Archive for 'Human Rights'
Soviet dissidents about modern Russia: “The present period is completely different, much more terrible”
Press Release, 13.05.2024 Photo from left to right: Nikolai Ivlyushkin, Alexander Daniel, Svetlana Gannushkina, Valery Borshchyov, Vyacheslav Bakhmin, Vyacheslav Igrunov, Alexei Smirnov, and Alexander Podrabinek / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 12 May, a round table with the participation of Soviet dissidents was held at the Yabloko central office in Moscow. The participants […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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“We bow down before them, deepest gratitude.”
Press Release, 9.05.2024 On 9 May, the leaders and members of the Yabloko party honoured the memory of those killed in the Second World War at the Preobrazhenskoye cemetery in Moscow, where more than 10,000 soldiers and commanders of the Red Army are buried. The delegation laid flowers and a wreath at the War Memorial.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under History, Human Rights.
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The St. Petersburg Yabloko laid flowers at the memorial at the Piskarevskoye cemetery
Press Release, 8.05.2024 On 8 May, on the eve of Victory Day, the day of the victory over the Nazi Germany in 1945, members of the St. Petersburg Yabloko laid a wreath and flowers at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevskoye memorial cemetery.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Another step towards dictatorship. Yabloko’s statement on depriving “foreign agents” of the right to be elected
Statement by the Yabloko party, 6.05.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The State Duma has approved amendments stipulating that elected deputies included in the foreign agents register by decision of the Ministry of Justice will be deprived of their deputy mandate.
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Svetlana Gannushkina on the institution of asylum in Russia
Press Release, 6.05.2024 On 23 May, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “The Institute of Asylum in Russia. How Can We Help Refugees?” the lecturer is Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, Chairman of the Civic Assistance Committee, a member of the Memorial group, and a member of […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites all to an Andrei Babushkin commemoration event and the launch of a book dedicated to him
Press Release, 3.05.2024 On 14 May, an event in memory of human rights defender Andrei Babushkin will be held at the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. Andrei Babushkin, a human rights defender, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and a member of the Yabloko Federal Bureau, passed away on 14 […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Condolences, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko regards the initiation of an administrative case against Boris Vishnevsky as another example of pressure
Press Release, 27.04.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko regards the initiation of an administrative case under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offences against Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, for his online […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko activists watched and discussed the feature film “The Eternal Road” about Stalin’s terror
Press Release, 3.05.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow office of Yabloko hosted the final screening of the film “The Eternal Road” (2017) by the Finnish director Antti-Jussi Annila, the screening was held within the framework of the Another Look film festival. Participants watched the feature film based on the real fate of […]
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St.Petersburg Yabloko challenges discrimination against party representatives in admission to electoral commissions
Press Release, 26.04.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Oktyabrsky District Court held the first hearing on Yabloko’s claim on non-admission of Yabloko representatives from joining the city’s electoral commissions. The interests of the party were represented by lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky.
Posted: May 13th, 2024 under Elections, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko asks the Ministry of Internal Affairs to explain the need to introduce unconstitutional methods of collecting information and list measures restraining security forces
Press Release, 26.04.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code have been submitted to the State Duma for consideration, according to these amendemnts investigators and interrogators will be able to access the telephone calls of all citizens, bank accounts and transactions based on a simple request, […]
Posted: May 13th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko stands for reduction of nuclear risks in Russia and in the world!
The 26 of April is Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Chernobyl Tragedy and Other Radiation Disasters Statement by the Yabloko party, 26.04.2024 Photo by istockphoto.com Due to the explosion of the RBMK-1000 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 38 years ago, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the former Soviet […]
Posted: May 13th, 2024 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Leader of the Vologda branch of Yabloko Nikolai Yegorov fined in a criminal case for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 25.04.2024 Photo: Nikolai Yegorov with his family / Photo from the personal archive The judge of the Veliky Ustyug District Court of the Vologda Region made a decision on 25 April. Nikolai Yegorov, former deputy of the Vologda Legislative Assembly, father of six children and Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko […]
Posted: April 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We don’t hide behind numbers: the Yabloko faction in St.Petersburg city parliament has published income declarations
Press release, 25.04.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly published their income declarations for 2023. Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky insist on the openness of people’s representatives, and therefore do not take advantage of the possibility to report […]
Posted: April 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky is challenging in court the decision to include him in the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 24.04.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent two administrative claims to the court challenging the decision of the Ministry of Justice to include him in the register of “foreign agents.”
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Despite tragedies, the State Duma has never adopted amendments to the fire safety law. This follows from the response of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to Yabloko deputy Kruglov
Press Release, 23.04.2024 Photo: Crocus City Hall after a fire as a result of the terrorist attack on 22 March, 2024 / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant The head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Maxim Kruglov, received a response from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation about the […]
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov handed over to the State Duma and the Federation Council more than a thousand signatures of citizens in favour of disclosing the incomes of deputies
Press Release, 23.04.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov submitted more than a thousand signatures, as well as individual appeals to each deputy and senator of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation demanding that income and property declarations for 2023 be disclosed and made public. Similar appeals […]
Posted: April 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko to hold an all-Russian conference on nuclear risks on the 38th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster
Press Release, 19.04.2024 Photo from www.istockphoto.com On 24 April, Yabloko will hold an all-Russian conference “Nuclear Technologies and Nuclear Risks in the Modern World”. The event will take place online via Zoom.
Posted: April 19th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Environmental Policies, History, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will hold a federal environmental peacekeeping campaign “The Peace Bell on Earth Day”
Press Release, 19.04.2024 On 22 April, Earth Day is celebrated around the world. Its goal is to draw attention to environmental and nature issues. Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions will hold environmental and peacekeeping actions dedicated to the International Earth Day: party activists will plant trees during the week, hold community cleanups, and […]
Posted: April 19th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko municipal deputies In Kostroma and Seversk illegally deprived of their mandates
Press Release, 19.04.2024 Photo: Vladimir Petrov and Nikolai Sorokin Two municipal deputies from Yabloko – Vladimir Petrov in Seversk, the Tomsk region, and Nikolai Sorokin in Kostroma – were deprived of their mandates. The formal reasons were the demand of the city public prosecutor’s office due to the verdict in a criminal case and “inaccuracies […]
Posted: April 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites all to participate in the action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 19.04.2024 Photo: the Krasnoyarsk regional branch of the party Yabloko in Moscow and regional branches is preparing regular actions in support of political prisoners. We invite everyone who is not indifferent to the plight of those unjustly deprived of their freedom to join the actions. The organisers promise a friendly atmosphere and everything […]
Posted: April 19th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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