Archive for 'History'
The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko honored the memory of the victims of the Novocherkassk execution of 1962
Press Release, 02.06.2023 Photo by the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko Today, Rostov-on-Don traditionally hosted official mourning events dedicated to the anniversary of the execution of unarmed citizens by the Soviet authorities on 2 June, 1962. 61 years ago, the workers of the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant came out to protest against the reduction of their […]
Posted: June 5th, 2023 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ulyanovsk branch of Yabloko honoured the memory of Acad. Andrei Sakharov on his birthday
Press Release, 24.05.2023 Photo: Dmitry Gondarenko, Chairman of the Ulyanovsk branch of Yabloko, and Sergei Plyasunov, candidate to member of the party / Photo by the Ulyanovsk regional office of Yabloko On 21 May, Dmitry Gondarenko, Chairman of the Ulyanovsk branch of Yabloko, together with Yabloko supporters, laid flowers at the memorial of the victims […]
Posted: May 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov: The real memory of those who died in the Second World War would be a peaceful sky above us, over all of Europe, over the whole world. And our responsibility is to return it
Press Release, 6.05.2023 On 6 May, on the threashold of Victory Day, Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, on behalf of all Yabloko members, laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. “When I come to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall, or Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, […]
Posted: May 12th, 2023 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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“Eternal memory. Endless gratitude. Huge respect”
Press Release, 9.05.2023 On the 78th anniversary of the Victory in the Second World War, leaders and members of the Yabloko party visited the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, where more than 10,000 soldiers and commanders of the Red Army are buried, and laid flowers at the memorial and the graves of the French pilots of […]
Posted: May 9th, 2023 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the historical risks of Russia’s artificial estrangement from European civilisation
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March 2023 Published on 27.04.2023 Photo by Vladimir Sergeyev, RIA Novosti The Statute of the Council of Europe, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the European Charter of Local Self-Government, the European Social Charter, the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, the […]
Posted: April 28th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Boris Vishnevsky “Towards Democracy and Back”
Press Release, 6.04.2023 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 17 April, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Towards Democracy and Back”. The lecturer is Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party and Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.
Posted: April 7th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Alexander Shishlov: “A Stalinist state with its main feature – the priority of the state over the individual – is being reproduced in Russia”
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A basis for Russia’s cardinal civilizational U-turn and the country’s leaving the mainstream development of human civilization is being created in Russia. Such a statement was made by Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Searches at the homes of employees of the Memorial human rights society are a new step in the practices of political repressions in Russia
Statement by the Yabloko party, 21.03.2023 Photo by Safron Golikov / Kommersant On 21 March, 2023, investigators from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation came with searches to the employees of the Memorial [human right] society, including its leader Yan Rachinsky. The Yabloko party considers the searches at the homes of employees of the […]
Posted: March 21st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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A round table “Lessons of Perestroika” was held at Yabloko
Press Release, 6.03.2023. Photo by um.mos.ru On 4 March, the Social-Democratic Faction of the Yabloko party held a round table “Lessons of Perestroika” devoted to the 92nd anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev. The round table was attended by members of the Yabloko party, experts and members of the Russian Social Democratic Youth Union. The speakers were […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Social Democratic faction.
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“It was a public execution because Boris Nemtsov believed that Russia should not fight with anyone”
Press Release, 27.02.2023 Yabloko honoured the memory of Boris Nemtsov who was murdered by the Kremlin walls on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, on 27 February 2015. Today, on the eighth anniversary of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the leaders and activists of Yabloko came to the scene of the tragedy – the Bolshoi […]
Posted: February 27th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Prof. Andrei Medushevsky on global constitutionalism
Press Release, 14.02.2023 Photo: Andrei Medushevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 3 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Global constitutionalism: integration or fragmentation as a way to construct a new world legal order?”. The lecturer is Andrei Medushevsky, Professor of the Research University of the Higher School of Economics […]
Posted: February 14th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted the third lecture out of the series by Sergei Mitrokhin on why Russia has not become a law-governed state
Press Release, 14.02.2023 On 13 February, Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, an MP of the Moscow City Duma and a candidate of political sciences, delivered his third lecture out of the series of his lectures at the Yabloko Party University “Truth Instead of Law”. Has capitalism come […]
Posted: February 14th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host the third lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin on why Russia has not become a law-governed state
Press Release, 09.02.2023 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 13 February, Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, am MP of the Moscow City Duma and candidate of political sciences, will deliver the third lecture at the Yabloko Party University “Truth Instead of Law”. […]
Posted: February 10th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Victor Kogan-Yasny: Decades and a year
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 04.02.2023 After Belovezh Accords of 1991 [when the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus secretly gathered in Belarus and declared that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist and established the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place as a successor entity], an authoritarian regime began to take shape in the […]
Posted: February 6th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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“The main unlearned lesson of the WWII is that war should never happen again.” Yabloko honoured the memory of the heroes and victims of the Battle of Stalingrad of the WWII
Press Release, 02.02.2023 Photo: Alexander Yefimov and Yabloko activists in Volgograd / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the 80th anniversary of the victory over the Hitler’s army in the Battle of the Volga, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party paid tribute to the memory of the heroes and victims of the Second […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Never again! Yabloko honored the memory of the victims of the siege of Leningrad during the World War 2.
Press Release, 27.01.2023 On 27 January, on the anniversary of lifting of the siege of Leningrad, the leaders of the Yabloko party laid flowers at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Boris Vishnevsky, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee Alexander Shishlov, member of the Federal Political […]
Posted: January 27th, 2023 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The parliament of St. Petersburg refused to consider Yabloko’s bill on a ban on nuclear war propaganda
Press Release, 25.01.2023 Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg The parliamentary majority of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg excluded from the agenda the draft federal initiative of the Yabloko faction envisaging criminal penalties for propaganda of nuclear war. This happened at the plenary meeting on Wednesday, 25 January. 35 […]
Posted: January 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Bow to the memory of these people and say it again: people, give up revenge”. Yabloko honoured the memory of the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova
Press Release, 19.01.2023 Photos by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 January, Yabloko leaders and activists in Moscow once again met at Prechistenka 3 to honour the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by neo-Nazis 14 years ago. Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Ivan […]
Posted: January 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko proposes to introduce criminal penalties for propaganda of nuclear war
Press Release, 18.01.2023 Photo: Gas masks at a school in Pripyat, an abandoned city in the Chernobyl zone / Photo by Alexander Vedernikov, Kommersant Yabloko MP Artur Gaiduk submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly a draft federal law on criminal liability for public calls for the use of nuclear weapons and propaganda for their use. […]
Posted: January 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War. Yabloko leaders paid tribute to the victims
Press Release, 18.01.2023 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 18 January, the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, the leaders of the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg and Moscow paid tribute to the memory of the victims. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov […]
Posted: January 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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