Archive for 'History'
The Public Prosecutor’s Office found no violations in the installation of a stele in the place of mass burial in Sandarmokh with an inscription distorting history. MP Slabunova appealed to the Investigative Committee
Press Release, 30.01.2024 Photo: The inscription on the stele runs “To the victims of repression of 1937-1939 and to the victims of the Finnish occupation during the Great Patriotic War” / Photo by Emilia Slabunova At the end of December 2023, it was reported that the authorities plan to install a stele in memory not […]
Posted: January 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Pavel Kudyukin on trade unions in Russia
Press Release, 29.01.2024 On 26 January, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Pavel Kudyukin “Trade Unions in Russia”. The lecturer, Pavel Kudyukin, is Co-Chairman of the University Solidarity Trade Union, member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia, and Deputy Minister of Labour of Russia in 1991-1993.
Posted: January 29th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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Stop creeping re-Stalinization
Resolution by the 22nd Yabloko Congress adopted on 10.12.2023, published on 26.01.2024 Photo by Yevgeny Odinokov, RIA Novosti The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko is worried and draws attention to the campaign unfolding in Russia to justify the Great Terror and its inspirer, Joseph Stalin. Against the background of the ongoing loss of human lives […]
Posted: January 26th, 2024 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow Yabloko on the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to protect the “The Last Address” memorial plaques commemorating the victims of Soviet political repression
Press Release, 22.01.2024 Photo: “The Last Address” sign on Dolgorukovskaya 5 (formerly Kalyaevskaya 5) / Photo from social media Maxim Kruglov, head of the faction in the Moscow City Duma and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, signed a letter to the Moscow Mayor on the inclusion of memorial plaques of the “The Last Address” […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Pavel Kudyukin on trade unions in Russia
Press Release, 22.01.2024 On 26 January, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Pavel Kudyukin “Trade Unions in Russia”. The lecture will begin at 19:00 (Moscow time). The lecturer, Pavel Kudyukin, is Co-Chairman of the University Solidarity Trade Union, member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia, and Deputy Minister […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Без рубрики.
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“We cannot leave those terrible events without conclusions.” Yabloko honoured the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova
Press Release, 19.01.2024 Photos by the Yabloko Press Service On the 15th anniversary of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova by neo-Nazis, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party laid flowers at an impromptu memorial at the place of the murder in Prechistenka street in Moscow.
Posted: January 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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The 22nd Congress of Yabloko. The key points
Press Release, 11.12.2023 Photo: Igor Artemyev, a member of the Federal Political Committee, speaks at the Congress on 9 December / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Past weekend, the 22nd Yabloko Congress took place in Moscow. The Congress elected the party leaders and the executive bodies of the party for the next four years. […]
Posted: December 11th, 2023 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov about the forks of the past 30 years: “No one can convince us that there was no other way”
Press Release, 9.12.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov made a report at the 22nd Yabloko Party Congress. He spoke about the historical forks of the past 30 years and Yabloko’s proposals at each of them. Rybakov said that it was necessary to understand at what turns the wrong choice had […]
Posted: December 9th, 2023 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko to host the “Live Forever” theatre piece based on an excerpt from Vasily Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate”
Press Release, 27.11.2023 On 4 December, the Yabloko party Moscow office will host the “Live Forever” theatre piece based on an excerpt from Vasily Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate”. The key idea of the play is as follows: one must remain human always and in any conditions and trials. The play is staged by the […]
Posted: November 27th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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“Assessment of the personality of Joseph Stalin and the results of his leadership of the country is out of the competence of the Public Prosecutor’s Office” – a response to an inquiry from Arthur Gaiduk
Press Release, 20.11.2023 Photo: Monument to Joseph Stalin in Velikiye Luki / Photo from open sources The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Pskov region once again found no grounds for taking measures of prosecutorial response in connection with the unauthorised installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Velikiye Luki, the Pskov region, and reported […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“A book of truth about the history and life of our country.” A launch of memoirs by Engelina Tareyeva took place at Yabloko
Press Release, 1.11.2023 On 1 November, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party hosted a launch of the first volume of Engelina y memoirs, “How I Lived in the Soviet Union”. Engelina Borisovna Tareyeva is one of the oldest members of the Yabloko party; she was born in 1925 in Ukraine into a family of […]
Posted: November 8th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History.
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Yabloko to launch the book “Glasnost in Two Cultures. Participants of the First Meeting of Russian and American Women Writers in New York Speaking”
Press Release, 2.11.2023 On 9 November, the Yabloko party office in Moscow will host a launch of the book “Glasnost in Two Cultures. Participants of the First Meeting of Russian and American Women Writers in New York Speaking”. The book was published by the Yuri Shchekochikhin Foundation in 2023.
Posted: November 2nd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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A way to the future: assessment of Stalinism
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 30.10.2023 During the years of Joseph Stalin’s rule in the USSR, millions of citizens of the country were repressed and killed. This is the scale of a real national catastrophe. The crimes of Stalinism and Bolshevism affected almost every family in our country. It is impossible to simply forget and move […]
Posted: November 1st, 2023 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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A rally in memory of the victims of political repression and in support of current political prisoners held in Veliky Novgorod
Press Release, 31.10.2023 The Novgorod branch of Yabloko organised a rally on 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression. The rally participants read out loud the names of Novgorod residents who were shot during the years of Stalin’s terror, as well as excerpts from the letters of the current political prisoners.
Posted: October 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organised an excursion along the last route of the victims of Stalin’s repressions
Press Release, 31.10.2023 On the eve of the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organised an excursion in memory of victims of Stalinist repression in Chelyabinsk, who were shot in 1938 allegedly for counter-revolutionary activities and were rehabilitated in the 1950-1960s.
Posted: October 31st, 2023 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko held an online marathon in memory of the victims of political repression and actions throughout the country
Press Release, 31.10.2023 On the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, Yabloko held an online marathon “People, Don’t Kill Each Other!”, during which hundreds of people read out loud the names of victims of Stalin’s repressions of 1930s-1940s, remembered their ancestors who died during the terror, and showed places of mass executions in […]
Posted: October 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Tatyana Chernikova on the causes and consequences of the superficial Europeanisation of Russia
Press Release, 29.10.2023 On 27 October, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Causes, Results and Significance of the Superficial Europeanisation of Russia in the Second Half of the 15th – early 16th Centuries”. The lecture was delivered by Tatyana Chernikova, Doctor of Historical Sciences and Professor of Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Posted: October 30th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History.
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Yabloko to hold an all-Russian marathon “People, Don’t Kill Each Other!”, dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of Victims of State Terror
Press Release, 24.10.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Members and supporters of the Yabloko party from more than 50 regions of the country will take part in the marathon reading out the names of the victims of Joseph Stalin’s repressions: people shot in the cities of our country during the years of state terror […]
Posted: October 25th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko to hold a picket against Russia’s deratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Press Release, 18.10.2023 Photo: A leaflet of the picket / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 22 October, the Sverdlovsk region branch of the Yabloko party will hold a picket in Yekaterinburg against the Russian Federation’s withdrawal of ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). On 5 October, Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s possible withdrawal […]
Posted: October 19th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko asks the Ministry of Culture to issue a distribution certificate for the film “The Fairy Tale” by Alexander Sokurov
Press Release, 17.10.2023 Photo: A still from Alexander Sokurov’s film “The Fairy Tale” Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova with a request to reconsider the Ministry of Culture’s decision refusing to issue a distribution certificate for Alexander […]
Posted: October 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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