Archive for 'Judiciary'
Court made a decision on the third criminal case against Vladimir Yefimov. The total term of imprisonment is two years
Press Release, 4.04.2025 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo from social media The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court has made a decision on the third criminal case against journalist and leader of the regional branch of the Yabloko party Vladimir Yefimov. Yefimov was sentenced to two years in a penal colony under two articles – “demonstration of extremist […]
Posted: April 4th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ryazan Regional Court leaves Ryazan Yabloko Chairman Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention
Press Release, 3.04.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov at a court hearing via video link / Photo by Vid Sboku On 3 April, the Ryazan Regional Court upheld the decision of the court of the lower instance to extend the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov, the Editor-in-Chief of the Vid Sboku (Side View) online media and deputy of […]
Posted: April 4th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Kamchatka Krai Court upheld Vladimir Yefimov’s sentence in his second criminal case for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 31.03.2025 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The decision was made on 28 March. Earlier, Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of Kamchatka Yabloko and journalist, was sentenced to two years in a penal colony in his second criminal case for “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code). […]
Posted: April 2nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Ksenia Cherepanova became the eleventh Yabloko member added to the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 28.03.2025 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo from the personal archive The Ministry of Justice added Ksenia Cherepanova, the Chairwoman of the Veliky Novgorod city branch of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”. She became the eleventh party member to be added to the register.
Posted: April 2nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The arrest of journalist and municipal deputy from Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov extended for another two months
Press Release, 27.03.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Sovietsky District Court of Ryazan decided to extend the term of detention for Konstantin Smirnov, journalist and municipal deputy from Yabloko, for another two months. The court took such a decision despite the requests of Smirnov and his defence to change […]
Posted: April 2nd, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko continues its monthly actions in support of political prisoners in dozens of Russian cities
Press Release, 18.03.2025 Those who are unjustly deprived of their freedom have a very hard time in prisons and pretrial detention centres. This is confirmed by the alarming news about the health of Maria Ponomarenko and Lyudmila Razumova. The Moscow and Novgorod branches of our party started helping them. It is in our power to […]
Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Moscow Yabloko asks the Public Prosecutor’s Office to initiate an immediate investigation into the detention conditions of journalist Maria Ponomarenko in a pretrial detention facility
Press Release, 18.03.2025 Photo: Maria Ponomarenko / Photo by RusNews Mass media have reported, citing a lawyer, that Maria Ponomarenko attempted suicide “due to constant bullying by the administration” of the detention facility and is currently on a dry hunger strike. Moscow Yabloko representative Maxim Kruglov is asking the Public Prosecutor of the Altiai Territory, […]
Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko wins the Constitutional Court case on removing party lists from elections in 2023
Press Release, 18.03.2025 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant On 18 March, 2025, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation confirmed that the head of the regional branch of a political party has the authority to sign documents to register the nominated list of candidates from the moment of his/her election. The ruling was made at […]
Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Elections, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov testified as a defence witness in the trial of Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of the Golos election observers movement
Press Release, 10.02.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 February, the Сhairman of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov, testified at a session of the Basmanny Court of Moscow as a defenсe witness in the criminal case against the Сo-Сhairman of the Golos independent election observers movement, Grigory Melkonyants.
Posted: February 10th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered an investigation into Konstantin Smirnov’s statement about violations of the procedure for merging rural settlements of the Ryazan area into a single district
Telegram channel “Ryazan. Vid Sboku”, 10.02.2025 Photo: Mass public hearings on the merger of rural settlements in Dubrovichi, Ryazan region, into a single district. Screenshot of the video on social networks The Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered an investigation into the statement of Konstantin Smirnov, the arrested editor-in-chief of Vid Sboku (Side View) online media […]
Posted: February 10th, 2025 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Konstantin Smirnov remains in pretrial detention until 30 March
Press Release, 7.02.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov at the hearing of the court selecting a preventive measure for him, 31 January/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Ryazan Regional Court today rejected the journalist’s defense’s appeal against the decision to place him in custody. The Smirnov’s lawyer insisted that Konstantin Smirnov should not be kept […]
Posted: February 7th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An administrative protocol was drawn up against Ruslan Zinatullin in Kazan for a poster in support of arrested journalist Konstantin Smirnov
Press Release, 6.02.2025 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin holding a poster in support of Konstantin Smirnov “Konstantin Smirnov is a journailst, not a criminal” at a picket permitted by the authorities, on 1 February, 2025. / Photo by Tatarstan Yabloko A protocol was drawn up against the Chairman of Tatarstan Yabloko Ruslan Zinatullin for repeated violation of […]
Posted: February 7th, 2025 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Supreme Court of Yakutia upheld the fine imposed on Yabloko’s Anatoly Nogovitsyn for attending an unpermitted event
Press Release, 5.02.2025 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Supreme Court of Yakutia rejected the appeal of the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, against the decision of the city court on a fine for “violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a rally” (Article […]
Posted: February 5th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The court sent the leader of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov to a pretrial detention centre for two months
Press Release, 31.01.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov in the courtroom / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The court arrested Konstantin Smirnov, the leader of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko and deputy of the Dubrovichsky rural settlement, for two months. He has been sent to a pretrial detention centre until March. This was reported from the […]
Posted: January 31st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, sentenced to two years in a penal colony for an anti-war post on social media
Press Release, 28.01.2025 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Vladimir Yefimov, journalist and the leader of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, was sentenced to two years in a penal colony in the second criminal case against him on “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code). According to […]
Posted: January 28th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions conducts its regular actions in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 24.01.2025 Photo: “Freedom to All Political Prisoners”. Yabloko Party Congress, 2019 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions continues its actions of writing letters to political prisoners. Anyone can take part in the actions of writing letters to political prisoners. Participation in Yabloko actions of writing […]
Posted: January 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Constitutional Court to consider Yabloko’s complaint about disqualification from regional elections due to delay with data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities
Press Release, 20.01.2025 Photo: A session of the Constitutional Court / Photo by Alexander Koryakov, Kommersant On 17 January, the Constitutional Court of Russia reported that at its session on 16 January, the court accepted for consideration the complaint of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party about the violation of its constitutional rights […]
Posted: January 20th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg charged in a case of failure to perform duties of a “foreign agent”. Commentary by Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 17.01.2025 The adventures of the lost “foreign agent signs” in the Pskov region continue. The major case investigator of the Investigative Committee Department for the Pskov region, Andrei Semyonov, invited me to a meeting and issued a writ this morning to bring me in as an accused in a case of […]
Posted: January 17th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“We are waiting for the rest of the court’s decisions.” Nikolai Rybakov on the decision of the court to provide the daughter of a victim of Stalin’s Great Terror deprived of housing then with an apartment
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 14.01.2025 Photo: screenshot of the broadcast of the “Mesto Vstrechi” programme on NTV, where Nikolai Rybakov shows photographs of “children of the Gulag” Good news has arrived – the court has for the first time ordered the Moscow Mayor’s Office to buy an apartment for the daughter of a repressed city resident. […]
Posted: January 14th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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After two years of litigation, the seizure of the St.Petersburg branch of the society for the protection of of architectural heritage was declared illegal. One of the plaintiffs was Yabloko Deputy Chair Boris Vishnevsky
Press Release, 16.12.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky by the VOOPIK office / Photo by the St.Petersbrug branch of Yabloko The City Court of St. Petersburg upheld the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court on the illegal holding of a conference of the St.Petersburg branch of VOOPIK (All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments). […]
Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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