Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Mikhail Afanasyev, imprisoned journalist and a member of Yabloko, wins the Free Media Awards press prize
Press Release, 27.08.2024 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev makes his final statement in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia and a member of the Yabloko party, became a prize winner of the Free Media Awards, a prestigious award for independent journalists who refuse to give in to threats. For […]
Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko held a meeting with party supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites
Press Release, 26.08.2024 Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko Past week, a meeting of Yabloko members and supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites took place in Kaliningrad. The meeting was timed to coincide with the opening of the new office of the regional branch. The office became a place […]
Posted: August 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Courts in Moscow and the Moscow Region removed from the elections nine Yabloko candidates campaigning for peace and freedom
Press Release, 23.08.2024 Photo: Yabloko candidates to municipal deputies of the Kurkino district, Moscow/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow removed six previously registered Yabloko candidates from the snap election to the municipal council of the Kurkino district in Moscow. Earlier, the Moscow Regional Court deregistered three candidates […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A second criminal case filed against Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of the Kamchatka Yabloko and journalist, under an article on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 23.08.2024 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court ruled to remand Yefimov in custody until 21 October. A lawyer is working with the journalist. Details of the case are being clarified. It should be noted that in March 2023, Vladimir Yefimov was fined 200,000 roubles under […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Don’t deprive citizens of elections in Kurkino!
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 23.08.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 20 August, 2024, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow received lawsuits demanding the cancellation of the decisions of the Territorial Electoral Commission on the registration of six candidates nominated by the Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Vladimir Dorokhov may be made a “foreign agent” through provocations. Dorokhov applied to the police and the FSB
Press Release, 22.08.2024 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 August, Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, received two money transfers to his accounts from an Armenian citizen whom Dorokhov does not know. Each transfer amounted to 2,000 roubles. Vladimir Dorokhov is certain […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Moscow Yabloko candidates in municipal elections to the Kurkino district municipal council may be removed from the race
Press Release, 21.08.2024 Photo: Yabloko candidates in snap elections in the Kurkino district, Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service In Moscow all six Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies in the Kurkino district may be removed from the race. Two self-nominated candidates filed lawsuits in the Tushinsky District Court in Moscow against the electoral […]
Posted: August 21st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Let’s support those who are still in captivity. Yabloko invites all to the actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 21.08.2024 Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions is holding another action of writing letters to political prisoners. After a historic prisoners exchange between several countries, as a result of which those to whom we wrote letters to pretrial detention centre and penal colonies where they were kept, and about whom we worried […]
Posted: August 21st, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Moscow to honour the memory of the victims of the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 20.08.2024 Photo from open sources Members and supporters of Yabloko will meet at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring on August 21 at 11:45 so that to lay flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia”.
Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Nikolai Kavkazsky, a Moscow Yabloko member, fined for the second time for “displaying extremist symbols”
Press Release, 20.08.2024 Photo: Nikolai Kavkazsky outside the Basmanny Court, 2022 / Photo from Nikolai Kavkazsky’s personal archive The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced Nikolai Kavkazsky to a fine of 2,000 roubles under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“propaganda or public demonstration of Nazis’ symbols or the symbols of other extremist organisations”). […]
Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Summing up the results of registration of Yabloko candidates in 2024 elections
Press Release, 17.08.2024 The campaign of registration of Yabloko candidates in elections at various levels has been completed in all regions of Russia and in Moscow. As of today, 73 Yabloko candidates are participating in 31 election campaigns in nine regions of the country under a single party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the […]
Posted: August 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko party demands an end to repression against politicians and citizens fighting for fair elections in Russia
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 15.08.2024 Photo: Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, and Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of the Golos independent observers movement, at a round table devoted to organization of election observation as part of the All-Russian Civil Forum, 25 November, 2017 / Photo by Golos On 14 August, the […]
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Voronezh supported the candidacy of civil activist Alexander Dudchenko for the post of Mayor of the city
Press Release, 15.08.2024 Photo: Alexander Dudchenko / Photo from Alexander Dudchenko personal archive In August, the Mayor of the city of Voronezh will be elected. Earlier, the head of the city, Vadim Kstenin, resigned. Direct elections of the Mayor were canceled in 2016, and for six years already, since 2018, the Mayor has been “elected” […]
Posted: August 16th, 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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Boris Vishnevsky fined for “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”
Press Release, 15.08.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky outside the courthouse / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg fined Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, 15,000 roubles under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the […]
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod District Court refused to remove Yabloko candidate Ksenia Cherepanova from the register of persons affiliated with a “foreign agent”
Press Release, 14.08.2024 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 13 August, the Novgorod District Court considered the claim of Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate in the by-elections of the Novgorod Regional Duma, against the Ministry of Justice. The politician demanded to be removed from the register of “persons affiliated with […]
Posted: August 14th, 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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The Court of Appeal rejected Maxim Kruglov’s claim against the Moscow City Court’s decision to deny the politician registration in the Moscow City Duma elections
Press Release, 13.08.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The First Court of Appeal in Moscow rejected the appeal of deputy of the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov against the Moscow City Court’s decision to deny him registration as a candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections. The panel of judges […]
Posted: August 14th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko on participation in gubernatorial elections under the conditions of the special military operation and the municipal filter: we offer a political alternative and speak up about peace and freedom
Press Release, 9.08.2024 Photo: Yabloko candidates for the 2024 gubernatorial elections Roman Morozov, Vladimir Dorokhov, and Yaroslav Shcherbakov Yabloko’s election campaigns for the gubernatorial elections have ended. Three candidates from the party in the Kaliningrad, Tula and Chelyabinsk regions did not pass the so-called municipal filter – collection of a certain number of signatures of […]
Posted: August 9th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko was denied registration in the Tula City Duma elections
Press Release, 8.08.2024 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov at the Tula Region Electoral Commission / Photo from social media On 7 August, Yabloko presented its objections to the regional electoral commission concerning the results of verification of 2,361 signatures of city residents in support of the Yabloko list of candidates. Yabloko was going to campaign under the […]
Posted: August 8th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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From an Exchange to a Ceasefire
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 6.08.2024 We should not judge superficially about deep and contradictory political meanings of the prisoner exchange. Let us note the most important thing: this exchange literally saved several lives at once. And one more thing: if such a difficult and ambiguous process is possible, during which Moscow […]
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky asked the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg to send a request to the Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the law on “foreign influence”
Press Release, 6.08.2024 Photo: Vitaly Isakov and Boris Vishnevsky at a meeting of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of the party Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, is challenging the status of “foreign agent” unlawfully assigned to him […]
Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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