Archive for 'Governance'
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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Our freedom and future cannot be nullified
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 1.07.2020 Yabloko does not recognise Vladimir Putin’s “plebescite” on consitutional amendments and its results. Such a statment was made by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov: Today, on 1 July, 2020, the false and unlawful special operation Constitution 2020 will be completed ingloriously. Its purpose and meaning is to put President Vladimir […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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The Yabloko party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found out that the author of Putin’s amendments to the Constitution possesses real estate worth almost 0.6 bln roubles and turned to the Public Prosecutor
Press Release, 1.07.2020 Photo: Talia Khabriyeva and Vladimir Putin The Yabloko party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found unexpectedly expensive elite real estate (worth almost 0.5 billion roubles) from Talia Khabriyeva, one of the key authors of Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. The investigation is published here.
Posted: July 1st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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In Astrakhan, police seized Yabloko leaflets against the reset Putin’s presidential terms
The deputy of the regional Duma, who was taking the leaflets to the Yabloko office, is facing administrative responsibility Press Release, 29.06.2020 The police seized leaflets against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms from Dmitry Anufriyev, Chairman of the Astrakhan branch of Yabloko and MP of the Astrakhan Regional Duma. Anufriyev’s car was stopped […]
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko called on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check on the actions of the police who detained Yabloko activist for a single picket
Press Release, 29.06.2020 Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko, filed an application with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Stavropol Territory about abuse of power by police officers. The leader of the regional branch of the party asks the Public Prosecutor to verify the legality of the detention of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member […]
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An insult to public intelligence. Grigory Yavlinsky on the “popular vote” on Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.06.2020 Photo: a voting station. A “popular vote” to amend the Constitution is like a rape. That is, it resembles coercing into something that you initially did not want and what should not have happened, and the longer and more persistently they persuade you, the more disgusting it becomes. Now people, even […]
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia arrested for eight days for a single picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 27.06.2020 On June 25, police detained Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, after a single picket (such pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) against constitutional amendments allowing Vladimir Putin to remain on the post of President of Russia until 2036. The court sent the leader of the […]
Posted: June 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police forcibly ousted a member of the electoral commission from Yabloko from the voting station. The electoral commission refused to allow her to control the sealing of ballots
Press Release, 26.06.2020 In Skhodnya, near Moscow, the police forcibly ousted Kristina Klimayeva a member of the precinct electoral commission from Yabloko, from the voting station. Klimayeva last night tried to control the sealing of ballots after the first day of voting. She had to call an ambulance, as due to stress her blood pressure […]
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights.
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