Archive for 'Governance'
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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The Moscow City Duma deputies of the “Moscow Mayor’s team” blocked the bill of Maxim Kruglov on the mandatory reports of Moscow officials to the Moscow city parliament
Press Release, 28.12.2022 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, proposed to make members of the Moscow Government, heads of sectoral and functional executive bodies of Moscow, and local governments report annually to the Moscow City Duma on their work. […]
Posted: December 28th, 2022 under Elections, Governance, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Director of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre on the implications of Russia’s withdrawing from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 26.12.2022 Photo: Alexei Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Russian government proposed to the President to withdraw from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption. Such a withdrawal maintains the line towards the break with European legal standards and will throw […]
Posted: December 26th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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“They should have awarded Svetlana Gannushkina for her support of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, but they appointed her a “foreign agent”
The leaders of Yabloko speak in defence of Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Yabloko Political Committee Press Release, 24.12.2022 Photo: Svetlana Gannushkina / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Throughout this year, the Ministry of Justice of Russia, almost without a break, assigned once a week the title of “foreign agent” to people whose […]
Posted: December 26th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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To prevent the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group means not taking another step towards dictatorship
Statement by the Yabloko party, 23.12.2022 Photo: The lecture by Valery Borshchyov, Co-Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, at Yabloko on 21 December, 2022 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice to liquidate the Moscow Helsinki Group and ban its activities is another step towards turning the Russian state […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Opochetsky District Court upheld the decision of pro-government deputies to arbitrarily dismiss Yabloko’s head of the district Svetlana Vasilkova basing on “their inner conviction”. The decision of the court will be appealed in the regional court.
Press Release, 22.12.2022 Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko On 21 December, the Opochetsky District Court announced the decision on the suit of Yabloko’s Svetlana Vasilkova to challenge her dismissal from the post of head of the Pustoshkinsky district of the Pskov region. As follows from the decision, Svetlana Vasilkova’s demands were “partially […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko collects signatures in Volgograd against the renaming of the city after Joseph Stalin
Press Release, 22.12.2022 Photo: Governor of the Volgograd Region Andrey Bocharov speaking in support of the “special operation” in front of students of the Volgograd branch of Plekhanov Russian University of Econmics / Photo by www.rea.ru Yabloko started collecting signatures in Volgograd against the renaming of the city after Joseph Stalin. The initiative on the […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow Mayor answered the questions of the deputies of the Moscow City Duma, but did not say anything new
Press Release, 21.12.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin delivered a report to the deputies of the Moscow City Duma on the results of the work of the Moscow government in 2022. After a short report on the successes in the economy, social policies, the development of transport, and the […]
Posted: December 21st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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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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Do not allow for militarisation of the school! Yabloko’s appeal to deputies, senators and the Minister of Education
Appeal by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko of 15.12.2022, published on 16.12.2022 Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant Yabloko demands to put an end to the militarisation of the school: not to make elementary military training a compulsory subject, not to allow for politicised and paramilitary events to be held at schools, and stop forcing schoolchildren […]
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Education and Science, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies, Youth Policies.
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The Moscow City Court upheld the decision on the fine for “discrediting the army” to the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Andrei Morev
Press Release, 14.12.2022 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Tagansky District Court, which found Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko and the former head of the Yakimanka District Council in Moscow, guilty of “discrediting the army”. Morev was fined 50,000 […]
Posted: December 14th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma will hold a round table on the analysis of the Moscow experiment on introduction of face recognition in public areas
Press Release, 13.12.2022 Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant On 15 December, the Moscow City Duma will host a round table dedicated to evaluating the effectiveness of the federal experiment with face recognition systems in Moscow. Deputies, officials and experts will discuss approaches to assessing the effectiveness of the experimental face recognition system in Moscow, crime […]
Posted: December 14th, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the Russian Constitution Day, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko will hold a discussion about a law-governed state with adults
Press Release, 9.12.2022 Photo from kids.kremlin.ru On 12 December, the Russian Constitution Day, the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party invites all to take part in a discussion on the topic “A Police State or a Law-Governed State”. The discussion will be held in the office of the regional Yabloko branch at the address: […]
Posted: December 10th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The District Court of Kazan for the third time considered the request for a search at Ruslan Zinatullin’s home and recognised it lawful
Press Release, 7.12.2022 Photo: Ruslan Zinalullin / Photo from social media The Sovetsky District Court of Kazan for the third time considered the request of the investigation to conduct a search at the home of Ruslan Zinatullin, head of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Tatarstan, and issued permission to […]
Posted: December 9th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Investigative Committee check the information about the torture of blogger Nekoglai
Press Release, 7.12.2022 Photo: a screenshot the @necoglaioff YouTube channel Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, demanding to check the information about the torture by police officers of the detainee Nikolai Lebedev, as well as asked to identify and bring all those responsible to justice.
Posted: December 9th, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, the founder of the Novy Focus media, fined 450,000 roubles for “inciting hatred” against the law enforcement
Press Release, 8.12.2022 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev, his wife Yelena and son / Photo from social media On 6 December, the City Court in Abakan, Khakassia, fined Mikhail Afanasyev, the founder of the Novy Focus media, 450,000 roubles under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“incitement of hatred”). Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the […]
Posted: December 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko deputies in four regional parliaments vouched for Vladimir Kara-Murza
Press Release, 8.12.2022 Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza at the Yabloko pre-election Congress in 2021 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, the Moscow Basmanny Court will hold a hearing to extend the measure of restraint in the form of detention for politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza. Vladimir Kara-Murza has been in jail since 22 April […]
Posted: December 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, 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, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the Karelian parliament pointed out to Minister of Defence the need to issue a decree on the end of mobilisation
Press Release, 5.12.2022 Photo: Mobilisation / Photo by Viktor Korotaev, Kommersant The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia sent an appeal to Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister. The document refers to the need to issue a regulatory legal act on the completion of partial mobilisation.
Posted: December 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg asked Vladimir Putin to issue a decree on the completion of “partial mobilisation”
Press Release, 2.12.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The appeal by Yabloko deputies runs that it is necessary to issue a decree on the end of “partial […]
Posted: December 2nd, 2022 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.
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A legal case connected with the absence of a decree on the completion of mobilisation emerged in Chita. The Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to the President
Press Release, 1.12.2022 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Anna Cherepanova, head of the Yabloko party faction in the Novgorod City Duma, called on the Russian President to issue a decree on the completion of partial mobilisation. The faction’s appeal, signed by MP Cherepanova, was sent to Vladimir Putin on 30 […]
Posted: December 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, 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 Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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