Archive for 'Freedom of Assembly'
The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the family and friends of Alexei Navalny
Statement by the Yabloko party on the death of Alexei Navalny 16.02.2024 The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the family and friends of Alexei Navalny. Responsibility for Alexei Navalny’s death lies with the authorities of our country. His death occurred in penal colony conditions that were essentially torture. The death of Alexei Navalny must be […]
Posted: February 16th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko supporter in Tatarstan Zulfiya Sitdikova will be tried for “justifying Nazism” and “discrediting the army”. She needs help
Press Release, 13.02.2024 Photo: Zulfiya Sitdikova / Photo from social media UPDATE: 13 February, 19:50 Moscow time. Fundraising for Zulfiya Sitdikova is closed! We thank everyone who helped the Yabloko activist. Yabloko activist Zulfiya Sitdikova from Kazan, Tatarstan, is accused of “rehabilitating Nazism” (Article 354.1, Part 3 of the Criminal Code) and “discrediting the army” […]
Posted: February 13th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod Yabloko to host Yelena Lukovitskaya’s seminar “Male and Female – What Are the Differences and Is There Equality?”
Photo: Yelena Lukovitskaya / Photo from open sources The Novgorod branch of the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party plans to hold a series of discussions on issues of equality, women’s rights, family policy, domestic violence and other relevant topics. The first seminar will take place on 11 February. It will be conducted by Yelena […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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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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Stop political repression! Freedom for political prisoners!
Resolution by the 22nd Yabloko Congress adopted on 10.12.2023, published on 25.01.2024 After the start of a special military operation and the adoption of laws punishing for “discrediting of the army” and “fake news” (essentially, the laws on military censorship), political repression against the dissent in Russia intensified.
Posted: January 25th, 2024 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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St.Petersburg Yabloko members received in St.Petersburg their Yabloko colleagues from Veliky Novgorod
Press Release, 22.01.2024 Photos by the Yabloko Press Service The head of the Yabloko faction in the Veliky Novgorod City Duma Anna Cherepanova, the head of the regional Centre for Anti-Corruption Policies Ksenia Cherepanova, and a member of the Bureau of the Novogorod branch of Yabloko Viktor Shalyakin came to St. Petersburg to meet their […]
Posted: January 25th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Moscow and Russian regions invites all to participate in the action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 22.01.2024 Photo: a drawing by political prisoner Pavel Krisevich At the beginning of 2024, action in support of political prisoners will again be held in the Yabloko offices in Moscow and Russian regions. We invite everyone who is not indifferent to the plight of those unjustly deprived of their freedom to join the […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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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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On the eve of the New Year Yabloko will hold actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and Russian regions
Press Release, 19.12.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service In the last days of December, Yabloko will hold actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and Russian regions. Not all post cards and letters will reach their recipients before the New Year. However, good wishes are always important for those deprived of freedom. […]
Posted: December 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, 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 elected Chairman of the Yabloko party for a second term
Press Release, 10.12.2023 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service According to the results of the secret ballot of the congress delegates, 59 delegates (55%) voted in favour of Nikolai Rybakov. Alexander Yefimov came second with 26 votes in favour. Anna Cherepanova and Maxim Kruglov received 12 and 10 votes, respectively.
Posted: December 10th, 2023 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, 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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“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.”
Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Ivan Bolshakov on how the party can exist in the current conditions Press Release, 9.12.2023 Photo: Ivan Bolshakov /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service “If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them,” Yabloko Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov began […]
Posted: December 9th, 2023 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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On participation in the 2024 Russian presidential elections
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 November, 2023, published on 7 December, 2023 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky at the televised debates during the 2018 presidential campaign / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The upcoming eighth presidential elections in Russia in March 2024 are radically different from those held in Russia since 1991. […]
Posted: December 8th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Interethnic and interreligious enmity is the way to the collapse of Russia
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 November, 2023, published on 6 December, 2023 Photo: Anti-Semitic riots at Makhachkala airport on 29 October, 2023 / Photo from social networks The value of human life has been decreasing against the backdrop of the special military operation in Russia that has been going on for […]
Posted: December 6th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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On the threat of the recurrence of mass-scale political terror
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 November, 2023, published on 5 December, 2023 Photo: Yabloko Congress, 2019 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service After 24 February, 2022, repressions in Russia against those who disagree with the government’s policies sharply intensified. According to the project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial”, there were […]
Posted: December 5th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Без рубрики.
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On the place and prospects of the Yabloko party
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko of 24 November, 2023, published on 1 December 2023 Russia is going through the stage of collapse of post-Soviet modernisation. The cause of the current crisis was the failure of misguided political and economic reforms. The main feature of the current historical moment is the boundless tragedy […]
Posted: December 5th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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“More human lives will be broken.” Nikolai Rybakov on the Supreme Court’s decision on LGBT
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 1.12.2023 Illustration: “Two Women Running on the Beach” by Pablo Picasso, 1922 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, recognised the LGBT movement as extremist and banned its activities in the country. The decision took effect immediately. The ideology and practices of […]
Posted: December 5th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Justice upends common sense
Maxim Kruglov’s Telegram blog post, 1.12.2023 Vladimir Kara-Murza had a trial today: the Ministry of Justice believes that he, Vladimir Kara-Murza, should provide them with a special report on his activities as a “foreign agent” once a quarter. Straight from the punitive isolation ward: [he must] download a special form from the website, fill it […]
Posted: December 4th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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A court hearing on extending the preventive measure for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev to be held on 4 December
Press Release, 30.11.2023 Photo: Vasily Neustroyev / Photo from social media On Monday, 4 December, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow will hold a hearing on extending the preventive measure against Vasily Neustroyev, a Yabloko member. Neustroyev should take part in the hearing personally, so should be brought to court from the detention centre – […]
Posted: December 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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