Archive for 'Human Rights'
The opposition in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly summons the head of the St.Petersburg interior to the city parliament in view of tough dispersing of protesters on 12 June
Press Release, 15.06.2017 Deputies of the Yabloko faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky and Mikhail Amosov signed a letter from three opposition factions of the city parliament proposing that Sergei Umnov, head of the Interior Ministry for St. Petersburg, be summoned to the next meeting of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in connection […]
Posted: June 15th, 2017 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO opened a telephone hotline to render assistance to all those detained during the action of 12 June
Press Release, 14.06.2017 YABLOKO has opened a hotline for assisting detainees in the actions of 12 June. If you or your relatives or friends were detained at a protest action and are still in the police station, and if a protocol has been drawn up against you, and you face a trial – call the […]
Posted: June 14th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Sergei Mitrokhin and 10 other participants of YABLOKO’s action against the “renovation” of Moscow detained by the State Duma
Press Release, 14.06.2017 Today, on 14 June, Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO and head of the Moscow Rescue Committee, and ten other participants of the action against the demolition of five-story buildings in Moscow have been detained by the State Duma. The protest was timed to consideration by the State Duma […]
Posted: June 14th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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“The situation in the country can be remedied not through politicians’ provocations or police truncheons, but by means of voting in the presidential elections”
12.06.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook page Grigory Yavlinsky on the protest actions of 12 June: “Our country has celebrated the Day of Russia being divided and not free, without a clear perspective and the rule of law. Hundreds of people [were celebrating it] in police vans or in police stations. Such a “holiday”.
Posted: June 13th, 2017 under Freedom of Assembly, Presidential elections 2018.
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Police detained Sergei Mitrokhin by the State Duma during an action against the government’s housing renovation programme
Press release, 09.06.2017 UPD 3. 14.40: Sergei Mitrokhin and Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko were accused of violation of the procedure of public actions organization (paragraph 5, article 20.2 of the Administrative Violation Code of Russia). It means they may be fined 10,000 – 15,000 thousand roubles or get up to 40 hours of community service. The court […]
Posted: June 9th, 2017 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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In Memorail of Larissa Yudina, leader of YABLOKO branch in Kalmykia and Editor-in-Chief of the only oppositional paper in the Republic
Sergei Mitrokhin FB post of 07.06.2017: Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of the Sovetskaya Kalmykia paper and leader of the regional YABLOKO branch in Kalmykia, was killed on this day 19 years ago. She was killed for having dared to write the truth about the corrupt regime of [then head of Kalmykia and now head of FIDE, […]
Posted: June 8th, 2017 under Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina.
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Svetlana Chechil, Yabloko Federal Council member, released from penal colony
Press Release, 02.06.2017 Today, Svetlana Chechil, YABLOKO Federal Council member, has been released from penal colony. Yesterday the Supreme Court of Karelia overturned the decision of the court of first instance and replaced the remaining part of punishment for Svetlana Chechil, ex-head of the Prionezhsky district administration, who was serving the sentence in a penal […]
Posted: June 2nd, 2017 under Human Rights.
