Archive for 'Human Rights'
Stop using judicial bodies to put pressure on Nikolai Dizhur
Press release, 19.12.2017 Moscow Yabloko Chair Sergei Mitrokhin and Chair of the Moscow Region branch of Yabloko Alexander Gunko released a statement in support of Nikolai Dizhur, a deputy of the municipal council in the Chekhov district, the Moscow Region. The Territorial Electoral Commission of the Chekhov district is trying to illegally deprive him of […]
Posted: December 20th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Arseny Roginsky passed away
He was a man with a great and honest soul, an advocate of the truth and law, a true historian and founder of Memorial 18.12.2017 Photo by Anna Artemyeva/ Novaya Gazeta On 18th December, Arseny Roginsky, one of the founders of human rights group Memorial and a great friend of the Yabloko party, died after […]
Posted: December 20th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the sentence of ex Economic Minster Alexei Ulyukayev
“The system does not tolerate common sense” Grigory Yalvinsky FB page, 15.12.2017 The court sentenced Alexei Ulyukayev, former Minister for Economic Development, to eight years in a maximum security penal colony. The Judge decided that his guilt in obtaining a bribe from Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, was fully proved. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the […]
Posted: December 15th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko proposes complex measure for support of disabled people, terminally ill, bedridden patients and their families
Press Release, 13.12.2017 The Yabloko party, together with the expert community, prepared programmes to support people with disabilities, terminally ill patients, bedridden patients and members of their families. The projects were developed by leading experts in the field of health care, social protection, lawyers and human rights defenders.
Posted: December 15th, 2017 under Healthcare, Human Rights.
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“This is the intervention of a representative of the state authority into the educational process …”
A check on the auditors of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, conducting their audit in the high school resulting in punishing teachers for the report of their student in the Bundestag, will be conducted Znak, 14.12.2017 By Vitaly Sotnik Photo by the Yamalo-Nenets Department of the Federal Penal Service: Alexander Gerasimenko, Public Persecutor of the Yamalo-Nenets […]
Posted: December 15th, 2017 under Education and Science, Human Rights.
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Yabloko to the Public Prosecutor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District: it is unlawful to punish the teachers of the Russian student who made a speech on WWII in the Bundestag
Press Release, 14.12.2017 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party and Honored Teacher of Russia, has sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District Alexander Gerasimenko demanding to examine the lawfulness of the examination conducted in the Novy Urengoy high school and disciplinary actions against the teachers of the student who […]
Posted: December 15th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko to conduct a rally for freedom of public protest
Press release, 30.11.2017 On 10 December, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko will conduct a a rally under a slogan “Novosibirsk for freedom of rallies!”. The aim of the action is to remind the authorities about Article 31 of the Constitution guaranteeing Russian citizens the right to assembly. The rally is dedicated to the International Human […]
Posted: November 30th, 2017 under Freedom of Assembly.
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Ten years since the murder of Yabloko’s Farid Babayev
We are mourning thee founder of the Dagestan branch of Yabloko and human rights defender murdered by the killers Press Release, 24.11.2017 It turns ten years today since the tragic death of our comrade Farid Babayev, founder and first leader of the Dagestan branch of Yabloko and human rights activist. He died on 24 November, […]
Posted: November 25th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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St. Petersburg parliament votes down bill obliging prison administrations to immediately inform prisoners’ relatives on their transfer to a colony
Press release, 15.11.2017 St. Petersburg parliament voted down a bill obliging prison administrations to immediately inform prisoners’ relatives on their transfer to a colony. The bill was introduced by the Yabloko faction. The initiative was supported by 11 deputies out of 50.
Posted: November 16th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko to hold a seminar on LGBT rights
Press release, 10.11.2017 On 15th November, Yabloko will hold a seminar on “LGBT Rights in modern Russia: why and how to protect them” as part of the Gender School of the party.
