Archive for 'Freedom of Assembly'
“Your letters warm the heart and give hope for a brighter future.” Yabloko sent more than a thousand letters to Russian political prisoners
Press Release, 4.04.2023 In March, the traditional actions of writing letters to political prisoners were held at the central office of the Yabloko party and Yabloko’s regional branches. Members and supporters of the party, as well as civil activists, have prepared more than a thousand letters and postcards that will be sent to those unjustly […]
Posted: April 4th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko prepares for the elections: a party conference scheduled, a discussion about the programme held, and formation of electoral commissions began
Press Release, 28.03.2023 Photo by the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko Past weekend, the Regional Council of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko appointed the conference of the regional branch, which will put forward a list of Yabloko candidates for deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. The conference will take place in June. Also the […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov: “A Stalinist state with its main feature – the priority of the state over the individual – is being reproduced in Russia”
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A basis for Russia’s cardinal civilizational U-turn and the country’s leaving the mainstream development of human civilization is being created in Russia. Such a statement was made by Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“This is the stem that does not allow one to bend down.” Actions of writing letters to political prisoners to be held in Moscow and Russian regions
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: A drawing by imprisoned journalist and blogger Yan Kotelevsky: a prisoner is breaking the chains of censorship, religion, mortgage, ignorance, slavery, and dictatorship. In the next two weeks, Yabloko will hold its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners. The actions will take place at the central office of the […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The chief of St.Petersburg police promised Yabloko to return the seized paintings by artist Yelena Osipova by May
Press Release, 23.03.2023 Photo: Artist Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Roman Plugin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, said that the paintings by the […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Lev Shlosberg on legal possibilities to conduct politics in Russia after the start of the “special operation”
Press Release, 23.03.2023 On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Legal Possibilities to Conduct Politics in Russia after 24 February, 2022: the Risks and Opportunities for the Yabloko Party”. The lecturer was Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and head of the Pskov branch of […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Searches at the homes of employees of the Memorial human rights society are a new step in the practices of political repressions in Russia
Statement by the Yabloko party, 21.03.2023 Photo by Safron Golikov / Kommersant On 21 March, 2023, investigators from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation came with searches to the employees of the Memorial [human right] society, including its leader Yan Rachinsky. The Yabloko party considers the searches at the homes of employees of the […]
Posted: March 21st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Lev Shlosberg on legal possibilities to conduct politics in Russia after the start of the “special operation”
Press Release, 17.03.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Legal Possibilities to Conduct Politics in Russia after 24 February, 2022: the Risks and Opportunities for the Yabloko Party”. The lecturer is Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and head of […]
Posted: March 17th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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An exhibition of paintings calling for peace, which had to be held in the St. Petersburg Yabloko office, risks turning into a criminal case on “fakes”
Press Release, 17.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the St. Petersburg Yabloko on 31 January, 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The paintings by the artist Yelena Osipova, which the police seized from the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, have, according to the police, “text inscriptions […]
Posted: March 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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MP of the Moscow City Duma Kruglov to the head of the Moscow police department: “The Moscow police has turned into a tool for political reprisal”
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Oleg Baranov, head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow / Photo by the Moscow City Duma Today, deputies of the Moscow City Duma heard a report by Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, on work […]
Posted: March 16th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko registered two candidates for municipal by-elections in two municipalities
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Kozlyakovskaya and Oleg Voronin The St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party succeeded in registration of two candidates for municipal by-elections in Krasnoye Selo and Yuzhno-Primorsky municipal districts. Elections in these municipal districts will be held in April. The election campaign will be held under the slogan “For Peace and […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 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 won in court over the government and the regional public prosecutor in the fight for the organisation of free speech zones in Chelyabinsk
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Rallies in in Aloye Pole, Gagarin Park and Kolyushchenko Square in Chelyabinsk / Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko On 15 March, the Seventh Court of Cassation in Chelyabinsk upheld the decision of the Second Court of Appeal on the organisation of “hyde parks” (specially designated free speech zones where […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office canceled the decision of the investigation on non-initiation of a criminal case against a telephone terrorist who had allegedly mined the office of the St. Petersburg Yabloko
Press Release, 9.03.2023 Photo: The exhibition / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Central District of St. Petersburg canceled the decision of the investigator of the district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs which refused to initiate a criminal case on a false report about mining of the […]
Posted: March 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Let us hug every woman political prisoner!” Yabloko activists sent a thousand postcards to women political prisoners
Press Release, 9.03.2023 Photo: the action in Pskov In the recent weeks, actions in support of political prisoners were held in the regional offices of the Yabloko party. The actions focused on support to women political prisoners were timed to coincide with International Women’s Day. Yabloko members and civil activists prepared about a thousand letters […]
Posted: March 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko submitted to the Moscow City Duma a draft law on amnesty under criminal articles on military censorship
Press Release, 7.03.2023 Photo by Oleg Kharaeyev, Kommersant The faction of the Yabloko party in the Moscow City Duma, exercising the right of regional parliaments to initiate bills in the State Duma, submitted to the Moscow city parliament a draft resolution for the State Duma “On declaring an amnesty”. The draft envisages termination of criminal […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko goes on conducting actions in support of political prisoners dedicated to 8 March
Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: one of the post cards “Freedom to Political Prisoners!” This week, actions in support of political prisoners continue in regional offices of Yabloko. Yabloko members and activists sign postcards specially printed for women political prisoners – civil activists, politicians and journalists who are kept behind bars.
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An action in support of political prisoners was held at Yabloko: participants wrote 500 letters and prepared a letter in defence of Vladimir Kara-Murza
Press Release, 3.03.2023 On 2 March, the traditional Yabloko action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners was held at the central office of the Yabloko party, organised by the Moscow branch of the party with the support of the PolitzekInfo project. The action was dedicated to women – political prisoners, who fell into the […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Goncharenko: “Another resident of the Altai Territory was fined for “likes”
Blog post by Alexander Goncharenko, 28.02.2023 Photo: Alexander Goncharenko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service According to local media, a pensioner from Novoaltaysk was found guilty of “discrediting the use of the Russian army” as part of a “special operation”. A 69-year-old man, put likes under photographs and publications on the topic of “discrediting […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow branch of Yabloko invites all to an action of writing letters to political prisoners with live music and reciting poetry
Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: “Freedom to all political prisoners!” by Olga Kovalchuk, the Republic of Karelia, Russia On the eve of International Women’s Day, 8 March, the Moscow branch of Yabloko will hold an action of writing letters to political prisoners. We would like to dedicate this action to women political activists, as well as […]
Posted: March 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko honoured the memory of politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and Russian regions
Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: Kazan / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 27 February, eight years ago, opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was killed by the walls of the Kremlin on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. On the day of the murder, Yabloko annually holds commemorative events in Moscow and Russian regions in memory of Boris […]
Posted: March 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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