Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Anatoly Nogovitsyn: “We need to live in such a way that we can look into each other’s eyes in the future.” On 21 March, the court will announce the decision on the case of Yabloko’s Anatoly Nogovitsyn
Press Release, 20.03.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from the personal archive On 20 March, a trial on the case of “discrediting the army” by Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, was held in the Yakutsk City Court. The politician made his last appearance before the court. The decision will be […]
Posted: March 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Lev Shlosberg on legal possibilities to conduct politics in Russia after the start of the “special operation”
Press Release, 17.03.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Legal Possibilities to Conduct Politics in Russia after 24 February, 2022: the Risks and Opportunities for the Yabloko Party”. The lecturer is Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and head of […]
Posted: March 17th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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An exhibition of paintings calling for peace, which had to be held in the St. Petersburg Yabloko office, risks turning into a criminal case on “fakes”
Press Release, 17.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the St. Petersburg Yabloko on 31 January, 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The paintings by the artist Yelena Osipova, which the police seized from the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, have, according to the police, “text inscriptions […]
Posted: March 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko proposes amnesty for those accused under criminal articles on military censorship
Press Release, 16.03.2023 Photo by chikennnsem@gmail.com/depositphotos Artur Gaiduk, Yabloko MP in the Pskov Regional Assembly, exercising the right of regional parliaments to initiate bills in the State Duma, submitted to the Pskov regional parliament a draft resolution for the State Duma “On Announcing an Amnesty”. Yabloko proposes to release from serving their sentences those who […]
Posted: March 16th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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MP of the Moscow City Duma Kruglov to the head of the Moscow police department: “The Moscow police has turned into a tool for political reprisal”
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Oleg Baranov, head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow / Photo by the Moscow City Duma Today, deputies of the Moscow City Duma heard a report by Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, on work […]
Posted: March 16th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On 20 March, the court may make a decision on the criminal case of the leader of the Yakutia branch of Yabloko Anatoly Nogovitsyn on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 20 March, a hearing will be held in the Yakutsk City Court at which the last word of the accused will be heard, and the judge will make a decision on the criminal case against Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutia […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko registered two candidates for municipal by-elections in two municipalities
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Kozlyakovskaya and Oleg Voronin The St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party succeeded in registration of two candidates for municipal by-elections in Krasnoye Selo and Yuzhno-Primorsky municipal districts. Elections in these municipal districts will be held in April. The election campaign will be held under the slogan “For Peace and […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko won in court over the government and the regional public prosecutor in the fight for the organisation of free speech zones in Chelyabinsk
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Rallies in in Aloye Pole, Gagarin Park and Kolyushchenko Square in Chelyabinsk / Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko On 15 March, the Seventh Court of Cassation in Chelyabinsk upheld the decision of the Second Court of Appeal on the organisation of “hyde parks” (specially designated free speech zones where […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko raised 71.000 roubles at the auction in support of those persecuted for political reasons
Press Release, 13.03.2023 Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko On 11 March, the Chelyabinsk branch of the Yabloko party together with the “You Are Not Alone 74” project, held a charity auction in support of those persecuted for political reasons in the South Urals. During the auction, 49 lots were sold for a total […]
Posted: March 13th, 2023 under Charity, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office canceled the decision of the investigation on non-initiation of a criminal case against a telephone terrorist who had allegedly mined the office of the St. Petersburg Yabloko
Press Release, 9.03.2023 Photo: The exhibition / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Central District of St. Petersburg canceled the decision of the investigator of the district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs which refused to initiate a criminal case on a false report about mining of the […]
Posted: March 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Let us hug every woman political prisoner!” Yabloko activists sent a thousand postcards to women political prisoners
Press Release, 9.03.2023 Photo: the action in Pskov In the recent weeks, actions in support of political prisoners were held in the regional offices of the Yabloko party. The actions focused on support to women political prisoners were timed to coincide with International Women’s Day. Yabloko members and civil activists prepared about a thousand letters […]
Posted: March 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Director of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre: Recognition of Transparency International as an “undesirable organisation” in Russia maintains the trend towards repression against civil society
Press Release, 7.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Panfilova, founder of Transparency International – Russia, and Anton Pominov, ex-Director of the organisation / Photo by Gennady Gulyaev, Kommersant The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party expresses its unconditional support for colleagues from Transparency International – Russia and protests against the recognition of the international movement Transparency International […]
Posted: March 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko submitted to the Moscow City Duma a draft law on amnesty under criminal articles on military censorship
Press Release, 7.03.2023 Photo by Oleg Kharaeyev, Kommersant The faction of the Yabloko party in the Moscow City Duma, exercising the right of regional parliaments to initiate bills in the State Duma, submitted to the Moscow city parliament a draft resolution for the State Duma “On declaring an amnesty”. The draft envisages termination of criminal […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started”
Press Release, 9.03.2023. Photo: Denis Volkov / Photo from social media On 21 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started”. The lecturer is Denis Volkov, Director of the Levada Centre.
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Supreme Court of Karelia upheld the decision on fining Emilia Slabunova for “discrediting the army” through her call to spend money on education, and not on “special operations”
Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 March, the Supreme Court of Karelia held a hearing on the appeal of Emilia Slabunova, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia from Yabloko. Slabunova, together with defence lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky, asked to cancel the decision of the Petrozavodsk […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko goes on conducting actions in support of political prisoners dedicated to 8 March
Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: one of the post cards “Freedom to Political Prisoners!” This week, actions in support of political prisoners continue in regional offices of Yabloko. Yabloko members and activists sign postcards specially printed for women political prisoners – civil activists, politicians and journalists who are kept behind bars.
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Koshman, a Chelyabinsk lawyer and a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, attacked
Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: Nikolai Koshman immediately after the attack Nikolai Koshman, a Chelyabinsk lawyer and a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, was attacked in Chelyabinsk in the morning of 6 March. Unidentified people were on the watch for Koshman at the entrance of his apartments block. Nikolai has a broken arm and […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A criminal case on “military fakes” against Abakan journalist Mikhail Afanasyev submitted to court
Press Release, 4.03.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo from social media The materials of the criminal case on the dissemination of “fakes about the army” using official position (Article 207.3, Part 2, paragraph “a” of the Criminal Code of the RF) against Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of Yabloko and the editor of the Novy Focus […]
Posted: March 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An action in support of political prisoners was held at Yabloko: participants wrote 500 letters and prepared a letter in defence of Vladimir Kara-Murza
Press Release, 3.03.2023 On 2 March, the traditional Yabloko action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners was held at the central office of the Yabloko party, organised by the Moscow branch of the party with the support of the PolitzekInfo project. The action was dedicated to women – political prisoners, who fell into the […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Goncharenko: “Another resident of the Altai Territory was fined for “likes”
Blog post by Alexander Goncharenko, 28.02.2023 Photo: Alexander Goncharenko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service According to local media, a pensioner from Novoaltaysk was found guilty of “discrediting the use of the Russian army” as part of a “special operation”. A 69-year-old man, put likes under photographs and publications on the topic of “discrediting […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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