Archive for 'Judiciary'
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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Yabloko in Tatarstan honoured the memory of journalists killed for their professional activities
Press Release, 16.12.2024 Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 15 December, the Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty, Yabloko in Tatarstan honoured the memory of journalists of the new Russia killed for their work. The event took place in front of the Idel-Press building in Kazan. Dozens of Russian […]
Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova, Timur Kuashev's case, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions to hold the action of writing letters to political prisoners which will be the last in 2024
Press Release, 13.12.2024 Photo by the Voronezh branch of Yabloko Traditionally we invite everyone who is ready to help with care and a kind words to those deprived of freedom for their words and beliefs to the events in support of political prisoners. Come to our offices and other meeting places, sign New Year’s cards […]
Posted: December 13th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko calls on the State Duma to declare an amnesty on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War
Press Release, 12.12.2024 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant A letter signed by the Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov was sent to the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and State Duma deputies. At a meeting of the Yabloko Federal Council on 30 November, Yabloko called on the authorities to release from custody and drop […]
Posted: December 12th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko calls for the release of all those convicted under “anti-war” articles!
Resolution by the Federal Council of Yabloko, adopted by the Federal Council on 30.11.2024, published on 11.12.2024 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at the Yabloko Congress in 2023 /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, there are about a thousand prisoners in Russian prisons, persecuted by the state for their political views and positions. The use of […]
Posted: December 12th, 2024 under Congresses, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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On the Yabloko Party’s fundamental political position in the current conditions
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024 Photo: Yabloko’s poster “Changes Will Come!”, September 2021 elections / Photo by Vitaly Ankov, RIA Novosti The Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party considers it necessary to reiterate the most pressing key positions of the Party: – Ceasefire. Exchange of […]
Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Federalism, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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Police detained Valentina Komkova, Chair of the local Yabloko branch in Miass, the Chelyabinsk region, to prevent her from attending a court hearing
Press Release, 26.11.2024 Photo: Valentina Komkova / Photo from the personal archive Valentina Komkova was on her way to the Chelyabinsk Regional Court to give evidence on behalf of the defence in the case of a Miass resident who was accused of “demonstrating extremist symbols”. Komkova was stopped on the road by traffic police officers. […]
Posted: November 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia Anatoly Nogovitsyn was taken to the police office immediately after holding a permitted rally against the cancellation of the mayoral elections in the capital of Yakutia
Press Release, 24.11.2024 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A protocol is being drawn up against Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, for “violating the established procedure for organising or holding a rally” (Article 20.2 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The formal basis put forward […]
Posted: November 25th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg detained at the Pskov airport on his return from the Yabloko Federal Political Committee. Lev Shlosberg’s commentary
Press Release, 23.11.2024 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Lev Shlosberg was detained at the Pskov airport upon returning from Moscow today, at about 10 a.m. Shlosberg was taken to the linear police department on the airport territory. The police did not allow his […]
Posted: November 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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