Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
“The best constitutional amendment is Putin’s resignation.” Yabloko took part in the March in memory of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 29.02.2020 More than 22,000 people took part in the Boris Nemtsov March, an action in memory of slain Putin opponent, which took place in Moscow from Strastnoy Boulevard to Academician Sakharov Prospect today. The Yabloko party formed its own column headed by the party leaders who carried a banner with the slogan “Fight […]
Posted: March 1st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Yabloko leaders participated in the March in memory of Boris Nemtsov
Facebook post by Nikolai Rybakov, 29.02.2020 Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman: Together with Emilia Slabunova, Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, – all Yabloko Chairpersons are leading thr oarty column at the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov today.
Posted: February 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko will challenge in court the refusal of the city authorities to give a permission to a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 28.02.2020 Yevgeny Artemyev, Chairman of the Kemerovo branch of the Yabloko party, appealed to the Central District Court of Kemerovo. He intends to challenge the unlawful refusal of the city administration to give a permission to a rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in the city. The activists of the regional branch of […]
Posted: February 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Nemtsov. Five Years After.
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.02.2020 Five years ago, Boris Nemtsov was killed. A year before that, Crimea was already annexed, the war in Donbass was gaining momentum with might and main. However, the demonstrative killing by the Kremlin’s walls of an opposition politician, an uncompromising critic of authoritarian power and personal opponent of Vladimir Putin became […]
Posted: February 27th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations, War in Syria.
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Russian Foreign Ministry in Boris Nemtsov Square
Alexei Melnikov’s blog post, 27.02.2020 Photo: a participant of the Boris Nemtsov Memorial March holding a placard “Boris, this is your spring!” A solemn naming of the square situated by the Russian Embassy in Prague after [slain Russian opposition politician] Boris Nemtsov will take place in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, soon. The […]
Posted: February 27th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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The Oryol branch of Yabloko obtained a permission for a picket in memory of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 26.02.2020 A picket in memory of Boris Nemtsov will be held in Oryol on 29 February. This was announced by Sergei Zaitsev, the organiser of the action and Chairman of the Orlov branch of Yabloko. The commemorative action will begin at 11.00.
Posted: February 26th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko held a picket The Constitution of Free People
Press Release, 25.02.2020 On 22 February, a mass picket was held in Chelyabinsk as part of the Constitution of Free People campaign organised by the Chelyabinsk Yabloko. About one hundred people took part in the picket.
Posted: February 25th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Emilia Slabunova demanded that Public Prosecutor General check the legality of the criminal case against Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev, journalist of the Chernovik newspaper
Press Release, 21.02.2020 Emilia Slabunova, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, asked Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, to check the legality of the criminal case against Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev, journalist of the Chernovik (Rough Notes) newspaper. A criminal case against the journalist was […]
Posted: February 21st, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko applied for getting a permission to hold March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov for the third time
Press Release, 19.02.2020 On 17 February, Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko applied for getting a permission to hold March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov for the third time. It is planned that the march will take place in the form of a public event – a procession along Rozhdestvenskaya street, followed by a rally Markin square. Earlier, […]
Posted: February 19th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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The wife of the organiser of the Boris Nemtsov memorial march in Kemerovo is dismissed from her job in a children’s clinic
Press Release, 19.02.2020 Photo: Yevgeny Artemyev. Irina Sotnikova, nurse of Kemerovo Children’s Clinic No. 1, was announced that she would be fired in April. Formally, a nurse with forty years of experience was informed that her job would be cut. However, in informal conversations, she was informed that her the dismissal was associated with the […]
Posted: February 19th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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One hundred years of lawlessness: is Putin legitimate?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 18.02.2020 Konstantin Aranovsky, Judge of the Constitutional Court, called the USSR an illegitimate state, and the Soviet state bodies “illegal party-state power bodies”, which cannot be regarded as “legal predecessors of constitutional state power”. This is an accurate and true definition.
Posted: February 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko launched its regional campaign “The Constitution of Free People” at a rally in Magnitogorsk
Press Release, 17.02.2020 On 15 February, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko launched its regional campaign “The Constitution of Free People” at a rally in Magnitogorsk, the Chelyabinsk region. The rally was organised by Kira Belaya, member of Magnitogorsk Yabloko.
Posted: February 17th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“We did something wrong to the whole country”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 13.02.2020 Everyone knows that the Network [antifascist group] case was fabricated, and confessions were beaten out under torture, including the President of Russia, who was informed about torture at the meeting of the Human Rights Council. As the saying goes, “tell comrade N: a monstrous mistake has occurred”. Speaking in court with […]
Posted: February 14th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The sentence in the case of the Network [antifascist group] must be canceled
Statement by the Yabloko party, 10.02.2020 The sentence passed in Penza today in the so-called Network case is a monstrous abuse of law and justice. Young people tortured by the law enforcement and the investigation so that to get “confessions” received from six to 18 years of imprisonment. The defendants made statements about this at […]
Posted: February 13th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg and Saria Saburskaya, Ombudsperson of the Republic of Tatarstan, defend arrested activists Yelena Izotova and Anatoly Malov
Press Release 3.02, 2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Yelena Izotova On 16 January, Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies and member of the Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, addressed Sariya Saburskaya, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Tatarstan, in connection with administrative arrests of Yelena Izotova, leader of the Yabloko’s […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko creates a party commission to draft constitutional amendments alternative to Vladimir Putin’s
Press Release, 31.01.2020 Yabloko has created a party commission to draft constitutional amendments alternative to those of President Putin’s. This decision was made today by the Party Bureau. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will head the commission. The Executive Secretary of the commission will be Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman.
Posted: January 31st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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We demand to stop criminal prosecution of civil activists of Ingushetia
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 31.01.2020 On 27 December, 2019, criminal cases were initiated against civil activists of the Republic of Ingushetia Malsag Uzhakhov, Akhmed Barakhoyev, Musa Malsagov, Barakh Chemurziyev, Bagaudin Hautiyev, Ismail Nalgiyev, Zarifa Sautiyeva and Akhmed Pogorov, under [the charges envisaged in] the article [of the Cirminal Code of the Russian Federation] on […]
Posted: January 31st, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Lecture by Vladimir Ryzhkov “Constitutional reform: what will happen and how it should be?”
Press Release, 30.01.2020 The Yabloko Party University resumes its work. Speeches of famous politicians, political scientists, social scientists and economists (Igor Nikolayev, Grigory Amnuel, Yevgeny Gontmakher, Nikolai Petrov, Tatyana Vorozheykina and others) are planned in the curriculum. Classes will be held mainly on Wednesdays at 19.00.
Posted: January 30th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Soon!, Без рубрики.
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Deputy Chairman of the Altai branch of Yabloko, who had been beaten by police, held a picket near the walls of the regional Public Prosecutor’s office
Press Release, 22.01.2020 Photo: Alexander Kondrov, Deputy Chairman of the Altai regional branch of Yabloko, “I demand justice”. Alexander Kondrov, Deputy Chairman of the Altai regional branch of the Yabloko party and head of the research and production laboratory of the Altai Techological University, held a one-person picket (that does not require any permission from […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Amendments to the Constitution have to be developed by those who will live here
Grigory Yalvinsky’s Facebook page, 22.01.2020 The breakdown of the Constitution proposed by the President and furnished with decorative procedures, is not only an already familiar manifestation of disrespect for the people, but also, above all, a manifestation of the political vector: towards not only preserving the current system, but making it even more authoritarian, closed […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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