Archive for 'Governance'
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that Vladimir Putin stop the violation of the rights of citizens in Chechnya
Press Release, 3.02.2022 Photo by Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant On 3 February, Nikolai Rybakov demanded from Vladimir Putin to restore the rights of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic.
Posted: February 3rd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Artur Gaiduk: Legislation on “foreign agents” is an instrument of pressure and repression
Press Release, 31.01.2022 Photo: Artur Gaiduk, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko At the January session, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly rejected Yabloko’s initiative to introduce a federal bill envisaging the exclusion of the concept of “foreign agents” and the related norms from Russian legislation. The bill was developed by lawyers of […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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NO TO WAR!
Statement by the Yabloko party, 24.01.2022 Photo: A column of Yabloko party demonstrators during the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov, 24 February, 2019. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko resolutely condemns the militaristic hysteria whipped up by high-ranking Russian officials and propaganda, a demonstration of readiness to start a war. Never in […]
Posted: January 26th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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A Common Lot of Authoritarian States
Grigory Yavlinsky’s blog post, yavlinsky.ru, 7.01.2022 Photo: The building of the Mayor’s office in Almaty. 6 January, 2021 // REUTERS / Pavel Mikheyev The events in Kazakhstan have been developing rapidly. Yesterday morning the government was dismissed in order to extinguish the wave of discontent, and by nightfall, fighting began in different settlements of the […]
Posted: January 11th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Non-Poster Thoughts
Viktor Kogan-Yasny special for the Yabloko web-site, 10.01.2022 Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The current era has two destructive (and somewhat interconnected) social traits that make it very dangerous. First, the behaviour of people in their everyday life can be compared to that of a primitive bureaucrat, an ignorant functional […]
Posted: January 10th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights.
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Lev Shlosberg: “The responsibility for political emigration always lies on the authorities”
Press Release, 29.12.2021 Photo: Lev Shlosberg (left) and journalist Konstantin Kalichenko / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, spoke to the Ekho Moskvi in Pskov radio station about the reasons that force opposition-minded people to leave Russia, and named those […]
Posted: December 29th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“The enormity of this sentence is confirmed by the very fact of innocence”
Boris Vishnevsky and Emilia Slabunova supported Memorial’s Yury Dmitriyev at the trial Press Release, 27.12.2021 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Emilia Slabunova in the corridor of the city court (centre) / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, and Emilia Slabunova, head of the Yabloko faction in the […]
Posted: December 27th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov came to the Supreme Court to support Memorial
Nikolai Rybakov Facebook post, 14.12.2021 Photo from Nikolai Rybakov’ Facebook page Nikolai Rybakov: I have come to the Supreme Court where the hearings on the liquidation of International Memorial [a human rights society engaged in human rights and investigation of repression in the USSR] are being held. Hope is the last to die, however, it […]
Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, asked the Russian Public Prosecutor General to withdraw the claim submitted to the Supreme Court to liquidate the Memorial human rights society
Press Release, 14.12.2021 Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo from Arthur Gaiduk’s Facebook page Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, considers the demands of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the Memorial human rights organisation unlawful and essentially unconstitutional, and calls on Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, to abolish the law suit against […]
Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Albert Khusainov: the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko marked International Human Rights Day with pickets and a meeting of human rights defenders
Albert Khusainov’s blog post, 13.12.2021 Photo: Albert Khusainov / Photo by the Press Service of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko The Bashkirian branch of the Yabloko party held a meeting of party members and non-partisan civil activists in connection with the anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human […]
Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: the persecution of Alexander Korovainy is caused by political motives
Statement by the Yabloko Party Chairman, 8.12.2021 Photo: Alexander Korovainy / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, Alexander Korovainy, a Yabloko party member, was deprived of his deputy powers by the decision of the Council of Deputies of the Yeisk District of the Krasnodar Territory, on the basis of a letter from the head […]
Posted: December 8th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Constitutional Court upheld the application of Yabloko municipal deputies in St.Petersburg to in defending the principle of the change of power
Press Release, 26.11.2021 Photo: Yabloko municipal deputies of Liteiny District, St.Petersburg, and lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky (second from right) / Photo by Petersburg Yabloko The Constitutional Court of the RF upheld the complaint of Yabloko deputies in the St. Petersburg municipality of Liteiny District and called for a revision of the provision of the federal law […]
Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Elections, Governance, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: The main thing is not to keep silent!
Press Release, 25.11.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 25 November, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov met with human rights activists and public activists who came to the building of the Supreme Court of Russia. The court is considering the claim of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the international historical and educational society […]
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly introduced a legislative initiative to exclude the concept of “foreign agent” from the legislation
Press Release, 23.11.2021 The legislative initiative of the Yabloko faction proposing to completely eliminate the concept of “foreign agent” from Russian legislation has undergone legal expertise in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. The draft was prepared by Lev Levinson, an expert of the Institute of Human Rights, at the request of the deputies of […]
Posted: November 24th, 2021 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Stop destruction of federalism and local self-government in Russia
Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 19.11.2021 Photo: The authors of the bill MP Pavel Krasheninnikov and Senator Andrei Klishas. / Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant The Yabloko party regards the Klishas-Krashennikov bill “On the general principles of organising public power in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” as the final elimination of federalism and […]
Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Unlearned Lessons. Grigory Yavlinsky on Dmitry Medvedev’s article “Six Lessons of the Pandemic”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.11.2021 They invented a new role for Dmitry Medvedev, the current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation [and former President and Prime Minister of the RF] , – explaining the policies of the Kremlin and broadcasting unpleasant ideas. Thus, a month ago, the Kommersant [daily] published a provocative […]
Posted: November 10th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Launch of the book by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva “Along the Track of a Special Path”
Press Release, 29.10.2021 On Wednesday, 3 November, the launch of the book by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva “Along the Track of a Special Path” will take place. The event will take place via Zoom and will start at 18:00. The authors of the book attempt to answer the question of why the peculiarities of […]
Posted: October 29th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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Negative Selection*
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2021 (*Negative selection is a mechanism prioritising and ensuring selection of the worst. See, for example, here) The State Duma elections ended exactly one month ago. We approached these elections in a situation when the system had been consolidated and had started moving definitely and consciously to an aggressive-repressive model of relations with […]
Posted: October 27th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Results and lessons of the first parliamentary elections of the system after the 1 July, 2020 [the adoption of Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution]
Decision No 144 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo: Distribution of seats in the Russian parliament based on the results of the 2021 elections. Photo: by Igor Ivanko / Kommersant The past parliamentary elections are the first after the cynical, insulting and hypocritical imposition on the country […]
Posted: October 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The situation and prospects of political struggle in Russia in 2021
Decision No 147 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko believes that the assessments, forecasts and fears expressed in the article “No to Putinism and Populism” and the decision by the Political Committee […]
Posted: October 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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