Archive for 'Freedom of Assembly'
Police go on detaining Yabloko activists due to their anti-war stance
Press Release, 1.03.2022 Over the past three days, police have detained at least 19 Yabloko members in Moscow, the Chelyabinsk, the Sverdlovsk, the Saratov and the Samara regions and the Republic of Bashkortostan for their anti-war stance, including Chairpersons of the Bashkirian and Samara regional branches of Yabloko Kristina Abramicheva and Anton Rubin, and Yabloko […]
Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In St. Petersburg Yabloko was denied approval for a rally for peace
Press Release, 28.02.2022 Photo: Lenin Square in St.Petersburg, a specially designated site for holding public actions without any permissions from the authorities / Photo from topspb.tv The administration of the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg banned a rally for peace with Ukraine referring to the anti-COVID decree of the city government, which prohibits holding public […]
Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police are persecuting Yabloko members across Russia for their actions for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 27.02.2022 Photo: Alexander Kudelkin (left) and Maxim Petlin (centre) in a police wagon / Photo from social networks The persecution of members and activists of the Yabloko party continues throughout the country. The reason for the persecution is the tough stance for peace with Ukraine, which the party consistently defends. The pretext for […]
Posted: February 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Across Russia Yabloko activists take part in rallies for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 27.02.2022 Photo: Saratov/Photo from social networks Activists of the Yabloko party are participating in pickets for peace with Ukraine in those cities where public actions are not prohibited by anti-COVID restrictions [that imply criminal punishment even for single pickets]. Single pickets were held in Ivanovo, Saratov, Krasnodar, Yeysk, Miass, Chelyabinsk, Pskov, Vladivostok, Ufa, […]
Posted: February 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organises an anti-war rally “Struggle for Peace”
Press Release, 22.02.2022 Photo: Boris Nemtsov commemorative march in Moscow in 2019. Source: Press Service of the Yabloko Party On 27 February, the day of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko together with PARNAS will hold a commemorative rally against the war with Ukraine in Gagarin Park in Chelyabinsk. The action […]
Posted: February 24th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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NO TO WAR! Collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine
13.02.2022 The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. We will collect signatures not only on the Internet, but also in our offices across the country. Wherever we can, and where covid sanitary restrictions allow, we will conduct picketing. The list of collection points will be published soon. Please share the […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine
Press Release, 13.02.2022 The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. Signatures under a petition to the Russian government will be collected not only on the Internet, but also in the offices of Yabloko across the country. Yabloko activists will go on pickets in the regions where covid sanitary restrictions allow. […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts
Press Release, 28.01.2022 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy and ex Chairman of Yabloko, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts. Such measures were taken as part of the enforcement proceedings on administrative cases of offenses in connection with Mitrokhin’s participation […]
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: “The responsibility for political emigration always lies on the authorities”
Press Release, 29.12.2021 Photo: Lev Shlosberg (left) and journalist Konstantin Kalichenko / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, spoke to the Ekho Moskvi in Pskov radio station about the reasons that force opposition-minded people to leave Russia, and named those […]
Posted: December 29th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Russian government recognised its succession to the Stalinist state by liquidating the Memorial human rights society
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 28.12.2021 Photo: 28 December, 2021. Grigory Yavlinsky by the Supreme Court / Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided to liquidate International Memorial [human rights society]. The court revealed the real reason for the liquidation, and, certainly this was not a violation of the […]
Posted: December 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Activists of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko sent letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 22.12.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko Activists of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko sent letters to political prisoners. Yabloko members and political activists, including Vladislav Mordasov, the recently released political prisoner and a defendant in the so-called Rostov case, participated in the action. The participants signed about […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Protect the lives and rights of citizens!
Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 16.12.2021 The position of the Yabloko party on government bills on QR codes and necessary priority measures to combat the spread of coronavirus infection Update. The party’s position was sent to the Government of the Russian Federation and the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Photo by Artyom Krasnov / […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Ronald Ayrapetyan, a member of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko, asked for political asylum in the Netherlands
Press Release, 16.12.2021 Photo: Ronald Ayrapetyan / Ronald Ayrapetyan’s Telegram channel Ronald Hayrapetyan, a member of the Yabloko party from Kislovodsk, South Russia, asked for political asylum in the Netherlands. Ronald Ayrapetyan decided to leave Russia after he was abducted by unidentified persons on 25 November. According to Ayrapetyan, three men grabbed him as he […]
Posted: December 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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We demand to reconsider the verdict of the leaders of the Ingush protest and fully acquit them
Statement by the Yabloko Party Chairman, 17.12.2021 Photo by Yulia Suguyeva / Mediazona The trial of the leaders of the civil protest in the Republic of Ingushetia, which lasted more than two years, ended in an extremely tough sentence. Civil activists were equated with terrorists and given sentences comparable to the punishment for murderers and […]
Posted: December 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov came to the Supreme Court to support Memorial
Nikolai Rybakov Facebook post, 14.12.2021 Photo from Nikolai Rybakov’ Facebook page Nikolai Rybakov: I have come to the Supreme Court where the hearings on the liquidation of International Memorial [a human rights society engaged in human rights and investigation of repression in the USSR] are being held. Hope is the last to die, however, it […]
Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, asked the Russian Public Prosecutor General to withdraw the claim submitted to the Supreme Court to liquidate the Memorial human rights society
Press Release, 14.12.2021 Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo from Arthur Gaiduk’s Facebook page Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, considers the demands of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the Memorial human rights organisation unlawful and essentially unconstitutional, and calls on Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, to abolish the law suit against […]
Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Albert Khusainov: the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko marked International Human Rights Day with pickets and a meeting of human rights defenders
Albert Khusainov’s blog post, 13.12.2021 Photo: Albert Khusainov / Photo by the Press Service of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko The Bashkirian branch of the Yabloko party held a meeting of party members and non-partisan civil activists in connection with the anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human […]
Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: the persecution of Alexander Korovainy is caused by political motives
Statement by the Yabloko Party Chairman, 8.12.2021 Photo: Alexander Korovainy / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, Alexander Korovainy, a Yabloko party member, was deprived of his deputy powers by the decision of the Council of Deputies of the Yeisk District of the Krasnodar Territory, on the basis of a letter from the head […]
Posted: December 8th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: The main thing is not to keep silent!
Press Release, 25.11.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 25 November, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov met with human rights activists and public activists who came to the building of the Supreme Court of Russia. The court is considering the claim of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the international historical and educational society […]
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The court ruled out that Ruslan Zinatullin, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan, was involved in the “extremist organisation”
Press Release, 23.11.2021 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Press Service of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko The Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan which had recognised Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, involved in the activities of Alexei Navalny’s […]
Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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