Archive for 'Human Rights'
Nikolai Rybakov: “The head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has discredited his post and must resign”
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 3.12.2024 Photo from social media The head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has made an error once again. He gave the idea to remove the Solovetsky Stone [erected in memory of victims of Soviet political repression] from Lubyanka Square so as not to embarrass the people who work […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Boris Vishnevsky: Our task is to try to bring the dawn closer during the gathering darkness
Boris Vishnevsky’s speech at the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30.11.2024, published on 1.12.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Dear colleagues, The conditions in which we work today are like swimming against the current in sulfuric acid. This is exactly how the party of peace and humanism has to work […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Congresses, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: Preserving humanism in politics is our main objective today
Lev Shlosberg’s speech at the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30.11.2024, published on 1.12.2024 Photo: Lev Shlosberg at a meeting of the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30 November, 2024 / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov Yabloko The basis of the political position of the Yabloko party since its foundation has been […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Congresses, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is Yabloko’s main objective
Press Release, 30.11.2024 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky speaking to the Yabloko Federal Council on 30 November, 2024 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service At the opening of the Yabloko Federal Council meeting, attended by more than 100 representatives of 68 regional branches of the party, Grigory Yavlinsky stressed that reaching an agreement on a ceasefire […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Congresses, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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On the substantive work of the Yabloko Party in the new conditions
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024 Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant The political mission and the objective of the Yabloko Party has always been the intention to form a modern, socially-oriented vector of development in Russia, based on human rights and freedoms, and democratic institutions. The party […]
Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The Political Committee of Yabloko: The first step towards peace could be to conclude an agreement to stop strikes deep into the territories of Russia and Ukraine
Press Release, 28.11.2024 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant The Yabloko Federal Political Committee once again called on the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine to conclude a ceasefire agreement, and the heads of the world’s leading countries to support this initiative. Yabloko also specified its proposals for implementation of the agreement:
Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko Federal Political Committee: on the global crisis, nuclear threats and the policies of the future
Press Release, 28.11.2024 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Party Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, and Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the eve of the Federal Council of Yabloko, which will convene in Moscow on 30 November, a meeting of […]
Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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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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On the situation in the world and Russia and the position of the Yabloko Party
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024 Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant The world is changing irreversibly and qualitatively. A large-scale institutional crisis is beginning, it is manifested in the systematic inoperability of many international institutions, as well as the crisis of political systems in the leading countries […]
Posted: November 28th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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On the critical need for an immediate ceasefire
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024 Photo: The Kursk region, August 2024 / Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant Even before the start of the “special military operation”, the Yabloko party warned of the catastrophic consequences of a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. From the very beginning […]
Posted: November 28th, 2024 under Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Stop sliding into world war!
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2021, published on 27.11.2024 Photo: A bronze revolver with a knotted barrel – the sculpture “No to Violence” in front of the UN building in New York / Photo by Igor Mikhalev, RIA Novosti After World War II, all political thought in post-war Europe aimed […]
Posted: November 27th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko sent an appeal to the Moscow government to clarify the situation with the closure of the Gulag History Museum
Press Release, 27.11.2024 Photo: The Gulag History Museum on the day of its closure / Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant A letter signed by Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Maxim Kruglov was sent to the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Alexei Fursin. Kruglov asks the head of the department to list the […]
Posted: November 27th, 2024 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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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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Ceasefire: There are no other options and there have never been
Grigory Yavlinsky on the role of the United States in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Donald Trump’s second term, and the new world disorder Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 25.11.2024 If some may still think that what is happening between Russia and Ukraine is a regional conflict, then they are […]
Posted: November 26th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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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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To stop the escalation immediately
Yabloko party leaders on the real threat of nuclear war and the only way to prevent it Press Release, 23.11.2024 Photo by Global Look Press/MOD Russia In recent days, the escalation of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has reached a new level. The United States and European countries have allowed Ukraine to use […]
Posted: November 25th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Ethics Commission of the State Duma give a public assessment of the actions of the deputy from the Kurgan region who insulted women
Press Release, 22.11.2024 Photo: Alexander Iltyakov / Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin, Kommersant Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to the Ethics Commission of the State Duma demanding them to give a public assessment of the actions of the deputy from the Kurgan region who insulted women. Rybakov noted in his address that such […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2024 under Human Rights.
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62 applicants from Moscow and Russia’s regions have become students of the 2024-2025 class of the Federal Yabloko Party School
Press Release, 22.112024 Photo: The logo of the Federal Yabloko Party School Studies in the fourth class of the Federal Party School of Yabloko have begun. This year, about a hundred applicants applied to participate in the project, of which 62 successfully passed the competitive selection and were enrolled in the School. Among those admitted […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Human Rights.
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Yabloko hosted a discussion dedicated to the tragedy of 1,000 days since 24 February, 2022
Press Release, 20.11.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The participants of the event, members and supporters of the party shared their vision of the causes and consequences of what was happening, talked about the feelings that they first experienced on 24 February, 2022, and continue to experience to this day.
Posted: November 22nd, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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