Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Grigory Yavlinsky: Putin and Biden – ”It takes one to know one”?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.03.2021 Photo: Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin. Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / RIA Novosti On 2 October, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent journalist for the Washington Post, was killed and dismembered at the Saudi Arabian Сonsulate in Istanbul. Recently, US National Intelligence accused the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, […]
Posted: March 25th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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On solidarity with Ingush political prisoners
Statement by regional branches of the Yabloko party in the South of Russia, 25.03.2021 In the fall of 2018, a peaceful protest began in the Republic of Ingushetia, dozens of thousands residents of the region participated in it. The reason for such events was the signing of the clandestine border agreement with the Chechen Republic […]
Posted: March 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Dmitry Permyakov demands from the Federal Antimonopoly Service to give assessment on considerable spending of budget funds on PR by the Pskov City Duma
Press Release, 19.03.2021 Photo: Dmitry Permyakov / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service Dmitry Permyakov, a deputy of the Pskov City Duma from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, appealed to the Pskov department of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service with a request to give a legal assessment of the procurement […]
Posted: March 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Vladimir Putin is personally responsible for the lives of Novaya Gazeta journalists
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.03.2021 There are journalists in Russia who risk their lives writing about atrocious crimes committed by the authorities. We are talking about the journalists of Novaya Gazeta. The response to these courageous journalistic investigations is not only propaganda attacks: journalists are threatened with revenge, the Moscow office of the newspaper is attacked […]
Posted: March 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko deputies in the Moscow State Duma demand from the Moscow police to investigate the chemical attack on the office of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper
Press Release, 16.03.2021 Photo: The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, from left to right: Sergei Mitrokhin, Daria Besedina, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Maxim Kruglov. Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, sent an appeal to the head of the Moscow police, Oleg Baranov, with a proposal to prove the […]
Posted: March 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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For every man, there’s a law to convict him under
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.03.2021 Photo: Participants of the Municipal Forum in a police van. Photo by Avtozak Live Police detained over 170 municipal deputies in Moscow. This is how the authorities are fighting the pandemic and “undesirable organisations” [the Russian law “on undesirable organisations” gives prosecutors the power to extrajudicially declare foreign and international organisations […]
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded to open a criminal case on the fact of extrajudicial killings in Chechnya
Press Release, 16.03.2021 Photo: The law enforcement forces in Grozny, Chechnya. Photo by Said Tsarnayev / RIA Novosti On 15 March, Novaya Gazeta published another part of the investigation into extrajudicial killings of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic. With reference to the publication, this was also reported by other media, in particular, RBC. […]
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Statement by Yabloko deputies of the Moscow parliament on political terror on behalf of the Moscow police
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 15.03.2021 Photo: Detention of Sergei Mitorkhin These days, the whole country has been witnessing a new round of a systemic campaign aimed at suppressing opposition politics in Russia. Past week, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, presented to the Moscow City Duma his […]
Posted: March 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Investigative Committee refused to conduct an investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny at the request of Yabloko regional MPs Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 11.03.2021 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk / Photo by Artyom Avanesov The Main Military Investigation Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia believes that the appeal of the deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg with the demand […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko deputies in the Moscow City Duma ask the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case on the possible fact of the poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza by the Federal Security Service
Press Release, 9.03.2021 Four deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma signed an appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, with a request to open a criminal case on the fact of media reports about the possible poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. by officers of the Federal Security […]
Posted: March 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk demand from the head of the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case into the attempted murder of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr.
Press Release, 5.03.2021 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg / Photo: Artyom Avanesov More than three weeks have passed since the publication of the investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider about the circumstances of the two attempts on murder on politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., but […]
Posted: March 5th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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Yabloko at the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov
Yabloko activists honoured the memory of the murdered politician throughout Russia Press Release, 1.03.2021 Photo: Nizhni Novgorod, the region where Boris Nemtsov was Governor in 1991-1997 On February 27, Yabloko members went to rallies, single pickets and other events in many regions of Russia so that to commemorate murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. In Moscow, […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What threatens Putin and what threatens Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Politics, Protests in Russia, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov spoke at a permitted rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Barnaul
Press Release 1.03.2021 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in a permitted rally in memory of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in Barnau, the Altai Territory. Barnaul became the only city out of 22 Russian cities, where the authorities satisfied Yabloko’s application for a mass action.
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“The murder of Boris Nemtsov is a bleeding wound on the body of Russian society”
Yabloko leaders laid flowers to the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Nemtsov Bridge Press Release, 27.02.2021 Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky laid flowers at the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, which Muscovites have been calling the Nemtsov Bridge. The mourning action was also attended […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko was denied approval of the Boris Nemtsov Memorial March in 21 out of 22 regions
Press Release, 25.02.2021 Photo: Yabloko at the Moscow March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov in 2017 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Regional authorities in 21 Russian regions refused to give permissions for Yabloko’s actions in memory of Boris Nemtsov. Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, was shot six times […]
Posted: February 26th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee adopted the position of Grigory Yavlinsky and approved the direction of the party’s reform
Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 February 19, a regular meeting of the Federal Political Committee (FPC) of the Yabloko Party took place. The meeting was attended by all 17 members of the FPC. The Federal Political Committee considered two issues: the statement “On systemic threats […]
Posted: February 20th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Protests in Russia, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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The court did not uphold the claim of the Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko on holding the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov.
Party members will take part in a memory watch and a round table Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Personal page of Maxim Petlin on Facebook On 20 February, the Leninsky district court of the city of Yekaterinburg refused to approve the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov and the memorial meeting. On February 19, the Sverdlovsk […]
Posted: February 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko will seek in court the approval for the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 19.02.2021 Photo: Maxim Petlin / Photo from personal page of Maxim Petlin in Facebook The Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko filed an administrative lawsuit against the Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region, asking to declare unlawful the refusal of the authorities to give a permission to the procession and rally in […]
Posted: February 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will appeal against the refusal of the Mayor’s Office to give a permission on holding the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 19.02.2021 Photo: Monument to the victims of political repression in Novgorod / Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko Sergei Busurin, Mayor of Novgorod, refused to the Novgorod branch of Yabloko in holding a march and a rally in memory of the Russian politician Boris Nemtsov “For freedom and […]
Posted: February 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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