Archive for 'Governance'
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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Viktor Shalyakin, a member of the Novgorod Yabloko Regional Council, won the second lawsuit against the Russian Federation
Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, won the second lawsuit against the Russian Federation in connection with the illegal prosecution under the administrative article on “discrediting the army”. On 27 February, the Novgorod District Court […]
Posted: March 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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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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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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“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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