Archive for 'Human Rights'
Lev Shlosberg charged in a case of failure to perform duties of a “foreign agent”. Commentary by Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 17.01.2025 The adventures of the lost “foreign agent signs” in the Pskov region continue. The major case investigator of the Investigative Committee Department for the Pskov region, Andrei Semyonov, invited me to a meeting and issued a writ this morning to bring me in as an accused in a case of […]
Posted: January 17th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to honour the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, killed by neo-Nazis, on the anniversary of their murder
Press Release, 16.01.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 20 January, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will lay flowers at the site of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova at 3 Prechistenka Street in Moscow. Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova were shot by neo-Nazis from the Combat […]
Posted: January 16th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko asks the Moscow Department of Culture to explain the reason for dismissal of the Director of the GULAG History Museum
Press Release, 15.01.2025 Photo: Roman Romanov, the dismissed Director of the GULAG History Museum / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Maxim Kruglov sent an appeal to the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Alexei Fursin with a request to explain the reasons for the dismissal of Roman Romanov […]
Posted: January 15th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“We are waiting for the rest of the court’s decisions.” Nikolai Rybakov on the decision of the court to provide the daughter of a victim of Stalin’s Great Terror deprived of housing then with an apartment
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 14.01.2025 Photo: screenshot of the broadcast of the “Mesto Vstrechi” programme on NTV, where Nikolai Rybakov shows photographs of “children of the Gulag” Good news has arrived – the court has for the first time ordered the Moscow Mayor’s Office to buy an apartment for the daughter of a repressed city resident. […]
Posted: January 14th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko demands that the public hearings and their decisions on the liquidation of settlements in the Novgorod district be cancelled
Press Release, 13.01.2025 Photo by alexpokal / wikimapia The Novgorod branch of Yabloko demands that the public hearings on the liquidation of urban and rural settlements in the Novgorod district be declared invalid, and the decisions of the Councils of Deputies on liquidating the settlements and transforming them into one municipal district be declared unlawful.
Posted: January 13th, 2025 under Human Rights, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk demanded that the labour rights of prisoners in the Pskov region colony be respected
Press Release, 10.01.2025 Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko Relatives of people serving sentences in penal colony No. 6 near Sebezh, the Pskov region, contacted Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko. They complained about the unfair wages of their relatives. After all deductions, only 600-900 roubles […]
Posted: January 13th, 2025 under Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Between Times: On the Titanic
On the Problems and Threats of the New Era Grigory Yavlinsky’s Telegram channel, 23.12.2024 Picture: “The Sinking of the Titanic” by Willy Stever, 1912 The key crisis of our time lies in the imperceptible but ever-increasing loss of human values and meanings in world politics combined with the lack of understanding of this problem, rather […]
Posted: December 27th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The leader of the Zabaykalsky Krai branch of the Yabloko party spoke at the regional Legislative Assembly against the return of Stalinist practices
Press Release, 24.12.2024 Photo: Viktor Kurochkin / Photo by Oleg Fyodorov, CHITA.RU The Chairman of the Transbaikal regional branch of the Yabloko party, Viktor Kurochkin, spoke at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Zabaikalsky Krai (Transbaikal Territory) on 20 December. In his speech, he noted that many specific features of the Stalinist era […]
Posted: December 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands that Vladimir Putin introduce a federal emergency regime due to the environmental disaster in the Krasnodar Territory
Press Release, 23.12.2024 The corresponding appeal to the President of Russia was sent by Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, referring to the Federal Law No. 68-FZ “On the Protection of the Population and Territories from Emergencies of Natural and Man-Made Nature” dated 21.12.1994. “According to the law, it must be introduced in situations […]
Posted: December 26th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko hosted a second meeting with political scientist Nina Khrushcheva
Press Release, 17.12.2024 Photo: Nina Khrushcheva / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko hosted a second meeting with Nina Khrushcheva, political scientist and professor at the New School in New York, and great granddaughter of USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev. Nina Khrushcheva spoke about her new book “Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System”, and […]
Posted: December 25th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Novgorod Yabloko appealed to the police and the Investigative Committee regarding the destruction of four memorials to prisoners of war and internees in the Borovichi district of the Novgorod region
