Archive for 'Governance'
The City Court of St. Petersburg will consider the appeal of Yabloko against the decision on the court of the first instance, which refused to annul the results of the voting at polling station No. 177 with fake electoral commission members
Press Release, 27.03.2023 Photo: Elizaveta Metyolkina, a member of precinct electoral commission No. 177, according to the heads of electoral commission No. 177 and Territorial Electoral Commission No. 2, she was born in 1999 / Photo by Petersburg Yabloko On 28 March, the St. Petersburg City Court will consider the appeal of Dmitry Anisimov, a […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Elections, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko urged Vladimir Putin to exclude the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from the register of foreign agents
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: WWF in Russia Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin with an appeal to exclude the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from the register of foreign agents. According to Rybakov, the decision on listing WWF in the register of foreign agents must be canceled, […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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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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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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Searches at the homes of employees of the Memorial human rights society are a new step in the practices of political repressions in Russia
Statement by the Yabloko party, 21.03.2023 Photo by Safron Golikov / Kommersant On 21 March, 2023, investigators from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation came with searches to the employees of the Memorial [human right] society, including its leader Yan Rachinsky. The Yabloko party considers the searches at the homes of employees of the […]
Posted: March 21st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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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 European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation to the Yabloko observers in Kazan, Tatarstan. Activists worked for Grigory Yavlinsky’s campaign in the presidential elections in 2018
Press Release, 20.03.2023 Photo: Logo of the 2018 Russian Presidential Elections In the presidential elections in 2018, activists Olga Sergeyeva and Gulnara Galyautdinova worked at polling station No 409 in Kazan, Tatarastan, as a member of the electoral commission with an advisory vote and an observer. They were taken to the police station during the […]
Posted: March 20th, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Judiciary, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, 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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Yabloko won in court over the government and the regional public prosecutor in the fight for the organisation of free speech zones in Chelyabinsk
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Rallies in in Aloye Pole, Gagarin Park and Kolyushchenko Square in Chelyabinsk / Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko On 15 March, the Seventh Court of Cassation in Chelyabinsk upheld the decision of the Second Court of Appeal on the organisation of “hyde parks” (specially designated free speech zones where […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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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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Yabloko submitted to the Moscow City Duma a draft law on amnesty under criminal articles on military censorship
Press Release, 7.03.2023 Photo by Oleg Kharaeyev, Kommersant The faction of the Yabloko party in the Moscow City Duma, exercising the right of regional parliaments to initiate bills in the State Duma, submitted to the Moscow city parliament a draft resolution for the State Duma “On declaring an amnesty”. The draft envisages termination of criminal […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Supreme Court of Karelia upheld the decision on fining Emilia Slabunova for “discrediting the army” through her call to spend money on education, and not on “special operations”
Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 March, the Supreme Court of Karelia held a hearing on the appeal of Emilia Slabunova, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia from Yabloko. Slabunova, together with defence lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky, asked to cancel the decision of the Petrozavodsk […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Goncharenko: “Another resident of the Altai Territory was fined for “likes”
Blog post by Alexander Goncharenko, 28.02.2023 Photo: Alexander Goncharenko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service According to local media, a pensioner from Novoaltaysk was found guilty of “discrediting the use of the Russian army” as part of a “special operation”. A 69-year-old man, put likes under photographs and publications on the topic of “discrediting […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Udmurtia has managed to achieve a revision the positive decision of the state expertise on the disposal of extremely hazardous waste in the Kambarka plant
Press Release, 2.03.2023 Photo: Iya Boronina connecting with the Moscow City Court / Photo from the personal archive On 27 February, the Moscow City Court, as a court of appeal, held hearings on the claim of Iya Boronina, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia, against the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly rejected the Yabloko bill on criminal liability for propaganda of nuclear war
Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: The Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies / Photo by sobranie.pskov.ru Four MPs voted for the bill, thirteen voted against, and six abstained. Earlier, the Governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, wrote in his opinion on the Yabloko bill on criminal liability for propaganda of nuclear war that “a call to commit […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2023 under 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 Presidential Administration did not find “legal grounds” for issuing a decree on the end of mobilisation, although they wrote earlier that there such grounds did take place
Press Release, 1.03.2023 Photo by Viktor Karatayev / Kommersant The administration of the President of the Russian Federation believes that there are no legal grounds for issuing a separate decree on the completion of partial mobilisation. This is announced in an official response to the inquiry of Boris Vishnevsky, deputy head of the Yabloko faction […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 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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