Posted: November 13th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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“Our society is ready to become a wall in the way of the state terror aimed at the citizens”
Press release, 29.10.2017 Yabloko leaders and activists participated in an annual action commemorating victims of political reprisals. Thousands of people come to the Solovetsky Stone at Lubyanka Square to read aloud the names of the people who were executed during the Great Terror. This year so many people came that each person received a sheet […]
Posted: October 30th, 2017 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Promoting LGBT+ rights in Russia: The liberal view
Liberal International, 13.10.2017 By Nikolai Kavkazsky, member of YABLOKO Federal Council, lawyer of the Stimul Moscow LGBT+ Initiative Group and Board member of the “For the Civil Rights” Committee After Vladimir Putin came to power, the situation with human rights in Russia began to steadily deteriorate. Repressive laws were adopted, many independent media outlets were […]
Posted: October 15th, 2017 under Human Rights, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Kobrinsky filed a lawsuit against St.Petersburg authorities after their ban to conduct rallies in the city centre
Press Release, 31.08.2017 Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Kobrinsky filed a law suit on acknowledging the decision of the Government of St. Petersburg to deprive Marsovo Polye (Field de Mars, a square in the city centre) of its status of St.Petersburg’s “Hyde Park”, a square where rallies are allowed.
Posted: September 1st, 2017 under Freedom of Speech.
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For Human Rights in Altai newspaper celebrates its 15th anniversary
Press release, 30.08.2017 On 29 August, a round table on the role of mass media in human rights protection was held in Barnaul. The event was dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the For Human Rights in Altai newspaper.
Posted: August 31st, 2017 under Human Rights.
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The sentence to Zaletskaya, Kravchuk and Kornilova must be reviewed
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.08.2017 The Yabloko party is outraged by the sentence to Olga Zaletskaya, Anastasia Kravchuk and Alexandra Kornilova. The judicial system of Russia once again proved that it is ready to serve any interests of the executive branch of power. The authorities of the Republic [of Karelia] turned the law into […]
Posted: August 28th, 2017 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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The murder of Ivan Skripnichenko is another crime of the regime
Statement by Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 25.08.2017 Ivan Skripnichenko, a member of Yabloko, a civil activist, who was a volunteer guard at a makeshift memorial to Boris Nemtsov [on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge], has passed away. He probably died as a result of injuries sustained after he was attacked by […]
Posted: August 28th, 2017 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Alexander Gnezdilov: “The sacrifice of Komar, Usov and Krichevsky must not come to naught”
Yabloko Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov commemorated the defenders of the White House, 23.08.2017 On August 22, a rally in memory of the coup of 1991 took place in Moscow. The participants of the action commemorated Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov, who died on the night of August 20 to August 21, 1991, defending […]
Posted: August 25th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Altai branch of Yabloko commemorated victims of Stalinism
Press release, 23.08.2017 On 23d August, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, Yabloko’s candidates for deputies of the Barnaul City Duma, the Altai Territory, laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of political reprisals and held a moment of silence.
Posted: August 25th, 2017 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The arrest of Kirill Serebrennikov is an act of intimidation of the creative community
Press release based on the statement by the Yabloko party, 22.08.2017 Today the Yabloko party has released a statement in support of Kirill Serebrennikov, an art director of Moscow’s Gogol Centre, who has been arrested earlier today. Yabloko claims that the persecution of the art director must be stopped immediately.
Posted: August 22nd, 2017 under Human Rights.
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The man who attacked Natalia Nadler must be brought to responsibility!
Press release based on the statement by Yabloko’s Green Russia faction and the Leningrad Region branch of Yabloko, 18.08.2017 Yabloko’s Green Russia faction and the Leningrad Region branch of Yabloko released a statement demanding to bring the man who attacked Natalia Nadler to responsibility. On 10 August, Natalia Nadler, the head of the local Yabloko […]
Posted: August 21st, 2017 under Human Rights.
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