Archive for 'History'
The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko organised a picket in memory of victims of political reprisals
Press Release, 31.10.2020 On 31 October, a memorial picket was held at the monument to the victims of political reprisals in Rostov-on-Don. The picket was timed to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals, one of the picket applicants was the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko. Activists pay tribute not only to the […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko demanded from the Governor to ensure proper protection of the memorial complex Zolotaya Gora – the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims
Press Release, 30.10.2020 On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko appealed to Alexei Teksler, Governor of the region, with the demand to ensure proper protection and maintenance, as well as to organise an additional study of the memorial complex Zolotaya Gora, the burial place of victims […]
Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko proposed to create the Sandormokh Coalition to continue the work of imprisoned historian Yury Dmitriyev
Press Release, 30.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov made a proposal to create a public coalition Sandarmokh, which would continue the work of imprisoned historian Yury Dmitriyev. Rybakov stated this during his visit to the site of Stalin’s mass executions in Sandarmokh, Karelia. A large delegation of Yabloko leaders has specially arrived in Karelia to visit […]
Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky about honouring the memory of the victims of Stalin’s political reprisals
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 29.10.2020 Photo: Honouring the memory of the victims of political reprisals, the Solovetsky stone – the memorial to the victims of political reprisals, Lubyanka Square, Moscow. “The truth about our country, the real truth, will be told only to those and by those who love it with all their heart… […]
Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Stop the creeping Stalinisation in Russia. Yabloko leaders laid flowers to the memorial to the victims of political reprisals in Moscow
Press Release, 29.10.2020 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Party On the morning of October 29, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid flowers to the Solovetsky stone – the memorial to the victims of political reprisals – in Lubyanka Square in Moscow, honouring the memory […]
Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko leaders to visit the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Karelia on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Reprisals on 30 October
Press Release, 29.10.2020 On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals in Russia, a delegation of the Yabloko Party will come to Karelia to visit the Sandarmokh memorial cemetery in the Medvezhyegorsk region of the Republic.
Posted: October 29th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky urged to return the Last Address nameplates put in memory of Stalin’s victims and dismantled from 23 Rubinstein Street, St.Petersburg
Press Release, 20.10.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the party, wrote to the General Director of Housing and Utilities Systems of the North-West, whose management company removed 16 nameplates put in memory of victims of Stalinist reprisals from house No 23 in […]
Posted: October 20th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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He fought for freedom of his homeland!
Grigory Yavlinsky on the anniversary of the death of politician Alexander Yakovlev Press Release, 19.10.2020 15 years ago, Alexander Yakovlev died – a politician, a real front-line soldier during WW2, an honest and decent person. Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was a completely unique figure in Russian politics. Unlike many of those who were engaged in perestroika, […]
Posted: October 19th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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THE DAY AFTER
On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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A poisoned reputation
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.09.2020 Why does no one – not a single state in the world, not a single international organisation – believe what they say in Russia about Alexei Navalny’s poisoning? Probably because no one, except Russia, change urine probes of their athletes. Probably because only “tourists” from Russia go to admire the sights […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian failed coup d’etat of 1991, Kremlin manipulators and Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.08.2020 29 years ago, a group of gray, but high-ranking Soviet officials tried to turn history back and return a huge country to the same gray past as they were. But hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets to defend their future. Then, in August 1991, people […]
Posted: August 25th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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The action in memory of the defenders of the White House who died in August 1991 will be held by the Moscow Yabloko
Press Release, 19.08.2020 On Saturday, August 22, activists and leaders of the Moscow branch of Yabloko will lay flowers at the monument to the defenders of the democratic Russia during the failed coup d’etat of August 19-21, 1991. The action will start at 14:00. Yabloko activists will honour the memory of the heroes of the […]
Posted: August 21st, 2020 under Activities, History, Human Rights.
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The Tatarstan branch of Yabloko conducted one-person pickets against the conscription slavery
Press Release, 15.05.2020 On May 15, the International Day of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service, Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan, held a series of one-person pickets (that do not require any permissions from the authorities) against the conscription slavery in Russia and against human rights violations in […]
Posted: May 15th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, The Russian Army.
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Soldiers’ graves are the greatest preachers of peace
Open letter of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, 13.05.2020 On May 11-13, 2020, a number of media published news under provocative headlines and texts about the annual action in memory of the victims of the Second World War conducted by our colleague Sergei Dustin. These publications, together with the video, became the reason for the […]
Posted: May 15th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko releases a documentary “Boris Misnik. A man from Monchegorsk”
Press Release, 12.05.2020 Yabloko releases a documentary “Boris Misnik. A man from Monchegorsk”. It is dedicated to one of the leaders of our party – Boris Grigoryevich Misnik. In the 1990s, Boris Misnik headed the Russian Mining and Metallurgical Union and was a State Duma deputy from the Yabloko party. The childhood years of Boris […]
Posted: May 13th, 2020 under History, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Nikolai Rybakov laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier paying tribute to the vicitms of the Second World War
Press Release, 9.05.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the walls of the Moscow Kremlin in the Alexander Garden in memory of those who defended the country in the Second World War.
Posted: May 12th, 2020 under Greetings, History, Без рубрики.
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Constitutional coup in Russia: political turmoil is a chance for democrats
ALDE party, 30.03.2020. This op-ed is written by Nikolai Rybakov, who has been serving as chair of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko since 2019. Yabloko is the oldest democratic party in Russia and continues fighting for a modern European state. Read more
Posted: March 31st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman supported the initiative of Perm residents to rename Zemlyachka Square in honor of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 5.03.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Dmitry Makhonin, acting Governor of the Perm Territory, as well as the Dmitry Samoilov, Mayor of Perm, with a proposal to rename the square of Rosalia Zemlyachka to Boris Nemtsov Square. Earlier, participants of the Perm rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov, which was […]
Posted: March 6th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko proposed to the authorities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl and Sochi to immortalise the name of Nemtsov in urban toponymy
Press Release, 3.03.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to the Mayors of Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl and Sochi, as well as to the Governors of St. Petersburg, the Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl regions and the Krasnodar Territory with a proposal to give one of the objects in these cities the name of Boris Nemtsov.
Posted: March 3rd, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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One hundred years of lawlessness: is Putin legitimate?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 18.02.2020 Konstantin Aranovsky, Judge of the Constitutional Court, called the USSR an illegitimate state, and the Soviet state bodies “illegal party-state power bodies”, which cannot be regarded as “legal predecessors of constitutional state power”. This is an accurate and true definition.
Posted: February 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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