Archive for 'Human Rights'
On the necessity of investigation of Valeri Donskoy’s death
Statement by YABLOKO Chairman, 14.10.2014 On October 10 a journalist, radio and TV reporter, ex editor-in-chief of the Crimean radio station “Electron” Valeri Donskoy died with pneumonia in Moscow. Valeri had been working in Ukraine for the past months and was captured in Eastern Ukriane at the end of September.
Posted: October 21st, 2014 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Two thousand people from 23 countries demand from Kolokoltsev to investigate attack on Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 13.10.2014 2065 signature under the petition demanding Minister for Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev to take the investigation of the attack on YABLOKO’s Lev Shlosberg under his personal control were brought to the receiving office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Posted: October 16th, 2014 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Human Rights.
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Youth YABLOKO conducted action demanding to investigate murder of Timur Kuashev
Press Release, 09.10.2014 Youth YABLOKO’s Nikolai Kavkazsky, Maria Yefimova, Elena Kriven and Igor Bakirov brought claims demanding to investigate the murder of YABLOKO member and opposition journalist Timur Kuashev to Prosecutor General’s office and the Investigative Committee. They also conducted one-person picketing.
Posted: October 16th, 2014 under Human Rights, Timur Kuashev's case.
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In Memoriam: Eight years since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist and human rights activist
Based on blog posts by Boris Visnevsky and Dmitry Florin, 7.10.2014 Today, October 7th, is the eighth anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist and human rights activist. Anna wrote a lot on the war in Chechnya calling to stop the war. Those who ordered the murder havn’t been found up to now.
Posted: October 7th, 2014 under Human Rights.
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Non-parliamentary parties will be given the floor at State Duma once in seven years
Press Release, 07.10.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin demands to find the actions of the State Duma Council members unethical since they took the decision to give the floor to the representatives of only ten non-parliamentary political parties today. Mitrokhin sent the claim to the State Duma Committee on deputy ethics.
Posted: October 7th, 2014 under Freedom of Speech, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Criminal case in connection with beating of Peace March participants in Kaliningrad hasn’t been filed yet
Press Release, 02.09.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded an appeal to head of the Kaliningrad Regional Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Evgeny Martynov demanding to file a criminal case against those who beat the participants of the Peace March which took place in Kaliningrad and to take the case under personal control.
Posted: October 3rd, 2014 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demands to revoke the “Crimean law” envisaging seizure of private property in five days without any trial
Press Release, 29.09.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent a letter to Yuri Chaika, Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, demanding to challenge in court the law of the Republic of Crimea “On the Specifics of Buyout of Property in the Republic of Crimea” which may lead to a situation when residents of Crimea […]
Posted: September 29th, 2014 under Human Rights, Situation in Crimea.
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Signature collection demanding Kolokoltsev to take investigation of attack on Shlosberg under personal control launched
Press Release, 26.09.2014 A sign-in to Minister for Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev demanding to take the investigation of the attack on YABLOKO’s Lev Shlosberg under his personal control was launched on the Internet. More than 694 people from different regions of Russia signed the petition within the first day at the Charge.org website.
Posted: September 29th, 2014 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Human Rights.
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Court left Vitishko in colony
Press Release, 24.09.2014 The Krasnodar regional court dismissed the Krasnosar regional prosecutor’s citation on cancelation of the decision to turn the suspended sentence to Evgeny Vitishko into a full tree year jail term. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin who was present at the court hearing announced about this decision.
Posted: September 24th, 2014 under Environmental Policies, Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO attacked for picketing in support of Peace March
Press Release, 22.09.2014 The provocateurs tried to sabotage picketing organised by the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO in support of Peace March on September 21. About 40 aggressive young men met YABLOKO activists by the entrance to YABLOKO office where the prepration for the picket was to take place from 03.00 pm till 04.00 pm. “One […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2014 under Freedom of Assembly, Russia-Ukraine relations, Street Actions.
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YABLOKO demand to free Evgeny Vitishko
Press Release, 20.09.2014 YABLOKO activists conducted picketing for freedom of political prisoner, ecologist Evgeny Vitishko in Moscow on September 19.
Posted: September 22nd, 2014 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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On political mobbing of Lev Shlosberg
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 18.09.2014 On September 17 Rossiya 1 TV channel made a piece in the “Vesti” programme which was supposedly devoted to the attack on the deputy of the Pskov region Legislative Assembly, Chair of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO Lev Shlosberg.
Posted: September 19th, 2014 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Human Rights.
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De hemliga soldaterna
SVT, 08.09.2014 Ryssland fortsätter att förneka att man sänder soldater till kriget i Ukraina. Men nu börjar makthavarna få problem på hemmaplan med uppgifter som sprids via sociala medier om sårade soldater, hemliga begravningar och hela försvunna kompanier. SVT:s korrespondent besökte Sankt Petersburg och Pskov för att ta reda på mer om det hemliga kriget.
Posted: September 11th, 2014 under Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yavlinsky:”Mobbing, intimidation and terror will become even worse”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s blog, 04.09.2014 The attack on Lev Shlosberg, Chair of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO, deputy of the Pskov region Legislative Assembly, a well-known politician and journalist, is part of the coming campaign on intimidation of the citizens of Russia. Intimidation of those who openly express disagreement with the authorities’ course now and those […]
Posted: September 8th, 2014 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Human Rights.
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Russian authorities must end impunity for attacks on journalists, says OSCE Representative following another attack in Pskov
OSCE, 30.08.2014 VIENNA, 30 August 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called for the Russian authoities to fully investigate and prosecute all attacks on journalists following an attack against journalist Lev Schlosberg in Pskov, in western Russia.
Posted: September 1st, 2014 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations.
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The Russian interior must classify the criminal case of an attack on Lev Shlosberg as “infringement on life of a public figure” rather than “hooliganism”
Press Release, 08/31/2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin said that the decision of the interior of the Pskov region to file a criminal case on the attack on YABLOKO’s Lev under “hooliganism” represented a “mockery” of an investigation.
Posted: September 1st, 2014 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations.
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Attack on and severe injury of Lev Shlosberg is political revenge
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 30.08.2014 Lev Shlosberg, Chair of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO, was attacked and severely injured last night. He is in hospital in the state of moderately grave condition. Fortunately, there is no threat to his life already.
Posted: August 30th, 2014 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Местен лидер на руската опозиционна партия ”Яблоко” бе пребит
30.08.2014, Mediapool.bg Лидерът на опозиционната партия “Яблоко” в Псковка област и депутат от местния парламент Лев Шлосберг е бил пребит в петък вечерта и има тежка черепно-мозъчна травма, съобщават руските медии, цитирани от ”Дневник”.
Posted: August 30th, 2014 under Elections, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Action in memory of Malaysia Airlines Boeing crash victims
Press Release,25.08.2014 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and the activists of the party laid flowers to the Dutch Embassy in memory of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing crach victims. Forty days went by since the tragedy.
Posted: August 27th, 2014 under Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Chess do not smell
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Ekho Moskvi website, 13.08.2014 The day before yesterday Russia’s corruption once again showed to the whole world the part of the body one sits on. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was re-elected president of FIDE in Tromsø, Norway.
Posted: August 19th, 2014 under Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina.
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