Archive for 'Freedom of Assembly'
After Yabloko’s appeal, 26 regions lifted restrictions on street actions
Press Release, 26.11.2020 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko, at a picket against the amendments to the Constitution, on 23 June, 2020 A year after Yabloko’s appeal to the Public Prosecutor’s Offices of 43 Russian Federation subjects with a demand to bring regional laws on rallies in line with the Constitution, […]
Posted: November 26th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands from the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to protect the participants of single pickets
Press Release, 9.11.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, detained during a single picket in support of arrested journalist Ilya Azar, 1 June 2020. The Bureau of the Yabloko Party sent appeals to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev demanding to protect participants in […]
Posted: November 9th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko organised a picket in memory of victims of political reprisals
Press Release, 31.10.2020 On 31 October, a memorial picket was held at the monument to the victims of political reprisals in Rostov-on-Don. The picket was timed to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals, one of the picket applicants was the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko. Activists pay tribute not only to the […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko Chairman called on the Russian President and Chairpersons of both the chambers of the Russian parliament to submit Yabloko’s bill envisaging abolishing the laws on foreign agents and undesirable organisations
Press Release, 28.10.2020 Photo: Action in memory of journalist Irina Slavina who committed self-immolation. Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov called on Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the upper and lower chambers of parliament Valentina Matviyenko and Vyacheslav Volodin to introduce the bill developed by the Yabloko party and envisaging abolishing of the […]
Posted: October 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Grigory Grishin penalised under administrative law for a single picket against three-day voting
Press Release, 27.10.2020 Grigory Grishin, a member of the Yabloko Party Bureau, was brought to administrative responsibility for picketing the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region against the introduction of three-day voting in the by-elections held on September 13, 2020.
Posted: October 27th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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A concert in support of political prisoners, organised by Yabloko members, was held in St. Petersburg
Based on Sever.Revlii, 29.09.2020 A concert in support of political prisoners was held at the Interior Theater of St. Petersburg. Musicians Maksim Leonidov, Maksim Ermachkov, Pyotr Olesov, Dmitry Podosenov, Mikhail Novitsky and others participated in the concert. The idea to hold such a concert belongs to Oleg Maksakov, Chairman of the Primorsky local branch of […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist was attacked with a knife and threatened with murder because of his protest activities
Press Release, 17.09.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, Yabloko activist from Kislovodsk, told the media that he was threatened with murder if he continued to take action against Putin and United Russia. According to Ayrapetyan, on the evening of 12 September, he was returning home after a walk with a friend. An unidentified masked man with a knife […]
Posted: September 17th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Their freedom is our freedom
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.09.2020 Danil Beglets, Kirill Zhukov, Yevgeny Kovalenko, Konstantin Kotov, Yegor Lesnykh, Eduard Malyshevsky, Maxim Martintsov, Ivan Podkopayev and Sergei Surovtsev. All of these people were sent to jail because they dared to speak out against the authorities’ criminal election fraud and because they were courageous enough to protest openly in the streets.
Posted: September 15th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Без рубрики.
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Eleven regional Yabloko deputies and the party Chairman call on the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia to open a criminal case on Alexei Navalny’s poisoning
Press Release, 11.09.2020 Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and eleven Yabloko deputies from six regional legislative assemblies forwarded to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, a statement on investigation of a crime. Yabloko deputies urge Bastrykin to initiate a criminal case under Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation […]
Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Regional and Local Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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THE DAY AFTER
On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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The police tried to disrupt the lecture of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko for observers of the elections to the City Duma
Press Release, 10.09.2020 On September 9, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko” was holding a seminar for those who signed up to be observers at the upcoming elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. After the lecture began, police officers suddenly stormed in. They said that on they were acting on basis of a […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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For every investigative action there is a reaction of electoral opposition!
Statement by the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, 9.09.2020 A search was conducted in the apartment of Irina Maltseva, candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma from the Yabloko party, on 9 September at 6 a.m. The investigative actions were carried out on the basis of the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on the so-called […]
Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Searches in the apartments of candidates for deputies from Yabloko conducted in Tatarstan, Ivanovo and Novgorod regions
Press Release, 9.09.2020 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin’s apartment after a search Searches were conducted in the apartments of Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and candidate to the Council of the Osinovsky rural settlement, and Irina Maltseva, ethnographer and candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma.
Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Belarus is being turned into a concentration camp
Freedom to political prisoners in Belarus! Freedom to Vitaly Shklyarov! Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.08.2020 Nobody knows the total number of political prisoners in Belarus. It is assumed that at least 7,000 people were detained during the protests only in August 9 – 13, and about forty criminal cases were initiated. About 600 citizens of Belarus […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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We demand the persecution of environmentalist Vladimir Kazantsev be stopped
Statement by the Yabloko party, 28.08.2020 The YABLOKO party demands the criminal prosecution of Chelyabinsk environmentalist Vladimir Kazantsev must be immediately stopped. Vladimir Kazantsev is one of the most famous and effective lawyers in Russia in the field of environmental law, who for many years has been defending the constitutional rights of residents of the […]
Posted: August 28th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russian failed coup d’etat of 1991, Kremlin manipulators and Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.08.2020 29 years ago, a group of gray, but high-ranking Soviet officials tried to turn history back and return a huge country to the same gray past as they were. But hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets to defend their future. Then, in August 1991, people […]
Posted: August 25th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on Twitter about poisoning of Alexei Navalny
21.08.2020 Alexei Navalny is a tough critic of the government and personally president. So Vladimir Putin bears full political responsibility for his life.
Posted: August 21st, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leaders about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny
Press Release, 20.08.2020 The Yabloko party leaders wished Alexei Navalny a speedy recovery and also spoke for a full and comprehensive investigation of the incident. Opposition politician Alexei Navalny felt unwell on the plane during his flight from Tomsk to Moscow. The plane had to land in Omsk and he was hospitalised in one of […]
Posted: August 20th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and European leaders calling them to assist in resolving the situation in Belarus
Press Release, 14.08.2020 Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and the leaders of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine with an appeal to influence the leadership of Belarus to stop the violation of human rights in this country.
Posted: August 14th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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Nikolai Rybakov appealed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a request to protect Russians in Belarus
Press Release, 14.08.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a request to protect Russian citizens detained on the territory of the Republic of Belarus – journalists, civil and public figures, including Artem Vazhenkov, Coordinator of the Golos movement in Tver, and activist Igor Rogov.
Posted: August 14th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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