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European Court of Human Rights rules that election fraud took place in 2011 election in St. Petersburg
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the right to free elections had been violated Press release, 01.06.2017 The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of the complainant who had filed a petition against mass-scale election fraud of election results to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the State Duma in […]
Posted: June 1st, 2017 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Russian Human Rights Commissioner supported YABLOKO’s idea of establishing a post of Women’s Ombudsperson
Press Release, 30.05.2017 Based on the articles in Novaya Gazeta by Vera Yurcenko According to RIA Novosti, Tatyana Moskalkova, Russian Human Rights Commissioner, supported YABLOKO’s idea of establishing a post of Women’s Ombudsperson. According to Moskalkova, this could enhance and balance the institution of the Commissioner in general. She also added she advocated establishing the […]
Posted: May 30th, 2017 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Yabloko holds a demonstration against housing demolition in Moscow
Press release, 28.05.2017 On 28 May, over five thousand people participated in a demonstration against the plans of the City Hall to demolish about 8,000 five-story apartment buildings in Moscow and resettle 1,6 million residents. Yabloko strongly criticizes the the government’s “housing renovation programme”, which gives the city authorities the exclusive rights to demolish five-story […]
Posted: May 28th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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On the persecution of the art director of Moscow’s Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov
Press release, 28.05.2017 The most breaking news this week was the searches, which took place in Moscow’s Gogol Centre and in the flat of its art director Kirill Serebrennikov. According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, the searches were connected with a criminal case on the embezzlement of budget funds that were allocated for Sedmaya Studia […]
Posted: May 28th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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A demonstration against city-planning arbitrariness to take place in Moscow
Press release, 23.05.2017 On 28 May, Yabloko, Parnas, the 5th of December Party, the For Human Rights Movement and the Moscow Rescue Committee will hold a demonstration against the city-planning arbitrariness of the Moscow City Hall and the government’s “housing renovation programme”, which gives the city authorities the exclusive rights to demolish five-story buildings.
Posted: May 24th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko to show a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov
Press release, 18.05.2017 On 19 May, Yabloko will show a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov by Vladimir V. Kara-Murza. “Nemtsov” is a portrait film. People, who have different political stance and different attitude to the developments of 1990s and the current government, were interviewed – those, who were close to him, when he was doing […]
Posted: May 19th, 2017 under Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Sergei Mitrokhin vs Pyotr Tolstoy: debates on housing demolition programme in Moscow
Press release, 15.05.2017 On 16 May, Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin and State Duma deputy Pyotr Tolstoy will participated in debates on the housing demolition programme announced by Moscow City Hall.
Posted: May 16th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko supported a rally against housing demolitions in Moscow
Press release, 15.05.2017 On May 14, thousands of people participated in a rally against the plans of the City Hall to demolish about 8,000 multistory apartment buildings in Moscow and resettle 1,6 million residents. Yabloko’s representative Yelena Rusakova became a member of the organising committee of the protest action. Yabloko leaders Emilia Slabunova, Grigory Yavlinsky […]
Posted: May 15th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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“The 9th of May is the day of independence and liberty”
Press release, 05.05.2017 Yabloko leaders and party activists laid wreaths and flowers at the Internal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Walls. Members of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee Alexei Arbatov, Sergei Mitrokhin,Grigory Yavlinsky and party Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov also participated in this anti-war memorial action.
Posted: May 6th, 2017 under History, Human Rights.
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Unidentified individuals tired to burn Yabloko activist’s house in the Tver Region
Press release, 04.05.2017 The house of Vladimir Yegorov, Chair of Yabloko’s local branch in Toropets, the Tver Region, was attacked. On May 2, unidentified individuals broke windows of his house and intended to set the place on fire.
Posted: May 5th, 2017 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Federal Security Service forced a defender of the indigenous small numbered peoples to flee form Russia
Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for asylum in the USA Representative of the indigenous small numbered peoples of Russia in the UN, public person Pavel Sulyandziga is applying for political asylum in the USA. A criminal case is likely to be faked against him in Russia. The Federal Security Service threatens his friends, family and colleagues. […]
Posted: May 2nd, 2017 under Human Rights.
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Moscow Yabloko Youth holds a rally against military conscription
Press release, 30.04.2017 On April 29, Moscow Yabloko Youth held a rally against military conscription and for the transition to a professional army fully based on the contract system.
Posted: April 30th, 2017 under Human Rights, Yabloko Youth.
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YABLOKO activist attacked in Moscow. She was doused with unknown chemical which caused her chemical burns of face and eyes
Interfax, 28.04.2017 UPD. Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal addressed to the chief of the Chief Department of the Ministry of Interior for Moscow, Major-General Oleg Baranov. According to Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, an unidentified person attacked YABLOKO activist Natalia Fyodorova by her house in Moscow and doused her with some […]
Posted: April 28th, 2017 under Human Rights.
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