Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Yabloko invites all to the round table “Feminitives: a Natural Development of a Language or Extremism?”
Press Release, 20.05.2024 Photo by freepik.com On 28 May, the Yabloko party Gender Faction will hold a round table “Feminitives: a Natural Development of a Language or Extremism?”. The event will begin at 18:00 Moscow time.
Posted: May 21st, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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A criminal case has been opened against Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory, under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism for her congratulatory post on Victory Day in 2021
Press Release, 20.05.2024 Photo: Marina Zheleznyakova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A search was conducted in Marina Zheleznyakova’s apartment. Police seized equipment and documents. Marina learned about the criminal case opened against her on 24 April on the day of the search. A lawyer is defending her.
Posted: May 20th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Volgograd Regional Court overturned the decision of the court of the first instance in the case of Alexander Yefimov on “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”
Press Release, 15.05.2024 Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Volgograd Regional Court sent for revision the administrative case of Alexander Yefimov, a Yabloko Federal Bureau member, for “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”. On 4 April, the court of the city of Volzhsky fined Yefimov 15,000 roubles for […]
Posted: May 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Human rights defender. Politician. Poet. Man. An event in memory of Andrei Babushkin was held at Yabloko
Press Release, 15.05.2024 On 14 May, on the second anniversary of the death of Andrei Babushkin, an event in memory of the human rights defender, Yabloko member since 1999, Chairman of the public human rights charity organisation Committee for Civil Rights and a member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human […]
Posted: May 16th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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A member of Yabloko in Tula fined for writing about the need for a ceasefire on a ballot paper
Press Release, 15.05.2024 Photo by Dmitry Chiginsky / Photo from social media Dmitry Chiginsky, a member of the Bureau of the Tula branch of Yabloko, was fined under the administrative article of “discrediting the army” for writing about the need to conclude a ceasefire agreement on a ballot paper. The Tula district court fined Chiginsky […]
Posted: May 15th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Soviet dissidents about modern Russia: “The present period is completely different, much more terrible”
Press Release, 13.05.2024 Photo from left to right: Nikolai Ivlyushkin, Alexander Daniel, Svetlana Gannushkina, Valery Borshchyov, Vyacheslav Bakhmin, Vyacheslav Igrunov, Alexei Smirnov, and Alexander Podrabinek / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 12 May, a round table with the participation of Soviet dissidents was held at the Yabloko central office in Moscow. The participants […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko regards the initiation of an administrative case against Boris Vishnevsky as another example of pressure
Press Release, 27.04.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko regards the initiation of an administrative case under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offences against Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, for his online […]
Posted: May 14th, 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 activists watched and discussed the feature film “The Eternal Road” about Stalin’s terror
Press Release, 3.05.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow office of Yabloko hosted the final screening of the film “The Eternal Road” (2017) by the Finnish director Antti-Jussi Annila, the screening was held within the framework of the Another Look film festival. Participants watched the feature film based on the real fate of […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Leader of the Vologda branch of Yabloko Nikolai Yegorov fined in a criminal case for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 25.04.2024 Photo: Nikolai Yegorov with his family / Photo from the personal archive The judge of the Veliky Ustyug District Court of the Vologda Region made a decision on 25 April. Nikolai Yegorov, former deputy of the Vologda Legislative Assembly, father of six children and Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko […]
Posted: April 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We don’t hide behind numbers: the Yabloko faction in St.Petersburg city parliament has published income declarations
Press release, 25.04.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly published their income declarations for 2023. Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky insist on the openness of people’s representatives, and therefore do not take advantage of the possibility to report […]
Posted: April 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky is challenging in court the decision to include him in the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 24.04.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent two administrative claims to the court challenging the decision of the Ministry of Justice to include him in the register of “foreign agents.”
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Despite tragedies, the State Duma has never adopted amendments to the fire safety law. This follows from the response of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to Yabloko deputy Kruglov
Press Release, 23.04.2024 Photo: Crocus City Hall after a fire as a result of the terrorist attack on 22 March, 2024 / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant The head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Maxim Kruglov, received a response from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation about the […]
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov handed over to the State Duma and the Federation Council more than a thousand signatures of citizens in favour of disclosing the incomes of deputies
Press Release, 23.04.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov submitted more than a thousand signatures, as well as individual appeals to each deputy and senator of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation demanding that income and property declarations for 2023 be disclosed and made public. Similar appeals […]
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko municipal deputies In Kostroma and Seversk illegally deprived of their mandates
Press Release, 19.04.2024 Photo: Vladimir Petrov and Nikolai Sorokin Two municipal deputies from Yabloko – Vladimir Petrov in Seversk, the Tomsk region, and Nikolai Sorokin in Kostroma – were deprived of their mandates. The formal reasons were the demand of the city public prosecutor’s office due to the verdict in a criminal case and “inaccuracies […]
Posted: April 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites all to participate in the action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 19.04.2024 Photo: the Krasnoyarsk regional branch of the party Yabloko in Moscow and regional branches is preparing regular actions in support of political prisoners. We invite everyone who is not indifferent to the plight of those unjustly deprived of their freedom to join the actions. The organisers promise a friendly atmosphere and everything […]
Posted: April 19th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“To pull people back from the abyss of the Russian rebellion.” Participants of the film festival “Another View” discussed a film about “anti-fascists” and “nationalists” in Russia at the beginning of the 2000s
Press Release, 16.04.2024 On 15 April, a screening and discussion of the film “The Key to a Clockwork Orange” (2014) was held at Yabloko. The documentary film by Grigory Grishin and Olga Yakovleva about the phenomenon of war between the youth movements of “anti-fascists” and “nationalists” on the streets of Russia in the 2000s provoked […]
Posted: April 16th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The court fined an official of the Ministry of Education of Udmurtia for ignoring an inquiry on anti-terrorist measures
Press Release, 15.04.2024 Photo by Iya Boronina A court in Izhevsk fined an official of the Ministry of Education of Udmurtia for ignoring an official inquiry from the Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia, Iya Boronina. Boronina’s inquiry to the ministry concerned ensuring anti-terrorist and security measures in schools.
Posted: April 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko is the only party in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg speaking against censorship of books by “foreign agent” authors
Press Release, 15.04.2024 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant On 15 April, the Standing Commission of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg on Education, Culture and Science approved the initiative of State Duma deputies to amend the law “On Librarianship”. Only the head of the Yabloko faction, Alexander Shishlov, spoke out against it.
Posted: April 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Man is the measure of all things.” The teleplay “Sforza” was shown at Yabloko
Press Release, 15.04.2024 On 11 April, the television play “Sforza” was shown at Yabloko as part of the Another View” festival. The performance by Alexei Zherebtsov, based on the novel-play by Sasha Denisova, takes us to Milan in the 15th century. We find ourselves in the Middle Ages with all its attributes: a ruler behind […]
Posted: April 15th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Lev Shlosberg: Freedom for Oleg Orlov and for all other political prisoners
Lev Shlosberg’s Facebook page, 4.04.2024 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THE PRESENT MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH SHLOSBERG Photo: Oleg Orlov / Photo […]
Posted: April 13th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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