Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Yabloko demands to initiate a criminal case into the poisoning of writer Dmitry Bykov
Press Release, 11.06.2021 Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin and Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov open a criminal case into the poisoning of the writer Dmitry Bykov with an organophosphate nerve agent. Rybakov refers to an investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider (https://theins.ru/politika/242567 ), which convincingly proved […]
Posted: June 11th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko goes on campaigning for legal protection of the participants of the rally of 21 April
Press Release, 10.06.2021 Trials of the participants of the April 21 rally in support of political prisoners continue in the Ivanovo region. Five sessions of the courts of first instance have taken place by today. In all the cases, the hearings were postponed at the request of the defence to establish additional circumstances and motions […]
Posted: June 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Exposing corruption and openly criticising the government is regarded as extremism now
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 10.06.2021 Photo by Anton Denisov / RIA Novosti The Yabloko party considers the decision of the Moscow City Court to recognise Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and related organisations as extremist to be politically motivated. This is another step targeted at banning the activities of public organisations that expose corruption […]
Posted: June 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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On the persecution of journalist Arseniy Vesnin
Statement by Nikolai Rybakov and Boris Vishnevsky, 8.06.2021 Photo: Arseny Vesnin / Photo from Arseny Vesnin’s Facebook page The Yabloko party is outraged by the persecution of Arseny Vesnin, a well-known St. Petersburg journalist, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekho Moskvi radio station in St. Petersburg, whom the Investigative Committee is trying to accuse of “libel […]
Posted: June 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulated the residents of Ingushetia on the Republic Day
Congratulations from the Yabloko party Chairman, 4.06.2021 Dear residents of Ingushetia, I would like to send you our greetings on the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Ingushetia and wish prosperity to your Republic and its people. During the years of ordeals, showing wisdom and strong will, the residents of Ingushetia fought […]
Posted: June 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“The authorities are striving to destroy the very possibility to legally engage in politics in the country”
Press Release, 1.06.2021 Photo: Dmitry Gudkov at the Yabloko congress. /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko leaders expressed solidarity with Dmitry Gudkov, Andrei Pivovarov and other opposition figures whose houses are being searched today. NIKOLAI RYBAKOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE YABLOKO PARTY: – On the eve of the elections to the State Duma, the […]
Posted: June 1st, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Yabloko’s Alexander Kobrinsky about defending those detained at rallies in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 26.05.2021 Photo: Alexander Kobrinsky / Photo from the personal archive During unpermitted rallies on 23 and 31 January, the majority of those detained were in St. Petersburg. St.Petersburg police not only dispersed peaceful people with inexplicable cruelty, but also drove them into police vans by hundreds, so that to draw up protocols of […]
Posted: May 27th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko members Viktor Shalyakin and Vitaly Bovar, detained at the municipal deputies congress, received fines
Press Release, 25.05.2021 Photo: Vitaly Bovar (right) / Photo from Vitaly Bavar’s Facebook page Late in the evening of 24 May, the Novgorod District Court imposed fines on Viktor Shalyakin, the Chairman of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, and Vitaly Bovar, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the St. Petersburg municipality Vladimirsky […]
Posted: May 26th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Acad. Sakharov said that dialogue can be a solution to any problem.” An exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Academician opened in the Yabloko office
Press Release, 21.05.2021 Full video recording of the opening: An exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the outstanding Soviet academic and human rights defendert Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov opened in the Moscow office of the Yabloko party. An exhibition of photographs and quotes of Acad. Sakharov was prepared by the Sakharov Centre * and was to […]
Posted: May 25th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “I demand to stop police pressure on the leaders of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and release all the detainees”.
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 24.05.2021 Photo from the Anna Cherepanova Facebook page On Saturday, 22 May, the authorities of Novgorod (North-West Russia) carried out another police action targeted at the intimidation of civil society. The unlawful dispersal of the congress of municipal deputies from different Russian cities (Zemsky Congress) and the detention of its […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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International conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Academician Andrei Sakharov
Full video recording and Press Release, 22.05.2021 On 21 May, the birthday of Academician Andrei Sakharov, Yabloko held an international zoom-conference dedicated to his centenary.
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Airplane hijacked: any criminal and terrorist methods without any restrictions will be used in Belarus and Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 23.05.2021 Photo: Roman Protasevich /Photo from social networks Opposition journalist Roman Protasevich [from Belarus] was kidnapped by special services in Minsk. For this purpose, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was forced to land at the Minsk airport by means of provocation (under the pretext of […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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Police came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko. The police plans to bring the Chair of the regional party office to administrative responsibility
Press Release, 24.05.2021 Photo: Ksenia Sverdlova / Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko Police officers came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko. The police said that they were looking for the Chair of the regional branch of the party, Ksenia Sverdlova, so that to bring her to […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Defender
To the 100th anniversary of Academician Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.05.2021 Photo: Andrei Sakharov. The 1st Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR, 1989 The prosperity of Russia is possible only if our country develops as a free and democratic state. This condition was once very precisely formulated by Academician Sakharov. Andrei Dmitriyevich […]
Posted: May 21st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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A photo exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Acad. Andrei Sakharov banned by the Moscow Mayor’s Office will be held at the Yabloko office
Press Release, 20.05.2021 Photo: Academician Andrei Sakharov / Photo by Sergei Guneyev, RIA Novosti The photo exhibition of the Andrei Sakharov Center* “Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov: Anxiety and Hope”, which will not take place in Chistoprudny Boulevard due to the ban of the Moscow Mayor’s Office, will be held at the central office of the Yabloko […]
Posted: May 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Understanding Russia.
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Discrimination based on political views is becoming cynical, open and widespread. Where is the Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation?
Blog post by Emilia Slabunova, 17.05.2021 The trade union of the Moscow metro reports mass dismissals of workers – at least 50 people lost their jobs since the beginning of May. However, different figures are quoted: 100 and 200 people. They differ, since not everyone has yet applied to the trade union for protection. The […]
Posted: May 18th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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On the inadmissibility of persecuting students for political reasons
Congress Resolution No. 409, published on 14.05.2021 To: The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation The Russian Union of Rectors Heads of institutions of higher education of the Russian Federation Address Persecution of university students for their civic and political activity has become more frequent in Russia. Those who openly express their civil and […]
Posted: May 14th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Education and Science, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Social Policies, YABLOKO Congresses, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Why there is no place for freedom of speech in Putin’s system
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.04.2021 Photo by Yury Belyat / MBKh Media Twenty years ago, a hostile takeover by the state of NTV, the first all-Russian TV channel independent of the state, took place. By common consent, NTV, established in 1993, became a world-class TV channel [in Russia] in a few years. But in 2001, a […]
Posted: April 30th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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Yevgeny Bunimovich: “The Ministry of Education prohibits educational activities! It is like in George Orwell’s books! “
Press Release, 29.04.2021 Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich Yevgeny Bunimovich, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Education and a member of the Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, called the ameded law on educational activities represents a manifestation of censorship. The law will come into force on 1 June and will seriously limit […]
Posted: April 29th, 2021 under Education and Science, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko announces a public campaign for the legal protection of the participants of the rally of 21 April
Press Release, 27.04.2021 Photo by saiko3p/depositphotos On 27 April, the Bureau of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko issued a statement announcing launch of a public campaign for the legal protection of the participants of the rally of 21 April. “On 21 April, a rally in support of Alexei Navalny and other prisoners of conscience was […]
Posted: April 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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