Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko programme for 14 September 2025 elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 14.08.2025 Novgorod Yabloko published its programme for the regional and local elections in the Novgorod Region due on 14 September 2025. The Novgorod branch of the party states that Yabloko is participating in the elections in order to achieve the following goals:
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko awarded first compensations for unlawful removal of party lists from 2023 elections
Press Release, 13.08.2025 Photo: Pskov Yabloko candidates in the 2023 elections Nikolai Barkhatov and Lyudmila Kochneva, and lawyer Vitaly Isakov / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 12 August, Opochka District Court and Pushkinogorsk District Court satisfied Pskov Yabloko’s lawsuits against the Russian Ministry of Finance for compensation for cancelling registration of the […]
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Materials revealed that led to Ksenia Cherepanova being recognised as “foreign agent”: among them news about repressions against Yabloko and criticism of local self-government reform
Press Release, 13.08.2025 Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo: Novgorod Yabloko The Novgorod Region Ministry of Justice Department has drawn up an administrative protocol against member of the Novgorod Yabloko Bureau Ksenia Cherepanova for failing to self-report as a “foreign agent”. The protocol lists materials whose publication on Ksenia Cherepanova’s Telegram channel allegedly occurred with foreign […]
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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25 years since the tragedy. Nikolai Rybakov on the submarine Kursk disaster and the drowned sailors
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 12.08.2025 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Vladimir Dorokhov and Kirill Goncharov at the memorial to the crew of the nuclear submarine cruiser Kursk in Moscow / photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, together with colleagues, we came to the memorial to the crew of the nuclear submarine cruiser Kursk in Moscow to […]
Posted: August 13th, 2025 under Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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ALASKA: THE ISSUES THAT SHOULD ACTUALLY BE DISCUSSED BY RUSSIA AND THE USA
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.08.2025 Picture: ChatGPT The international press is in state of disarray and chaos, including even the most authoritative publications: discussions of the forthcoming meeting of the leaders of the Russia Federation and the United States of America in Alaska are accompanied by utter incomprehension and irritation, derogatory comments, irrelevant and inappropriate wishful […]
Posted: August 12th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Trilogy of lawlessness: municipal filter destroys political alternative
Statement by the Bureau of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, 11.08.2025 Photo: Yabloko candidate Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko On 8 August 2025, the Electoral Commission of the Novgorod Region refused to register Yabloko Party candidate Viktor Shalyakin for the Governor elections under the pretext of “insufficient signatures from municipal deputies”. We consider […]
Posted: August 12th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg is accused of posting videos but the links lead to another person’s page, not his
Press Release, 8.08.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court / Photo by the regional branch of the party On 7 August, the 38th magistrate’s court in Pskov held another, already eighth hearing on the criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg for allegedly evading “fulfilment of foreign agent obligations”. The investigation believes that the politician […]
Posted: August 8th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The threat humanity faces again. Yabloko hosted a screening and discussion of the film “Children of Hiroshima”
Press Release, 7.08.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 August, on the tragic 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow hosted a screening of the documentary film by Japanese film director Kaneto Shindo “Children […]
Posted: August 7th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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Thousands of Hiroshimas and thousands of Nagasakis
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.08.2025 Photo: After the atomic bombing. Hiroshima, Japan. 17 November 1945 // U.S. Department of Energy These days mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On 6 August 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, equivalent in power […]
Posted: August 6th, 2025 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Court keeps Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg under house arrest until 8 October
Press Release, 6.08.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court on 11 June 2025 / Photo by Stepan Baranov The decision to extend the preventive measure was made by a judge of the Pskov City Court. The hearing was held in a closed session. Journalists were asked to leave the courtroom before the court ruling was announced. […]
Posted: August 6th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko honoured the memory of victims of political repression at Sandarmokh, Karelia, and Levashovo Cemetery by St.Petersburg
Press Release, 6.08.2025 On the International Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Great Terror on 5 August, a Yabloko party delegation visited the Sandarmokh site in Karelia – the place of execution and burial of more than 6,000 people in 1937-1938. The memorial event was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Karelia Legislative Assembly […]
Posted: August 6th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidates to take part in elections to three municipal councils in Karelia
Press Release, 4.08.2025 Photo: The building of the administration of the White Sea-Baltic Canal in Medvezhyegorsk / Photo by Anri Bergius, Wikipedia The Yabloko party has nominated seven candidates for deputies of the councils of three municipal districts in the Republic of Karelia – Medvezhyegorsky, Lakhdenpokhsky and Muyezersky. The campaign in Karelia will be held […]
Posted: August 4th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to hold screening of the Children of Hiroshima film, paying tribute to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing
Press Release, 30.07.2025 On 6 August, the tragic 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Yabloko party invites its members and supporters to a screening of the film Children of Hiroshima.
Posted: August 4th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Trump has no substantive position on Ukraine
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 30.07.2025 What is desperately needed now? Russia and Ukraine sign an agreement for an immediate ceasefire: troops stop at current positions and cease fire. After this, substantive negotiations are needed about the conditions and ways to achieve peaceful coexistence: about the new content of Russian-Ukrainian relations, European security architecture and its prospective […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2025 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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The Murmansk branch of Yabloko has nominated candidates for Peace and Freedom to run for the municipal Council of the Kolsky District
Press Release, 24.07.2025 Photo: Igor Khomechko, Irina Komleva and Vyacheslav Polezhaev Yabloko candidates in single-mandate constituencies Irina Komleva (constituency No. 13), Vyacheslav Polezhaev (constituency No. 19) and Igor Khomechko (constituency No. 20) are standing for election to the first convocation of the Council of Deputies of the Kolsky Municipal District of the Murmansk region. The […]
Posted: July 24th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: Yabloko candidates at elections of any level conduct a political campaign on the key issue of the country’s development
RIA Tomsk, 24.07.2025 Interview by Valentina Ankudinova Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko party has determined candidates for elections to the Tomsk City Duma, which will take place in September. On the eve, a pre-election conference took place in the city, attended by party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov. In an […]
Posted: July 24th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Parties, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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The trial on Lev Shlosberg’s another criminal case for evading “foreign agent” obligations will continue on the politician’s birthday
Press Release, 23.07.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko On 22 July, another hearing took place at the court of the first instance on the case of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg for violating “foreign agent” legislation. The proceedings lasted almost three hours and were postponed to 30 July due to the public […]
Posted: July 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Konstantin Smirnov’s detention in custody extended for another two months
Press Release, 23.07.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov in court / Photo by Ryazan Yabloko The Soviet District Court of Ryazan refused to change the preventive measure for Editor-in-Chief of internet media Vid Sboku (View from the Side) and Yabloko municipal deputy Konstantin Smirnov. The politician’s defence insisted on transferring the politician to house arrest, but the […]
Posted: July 24th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Tsatsenko nominated by Yabloko for by-election of a deputy to the Pskov City Duma
Press Release, 23.07.2025 Photo: Andrei Tsatsenko / Photo from the personal archive On 22 July, members of the Bureau of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party voted for the nomination of Andrei Tsatsenko as a Yabloko candidate for by-election to the city parliament in district No. 3. The candidate’s campaign will be held […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Court will conduct a hearing on extending the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov
Press Release, 22.07.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 23 July, the Sovietsky District Court of Ryazan will consider the investigator’s petition to extend the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov, Editor-in-Chief of the Internet media Vid Sboku (Side View) and deputy of the Dubrovichy Council from Yabloko. The journalist and politician […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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