Archive for 'Human Rights'
Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia arrested for eight days for a single picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 27.06.2020 On June 25, police detained Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, after a single picket (such pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) against constitutional amendments allowing Vladimir Putin to remain on the post of President of Russia until 2036. The court sent the leader of the […]
Posted: June 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police forcibly ousted a member of the electoral commission from Yabloko from the voting station. The electoral commission refused to allow her to control the sealing of ballots
Press Release, 26.06.2020 In Skhodnya, near Moscow, the police forcibly ousted Kristina Klimayeva a member of the precinct electoral commission from Yabloko, from the voting station. Klimayeva last night tried to control the sealing of ballots after the first day of voting. She had to call an ambulance, as due to stress her blood pressure […]
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights.
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The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region banned Yabloko’s pickets against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 25.06.2020 The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region turned down Yabloko’s application for pickets in Yekaterinburg against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution, citing the Ministry’s lack of information about the possibility of extending the COVID high-alert mode.
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Not only the “reset” of the presidential terms
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.06.2020 The action of the authorities to amend the Constitution of Russia has approached the finish line. Both in terms of content and form, the amendments proposed by Putin to the Basic Law of the country, as well as the so-called “popular vote” are, as is well known already, unlawful (see the […]
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The authorities hinder the Saratov branch of Yabloko to freely disseminate information about the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 25.06.2020 More than five advertising agencies refused to place Yabloko’s banners with a slogan I AM AGAINST THE RESET [OF PRESIDENTIAL TERMS] because of “fear of the city administration”. The companies are afraid to lose the bid for the right to placement of advertising structures. This was stated by the manager of the […]
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Freedom to Alexander Korovainy!
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.06.2020 A court in Yeysk arrested for ten days Alexander Korovainy, a municipal deputy, member of the Yabloko Party known not only in Yeysk, but throughout the Krasnodar Territory as an activist fighting against the tyranny of local authorities and for protection of the environment.
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Korovainy, Yabloko’s municipal deputy in Yeysk, was arrested for ten days for participating in a rally against Putin’s constitutional amendments
Press Release, 24.06.2020 The court in Yeysk, the Krasnodar Territory, arrested for ten days Alexander Korovainy, Yabloko’s municipal deputy of the Council of the Municipal Formation of the Yeysk District, for “disobeying the police”. Alexander was arrested after a rally against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution.
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The ECHR communicated the complaint of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko on contestation of the results of the 2016 elections to the regional parliament
Press Release, 22.06.2020 Photo: Anna Cherepanova on a single picket. On June 11, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party in the case of contestation of the results of the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma in 2016. Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko branch in Bashkiria calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the WW2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa during the epidemic
Press Release, 17.06.2020 Albert Khusainov, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria, sent an appeal to the head of the region Radiy Khabirov. The leader of the regional branch of Yabloko calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the World War 2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa […]
Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Condolences on the death of Academician Andrei Vorobyov
17.06.2020 We deeply grieve over the death of Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov, a wonderful person and a great doctor, who was close to us. Sincerely, the Yabloko party *** Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov (November 1, 1928 – June 15, 2020) – Soviet and Russian hematologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR and the […]
Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yelena Dubrovina: The new law on the population register violates basic constitutional rights of citizens
Special for the web-site of Yabloko, 17.06.2020 Photo: Yelena Dubrovina The Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko party prepared an expert opinion on the federal law “On the Unified Federal Information Register Containing Information on the Population of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as the Law “On the Register”), which has recently entered […]
Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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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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Boris Vishnevsky called on the Central Electoral Commission and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check on the coercion of state employees to take absentee voting certificates to vote for Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 15.06.2020 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent appeals to the Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central electoral Commission, and Sergei Litvinenko, Public Prosecutor of St.Petersburg. Vishnevsky asked them to investigate into the situation of mass-scale coercion of […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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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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