Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Moscow’s Chief Sanitary Doctor will assess, at Yabloko’s request, the coronavirus threat cited by the Moscow authorities when banning protest actions
Press Release, 26.06.2025 Photo: A mass sporting event at one of Moscow’s stadiums during the period of “coronavirus restrictions” / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant The letter to Yelena Andreyeva, Chief Sanitary Doctor of Moscow, was sent by the applicants of the pickets for the dismantling of the bas-relief depicting Joseph Stalin as the “father […]
Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Once again Yabloko in the St.Petersburg parliament proposes taking the first step toward free elections by returning the voting rights to “foreign agents”
Press Release, 25.06.2025 Photo: Alexander Shishlov at the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg /Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg parliament The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg has once again submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament its initiative to return the passive electoral right (the right to be elected) to citizens recognised […]
Posted: June 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow authorities refused to allow Yabloko to hold pickets for the dismantling of a bas-relief with Joseph Stalin in the Moscow metro. Yabloko is going to appeal the refusal in court
Press Release, 24.06.2025 Photo by Yevgeny Biyatov, RIA Novosti The formal reason for the refusal of the Prefecture of Central Administrative District of Moscow to approve Yabloko pickets was the “current epidemiological situation”. The authorities continue to refer to the decree of the Mayor of Moscow dated 8 June, 2020, which maintains the previously introduced […]
Posted: June 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Where is Seda? At its actions of writing letters to political prisoners, Yabloko will appeal to the President with a demand to investigate the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova
Press Release, 23.06.2025 Photo: Seda Suleimanova / Photo from open sources Yabloko has prepared special postcards dedicated to Seda Suleimanova, a Chechen girl who ran away from relatives who threatened her with honour killing for her refusal to agree to a forced marriage, was forcibly returned to Chechnya and, ultimately, disappeared. There has been no […]
Posted: June 24th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: How to break the negotiating impasse?
Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 20.06.2025 Why are the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations taking so long and so painful? Because they are constantly trying to drag out the negotiations as much as possible. Who is trying? Both the sides. But one side is advancing, while the other, on the contrary, is losing increasingly more territory.
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko has submitted an application for a series of one-person pickets in Moscow for the removal of the Stalin bas-relief at Taganskaya metro station
Press Release, 19.06.2025 Photo: Kirill Goncharov and Maxim Kruglov at the office of the Prefecture of the Central Administrative District, Moscow/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The initiators of the action are Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, as well as representatives of the Moscow branch of the party: authorised representative of the regional branch Maxim […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly submitted a bill to abolish the discriminatory ban on participation in elections for “foreign agents”
Press Release, 18.06.2025 Photo: Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg / Photo by the St.Petersburg parliament Press Service The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly has prepared and submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament a draft federal law on restoring passive electoral rights for Russian citizens included in the “foreign agents” registry. According to the […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Anna Cherepanova warned against abuse of the “municipal filter” in the Novgorod Region gubernatorial elections
Press Release, 16 June 2025 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Novgorod regional branch of Yabloko On 14 September, early elections for the head of the region will take place in the Novgorod Region. Anna Cherepanova, Chairwoman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party and candidate in the gubernatorial elections in 2017 and […]
Posted: June 17th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pskov Yabloko demands the lifting of all types of freedom restrictions on Lev Shlosberg and will seek the termination of his criminal case
Statement by the Regional Council of Pskov Yabloko, 16.06.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg’s support group at the court hearing on choosing his preventive measure in Pskov on 11 July 2025 / Photo by Stepan Baranov, Pskov Yabloko We firmly condemn the detention of Lev Shlosberg on the contrived charge of “discrediting the army”. We believe that […]
Posted: June 16th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg has been placed under house arrest as part of a criminal case concerning “repeated discrediting of the army”
Press Release, 11.06.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg in the court room / Photo by Nikolai Rybakov The investigation insisted on such a preventive measure for the Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party during a court hearing at Pskov City Court today. The judge also closed the hearing at the request of the investigator and public prosecutor. […]
Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko marked the 75th anniversary of Yuri Shchekochikhin’s birth
Press Release, 10.06.2025 The legendary Soviet and Russian journalist, investigator, playwright and politician was remembered at the office of the party he represented in the State Duma until his death in 2003. The evening featured speeches by journalist and writer Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Yuri Shchekochikhin’s widow; Novaya Gazeta editor Sergei Sokolov; director Alexei Simonov; Vladimir Mukusev, […]
Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Applications are being accepted for the international essay competition “Young about Young” named after Yuri Shchekochikhin
Press Release, 10.06.2025 Citizens of Russia and other countries aged 18-35 who write in Russian may participate in the competition. Requirements for works:
Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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A criminal case for repeated “discrediting of the army” filed against Lev Shlosberg. Shlosberg arrested, the trial will determine a preventive measure
Press Release, 10.06.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko A criminal case has been filed against Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Lev Shlosberg for repeated “discrediting of the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) due to his debate with historian Yuri Pivovarov, […]
Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A search was conducted at the home of Roman Morozov, a member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko and lawyer for political prisoner Igor Baryshnikov
Press Release, 29.05.2025 Photo: Roman Morozov / Photo by the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko The so-called “inspection of the premises” in Roman Morozov’s apartment was conducted by decision of the Chairman of the Regional Court. The ruling, which Morozov was given to read, stated that he was a “partner” of lawyer Maria Bontsler. According to […]
Posted: May 29th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court left the leader of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention for another two months
Press Release, 29.05.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Soviet Court of Ryazan left the journalist and Chairman of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention for another two months. Smirnov has been in custody for four months, since 31 January. He does not admit his guilt in the case of “extortion”. Smirnov’s […]
Posted: May 29th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Masked men raided the Yekaterinburg Yabloko office because of a denunciation
Press Release, 25.05.2025 Photo: The action of writing letters to political prisoners in Yekaterinburg Yabloko in April 2025 / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 25 May, Yabloko held its regular action of writing letters to political prisoners at the office of the party branch in Yekaterinburg. Masked men raided the Yekaterinburg Yabloko […]
Posted: May 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Stalin’s defenders mock those who preserve the memory of his victims. Yabloko on the inclusion of Yan Rachinsky, C-Chair of the Memorial human rights society, in the “foreign agents” register
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 23.05.2025 Photo: Yan Rachinsky /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko party considers the inclusion of Yan Rachinsky, Co-Chairman of the Memorial human rights society and Russian human rights defender, in the so-called “foreign agents” register to be an act of political repression aimed at destroying historical memory in […]
Posted: May 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Will they start burning undesirable books soon?
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 22.05.2025 Photo: The Podpisnye Izdaniya book store in St. Petersburg / Photo by Alexander Chizhenok, Kommersant Security officials came to search the book publishing houses Eksmo and Individuum, and book stores Falanster, Podpisnye Izdaniya, and Karta Mira. After the searches at the publishing houses, 11 people were interrogated and later […]
Posted: May 23rd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky and other Yabloko leaders stand surety for imprisoned Konstantin Smirnov
Internet media VidSboku, 20.05.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The sureties to the Soviet District Court of Ryazan with a request to change the preventive measure for Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko, deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Dubrovichi rural settlement of the Ryazan […]
Posted: May 23rd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to the head of the Central Electoral Commission with Grigory Melkonyants’ final statement in court
Press Release, 21.05.2025 Photo: Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, and Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of Golos independent election observers movement, at a roundtable on organising election observation as part of the All-Russian Civil Forum, 25 November, 2017 / Photo by Golos Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of […]
Posted: May 23rd, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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