Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Only the Yabloko party supported the protest of thousands of residents of Ingushetia
Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, spoke at the rally in Magas Press Release, 26.03.2019 A rally against amendments to the constitutional law on referendum is held in the city of Magas, the capital of the Republic of Igushetia, today. If the amendments are adopted, this will allow the leadership of the republic to resolve […]
Posted: March 27th, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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“Golden Pen 2018”Award: Yabloko’s Lina Zernova won the special prize “For High Quality of Journalistic Work”
Press Release, 25.03.2019 The ceremony of the “Golden Pen – 2018” award for journalists took place in St. Petersburg. Lina Zernova, member of Yabloko St. Petersburg and Co-Chair of the Guild of Environmental Journalists of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, won the special prize of the for High Quality […]
Posted: March 26th, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, will speak at a rally in Magas, Ingushetia, against the new version of the law on referendum in Ingushetia
Press Release, 25.03.2019 Tomorrow, 26 March, a rally will be held in the city of Magas, the capital of the Republic of Ingushetia, on the issue of preserving the territorial integrity of the Republic. Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, will speak at the rally. Residents of Ingushetia are outraged by the desire of […]
Posted: March 25th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Activist of the Krasnodar branch of Yabloko was fined for his repost of the video on the lack of schools in Krasnodar
Press Release, 22.03.2019 Alexander Safronov, member of the Yabloko party from the city of Yeisk in the Krasnodar region, was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation “Conducting activities of an undesirable organistion on the territory of the Russian Federation” because of his repost […]
Posted: March 25th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Statement by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko on dismissal of journalist Maria Karpenko from the Kommersant newspaper for her criticism of the acting St.Petersburg Governor
Statement of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, 20.03.2019 Photo: Maria Karpenko and Boris Vishnevsky, Yabloko MP in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly On Tuesday, 19 March, Maria Karpenko was sacked from her post of correspondent for the Kommersant newspaper. The reason for this outrageous dismissal was [her criticism of Alexander Beglov, acting Governor of St.Petersburg in] […]
Posted: March 22nd, 2019 under Freedom of Speech.
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Nikolay Rybakov: The Alexander Korovainy case is another episode of the authoirties’ struggle against people who want to change the life in the country for the better
Press Release, 16.03.2019 In the Krasnodar Territory, a lawsuit was filed against Alexander Korovainy, deputy of the Yeisk District Council from the Yabloko party, for his repost on Facebook of a MBH-Media’s picture on the rise in prices. Alexander Korovainy was accused of “carrying out the activity of an undesirable organisation” (Article 20.33 of the […]
Posted: March 18th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Memorandum of Political Alternative
Decision No 109 of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 12.03.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the party adopted a new version of the “Memorandum of Political Alternative” at its meeting on 1 March. This document is mandatory for signing by party candidates in elections of all levels.
Posted: March 13th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Memorandum of Political Alternative, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Russia-Ukraine relations, Situation in Crimea, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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No to persecution of Moscow municipal deputies
The authorities must abolish reprisals against the dissenting Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 28.02.2019 Photo: Andrei Morev, municipal deputy from Yabloko and head of minicipality. The Moscow authorities lost the municipal elections in 2017 in a number of [Moscow] districts, and began systematically intimidate municipal deputies. Pressure on municipal deputies is openly criminal and includes […]
Posted: March 5th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko laid flowers to the people’s memorial at the site of murder of Boris Nemtsov
Yabloko party’s Facebook page, 28.02.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder, Sergei Mitrokhin, ex Chairman of Yabloko, and party activists paid tribute to the memory of Boris Nemtsov four years after he was murdered by the Kremlin walls at Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge.
Posted: February 28th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Nikolay Rybakov laid flowers to the site of murder of Boris Nemtsov
Nikolay Rybakov’s Facebook page, 27.02.2019 Today, four years after politician Boris Nemtsov was shot on the bridge by the Kremlin wall, people come to the site of his murder, where the so-called people’s memorial had been created by volunteers. The authorities refused to give a permission to create a memorial, so democratic people created a […]
Posted: February 27th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Actions in memory of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities were held with support of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 25.02.2019 The Yabloko party participated in the actions commemorating Boris Nemtsov. The actions took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov and other Russian cities on Sunday, 24 February, 2018. In Moscow, Yabloko activists formed a column with a banner “Yabloko is the party of peace and is against war! ”. The column was […]
Posted: February 26th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Video address by Nikolay Rybakov to Public Prosecutor General and head of the Investigation Committee on the case of Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 22.02.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, recorded a video address to Yury Chaika, Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigation Committee of Russia, in connection with prosecution of Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, by law enforcement agencies and criminals.
Posted: February 22nd, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Pskov Yabloko receives threats from some criminals. Who has sent them?
Lev Shlosberg’s Facebook page, 21.02.2019 Dear friends, Unfortunately the situation is far from being calm and peaceful in Pskov. Last morning, an unidentified man (allegedly an acting or former employee of the law enforcement or secret services) stuck a piece of paper on the sign of the public reception office of a deputy of the […]
Posted: February 21st, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the criminal case against Lev Shlosberg and the Pskov branch of Yabloko, and the possibility of change in Russia: This is an anti-constitutional act suppressing legal opposition
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 15.02. 2019 On 15 February, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and Yabloko founder, commented to the Ekho Moskvi radio station on a criminal case against the Pskov branch of Yabloko and Lev Shlosberg, Pskov Yabloko leader and MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly. Yavlinsky noted that the search […]
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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We demand to stop the pre-investigation check on municipal deputies Andrei Morev and Viktor Kotov
Statement by Yabloko Chairperson, 19.02.2019 Photo: Andrei Morev The Yabloko party expresses serious concern over the fact that Andrei Morev, Moscow municipal deputy from Yabloko, was summoned for interrogation to the Investigation Committee of the Yakimanka district of Moscow.
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Criminal case against Pskov Yabloko is a case against the whole party and against the Russian Constitution
Statement, 14.02.2019 The Yabloko party expresses a categorical protest against the search conducted by the Investigation Department of the Investigation Committee of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pskov Region in the premises of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party on 13 February. A politically motivated forceful persecution of opposition […]
Posted: February 15th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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The Pskov office of Yabloko is being searched
Press release, 13.02.2019 The Investigation Committee is conducting a search in the office of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party, as Dmitry Permyakov, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch confirmed to the Press Service.
Posted: February 14th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Emilia Slabunova on the trial over Yuri Dmitriyev, Chair of the Karelian branch of the human rights society Memorial
Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 12.02.2019 While the state propaganda on the Russia-24 TV channel talks about the “so-called human rights activists”, without giving them a word, and the benefits of the expedition of the Russian Military-Historical Society to Sandarmokh [the place of shooting and burial of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals in Karelia], which causes […]
Posted: February 12th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan held a picket in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 11.02.2019 Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan, held a one-person picket in support of Anastasia Shevchenko and other political prisoners in the center of Kazan on the eve of the “Mothers’ Rage” march (demonstrations against political reprisals held in different cities and demanding freedom for political prisoners […]
Posted: February 11th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Lev Shlosberg: The case against Svetlana Prokopyeva represents political terror
Press Release, 6.02.2019 The customer, organiser and executor of the criminal case against [journalist] Svetlana Prokopyeva is the Russian state. The goal of this ordered persecution is encroachment on freedom of speech and freedom of mass media in Russia, that is, the basis of the constitutional order. The Russian state has become a terrorist and […]
Posted: February 7th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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