Archive for 'Governance'
Nikolai Rybakov: “The State Duma, which is unable to utter a word against the President and the security forces, must be driven away in the 2021 elections”
Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page, 22.10.2020 A couple of years ago, it seemed that Russia simply did not have a more helpless, incompetent and antipopular parliament than the State Duma of the past, the sixth convocation, which was justly nicknamed “the mad printer” [for the speed of stamping laws]. But looks like the current parliamentary corps […]
Posted: October 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Protection of Environment, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko demands to declare the competition for the post of Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod void
Press Release, 22.10.2020 On 21 October, Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, sent an appeal to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod with a demand to declare the competition for the post of Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod void. The competition commission made a decision to conduct interviews with candidates via video-conferencing, […]
Posted: October 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Emilia Slabunova: It is unacceptable to drive observers into regional cages and introduce serfdom observation rights
Based on the publication in 7×7, 19.10.2020 On 15 October, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia adopted, in the first reading and by a majority of votes, several bills that deprive citizens of the right to observe regional and local elections of citizens from other regions. In the near future, such initiatives will be […]
Posted: October 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Regional and Local Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The parliamentary majority of the Moscow City Duma rejected Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution, prohibiting torture and introducing a contract-based army
Press Release, 15.10.2020 The Moscow City Duma rejected two bills with amendments to the Constitution submitted by the Yabloko faction. The bills were proposed to be adopted as a legislative initiative and sent to the federal parliament – the State Duma. The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma submitted a package of nine bills […]
Posted: October 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, The Russian Army, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Supreme Court chose not to stop the violation of the law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights” by the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, 1.09.2020 The Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the lower court’s decision not to consider Yabloko’s claim challenging the decision of the Central Electoral Commission on three-day early voting. “The Supreme Court confirmed the reluctance of the judiciary to delve into the violations of the Central Electoral […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections 2020, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will again try to challenge in the Supreme Court the resolution of the Central Electoral Commission on a three-day voting
Press Release, 30.09.2020 On October 1, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will consider the complaint of Yabloko about the refusal of the Supreme Court to consider the party’s claim against the Central Electoral Commission which had issued a resolution on a three-day voting in elections.
Posted: October 1st, 2020 under Elections, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist was attacked with a knife and threatened with murder because of his protest activities
Press Release, 17.09.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, Yabloko activist from Kislovodsk, told the media that he was threatened with murder if he continued to take action against Putin and United Russia. According to Ayrapetyan, on the evening of 12 September, he was returning home after a walk with a friend. An unidentified masked man with a knife […]
Posted: September 17th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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THE DAY AFTER
On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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A poisoned reputation
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.09.2020 Why does no one – not a single state in the world, not a single international organisation – believe what they say in Russia about Alexei Navalny’s poisoning? Probably because no one, except Russia, change urine probes of their athletes. Probably because only “tourists” from Russia go to admire the sights […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Без рубрики.
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Vitaly Zubenko called on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate into unlawful persecution of the activist of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 11.08.2020 Photo: Ronald Ayrapetyan Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding to investigate into unlawful detentions of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the party, as well as anonymous threats against him.
Posted: August 12th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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On the assessment of the plebiscite on Constitutional amendments of July 1, 2020 and the tasks of the party
Federal Political Committee Decision No. 134, 27.07.2020 Having heard and discussed the report of Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee [of the Yabloko party], the YABLOKO Federal Political Committee decided: Confirm the standpoint that the entire procedure of the so-called “popular vote”, as well as the very introduction of amendments to the Basic […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Political Committee Decisions, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Member of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko was fired from job for a single picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 23.07.2020 The management of the Central Kislovodsk military health centre dismissed activist of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko Ronald Ayrapetyan from his job as a waiter in the canteen of the health centre. He was told that “an employee with opposition views cannot work in their canteen” and was offered to write a […]
Posted: July 27th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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About the Future
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 02.07.2020 Photo by Kristina Kormilitsyna / Kommersant As a result of the special operation carried out by the authorities to destroy Russian statehood, the Constitution, with amendments of 2020 and “resetting” the presidential terms personally for Vladimir Putin, was removed from the legal framework. The process of destruction of law throughout […]
Posted: July 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance.
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Yabloko’s Olga Pokrovskaya: I cannot be certain of the reliability of the results of the All-Russian vote on Constitutional amendments in St. Petersburg
A dissenting opinion of the Yabloko member of the St.Petersbrug Electoral Commission Press Release, 9.07.2020 Olga Pokrovskaya, member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission with a casting vote from the Yabloko party and Chair of the Party Arbitration, refused to vote for approving the protocol of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission on the results of […]
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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Tomsk Yabloko activists are summoned to police for participation in Yabloko’s campaign against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 9.07.2020 Members and supporters of the Tomsk regional branch of the Yabloko party are summoned to the police, where they have to give explanations about a group photo in which activists are pictured with leaflets “I am for the Constitution without nullification and amendments”.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist receives threats because of his protest against Putin’s reset of his presidential terms
Press Release, 8.07.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Stavropol Territory, received threats from unidentified persons. The activist found a note with threats in his postbox on 8 July. The note ran that if Ronald Ayrapetyan came out again to protest against Putin, he would go to jail.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The law is targeted against those who are telling the truth about the annexation of Crimea
Ivan Bolshakov on the new law on the inadmissibility of violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation Ivan Bolshakov’s Facebook post, 8.07.2020 They introduced the first bill for implementation of the new Constitution – [targeted at] declaring those who allegedly call for a violation of the territorial integrity of the country as extremists.
Posted: July 8th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: They wanted to get a “holiday of nullification” – but they got an obvious disgrace
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 2.07.2020 The main result of the caricatured “nationwide vote” is directly opposite to what the Kremlin intended. The indicators of the allegedly unanimous support of the “amendments to the Constitution” that are joyfully broadcasted by the Central electoral Commission do not matter. The fact that it would be announced that there […]
Posted: July 6th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Без рубрики.
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A member of the Saratov branch of Yabloko complained to the Central and the Regional Electoral Commission that someone voted on amendments to the Constitution instead of her and her family
Press Release, 3.07.2020 On June 29, Arina Gerasimova, a member of the Yabloko party, came to the polling station of the precinct electoral commission No. 53 of Saratov. The members of the commission refused to give her a ballot due to the fact that her signature was in the voters book and she had allegedly […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Life and politics do not end on July 1
Ivan Bolshakov on the results of the “All-Russia vote” on Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments Facebook post by Ivan Bolshakov, 2.07.2020 A miracle has not happened and could not happen. Certainly, the results announced by the Central Electoral Commission have nothing to do with reality. The “All-Russian voting” was reduced to an absurd post-modern show humiliating […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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