Archive for 'Human Rights'
A petition has been launched to install a memorial to Boris Nemtsov. Grigory Yavlinsky and Nikolai Rybakov are among the signatories
Press Release, 27.01.2025 Photo: A public memorial at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s death on the Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow / Photo by Vitaly Smolnikov, Kommersant On 27 February, the tenth anniversary of the politician’s murder, the petition will be sent to the Moscow City Duma as the Moscow parliament is authorized to decide on […]
Posted: January 27th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the siege of Leningrad in World War II
Press Release, 27.01.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko Olga Tsepilova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, deputy of the Legislative Assembly Olga Shtannikova, member of the Yabloko Bureau Anatoly Golov and other party members […]
Posted: January 27th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to screen the documentary “Night and Fog” to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Press Release, 27.01.2025 On 29 January, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow will screen the documentary “Night and Fog” (“Nuit et Brouillard”) by Alain Resnais to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January. Adolf Hitler’s directive “Night and Fog” of 7 December, 1941, authorised the kidnapping of anti-Nazi political activists throughout […]
Posted: January 27th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions conducts its regular actions in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 24.01.2025 Photo: “Freedom to All Political Prisoners”. Yabloko Party Congress, 2019 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions continues its actions of writing letters to political prisoners. Anyone can take part in the actions of writing letters to political prisoners. Participation in Yabloko actions of writing […]
Posted: January 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yekaterinburg Mayor’s Office to Yabloko: Memorial to victims of political repression to be repaired in 2025-2026
Press Release, 24.01.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko branch in the Sverdlovsk region received a response from the Yekaterinburg administration to the Yabloko request signed by the regional party branch chairman Maxim Petlin about the condition of the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression on the 12th kilometer of the Moscow Highway. […]
Posted: January 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Kazan to hold a permitted picket “For Freedom of Speech and the Press”
Press Release, 24.01.2025 The Executive Committee of Kazan has given an consent to the activists of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko to hold a picket on 1 February dedicated to the protection of freedom of speech and the press. Yabloko members suggest using the opportunity to declare the inalienable right to truth and free dissemination […]
Posted: January 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Pskov region confirmed the violation of labour rights of prisoners in the penal colony near Sebezh after Artur Gaiduk’s appeal
Press Release, 23.01.2025 Photo by zona-mag.ru In December, relatives of people serving sentences in penal colony No. 6 near Sebezh contacted Artur Gaiduk, a deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko. They complained about the unfair payment of their relatives. Artur Gaiduk sent an appeal to the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Posted: January 23rd, 2025 under Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko applied to the Public Prosecutor General over the Moscow authorities’ decision to liquidate the status of specially protected natural areas in Moscow
Press Release, 21.01.2025 Photo: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin / Photo by Yuri Martyanov, Kommersant Resolution of the Moscow Government No. 3160-PP on the transformation of specially protected natural areas of regional significance into specially protected green areas deprives all 146 protected areas in Moscow of their special nature conservation status. This status, in accordance with […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Liquidation of specially protected natural areas is the path to the destruction of parks and gardens in Moscow
Statement by the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 21.01.2025 Photo: Moscow residents at a meeting with Moscow City Duma deputies from Yabloko in the Sokolniki park, Moscow, April 2024. Then the deputies managed to stop illegal construction works in the park / Photo from social media On 27 December, 2024, the Decree of the Moscow government, […]
Posted: January 21st, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Why do Russia and Ukraine need Israel’s experience?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to the Youtube channel Zhivoy Gvozd, 18.01.2025, published on 21.01.2025 Soon it will be three (!) years since military actions have been going on between Russia and Ukraine. These events were approaching and eventually became inevitable long before February 2022. Politically, it was obvious, but humanly it was impossible to imagine. […]
Posted: January 21st, 2025 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs to facilitate access to files of repressed persons in its archives
Press Release, 21.01.2025 Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, has achieved a change in the inner instruction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which limited citizens’ access to archival documents related to their relatives repressed during Joseph Stalin’s period.
Posted: January 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko honoured the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed by neo-Nazis
Press Release, 21.01.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Members and supporters of the Yabloko party honoгred the memory of journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who were murdered by neo-Nazis sixteen years ago, on 19 January, 2009. Yabloko members brought flowers to the site of the murder at No 3 Prechistenka Street in […]
Posted: January 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Constitutional Court to consider Yabloko’s complaint about disqualification from regional elections due to delay with data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities
Press Release, 20.01.2025 Photo: A session of the Constitutional Court / Photo by Alexander Koryakov, Kommersant On 17 January, the Constitutional Court of Russia reported that at its session on 16 January, the court accepted for consideration the complaint of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party about the violation of its constitutional rights […]
Posted: January 20th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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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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