Archive for 'Governance'
Grigory Yavlinsky: Putin and Biden – ”It takes one to know one”?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.03.2021 Photo: Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin. Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / RIA Novosti On 2 October, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent journalist for the Washington Post, was killed and dismembered at the Saudi Arabian Сonsulate in Istanbul. Recently, US National Intelligence accused the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, […]
Posted: March 25th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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For every man, there’s a law to convict him under
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.03.2021 Photo: Participants of the Municipal Forum in a police van. Photo by Avtozak Live Police detained over 170 municipal deputies in Moscow. This is how the authorities are fighting the pandemic and “undesirable organisations” [the Russian law “on undesirable organisations” gives prosecutors the power to extrajudicially declare foreign and international organisations […]
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded to open a criminal case on the fact of extrajudicial killings in Chechnya
Press Release, 16.03.2021 Photo: The law enforcement forces in Grozny, Chechnya. Photo by Said Tsarnayev / RIA Novosti On 15 March, Novaya Gazeta published another part of the investigation into extrajudicial killings of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic. With reference to the publication, this was also reported by other media, in particular, RBC. […]
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Statement by Yabloko deputies of the Moscow parliament on political terror on behalf of the Moscow police
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 15.03.2021 Photo: Detention of Sergei Mitorkhin These days, the whole country has been witnessing a new round of a systemic campaign aimed at suppressing opposition politics in Russia. Past week, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, presented to the Moscow City Duma his […]
Posted: March 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky spoke at the international conference The Man Who Changed the World timed to coincide with Mikhail Gorbachev’s 90th birthday
Press Release, 5.03.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Olga Zdravomyslova, Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation, and Pavel Palazhchenko, head of the International Contacts and Press Service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko party Chairman, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, took part in the international […]
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What threatens Putin and what threatens Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Politics, Protests in Russia, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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The vertical of executioners
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.02.2021 Photo: Session of the Third Court of Cassation considering the case of Yuri Dmitriyev, 16 February, 2021 “Here, in the Sandarmokh area, a place of mass executions, over 7,000 innocent people were killed from 1934 to 1941 by the NKVD executioners: residents of Karelia, prisoners and special settlers of the White […]
Posted: February 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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“That’s how you get to be hangmen – Just keep mum”*
Grigory Yavlinsky on why his article “No to Putinism and Populism” was published on time Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.02.2021 Photo: Moscow, January 31, 2021. Photo by RIA Novosti / Yevgeny Odinokov The article “No to Putinism and Populism. On the Implications of Current Politics” sparked a discussion. One of the most frequent objections is that the […]
Posted: February 16th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party Bureau supported Grigory Yavlinsky’s proposals stated in his article
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 11.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky/Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party adopted a statement supporting the theses outlined in the article “Without Putinism and Populism” by Grigory Yavlinsky and noted the relevance of this article. The statement was submitted to the Bureau for consideration […]
Posted: February 12th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: No to Putinism and Populism
On the implications of current politics Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.02.2021 Moscow, January 31, 2021 // © RIA NOVOSTI, Yevgeni Odinokov “If my people follows Gamsakhurdia, I will have to go against my people”. Merab Mamardashvili, 1989 Almost 10 years have passed since the protests of 2011. During this period we have witnessed different street […]
Posted: February 11th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: We get an electoral system that looks like a black cat in a dark room
Press Release, 29.12.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Pskov parliamentarians adopted amendments to the Electoral Code of the Pskov Region. All parties, except for the ruling United Russia party, opposed multi-day voting in the elections, as well as voting in the yards and other similar changes, as they make […]
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko has introduced amendments to the law “On Police”: all the police stations should be equipped with video cameras
Press Release, 28.12.2020 The Yabloko party has developed and submitted to the executive and the legislative authorities amendments to the Law on Police, which envisage equipping all police stations where legally significant procedures are carried out with video cameras and audio recorders. On 8 December, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the […]
Posted: December 28th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights.
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The pro-Mayor’s majority in the Moscow City Duma thwarted the adoption of the law on parliamentary investigations
Press Release, 24.12.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov Yesterday, on December 23, the Moscow City Duma considered the bill on parliamentary investigations submitted by Maxim Kruglov, the leader of the Yabloko faction. According to the document, any facts of violation of the city laws, the rights of Moscow residents, non-fulfillment of the budget, manipulation with city property, […]
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov will take part in the press conference “The trial of the leaders and activists of the Ingush protest”
Press Release, 22.12.2020 On December 28, Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will take part in a press conference on the start of the trial of seven leaders and activists of the Ingush protest: Akhmed Barakhoev, Malsag Uzhakhov, Zarifa Saytiyeva, Barakh Chemurziev, Musa Malsagalov, Ismayil, and Bagaudin Khautiev. The press conference will begin at 11:00. The […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The New Age Economy
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 5) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 18.12.2020 These days virtually all economic analysts concur that the pandemic and its consequences are exacerbating key negative trends in the global economy, such as the increasing gap between stock market indices and real economic processes, the rise in monopolies and […]
Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held single pickets on the eve of the Constitution Day
Press Release, 14.12.2020 On 11 December, on the eve of the Russian Constitution Day, activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held single pickets. “All the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation are unlawful and completely disavow the meaning of both the key Chapters 1 and 2 [on human rights], and its entire […]
Posted: December 16th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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THE PANDEMIC AND POLITICS
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 4) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 15.12.2020 INTRODUCTION The year 2020 is drawing to a close. One can only imagine what will come next. According to Deutsche Bank strategists, the era of globalisation, which has lasted for almost four decades, is coming to an end and will […]
Posted: December 15th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Russia has no objections to compensating for damage from corruption
The Russian Ministry of Justice responded positively to the proposal of Yabloko Press Release, 9.12.2020 Photo: Picture by Transparency International The Russian Ministry of Justice plans to agree with all the authorities Russia’s accession to the convention on civil liability for corruption. Such a response came from the Ministry to Yabloko’s proposal to guarantee everyone […]
Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Economy, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The European Court of Human Rights declared the verdict of the Russian court on the case of physicist Danilov unjust
Statement by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, 9.12.2020 Photo: Physicist Valentin Danilov in the office of the Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party in January 2018 The European Court of Human Rights ruled out that Russia violated the right of physicist Valentin Danilov to a fair trial. Four of the twelve jurors were linked […]
Posted: December 9th, 2020 under Governance, Greetings, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the Political Systems of the New Age
POLITICAL ENTROPY (Chapter 2) Digital technologies and the globalisation of disorder As a series of events sent shockwaves globally, a large-scale process proceeded in the background imperceptibly, with the creation of new forms and methods to manage social phenomena, to all intents and purposes representing the birth of a new type of political system. It […]
Posted: December 4th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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