Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Police again carried out the “inspection of the premises” with seizure of all the equipment in the office of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, this time the police took away not only Yabloko’s equipment, but also personal gadgets
Press Release, 5.07.2023 Photo: Entrance to the Pskov Yabloko office / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 5 July, police came to the office of the Yabloko branch in Pskov. Policemen presented a decision to initiate administrative proceedings under Article 13.15 Part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation “Abuse […]
Posted: July 17th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will take part in the elections of deputies of the Duma of Novgorod and the Council of Staraya Russa
Press Release, 10.07.2023 Photo by the Novgorod Yabloko On 8 July, the Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated three lists of candidates for elections in the region: for the Duma of Novgorod in a single electoral district and in single-member districts, as well as for the Council of Deputies of Staraya Russa.
Posted: July 10th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko supports Boris Titov’s statement on the need for a ceasefire
Press Release, 27.06.2023 Photo: Boris Titov / Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant Yabloko supports the statement of Boris Titov, the leader of the Party of Growth, on the need for a ceasefire and is ready to join forces to achieve this, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov wrote on his Telegram channel. “We regard this statement in […]
Posted: June 28th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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“I would like to wish you strength and patience, you now need them in freedom no less than we here [in prison].” Yabloko urges Russian citizens to write letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 20.06.2023 Photo: Letter from political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov to Boris Vishnevsky Yabloko goes on conducting in its regional offices traditional actions in support of Russian political prisoners. Political prisoners do not have summer season or holidays. That is why it is so important not to stop supporting those behind bars. Yabloko has developed […]
Posted: June 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg about his “foreign agent” status: “There will be no changes in my public stand, there are no grounds for this”
Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 17.06.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko Dear friends, I thank you all for your human responses to today’s decision of the authorities.
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ministry of Justice announced Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg a “foreign agent”
Press Release, 16.06.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg “Russian citizens for freedom” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov commented on the decision of the Ministry of Justice to recognise Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, a “foreign agent.”
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin decided not to participate in the elections of the Moscow Mayor because of the inability to campaign for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 16.06.2023 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Sergei Mitrokhin decided not to participate in elections of the Moscow Mayor because of the inability to campaign for peace with Ukraine. He made this announcement at the conference of the Moscow branch of Yabloko. Mitrokhin also stressed that he had no […]
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko helped 15 people to pay fines imposed on them for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 16.06.2023 Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko The Pskov branch of Yabloko used the remainder of the charitable amount raised to pay the fine for Yelena Kuzmina, a Pskov resident accused of extremism and terrorism for her posts on VKontakte social media criticizing Vladimir Putin, so that to help to cover the […]
Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The memorial plaque to renowned Russian poet Anna Akhmatova disappeared from the facade of the former prison. Boris Vishnevsky appealed to the Governor and the owner of the building
Press Release, 15.06.2023 Photo: The wall of the Kresty (Crosses) prison where a memorial plaque to Anna Akhmatova hung / Photo by Misha Burlatsky Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, appealed to the Governor Alexander Beglov and the general director of DOM.RF Vitaly Mutko asking them […]
Posted: June 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow Mayor’s Office explained the ban on street protests for the opposition by “long-term measures” of WHO
Earlier, Sobyanin promised to lift restrictions if the WHO announced the end of the pandemic. Press Release, 14.06.2023 Photo: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin / Photo by Vladimir Gerdo, TASS The head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Maxim Kruglov, demanded in his letter to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, dated 10 May, the […]
Posted: June 14th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Vladimir Ryzhkov demanded that the head of the Moscow police punish those destroying the Last Address signs put to commemorate the victims of Stalin’s repression
Press Release, 13.06.2023 Photo: Klimentovsky pereulok 9/1. Next to this door was the Last Address sign with the name of Zinaida Nikolayevna Maevskaya (shot on 29 December, 1937, and fully acquitted in 1989) It is reported that vandals have recently removed at least eight plaques installed on the houses where the victims of Stalin’s regime […]
Posted: June 14th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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We must start over without repeating the mistakes
Yabloko Deputy Chairman writes on why the Russian authorities prefer not to recall the text of the Declaration of the State Sovereignty adopted on June 12, which became Russia Day Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 12.06.2023 Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant Celebrating today’s holiday – Russia Day – the top officials make pompous statements, but […]
Posted: June 13th, 2023 under Constitutional Amendments, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Без рубрики.
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The European Court of Human Rights recognised the violation of the right to freedom of assembly of Ruslan Mutsolgov, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Ingushetia
Press Release, 9.06.2023 Photo: Ruslan Mutsolgov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 29 September, 2018, the Nazran City Court found the leader of the Ingush Yabloko, Ruslan Mutsolgov, guilty of violating the procedure for holding public events and fined him 10,000 roubles. The Supreme Court of Ingushetia approved the fine, and Mutsolgov filed […]
Posted: June 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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25 years without Larisa Yudina…
Press Release, 8.06.2023 Photo by the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia On the morning of 7 June, friends and former colleagues of Larisa Yudina visited her grave at the Elista cemetery, went to the street named after Larisa, and gathered in the office of the Kalmykia regional branch of Yabloko to remember Larisa.
Posted: June 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Over two hundred people are ready to stand surety for Vasily Neustroyev, including Nikolai Rybakov, Boris Vishnevsky, Sergei Mitrokhin, Emilia Slabunova and Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 8.06.2023 Photo: Vasily Neustroyev / Photo from social media UPDATE: 8 June, 17:15. The court imprisoned Yabloko activist Vasily Neustroyev in a pre-trial detention centre. Such a measure of restraint was chosen for him for two months (until August 5), after which the court will be able to extend it or choose another […]
Posted: June 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the Yabloko party’s participation in the elections of heads of regions in 2023
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 6 June, 2023. Published on 8 June, 2023. Due to the current extraordinary and tragic circumstances, the participation of the Yabloko party in the September elections of the top officials of the subjects of the federation (including the elections of the Mayor of Moscow) makes political sense […]
Posted: June 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Без рубрики.
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“It is impossible to forget such events.” Yabloko honoured the memory of Larisa Yudina murdered 25 years ago
Press Release, 7.06.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service 25 years ago, Larisa Yudina, Co-Chair of the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia, was murdered. Her whole life was connected with journalism. In 1991, Yudina headed the newspaper Sovietskaya Kalmykia. The paper was well-known for fight against corruption and criticism of the President of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, […]
Posted: June 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The leader of the Yabloko faction in the Tomsk City Duma asked to check for incitement of hatred the statements of the State Duma MP from the LDPR faction about the Ukrainian language and state
Press Release, 6.06.2023 Photo: Vasily Yeryomin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Vasily Yeryomin, head of the Yabloko faction in the City Duma of Tomsk, asked the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check Alexei Didenko, an MP of the State Duma elected from the Tomsk region, in view of his statement about the need to […]
Posted: June 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The leader of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko Vladimir Yefimov detained once again for his posts on social media
Press Release, 6.06.2023 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo from social media An administrative protocol was drawn up against Vladimir Yefimov, journalist and Chairman of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“displaying Nazi or extremist symbols”). He is in the administrative detention cell now. The trial is scheduled […]
Posted: June 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Deprived of physical freedom, they remain free people inside.” Yabloko held its May actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 1.06.2023 The action in Vladivostok In May, Yabloko activists held traditional actions in support of Russian political prisoners. Party members and civil activists exchanged news, recited poems written by political prisoners and read out letters received from political prisoners. In St. Petersburg and Moscow, Yabloko also held small concerts where one could listen […]
Posted: June 5th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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