Press Release, 16.12.2024 Photo: The basement of the memorial at the cemetery in the Borovichi district was destroyed with the use of construction equipment / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko In the Novgorod region, unidentified persons destroyed four memorials at the burial sites of prisoners of war from the Second World War. In the village of […]
Posted: December 25th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow Mayor’s Office on the GULAG Museum: After the violations are amended, the Museum will be allowed to receive visitors again
Press Release, 16.12.2024 Photo: An exhibit of the GULAG History Museum / Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant Yabloko received a response from the Moscow Department of Culture to the appeal by the Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Maxim Kruglov about the reasons for the closure of the GULAG History Museum. The Moscow Mayor’s Office listed the […]
Posted: December 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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After two years of litigation, the seizure of the St.Petersburg branch of the society for the protection of of architectural heritage was declared illegal. One of the plaintiffs was Yabloko Deputy Chair Boris Vishnevsky
Press Release, 16.12.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky by the VOOPIK office / Photo by the St.Petersbrug branch of Yabloko The City Court of St. Petersburg upheld the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court on the illegal holding of a conference of the St.Petersburg branch of VOOPIK (All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments). […]
Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Tatarstan honoured the memory of journalists killed for their professional activities
Press Release, 16.12.2024 Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 15 December, the Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty, Yabloko in Tatarstan honoured the memory of journalists of the new Russia killed for their work. The event took place in front of the Idel-Press building in Kazan. Dozens of Russian […]
Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova, Timur Kuashev's case, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko launches collection of signatures against the abolition of direct elections of the mayor of Yakutsk
Press Release, 16.12.2024 Photo: Collection of signatures in the Yakutsk office of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko The regional branch of the Yabloko party in Yakutia announces a collection of signatures against the abolition of the direct elections of the head of Yakutsk, the capital of Yakutia. A bill on replacing […]
Posted: December 24th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions to hold the action of writing letters to political prisoners which will be the last in 2024
Press Release, 13.12.2024 Photo by the Voronezh branch of Yabloko Traditionally we invite everyone who is ready to help with care and a kind words to those deprived of freedom for their words and beliefs to the events in support of political prisoners. Come to our offices and other meeting places, sign New Year’s cards […]
Posted: December 13th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host a second meeting with Nina Khrushcheva and discussion of her book “Nikita Khrushchev: a Leader Outside the System”
Press Release, 13.12.2024 Photo: Nina Khrushcheva in the Yabloko office on 17 September, 2024. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 16 December, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party will host a second meeting with political scientist Nina Khrushcheva, timed to coincide with the release of her book “Nikita Khrushchev: a Leader Outside […]
Posted: December 13th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko calls on the State Duma to declare an amnesty on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War
Press Release, 12.12.2024 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant A letter signed by the Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov was sent to the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and State Duma deputies. At a meeting of the Yabloko Federal Council on 30 November, Yabloko called on the authorities to release from custody and drop […]
Posted: December 12th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko calls for the release of all those convicted under “anti-war” articles!
Resolution by the Federal Council of Yabloko, adopted by the Federal Council on 30.11.2024, published on 11.12.2024 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at the Yabloko Congress in 2023 /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, there are about a thousand prisoners in Russian prisons, persecuted by the state for their political views and positions. The use of […]
Posted: December 12th, 2024 under Congresses, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights represented a response to the horrors and crimes committed during World War II
Nikolai Rybakov’s blog post, 10.12.2024 Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt with the English version of the Declaration of Human Rights Today is International Human Rights Day: 76 years ago, on 10 December, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration represented a response to the horrors and crimes committed during World […]
Posted: December 11th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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