Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
The European Court for Human Rights awarded EUR 19.500 to the head of Yabloko’s environmental faction beaten by police during a demonstration in 2007
Press Release, 16.06.2020 Photo: bruised Olga Tsepilova On 16 June, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued a decision on the case of the participants of the March of Dissent who were beaten by the police forces during the March in St.Petersburg on April 15, 2007. Riot policemen roughly dispersed about 60 people, […]
Posted: June 16th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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“We openly declare our categorical disagreement with Vladimir Putin and refuse him our confidence”
Yabloko deputies in the Pskov region signed a parliamentary appeal against Putin’s lifelong rule Press Release, 15.06.2020 Photo: The Pskov Yabloko team at a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Yabloko branch in Pskov. November 16, 2019. Photo by Alexander Sidorenko More than 350 deputies of regional and municipal parliaments from 39 regions […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly.
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Oleg Rodin: Officials are trying to intimidate residents of Kuznechikha who are opposed to the construction of McDonald’s in the green zone
Press Release, 15.06.2020 On 13 June, local residents met in front of House No 19 Rokossovsky street with a correspondent of the Vesti Privolzhye (Vesti Volga Region) newspaper so that to tell about the construction of a McDonald’s restaurant under the windows of their houses. After the correspondent left, police officers began to surround residents […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Russia will be free!
Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 12.06.2020 In the photo: A rally for freedom – for the abolition of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR on the leading role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, February 4, 1990. 30 years ago, on June 12, 1990, a declaration on Russia’s sovereignty was adopted. […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko asked pro-government newspapers AIF, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Rossiyskaya Gazeta to publish Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution, as they published Putin’s
Press Release, 11.06.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent official letters to the editors-in-chief of pro-government Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Argumenti I Fakti (AIF) newspapers. Rybakov asked the newspapers publish in their print versions and on their websites Yabloko’s publications with alternative opinions regarding amendments to the Constitution.
Posted: June 11th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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On the 70th anniversary of murdered Yabloko MP and journalist Yury Shchekochikhin Yabloko will conduct a Zoom-marathon: we will read his texts live on-line
Press Release, 8.06.2020 On June 9, 2020, journalist and politician Yury Shchekochikhin would have turned 70. Yury Shchekochikhin was an MP of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma. He was also renowned in Russia as a pillar of Russian investigative journalism. He died on July 3, 2003, due to poisoning. Those who committed and […]
Posted: June 9th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko in Kalmykia held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina
Press Release, 8.06.2020 Colleagues of Larissa Yudina, members of the Kalmyk branch of Yabloko held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina, opposition journalist, human rights activist, politician and Co-Chair of the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia.
Posted: June 9th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, Без рубрики.
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“Freedom of expression is inviolable!” Yabloko deputies demand from the head of the Moscow police to give explanations on the arrests of protesters
Press Release, 5.06.2020 Photo: Arrest of Maxim Kruglov The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma demands immediate admission of Yabloko deputies from the head of the Moscow police chief Oleg Baranov. An official letter of this was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Chairman of the faction, and was sent to the police department in Moscow […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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After Lockdown
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020 CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if […]
Posted: June 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin
Press Release, 3.06.2020 In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin. They want to bring him to administrative responsibility for a series of single pickets against mandatory army conscription, which he held by two regional military registration and enlistment offices on 15 May, the International Day of Conscientious Military Objectors.
Posted: June 3rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Russian Army, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the International Children’s Day the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko held a picket for the adoption of the law on the prevention of domestic violence
Press Release, 1.06.2020 On 1 June, Marcel Akhmadullin, activist of the Yabloko party, held an action in Kazan demanding that Russia adopt a law on the prevention of domestic violence. Marcel Akhmadullin held a series of single pickets in the centre of Kazan, near the shopping centre Koltso. He stood with placards: “No to domestic […]
Posted: June 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Boris Vishnevsky: The lessons of symmetry. Why the Russian Foreign Ministry does not allow member of the PACE delegation to Russia
Novaya Gazeta, 28.05.2020 Photo by Vladimir Klopovsky, Obzor: Emanuelis Zingeris and Boris Nemtsov Two years ago, in the summer of 2018, the deputy of the Sejm of the Republic of Lithuania and one of the most famous Lithuanian politicians Emanuelis Zingeris was banned from entering Russia for five years. Meanwhile, he was not going to […]
Posted: June 1st, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Eu relations.
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Yabloko Chairman demanded that the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg police release the participants detained during one-person picketing
Press Release, 29.05.2020 Detention of Kirill Gontcharov. Photo by Novaya Gazeta Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an official appeal to the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to release the detained participants of one-person picketing and stop the detentions. “Exiting the isolation regime, […]
Posted: May 29th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Freedom to Ilya Azar!
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 28.05.2020 Photo: Ilya Azar picketing in front of the Moscow Interior Department on Petrovka street on May 26. The Yabloko party is outraged by the unlawful prosecution of the journalist and Moscow municipal deputy Ilya Azar, who was sentenced by court to 15 days of administrative arrest for a one-person picket […]
Posted: May 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan continues picketing against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 26.05.2020 The Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party organised a protest action calling to turn down Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution. Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of the party, held a one-person picket [which does not require any permissions from the authorities). He is certain that since the government […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Young people are dissatisfied with the state system of falsehood
Alexander Gnezdilov comments for the influential Japanese newspaper Putin’s record drop in popularity Press Release, 18.05.2020 Alexander Gnezdilov, member of the Yabloko Party’s Federal Political Committee, gave a commentary for the influential Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun for an article where the newspaper’s special correspondent investigated the causes of a serious drop in President Vladimir Putin’s […]
Posted: May 18th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Social Policies, Yabloko Youth, Youth Policies.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko to hold the May Day demonstration online
Press Release, 30.04.2020 The Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party will hold the First of May demonstration online. Everyone can join the stream which starts this Friday at 12:00. The organiser of the online demonstration is Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the party’s regional branch.
Posted: April 30th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky urged St.Petersburg authorities not to punish doctors for publicising the problems of the system to combat coronavirus
Press Release, 28.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Oleg Ergashev, Vice Governor of St.Petersburg. Vishnevsky asked Ergashev to take measures to prompt and daily publication of clear and precise statistics on hospitals treating patients with coronavirus, the […]
Posted: April 30th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Grigory Yavlinsky proposed to create Public Commission for control over the use of digital technologies by the state
Press Release, 28.04.2020 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, proposed to create Public Commission for control over the use of digital technologies by the state. He wrote about this in his article called Digital Danger, published by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper today . The Public Commission should include IT […]
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Yabloko leaders demanded to institute criminal proceedings against head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and provide state protection to Novaya Gazeta journalist
Press Release, 21.04.2020 A statement by the Congress of the Intelligentsia was published on the Internet. The statement was signed by many prominent members of the Yabloko party, including party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky, members of the Federal Political Committee Valery Borschyov, Svetlana Gannushkina, Emilia Slabunova, Viktor Sheinis and Lev Shlosberg, co-chair […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova.
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