Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Ten candidates from Yabloko are registered for elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 19.07.2024 The Territorial Electoral Commission in the Novgorod region registered ten candidates from Yabloko. In total, the regional branch of the party nominated 13 candidates. Registration was denied to Valery Kochnev, and Oksana Sergeyeva will soon be denied registration as well, they were found guilty last year of “demonstrating extremist symbols”. Registration of […]
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: The Moscow City Duma is not a place for deputies
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog post, 19.07.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov and Sergei Mitrokhin at their meeting with Muscovites / Photo from social media The refusal [of the electoral commission] to register Maxim Kruglov for elections to the Moscow City Duma was expected. The barrier of [mandatory] collection of voters’ signatures [in favour of a candidate’s nomination] was […]
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections 2024, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Justice failed to explain on why it recognised Boris Vishnevsky as a “foreign agent”
Press Release, 19.07.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky by the court with his defence attorneys / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko The Vasileostrovsky District Court in St.Petersburg held the first hearing on the merits in the lawsuit filed by Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and MP of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, […]
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov denied registration as a candidate for elections
Press Release, 17.07.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov after a meeting of the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters This decision was made today by the electoral commission for electoral district No. 13, despite objections filed by Maxim Kruglov’s headquarters to the protocol of verifying signatures. Yabloko is preparing a legal complaint. According to […]
Posted: July 18th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The electoral commission is going to invalidate about a thousand signatures in support of the nomination of Maxim Kruglov in the elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 16.07.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov’s team before submitting signatures to the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters Maxim Kruglov, a Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma and the current deputy of the Moscow City Duma, told about the decision of the electoral commission to invalidate about a thousand signatures out […]
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office due to poor quality works on a military memorial in Staraya Russa dedicated to the victims of the World War II
Press Release, 16.07.2024 Photo: Plastic signs at the Simonovskoye cemetery in Staraya Russa / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko The Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the failure of the authorities to complete works to create a memorial in Staraya Russa to […]
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Electoral commissions are carrying out a political order to prevent Yabloko candidates from participating in municipal elections in St. Petersburg
Statement by the Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, 15.07.2024 Candidates for municipal deputies from the Yabloko party are being denied registration en masse. In the Admiralteysky, Central, Petrogradsky, Kirovsky and other districts of St. Petersburg, candidates are rejected registration on the same far-fetched grounds that do not correspond either to […]
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ministry of Justice hurried to add a candidate from the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko to the register of foreign agents in order to disrupt her registration
Press release, 13.07.2024 Photo: Anna Karulicheva with her team / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko On 12 July, three hours before the meeting of the electoral commission, which was supposed to consider the issue of registering Anna Karulicheva, a Yabloko candidate and former deputy of the Narva Okrug municipality in St.Petersburg, the Ministry of […]
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“They are convicted for creativity. For not toeing the line. For making people think.” Yabloko leaders on the sentence to theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk
Press Release, 8.07.2024 On 8 July, the Second Western District Military Court of Moscow sentenced theatre director Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to six years in a general regime penal colony each in the case of “justifying terrorism”.
Posted: July 10th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to honour the memory of the victims of Stalin’s political repression in Sandarmokh, Karelia, and invites all the party supporters to participate
Press Release, 08.07.2024 Photo: A monument at the place of mass burial with an inscription “People, don’t kill each other!” On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Terror, on 5 August, the Yabloko delegation will go to the Sandarmokh, Karelia, the place of mass burial of victims of Stalin’s political […]
Posted: July 8th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Vladimir Kara-Murza hospitalised in prison. No information about his condition
Nikolai Rybakov’s post, 5.07.2024 Vladimir Kara-Murza has been taken to the prison hospital. His wife Evgenia reported this to the media. Defenders are not yet allowed to see him, there are no details about his condition. Let me remind you that in April 2023, the Moscow City Court sentenced Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in […]
Posted: July 5th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Court found Yabloko candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections Vladimir Kalinin guilty of “demonstrating extremist symbols”
Press Release, 5.07.2024 Yabloko candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections Vladimir Kalinin was found guilty of “demonstration of extremist symbols” for a post on social media in 2019 dedicated to the elections. He is fined 2,000 roubles and will not be allowed to participate in the elections. The decision was made by the Gagarinsky […]
Posted: July 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk Mayor’s Office sent Yabloko to collect signatures for nomination of its candidatesin the field. The party headquarters applied to court
Press Release, 3.07.2024 Photo: A screenshot of a map with locations for collecting signatures that the Chelyabinsk Mayor’s Office offered to the Yabloko party The administration of Chelyabinsk did not approve for the regional branch of the Yabloko party any of the one hundred locations which Yabloko applied for so that to collect signatures for […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated 90 candidates to run in the municipal elections in St.Petersburg
Press Release, 29.06.2024 Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 28 June, the conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated 25 more candidates for municipal deputies; earlier, on 24 June, the regional branch of the party nominated 70 candidates (five candidates will run in the elections in two electoral districts at once), […]
Posted: July 1st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated candidates to run in the upcoming regional and municipal elections
Press Release, 29.06.2024 Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko 13 candidates from Yabloko will conduct their election campaigns under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the ceasefire agreement!”. This was decided by the Conference of the regional branch of the party, held on 28 June.
Posted: July 1st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko nominated Alexander Yefimov as a candidate from the Rostov region for by-elections to the State Duma
Press Release, 27.06.2024 Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko nominated Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the party and an entrepreneur, as a candidate from the Rostov region in the by-elections for a State Duma deputy. Single-mandate electoral district No. 152 includes the Aksai district and the […]
Posted: July 1st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections.
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Yaboko’s statement on the situation in Dagestan
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 26.06.2024 Photo by Ganzhevi Gadzhibalaev/TASS The Yabloko party expresses its sincere condolences to the families and friends of those killed in the terrorist attack in Dagestan, including Orthodox Archpriest Nikolai Kotelnikov, who worked there for more than 40 years, civilians and a large number of law enforcement officers. May their […]
Posted: June 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Без рубрики.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko nominated candidates for municipal deputies
Press Release, 25.06.2024 Delegates to the conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, which took place on the evening of 24 June, nominated 70 candidates for 17 municipalities of St. Petersburg. On 28 June, the regional branch plans to nominate more candidates who have expressed their desire to run for Yabloko in recent days.
Posted: June 26th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko nominated pediatric anaesthesiologist Olga Yurkevich a candidate for by-elections to the Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 21.06.2024 Photo: Olga Yurkevich / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated Olga Yurkevich, a candidate of medical sciences, a doctor of the highest category and pediatric anesthesiologist, a candidate for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in the coming by-elections in constituency No 18 of […]
Posted: June 21st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko announces collection of signatures in support of nomination of its candidates in the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 20.06.2024 Photo: Yabloko placard “For Peace and Freedom! 24 Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma are campaigning under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!” Each candidate must collect signatures from Muscovites in his/her support so that to be registered in the race.
Posted: June 20th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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