Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Police drew up a violation report against Yabloko Federal Bureau member Alexander Yefimov for “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”
Press Release, 20.02.2024 Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by Yabloko Press Service Alexander Yefimov is charged with giving an interview to the movement of independent election observers Golos, which authorities consider to be part of the international non-governmental organisation European Network of Election Monitoring Organisations (ENEMO). In 2021, the organisation was declared undesirable in Russia.
Posted: February 21st, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Altai branch of Yabloko will hold an event in memory of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 20.02.2024 A memorial rally dedicated to the anniversary of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov will be conducted in Barnaul, the Altai Territory, on 25 February 25 at 13:00. The action will be held on Freedom Square near the monument to victims of political repression “Farewell”. The event was agreed upon with the […]
Posted: February 21st, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host a discussion “Why didn’t books help?”
Press Release, 19.02.2024 Picture: Francisco de Goya “Los caprichos”. The sleep of reason produces monsters. 1799. Prado Museum, Madrid We invite everyone to join our open discussion “Why didn’t books help?”, timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the start of the “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine. Several invited guests will […]
Posted: February 19th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Tula branch of Yabloko demands an investigation into the legality of the actions of police who attacked visitors to the Tipografia culture centre
Press Release, 19.02.2024 Photo: The Tipografia culture centre / Photo from open sources The Tula regional branch of the Yabloko party issued an open appeal to the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Public Prosecutor’s Office with a demand to check the actions of police who stormed into the Tipografia culture […]
Posted: February 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexei Navalny became a victim of political repression
Condolences by Grigory Yavlinsky, 16.02.2024 The death of Alexei Navalny is a great tragedy. Whatever its immediate cause, Alexei became a victim of political repression. Navalny was an opponent of the regime and ended up in the penal colony mainly for his political activities. The conditions of his detention, numerous imprisonments in the punitive isolation […]
Posted: February 16th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the family and friends of Alexei Navalny
Statement by the Yabloko party on the death of Alexei Navalny 16.02.2024 The Yabloko party expresses condolences to the family and friends of Alexei Navalny. Responsibility for Alexei Navalny’s death lies with the authorities of our country. His death occurred in penal colony conditions that were essentially torture. The death of Alexei Navalny must be […]
Posted: February 16th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko supporter in Tatarstan Zulfiya Sitdikova will be tried for “justifying Nazism” and “discrediting the army”. She needs help
Press Release, 13.02.2024 Photo: Zulfiya Sitdikova / Photo from social media UPDATE: 13 February, 19:50 Moscow time. Fundraising for Zulfiya Sitdikova is closed! We thank everyone who helped the Yabloko activist. Yabloko activist Zulfiya Sitdikova from Kazan, Tatarstan, is accused of “rehabilitating Nazism” (Article 354.1, Part 3 of the Criminal Code) and “discrediting the army” […]
Posted: February 13th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Piskunov, candidate member of Yabloko and electoral expert in Kuzbass, detained. His home searched in connection with the case of “organising an extremist community”
Press Release, 12.02.2024 Photo: Sergei Piskunov holding a placard “No More Than 2 Terms”/ Photo from social media UPDATE: 12 February, 11:45 Moscow time. Sergei Piskunov was detained in the Altai Territory. He is suspected of “creating an extremist community” (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Now he is being taken […]
Posted: February 12th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko to the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: The shadow of repression, reminiscent of Stalin’s times, once again looms over science
Press Release, 9.02.2024 Photo: Akademgorodok (the “Academic Town”) in Novosibirsk /Photo from open sources On the Day of Russian Science and in honour of the 300th anniversary of the formation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party sent congratulatory letters to the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy […]
Posted: February 9th, 2024 under Education and Science, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg about fines due to his “foreign agent” status: We have collected comprehensive evidence of my innocence
Press Release 6.02.2024 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko On 5 February, the Pskov City Court fined Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, three times for distributing materials without a “foreign agency” tag ( Article 19.34, Part 4, of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian […]
Posted: February 6th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The court did not confirm the inaction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which ignores the extremist statements made by MP Gurulyov about the “rotten” 20 per cent of population who disagree with Putin and must be destroyed
Press Release 6.02.2024 Photo: MP Gurulyov, a screenshot of the programme “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” On 5 February, the Izmailovsky Court of Moscow refused to recognise as illegal the inaction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which did not find extremism in the calls of State Duma deputy, General Andrei Gurulyov about the “rotten” […]
Posted: February 6th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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The Tomsk City Duma supported Yabloko with a majority of votes: Yevgeny Kaverzin maintains his mandate
Press Release 6.02.2024 Photo: Yevgeny Kaverzin / Photo from social media Today, on 6 February, the Tomsk City Duma discussed at a closed meeting depriving Yevgeny Kaverzin, a deputy from Yabloko and a technologist at the Clean City waste recycling company, of his mandate. Such a measure against Kaverzin was proposed by the executive authorities.
