Archive for 'Freedom of Assembly'
The Moscow City Court upheld the removal of Maria Volokh from the municipal elections
Press Release, 2.09.2022 Photo: Maria Volokh / Photo from social media On 1 September, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Tverskoy District Court to remove Maria Volokh, a candidate for Moscow municipal deputies from Yabloko, from the elections. Earlier, District Judge sided with the Territorial Electoral Commission of the Tverskoy District in […]
Posted: September 2nd, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Actions in support of political prisoners were held in Yabloko regional branches.
Press Release and photo report, 1.09.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the St.Petserburg Legislative Assembly and Deputy Chair of Yabloko, writing a letter / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 26 August, an action of writing letters to political prisoners was held at the offices of the regional branches of the Yabloko party. Yabloko […]
Posted: September 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Another action of writing letters to political prisoners will be held in the Saratov branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 31.08.2022 Photo by the Saratov branch of Yabloko On 4 September, an action of writing letters and postcards to political prisoners will be held at the Saratov Yabloko office. The action will start at 18:00.
Posted: September 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky: Yabloko has always advocated peace and saving people’s lives
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 30.08.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service After Grigory Yavlinsky recalled, on 24 August, the priority steps proposed by the Yabloko party back in February to prevent deaths in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the need to conclude a ceasefire agreement, a stream of accusations fell upon Yabloko […]
Posted: September 1st, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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“Our unity is impressive”
Yabloko activists fined for “discrediting the army” thank those who responded to the Yabloko action “Let’s Help Those Who Are Not Silent” Press Release, 29.08.2022 In early July, the Yabloko party launched the campaign “Let’s Help Those Who Are Not Silent” so that to help pay large fines for the activists and party members who […]
Posted: August 30th, 2022 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Another Yabloko candidate for Moscow municipal deputies detained by police
Press Release, 26.08.2022 Photo: Nikita Arkin / Photo from the social media Another Yabloko candidate for municipal deputies, Nikita Arkin, who was nominated by Yabloko to run in the Basmanny district of Moscow, was detained today. The police came to the office where Nikita works so that to detain him. Yulia Tregubova, a lawyer from […]
Posted: August 27th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Three more Yabloko candidates for Moscow municipal deputies may be removed from the elections
Press Release, 26.08.2022 Photo: Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno, Nikolai Kasyan and Tatyana Kasimova Candidates for Moscow municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno (the Yakimanka district), Nikolai Kasyan and Tatyana Kasimova (both in the Khamovniki district) were convicted under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which deprives them of the opportunity to be elected.
Posted: August 26th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The development of neo-Stalinism must be prevented
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 25.08.2022 Photo: Zakhar Prilepin / Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant On 3 August, “an introductory meeting of the working group on the investigation of anti-state activities in culture (GRAD)” was held in the State Duma, under the chairmanship of Zakhar Prilepin, Co-Chairman of the A Just Russia – For Truth […]
Posted: August 25th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Police detained Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno, Nikolai Kasyan, and Tatyana Kasimova, and Yabloko supporter Maria Volokh
Press Release, 24.08.2022 Photo by Alexander Meridonov / Kommersant Police detained Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno (Yakimanka municipal district of Moscow), Nikolai Kasyan (Khamovniki), and Tatyana Kasimova (Khamovniki), and Yabloko supporter Maria Volokh, who had been nominated to run in the Tverskoy municipal district of Moscow and had previously been withdrawn from the […]
Posted: August 25th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko announces actions in support of political prisoners in the offices of Yabloko on 26 August
Press Release, 22.08.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Friday, 26 August, Yabloko organises an evening of writing letters to political prisoners. The action will take place in the Yabloko regional offices throughout Russia. Yabloko calls everyone who wants to support politicians and civil activists who are unjustly convicted or are under investigation to […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Candidate for municipal deputies in Moscow Sergei Smirnov fined for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 22.08.2022 Photo: Sergei Smirnov / Photo from social media On 22 August, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found Sergei Smirnov, a member of the Yabloko party and a Yabloko candidate in the Tverskoy district in the Moscow municipal elections, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Morev, Yabloko head of the Yakimanka municipal council in Moscow, removed from municipal elections
Press Release, 22.08.2022 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 August, the Territorial Electoral Commission of the Yakimanka District in Moscow decided to remove Andrei Morev, head of the Yakimanka Municipal Council in Moscow and Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko, from the forthcoming municipal elections. Earlier, Morev was found […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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In Moscow Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims in the coup of August 1991
The leaders and activists of Yabloko laid flowers at the Monument to the Defenders of Democracy Press Release, 21.08.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 21 August, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims in the August 1991 coup. Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko has published a list of its registered candidates for Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 19.08.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A complete list of registered candidates for Moscow municipal elections from Yabloko has been published on the party web-site. The list includes 151 candidates who will run in 43 municipal districts of Moscow.
Posted: August 19th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Civic activist Maria Volokh fined in Moscow for “discrediting the Russian army”
Press Release, 17.08.2022 Photo: Maria Volokh / Photo from social media On 17 August, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined the unregistered candidate for municipal deputies Maria Volokh in the amount of 60,000 roubles under Articles 20.2 (“violation of the rules for holding public events”) and 20.3.3 (“discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian […]
Posted: August 18th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko regional branches to hold actions of sending letters of support to political prisoners
Press Release, 26.07.2022 The Yabloko party holds actions in support of political prisoners in different Russian regions. Any Russian citizen can participate. The participants of the actions can bring their own postcards and write words of support to any political prisoner, as well as sign postcards specially printed by Yabloko for politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and […]
Posted: July 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Protests fail to affect politics not only in Russia, but also in the world”
Corriere Della Sera, 22.07.2022 Photo: Peace March in Moscow in 2014 / Photo by Yevgeny Nadalinsky, Kommersant On 16 July, the influential Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera published an interview with Grigory Yavlinsky on the situation in connection with the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Unfortunately, there are fragments in the Corriere Della Sera publication […]
Posted: July 25th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Pivovarov sentenced to four years in prison and an eight-year ban on political activities
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram Channel, 15.07.2022 Photo: Andrei Pivovarov A court in Krasnodar sentenced Andrei Pivovarov, a public figure and former candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, to four years in prison and an eight-year ban on political activities.
Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Yabloko office in Moscow is collecting guarantees for Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov so that the court would release them on bail
Press Release, 15.07.2022 Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov The Yabloko party in Moscow has started collection of guarantees for politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov, the author of the Protest MGU Telegram Channel, so that they could be released on bail. Kara-Murza and Ivanov are now under arrest on criminal charges of “fakes about […]
Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chairman of the local branch of Yabloko in Novgorod found guilty of “spreading fakes” about the “special operation”
Press Release, 12.07.2022 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo from social media On 11 July, the Novgorod District Court fined Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, 30,000 roubles for “spreading false information” about the “special operation” on the VKontakte social network (Article 13.15 Part 9 of the Code of […]
Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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