Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko demanded that Putin dismiss Zolotov and that Prosecutor General’s Office bring charges against him
Press release, 14.09.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin demanding that he dismiss head of Russia’s National Guard Viktor Zolotov. On Tuesday the official challenged opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a duel promising to make a ‘juicy steak’ of him. The statement was published on Russia’s National Guard official website.
Posted: September 19th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Sentsov’s survival is the responsibility of every person who has a Russian passport”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.09.2018 Oleg Sentsov can die at any moment. While the whole country is enthusiastically discussing the video appeal of the deputy minister of the Russian government with strange threats of physical violence against a citizen who accused him of corruption and [the deputy minister’s] fantasies about the “duel code.”
Posted: September 18th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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“He was a beacon, litmus paper, a banner for all of us.” Yabloko republished books by Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin
Press Release, 9.09.2018 Launch of books – “Three Epochs of Russian Journalism” and “Slaves of the State Security” – by Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin, a pillar of Russian investigative journalism and State Duma deputy (2nd and 3rd convocations) from the Yabloko party took place at the Moscow International Book Fair past weekend.
Posted: September 11th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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First Hundred Days of the President
by Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 1.09.2018 What Vladimir Putin has accomplished for the three months after the inauguration and what the President should have done in the first hundred days to pull the country out of crisis and isolation Putin did not have a presidential programme: neither economic nor political, no programme at all. […]
Posted: September 5th, 2018 under Economy, Human Rights, Presidential elections 2018.
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Eviction of the Memorial human rights society stopped
Press Release, 30.08.2018 The St.Petersburg Committee of Property suspended termination of the contract of rent of the St.Petersburg branch of the Memorial human rights society. In April 2018, the City Commission for Disposal of Property refused to Memorial in concluding their regular rent contract for a new period without explaining the reasons. In July 2018, […]
Posted: September 4th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Emilia Slabunova visits Yekaterinburg
Emilia Slabunova’s twitter, 28.08.2018 https://twitter.com/YablokoParty/status/1034440810660618240 YABLOKO Party @YablokoParty YABLOKO Party retwitted Emilia Slabunova: Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova starts her visit in Yekterinburg, the Urals, by laying flowers to the memorial to vicitms of political reprisals. This is a mournful page in Russia’s history. This should never happen again.
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yavlinsky called Prosecutor General Chaika to stop the practice of provocations of crimes
Press Release, 24.08.2018 Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, in which he called to investigate the illegal provocation of crimes by law enforcement agencies. The reason for the appeal was the so-called case of “The New Greatness” organisaiton. Anna Pavlikova. […]
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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The state represented by the Ministry of Education decided to fight against people who seek to create human conditions for orphans – their foster parents
Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 20.08.2018 Instead of providing housing to almost 160,000 Russian orphans who do not have it, saving children from family violence (according to unofficial data in 2016, more than 2,500 children aged 2 weeks to 14 years became victims of domestic violence), creating conditions for upbringingadolescents, so that they do not set […]
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko proposed to the Human Rights Council to reform the procedure for getting permissions for rallies
Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human Rights Council, believes that the problem of transparency in getting permission to hold rallies can be resolved in court Press Release, 17.08.2018 The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko formulated its demands as to the protection of freedom of rallies in its written appeal to Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly.
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Emilia Slabunova: Russia’s Flag Day should be a holiday of honour and pride for the people
The Yabloko party took part in the march and rally on the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over the attempted coup d’etat in 1991 Press Release, 22.08.2018 Today, on Russia’s Flag Day, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party took part in the action dedicated to the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over attempted […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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It is unacceptable to impede the activities of the Memorial [human rights society]
The [authorities] are evicting the St. Petersburg branch of the organisation from its office Statement by the Yabloko party, 17.08.2018 The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko is outraged by the attempts of the St. Petersburg Administration to evict the Memorial charitable historical and educational human rights organisation from its office in Razezhey Street, 9, in […]
Posted: August 21st, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “You know that this is illegal, but you want to curry favour with Putin”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook post, 09.08.2018 Photo: Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik It is already five months, that 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova, 19-year-old Maria Dubovik, 21-year-old Vyacheslav Kryukov, 25-year-old Sergey Gavrilov, 25-year-old Ruslan Kostylenkov, 30-year-old Dmitry Poletayev and 31-year-old Pyotr Karamzin are in Moscow pre-trial detention prisons. Another four people under investigation on the case of creating an […]
Posted: August 9th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko wants the interior to be an efficient service for people rather than a repressive machine
Press Release, 07.08.2018 Yabloko wants the interior to be an efficient service for people rather than a repressive machine. Therefore, Yabloko offers its supporters to participate in the contest “The Police in the Focus of Public Control” held by human rights organisations (The Moscow Helsinki Group and the Centre for Human Rights) and supported by […]
Posted: August 8th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko Chair demands from the Federal Penitentiary Service to investigate into the facts of torture in the Karelian penal colonies
Press Release, 26.07.2018 Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, sent an appeal to Gennady Kornienko, Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, demanding to check the facts of human rights violations in the penitentiary institutions of Karelia. The reason for the appeal were the materials from the […]
Posted: July 27th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Memories of the Future
Grigory Yavlinsky reflects on the fate of great scientists who got under reprisals in the 1930s and draws parallels with modern Russia Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.07.2018 Aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev, whose planes were used throughout the country, “spied in favour of France”. Biologist Nikolai Vavilov, one of the most famous Russian scientists in the world, […]
Posted: July 26th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Will anyone be punished for tortures in the Yaroslavl penal colony and what should be done with violence in prisons? Opinion by Valery Borschyov
Commentary, 23.07.2018 On 20 July, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper published a video of torturing (18+) Yevgeny Makarov, a prisoner in the Yaroslavl penal colony. After the publication of the video, the department of the Federal Penitentiary Service began an investigation, and the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation instituted a criminal case on the abuse […]
Posted: July 24th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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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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The State Duma refuses to protect women’s rights
The law on equal rights for men and women is rejected Statement by Yabloko’s Gender Faction, 11.07.2018 On 11 July, deputies of the lower house of the Russian parliament in the second reading rejected the bill “On the state guarantees of equal rights and freedoms and equal opportunities for men and women in the […]
Posted: July 11th, 2018 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Honest and brave: 15 years since the death of Yuri Shchekochikhin, journalist and Yabloko’s MP
FB post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 03.07.2018 15 years have passed since the death of Yuri Shchekochikhin, journalist and Yabloko’s MP. One of the most honest and courageous journalists in the history of modern Russia was brutally murdered. There was virtually no investigation – the case of Shchekochikhin’s death was closed several times without giving any […]
Posted: July 4th, 2018 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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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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