Archive for 'Freedom of Assembly'
Violent suppression of protests in Belarus must not go unpunished
Statement by the Yabloko party, 13.08.2020 The Yabloko Party expresses solidarity with the citizens of Belarus protesting against the unfair election of the head of state and the usurpation of power by Alexander Lukashenko. The suppression of legitimate protests by brutal force, the brutality of the security forces, blood and violence in the streets of […]
Posted: August 13th, 2020 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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Vitaly Zubenko called on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate into unlawful persecution of the activist of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 11.08.2020 Photo: Ronald Ayrapetyan Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding to investigate into unlawful detentions of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the party, as well as anonymous threats against him.
Posted: August 12th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held pickets in support of the Belarus society and the right of Khabarovsk to freely elect head of the region
Press Release, 10.08.2020 Activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held a series of single pickets against the repressive policy of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in support of the protest of the residents of Khabarovsk when the authorities arrested the governor of the region who won the election against the […]
Posted: August 12th, 2020 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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The New Greatness case means the old ignominy
Only provocateurs, sadists and rapists should be tried. But all of them in this case are representatives of the state Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.07.2020 The New Greatness case is fabricated. Neither investigators nor prosecutors conceal this. Four law enforcement officers who directly fabricated this criminal case are witnesses in the case: they themselves created an […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Member of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko was fired from job for a single picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 23.07.2020 The management of the Central Kislovodsk military health centre dismissed activist of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko Ronald Ayrapetyan from his job as a waiter in the canteen of the health centre. He was told that “an employee with opposition views cannot work in their canteen” and was offered to write a […]
Posted: July 27th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Tomsk Yabloko activists are summoned to police for participation in Yabloko’s campaign against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 9.07.2020 Members and supporters of the Tomsk regional branch of the Yabloko party are summoned to the police, where they have to give explanations about a group photo in which activists are pictured with leaflets “I am for the Constitution without nullification and amendments”.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist receives threats because of his protest against Putin’s reset of his presidential terms
Press Release, 8.07.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Stavropol Territory, received threats from unidentified persons. The activist found a note with threats in his postbox on 8 July. The note ran that if Ronald Ayrapetyan came out again to protest against Putin, he would go to jail.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement in connection with the arrest of journalist Ivan Safronov
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 7.07.2020 Ivan Safronov, former correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, was detained on suspicion of treason. The apartment of Taisiya Bekbulatova, Editor-in-Chief of Kholod.Media, was searched. Journalists’ colleagues were detained during [solidarity] single pickets [that do not require any permissions from the authorities] near the Federal Security Service building in Moscow.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko called on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check on the actions of the police who detained Yabloko activist for a single picket
Press Release, 29.06.2020 Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko, filed an application with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Stavropol Territory about abuse of power by police officers. The leader of the regional branch of the party asks the Public Prosecutor to verify the legality of the detention of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member […]
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia arrested for eight days for a single picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 27.06.2020 On June 25, police detained Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, after a single picket (such pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) against constitutional amendments allowing Vladimir Putin to remain on the post of President of Russia until 2036. The court sent the leader of the […]
Posted: June 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region banned Yabloko’s pickets against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 25.06.2020 The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region turned down Yabloko’s application for pickets in Yekaterinburg against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution, citing the Ministry’s lack of information about the possibility of extending the COVID high-alert mode.
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The authorities hinder the Saratov branch of Yabloko to freely disseminate information about the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 25.06.2020 More than five advertising agencies refused to place Yabloko’s banners with a slogan I AM AGAINST THE RESET [OF PRESIDENTIAL TERMS] because of “fear of the city administration”. The companies are afraid to lose the bid for the right to placement of advertising structures. This was stated by the manager of the […]
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Freedom to Alexander Korovainy!
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.06.2020 A court in Yeysk arrested for ten days Alexander Korovainy, a municipal deputy, member of the Yabloko Party known not only in Yeysk, but throughout the Krasnodar Territory as an activist fighting against the tyranny of local authorities and for protection of the environment.
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Korovainy, Yabloko’s municipal deputy in Yeysk, was arrested for ten days for participating in a rally against Putin’s constitutional amendments
Press Release, 24.06.2020 The court in Yeysk, the Krasnodar Territory, arrested for ten days Alexander Korovainy, Yabloko’s municipal deputy of the Council of the Municipal Formation of the Yeysk District, for “disobeying the police”. Alexander was arrested after a rally against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution.
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The European Court for Human Rights awarded EUR 19.500 to the head of Yabloko’s environmental faction beaten by police during a demonstration in 2007
Press Release, 16.06.2020 Photo: bruised Olga Tsepilova On 16 June, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued a decision on the case of the participants of the March of Dissent who were beaten by the police forces during the March in St.Petersburg on April 15, 2007. Riot policemen roughly dispersed about 60 people, […]
Posted: June 16th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Oleg Rodin: Officials are trying to intimidate residents of Kuznechikha who are opposed to the construction of McDonald’s in the green zone
Press Release, 15.06.2020 On 13 June, local residents met in front of House No 19 Rokossovsky street with a correspondent of the Vesti Privolzhye (Vesti Volga Region) newspaper so that to tell about the construction of a McDonald’s restaurant under the windows of their houses. After the correspondent left, police officers began to surround residents […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Russia will be free!
Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 12.06.2020 In the photo: A rally for freedom – for the abolition of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR on the leading role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, February 4, 1990. 30 years ago, on June 12, 1990, a declaration on Russia’s sovereignty was adopted. […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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“Freedom of expression is inviolable!” Yabloko deputies demand from the head of the Moscow police to give explanations on the arrests of protesters
Press Release, 5.06.2020 Photo: Arrest of Maxim Kruglov The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma demands immediate admission of Yabloko deputies from the head of the Moscow police chief Oleg Baranov. An official letter of this was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Chairman of the faction, and was sent to the police department in Moscow […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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After Lockdown
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020 CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if […]
Posted: June 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin
Press Release, 3.06.2020 In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin. They want to bring him to administrative responsibility for a series of single pickets against mandatory army conscription, which he held by two regional military registration and enlistment offices on 15 May, the International Day of Conscientious Military Objectors.
Posted: June 3rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Russian Army, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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