Posted: February 6th, 2024 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A deputy from Yabloko in Tomsk may be deprived of his mandate for confrontation with a garbage collection operator
Press Release, 5.02.2024 Photo: Yevgeny Kaverzin / Photo from social media Yevgeny Kaverzin, a deputy from Yabloko in the Tomsk City Duma, may be deprived of his mandate. The formal reason is some inaccuracies in his income declarations for 2020 and 2021, but the real reason for deprivation of his mandate is his protection of […]
Posted: February 5th, 2024 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Minister of Culture of Udmurtia fined for ignoring the request of the Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmutia, Iya Boronina
Press Release, 2.02.2024 Photo: Magistrate of the Court District No. 3 of Oktyabrsky District of Izhevsk, Alyona Dresvyannikova / Photo by Iya Boronina The Minister of Culture of Udmurtia, Vladimir Solovyov, was fined for violating the procedure for considering the appeal of the Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia, Iya Boronina. The leader of […]
Posted: February 5th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod Yabloko to host Yelena Lukovitskaya’s seminar “Male and Female – What Are the Differences and Is There Equality?”
Photo: Yelena Lukovitskaya / Photo from open sources The Novgorod branch of the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party plans to hold a series of discussions on issues of equality, women’s rights, family policy, domestic violence and other relevant topics. The first seminar will take place on 11 February. It will be conducted by Yelena […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office found no violations in the installation of a stele in the place of mass burial in Sandarmokh with an inscription distorting history. MP Slabunova appealed to the Investigative Committee
Press Release, 30.01.2024 Photo: The inscription on the stele runs “To the victims of repression of 1937-1939 and to the victims of the Finnish occupation during the Great Patriotic War” / Photo by Emilia Slabunova At the end of December 2023, it was reported that the authorities plan to install a stele in memory not […]
Posted: January 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Stop creeping re-Stalinization
Resolution by the 22nd Yabloko Congress adopted on 10.12.2023, published on 26.01.2024 Photo by Yevgeny Odinokov, RIA Novosti The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko is worried and draws attention to the campaign unfolding in Russia to justify the Great Terror and its inspirer, Joseph Stalin. Against the background of the ongoing loss of human lives […]
Posted: January 26th, 2024 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Stop political repression! Freedom for political prisoners!
Resolution by the 22nd Yabloko Congress adopted on 10.12.2023, published on 25.01.2024 After the start of a special military operation and the adoption of laws punishing for “discrediting of the army” and “fake news” (essentially, the laws on military censorship), political repression against the dissent in Russia intensified.
Posted: January 25th, 2024 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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St.Petersburg Yabloko members received in St.Petersburg their Yabloko colleagues from Veliky Novgorod
Press Release, 22.01.2024 Photos by the Yabloko Press Service The head of the Yabloko faction in the Veliky Novgorod City Duma Anna Cherepanova, the head of the regional Centre for Anti-Corruption Policies Ksenia Cherepanova, and a member of the Bureau of the Novogorod branch of Yabloko Viktor Shalyakin came to St. Petersburg to meet their […]
Posted: January 25th, 2024 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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The Moscow Yabloko on the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to protect the “The Last Address” memorial plaques commemorating the victims of Soviet political repression
Press Release, 22.01.2024 Photo: “The Last Address” sign on Dolgorukovskaya 5 (formerly Kalyaevskaya 5) / Photo from social media Maxim Kruglov, head of the faction in the Moscow City Duma and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, signed a letter to the Moscow Mayor on the inclusion of memorial plaques of the “The Last Address” […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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