Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Lev Shlosberg: Thank you for your solidarity
From Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 2.10.2024 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNS ACTIVITIES RELATING TO FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG. [This capitalised section is a text […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov regarding the criminal case against Lev Shlosberg
2.10.2024 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today’s searches at Lev Shlosberg’s and his father’s apartment represent a continuation of the political intimidation campaign by the authorities against our comrade and the entire Pskov branch of our party. When the authorities cannot, are not capable of conducting an honest competitive struggle […]
Posted: October 2nd, 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 Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg is a suspect in a criminal case on violating the law on “foreign agents”
Press Release, 2.10.2024 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, is a suspect in a criminal case under Article 330.1 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Evasion of duties stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents”).
Posted: October 2nd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko elected new leadership of the branch
Press Release, 29.09.2024 Photo: Olga Tsepilova at the Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of the party On 28 September, the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party elected the governing bodies of the branch for the next two years. Olga Tsepilova, who previously held the […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko to host a meeting with former political prisoner Dmitry Skurikhin
Press Release, 25.09.2024 Photo: Dmitry Skurikhin by his store / Photo from social media An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners will be held in Novgorod Yabloko on 27 September with the participation of Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad Region who served an imprisonment term of 1.5 years for “discrediting the […]
Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko raised 1.7 million roubles at an auction in support of political prisoners and continues to accept donations
Press Release, 25.09.2024 Photo: Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky introducing his lot / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The auction featured 28 lots: works of art and personal belongings of politicians, political prisoners, writers, publicists and journalists, musicians, artists, etc. The most expensive lots of the auction were a drawing by Alexandra Skochilenko, ex-political prisoner […]
Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“We just wait for any news every day.” Yabloko invites all to a charity auction and its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 20.09.2024 Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko Yabloko continues to support Russian political prisoners. On 24 September, a charity auction will be held in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow. In the coming weeks, actions of writing letters to political prisoners will be held in the Moscow branch and regional branches […]
Posted: September 21st, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosted a book launch about Nikita Khrushchev
Press Release, 18.09.2024 “Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System” is a new biography of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1953-1964), written by his great-granddaughter, a world-famous political scientist, professor at the New School in New York. On 17 September, Nina Khrushcheva spoke about the book […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The first court hearing on the merits of the case of Vasily Neustroyev from the St. Petersburg Yabloko has been scheduled on 25 September
Press Release, 18.09.2024 Photo: Vasily Neustroyev/ Photo from social media The hearing on the merits of the case against Vasily Neustroyev will take place in the St. Petersburg City Court on 25 September, after 15 months of his imprisonment. The case will be heard by a judge only, since all the defendants in the case […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov branch Yabloko gets new deputies in Plyussky, Dnovsky, Usvyatsky and Porkhov municipal districts
Press Release, 16.09.2024 At the September elections in the Pskov region, four lists of candidates from the Yabloko party managed to overcome the threshold, receiving from 5.46% to 13.63% of voters’ support. The interests of citizens in the deputies’ assemblies of municipal districts will be represented by seven new deputies from Yabloko. The elected candidates […]
Posted: September 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Justice has added Vladimir Dorokhov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 13.09.2024 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Ministry of Justice has added Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”. Dorokhov became the eighth member of Yabloko and the third Deputy Chairman of the party to […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko invites all to an auction in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 12.09.2024 We invite all to take part in a charity auction, all proceeds from which will be sent to the families of seven political prisoners. This will be the fifth event in support of those unjustly deprived of their freedom. The previous four auctions in support of political prisoners raised over 4.6 million […]
Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nine candidates for peace and freedom have been elected as deputies. Yabloko analyses the voting results
Press Release, 10.09.2024 In the recent elections, nine out of 59 candidates from the Yabloko party, who campaigned under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”, were elected to municipal councils. In total, the party nominated 301 candidates, but most of them were not registered or were withdrawn for far-fetched reasons. The […]
Posted: September 10th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov Yabloko does not recognise the official results of the elections for the head of the Gdov district
Press Release, 10.09.2024 Photo: Candidate for the post of head of the Gdov district from the Yabloko party Yevgeny Vasiliyev / Photo by the regional branch of the party The Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko adopted a statement on non-recognition of the results of the elections of the head of the Gdov […]
Posted: September 10th, 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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Alexander Shishlov on the results of the elections in St.Petersburg that were “desirable” for the authorities but obtained at the cost of growing mistrust in the elections and the destruction of legitimacy
Press Release, 9.09.2024 Photo: A ballot with an inscription “For Vishnevsky! For Yabloko!”. Alexander Shishlov, Chairman of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party and the head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, commented on the elections of the Governor of St.Petersburg and municipal deputies that took place […]
Posted: September 10th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko denied permission to hold rally in support of political prisoners. Yabloko announces a charity auction
Press Release, 9.09.2024 Photo: Charity auction in support of political prisoners at Yabloko in September 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow Mayor’s Office denied Yabloko permission to hold a rally in support of political prisoners, citing COVID restrictions. Instead of a street rally, the party intends to hold a fifth auction […]
Posted: September 9th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov Yabloko team received seven mandates in the elections of deputies of district assemblies in the Pskov region
Press Release, 09.09.2024 Photo from Wikimedia Commons According to the data published on the GAS Vybory system portal (a special automated system for counting of the votes), Yabloko candidates received seven mandates in the assemblies of deputies of four municipal districts in the Pskov region. The election campaign in the Pskov region, as in other […]
Posted: September 9th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate in the Novgorod region Yelena Tulina elected to the Council of Deputies of Trubichinskoye rural settlement
Press Release, 09.09.2024 Yabloko candidate Yelena Tulina was elected to the Council of Deputies of Trubichinskoye rural settlement in the Novgorod region. Yelena Tulina is a teacher of Russian language and literature, member of the Bureau of the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party. Tulina, like other candidates from the party, campaigned under the […]
Posted: September 9th, 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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Yabloko sums up the political results of its election campaign “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”
Press Release, 09.09.2024 In this election campaign, Yabloko nominated 301 candidates in 69 election campaigns in 19 regions of Russia, who were ready to conduct an election campaign with the key political demand – the immediate conclusion of a ceasefire agreement and the release of all political prisoners.
Posted: September 9th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yaroslav Shcherbakov on the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region: Governor Alexei Teksler’s course represents a dead end
Blog post by Yaroslav Shcherbakov, 6.09.2024 Photo: Placard “Alexei Teksler: to protect and help! / Photo by Yaroslav Shcherbakov Five years ago, Alexei Teksler defined people as a priority in his election programme. Today, his programme has other priorities: “First. Everything for Victory!” Meanwhile, the main strategic goals for the development of the Chelyabinsk Region […]
Posted: September 6th, 2024 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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