Archive for 'Freedom of Speech'
Nadezhda Agisheva: Polling numbers of the ruling United Russia party have dropped, and any mention of difficult and important topics is blocked at all levels.
Press Release, 4.02.2019 Oppositional Perm deputies accuse the city parliament leadership of censorship The leadership of the Perm Duma has banned posting on social networks of the city parliament videos of Nadezhda Agisheva, deputy from the Yabloko party, in particular, those on raising the retirement age, problems of lonely disabled people, as well as changing […]
Posted: February 4th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech.
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Lev Shlosberg on liquidation of district newspapers in the Pskov region: this is neither legal nor rational
Press Release, 1.02.2019 Lev Shlosberg, MP from the Yabloko faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly and head of the Yabloko branch in the Pskov region, devoted his speech before the 28th session of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies to the liquidation of the district newspapers of the Pskov region and attempts to stop this […]
Posted: February 1st, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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Chuvashia Republic branch of Yabloko holds a discussion on the consequences of political censorship
Press release, 12.12.2018 The Chuvashia Republic branch of Yabloko held a round table on the consequences of political censorship in mass media. Representative of other political parties and public groups also took part in the discussion.
Posted: December 13th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the inspection of Alexander Sokurov foundation conducted by the authorities
Grigory Yavlinsky’s twitter, 6.12.2018 The foundation of Alexander Sokurov, the world most famous Russian film director, is under audit on the denunciation of a certain “citizen”. The foundation, which has been raising money collecting every penny for the work of young filmmakers, is suspected of embezzlement. The other day, Putin included Sokurov in his Human […]
Posted: December 7th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Без рубрики.
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A state-financed institution takes away Yabloko municipal deputy’s reports from mail boxes
Press release, 15.10.2018 On 12 October, Yabloko activists delivered reports on the work carried out by Yabloko municipal deputy Irina Kopkina in Moscow’s Strogino District over the course of a year. Later that evening local residents posted on social media that representatives of Zhilishchnilk, a state funded institution responsible for housing and utilities services, were […]
Posted: October 16th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech.
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The authorities of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to give permission for 33 pickets against the pension reform.
Yabloko is filing a lawsuit Press Release, 17.07.2018 The Yabloko party received a refusal from the Prefect’s Office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow to hold 33 pickets against the pension reform. Yabloko intends to appeal the refusals of the Prefect’s Office and Putin’s decree banning all the street actions during the World […]
Posted: July 17th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Street Actions, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on Oleg Sentsov and Russian punitive system
It is 2018, Russia is hosting the World Cup, Trump is flying to Putin and Oleg Sentsov is dying in a penal colony Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 03.07.2018 It is the 51st day, that [Ukrainian film director] Oleg Sentsov is starving in the Labytnangi city [by the North pole], Yamal. Whatever the army of state […]
Posted: July 4th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Emilia Slabunova on the laws violating privacy of correspondence, telephone conversations and personal life
Emilia Slabunova’s FB page, 01.07.2018 It is a big question whether there will be a digital economy in Russia. But it is a fact that since 1 July we will have a digital police state: the “Yarovaya package” [of laws envisaging a six-month storage of all the digital data] has come into force, which virtually […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2018 under Freedom of Speech.
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Penta-Trick
The World Cup in Russia began with a defeat: 5:0! The authorities scored five unanswered goals to the people. Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 16.06.2018 Even before the starting whistle, the account was opened by Russia’s Investigation Committee with a final arrest of long-resisting leader of the Serpukhov district [of the Moscow region] Alexander Shestun. At the […]
Posted: June 26th, 2018 under Economy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Stop destruction of independent education!
Yabloko demands to return state accreditation to the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences Statement by Yabloko’s Bureau Press Release, 25.06.2018 On 20 June, Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency (Rosoboradzor) denied the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences [which is considered to be the best private university in Russia] of […]
Posted: June 26th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech.
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The authorities turned down Yabloko’s applications for rallies against raising the retirement age
In Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Omsk Press Release, 22.06.2018 The authorities turned down Yabloko’s applications for rallies against raising the retirement age in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Omsk and proposed the party to hold rallies on the outskirts of the cities. The Yabloko party planned to hold a rally in Moscow on 3 July in the city […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2018 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Street Actions, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko held pickets by the State Duma against raising the retirement age
Sergei Mitrokhin detained and taken to the police station Press Release, 19.06.2018 On 19 June, the Yabloko party launched protest actions against a pension reform proposed by the government and envisaging raising of the retirement age. Members of the Moscow branch of Yabloko conducted a series of single-person pickets (which do not require any permission […]
Posted: June 20th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Street Actions, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko took part in the rally “For Free Russia”
The action against arbitrariness and reprisals was held on Academician Sakharov Prospect in Moscow Press Release, 10.06.2018 Today, Yabloko leaders and representatives of the party took part in the rally “For Free Russia Without Arbitrariness and Reprisals”, which took place on Academician Sakharov Prospekt. The party was among the organisers of the action against mass […]
Posted: June 13th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Street Actions.
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Yabloko to take part in the rally “For free Russia without reprisals and arbitrary rule”
Press Release, 04.06.2018 On 10 June, on the eve of the Day of Russia, a rally against mass-scale violations of human rights and freedoms will take part in Moscow, in Academician Sakharov Prospekt. The Yabloko party is the co-organiser of the action. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, will speak at the rally. Photo: “I protest peacefully, […]
Posted: June 7th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Street Actions.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on twitter on the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko
30.05.2018 – 0:39 A demonstrative political murder once again. Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist, radical critic of Putin and Russian politics has been killed. This is very bad. This is a sign that, according to the plan of those who ordered this murder, everyone should understand. And be ready. Incredible grief for the relatives. Deepest condolences
Posted: May 30th, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Tough, courageous and free journalism turns deadly today
Statement of the Yabloko party in connection with the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko 29.05.2018 Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko has been murdered in Kiev. A courageous, honest and tough man. Arkady Babchenko saw the goal of his life in the search for truth and delivery of this truth to each of us. As always in […]
Posted: May 30th, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko Bureau: Blocking of the Telegram messenger by the Russian authorities is the way towards an archaic society
We demand that the Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications abandons senseless blocking of instant messengers Press Release, 13.04.2018 The Bureau of the Yabloko party considers blocking of the Telegram messenger be “contrary to the basic constitutional rights of citizens to freedom of information and secrecy of correspondence” and deamnds that the Federal […]
Posted: April 16th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Novaya Gazeta newspaper turns 25! Greetings from Grigory Yavlinsky
“Our life is such that the desire to speak up the truth is always new and brave” 01.04.2018 The newspaper has turned 25 years, but it is like a new one! Our life is such that the desire to speak up the truth is always new and brave. Looking for workarounds being guided by pragmatics […]
Posted: April 2nd, 2018 under Congratulations/Condolences, Freedom of Speech.
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Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee on the past presidential elections: a plebiscite on support of the personality of the current President was held on 18 March, rather than presidential election
Decision of the Federal Political Committee No 103, 23.03.2018 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko regards the voting that took place on 18 March as a plebiscite held within the framework of an authoritarian system turning into a totalitarian one. The system formed in Russia does not allow free, competitive, […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Presidential elections 2018, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia, War in Syria.
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Yabloko protests against banning The Death of Stalin
Press release, 24.01.2018 On 23 January, the news broke out that Russia’s culture ministry evoked the release licence of a film The Death of Stalin. In response the activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko conducted a protest action against the decision.
Posted: January 28th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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