the eve of one year since the beginning of the “special operation”
Press Release, 23.02.2023 Today, on the eve of one year since the start of Russia’s “special operation” on the territory of Ukraine, Yabloko held a marathon “Say Yes to the Peace!”. The organisers of the marathon demonstrated 45 videos they received from Moscow and the Moscow region, Omsk, Arkhangelsk, Rostov, Voronezh, Novgorod, Pskov, Tver, Ivanovo, […]
Posted: February 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Alexei Arbatov: After Putin’s statement, the US will most likely withdraw from the START III Treaty, and the arms race will start anew
Press Release, 22.02.2023, based on bfm.ru, rbc.ru, pravda.ru Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 22 February, the State Duma approved the suspension of Russia’s participation in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. This happened the day after the announcement of Vladimir Putin’s message to the Federal Assembly. On 21 February, the […]
Posted: February 26th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners to be held nationwide
Press Release 22.02.2023 Photo: A response letter from Yuri Dmitriyev, imprisoned head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights group to the activists of the Novgorod Yabloko: “There is such a thing called “peace” (when there is no war), and, whatever paradoxically it may sound, we must fight for it! And then the […]
Posted: February 22nd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to conduct a concert and an online marathon “Say Yes to Peace!”
Press Release, 22.02.2023 On 23 February, on the eve of the anniversary of the start of the “special operation”, Yabloko will hold a marathon-concert “Say Yes to the Peace!” Let us recollect how we lived through this difficult year, what gave us strength, and listen to excerpts from books about war. Actress Tatyana Parshina and […]
Posted: February 22nd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Vladimir Putin’s message in short: get ready that all this will take a long time.” Yabloko leaders on the President Putin’s message to the Federal Assembly
Press Release, based on Telegram channels, 21.02.2023 Photo by Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant “Vladimir Putin’s message in short is: get ready that all this will take a long time. Our stance is: enough! Everyone has already said enough to each other – stop killing people, this is the main thing! And as long as there […]
Posted: February 22nd, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Police failed to find and refused to initiate a criminal case against the telephone terrorist who had reported “a bomb” in the St. Petersburg office of Yabloko when an anti-war exhibition was held there
Press Release, 20.02.2023 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 St. Petersburg police refused to open a criminal case against a telephone terrorist who reported about “a bomb threat” in the office of the Yabloko party […]
Posted: February 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Altai branch of Yabloko will hold a rally in memory of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 20.02.2023 Photo by the Altai branch of Yabloko On 26 February, the Yabloko branch in the Altai Territory, will hold in Barnaul a commemorative rally in memory of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov who was murdered in Moscow on 28 February, 2015. The rally will be held in Svoboda (Freedom) Square and will begin […]
Posted: February 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Committee on Legislation of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly refused to put Yabloko’s initiative on repealing the laws on “fakes” and “discrediting the army” in the agenda of the Assembly. But our faction will do it
Press Release, 17.02.2023 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Committee on Legislation of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly will not put the initiative of the Yabloko faction on repealing the laws on “fakes” and “discrediting the RF Armed Forces” in […]
Posted: February 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Witnesses from the prosecution side in the criminal case of the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia confessed that the police forced them to sign documents in the Nogovitsyn case
Press Release, 17.02.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yakutsk City Court has just completed hearings on the testimony of witnesses within the framework of prosecution of Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia. The criminal case against Nogovitsyn was filed for his alleged “discrediting the army”. The […]
Posted: February 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko invites all to participate in the online marathon “Say Yes to Peace!”
Press Release, 17.02.2023 On 23 February, Yabloko will hold an online marathon “Say Yes to Peace!” dedicated to the events of the past year. We invite everyone to join the action by recording a video. Tell us how you lived this year, what you thought, what you felt and what has been helping you to […]
Posted: February 17th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The Governor of the Pskov region on the calls for nuclear war: “A call to commit legal actions cannot be a crime”
Press Release, 16.02.2023 Photo: The Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies / Photo by sobranie.pskov.ru The Pskov Region Governor Mikhail Vedernikov informs, in his conclusion to the Yabloko bill on criminal liability for propaganda of nuclear war which was submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies, that “a call to commit legal actions cannot be […]
Posted: February 16th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Party of Peace against the Party of War and the Party Baying for Blood
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 15.02.2023 Photo: City views of Mariupol during the so-called “special operation” / Photo by Alexander Chernykh, Kommersant Throughout its political history, YABLOKO has been a party of peace, since the war in Chechnya, when in December 1994 [when the RF authorities started a war in Chechnya], a group of State […]
Posted: February 15th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky’s page on the VKontakte social media had been blocked for his quoting Stanisław Jerzy Lec. This came out only after many months of trial with the Russian media regulator and the Public Prosecutor General’s Office
Press Release, 13.02.2023 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The reason for blocking the page of Boris Vishnevsky, an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, was his post in where he wrote about the pioneers movement, Moskvich brand cars and […]
Posted: February 13th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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JUST STOP!
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 05.02.2023 When it was already blindingly obvious that Russia was about to launch large-scale military actions in Ukraine, actions that Putin refers to as war today, for a long time a vast number of the Russian elite and the opposition-minded mass media refused to believe that this could actually happen. In 2021, […]
Posted: February 11th, 2023 under Economy, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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“God help us to avoid a return to an unrestricted nuclear arms race”
Academician Alexei Arbatov on the risks of nuclear war and relations between Russia and the United States Kommersant, 09.02.2023 Photo: Acad. Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Russian Foreign Ministry warned of “the real danger of a direct military clash between the two nuclear powers” – Russia and the United States. […]
Posted: February 11th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Alexander Shishlov filed a cassation appeal against his fine for discrediting the Russian army
Press Release, 08.02.2023 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Andrei Chertkov, the lawyer of the head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, filed a complaint with the Third Court of Cassation. He is challenging the decision of the Petrogradsky District Court to find Alexander […]
Posted: February 8th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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We managed to raise 450,000 roubles to cover the fine to Mikhail Afanasyev. Yabloko expresses gratitude to all donors!
Press Release, 06.02.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev, his wife Yelena and son / Photo from social media Yabloko closes the collection of donations to cover the fine for Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia, Editor-in-Chief of the Novy Focus media and a Yabloko party member. On 5 February, his wife Yelena Afanasyeva announced the collection of […]
Posted: February 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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