Archive for 'Russia-US Relations'
The pro-government majority in the Karelian parliament does not consider nuclear war propaganda dangerous
Press Release, 26.01.2023 Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia The parliamentary pro-government majority of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia rejected the draft federal initiative of the Yabloko faction envisaging criminal penalties for propaganda of nuclear war. The meeting of the Karelian Legislative Assembly was […]
Posted: January 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, 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 Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The parliament of St. Petersburg refused to consider Yabloko’s bill on a ban on nuclear war propaganda
Press Release, 25.01.2023 Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg The parliamentary majority of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg excluded from the agenda the draft federal initiative of the Yabloko faction envisaging criminal penalties for propaganda of nuclear war. This happened at the plenary meeting on Wednesday, 25 January. 35 […]
Posted: January 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, 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 Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Bow to the memory of these people and say it again: people, give up revenge”. Yabloko honoured the memory of the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova
Press Release, 19.01.2023 Photos by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 January, Yabloko leaders and activists in Moscow once again met at Prechistenka 3 to honour the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by neo-Nazis 14 years ago. Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Ivan […]
Posted: January 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko proposes to introduce criminal penalties for propaganda of nuclear war
Press Release, 18.01.2023 Photo: Gas masks at a school in Pripyat, an abandoned city in the Chernobyl zone / Photo by Alexander Vedernikov, Kommersant Yabloko MP Artur Gaiduk submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly a draft federal law on criminal liability for public calls for the use of nuclear weapons and propaganda for their use. […]
Posted: January 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, 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.
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The Yabloko faction in the parliament of Karelia introduced a bill on criminal liability for propaganda of nuclear war
Press Release, 11.01.2022 Photo: Trenches along the road dug by the Russian military in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukraine, 7 April, 2022 // REUTERS / Gleb Garanich The faction of the Yabloko party in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia submitted for consideration of the Karelian parliament a draft federal law establishing […]
Posted: January 11th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Lessons of the Year
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.01.2023 Photo: A Christmas ball “The Apotheosis of War” on the web-site of the online store Printio.ru. The picture is by the Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin “The Apotheosis of War”, 1871. There is an inscription on the frame: “Dedicated to all the great conquerors of the past, the present and the future”. […]
Posted: January 9th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly proposed to introduce criminal liability for calls for nuclear war
Press Release, 21.12.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko faction submitted to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg a draft resolution on a legislative initiative of the St.Petersburg parliament for the State Duma on the responsibility for calls for the use of nuclear weapons. Alexander Shishlov, head of the […]
Posted: December 21st, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A call for peace with Ukraine sounded in the State Duma for the first time
Press Release, 20.12.2022 Photo by Yevgenia Vlasova On 20 December, a “government hour” was held in the State Duma, during which representatives of non-parliamentary parties could ask questions to the Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov in his speech called for peace and the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement.
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko urges the Ministry of Education to abandon introduction Elementary Military Training lessons at schools
Press Release, 17.11.2022 Photo by Yevgeny Pereverzev, Kommersant Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent a corresponding letter to Russian Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov. Rybakov proposed to include additional hours for learning foreign languages in the educational standards instead of elementary military training.
Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Education and Science, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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Moral Choice
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 14.11.2022 Photo: Ditches across the road dug by Russian soldiers near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Ukraine, 7 April 2022 // REUTERS/ Gleb Garanich Grigory Yavlinsky on war and peace, the future of Russia, as well as the role of the political party at a time of military actions which are precipitating the […]
Posted: November 15th, 2022 under Economy, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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On the critical need to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 158 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022 Photo by Sergei Averin, RIA Novosti The tragedy, which has been going on for eight months already, makes it absolutely obvious that [all] should realise as soon as possible the need (the obligation) for a ceasefire as the first […]
Posted: November 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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On the current developments in Russia: stop the escalation of hatred
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 157 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant A military conflict between Russia and Ukraine with a huge potential for escalation up to the use of nuclear weapons is going on. At the moment, there is no reason to believe that the […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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On the situation in the world and the responsibility of political leaders
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 156 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022 The legacy of late Stalinism, combined with the collapse of the USSR in Belovezhskaya Pushcha [by the Belvezh Accords], illiterate and voluntaristic economic reforms, and Boris Yeltsin’s stake on power politics, made in the early 1990s, led to the […]
Posted: November 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Fear of The Endless War
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 25.10.2022 In October 2022 Yabloko party’s leader Grigory Yavlinsky answered the questions of BBC News about the perspectives of Russia’s special military operation against Ukraine, the West’s role in the current situation and the threat of nuclear weapon use. — In this month we`ve seen an escalation in Ukraine, we`ve seen the […]
Posted: October 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The investigation appointed psychiatric examination for Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk Yabloko
Press Release, 10.10.2022 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 October, an investigator of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) appointed a forensic psychiatric examination for Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of […]
Posted: October 11th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Someone must honestly say what he thinks”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview, 16.09.2022 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky at the launch of his book “Russia-2022: Underlying Causes. Why and how did a political system appear which has resulted in the events on 24 February, 2022”, 10 September, 2022. Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Here we publish Grigory Yavlinsky’s commentaries on how Russia came to 24 […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Politics, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky launched his book about the causes of what happened on 24 February
Press Release, 10.09.2022 On Saturday, 10 September, Grigory Yavlinsky launched his book “Underlying Causes. Why and How Did a Political System Appear, Which Has Resulted in the Events of 24 February, 2022?” the Moscow office of the Yabloko party.
Posted: September 10th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky to launch his new book on the fundamental causes of what happened on February 24
Press Release, 8.09.2022 Photo: the cover of the book On Saturday, 10 September, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya 31/2) will host a launch of the book by Grigory Yavlinsky’s work “Underlying Causes. Why and How Did a Political System Appear, Which Has Resulted in the Events of 24 February, 2022?” now published […]
Posted: September 9th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Protests fail to affect politics not only in Russia, but also in the world”
Corriere Della Sera, 22.07.2022 Photo: Peace March in Moscow in 2014 / Photo by Yevgeny Nadalinsky, Kommersant On 16 July, the influential Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera published an interview with Grigory Yavlinsky on the situation in connection with the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Unfortunately, there are fragments in the Corriere Della Sera publication […]
Posted: July 25th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine in 36 regional collection points
Press Release, 16.02.2022 Attention: the number of regions in the title changes as we open new points of collection of signatures. Photo: A sign at the collection point in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Regional branches of the Yabloko party launched a collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine in their […]
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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