Archive for 'Human Rights'
“There will be no winners, everyone has lost.” Nikolai Rybakov on the NTV television channel about why it is necessary to stop the bloodshed now
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 8.10.2024 The fighting in Ukraine has been going on for two and a half years. Politicians continue talking about “victory”. But no one understands that when there are so many victims, no one has won, everyone has lost. Politicians have proven that they failed to do their job by allowing so […]
Posted: October 11th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: ‘The world will survive today’s nightmare and become more human’
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 9.10.2024 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNS ACTIVITIES RELATING TO FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG. [This capitalised section is a text Lev […]
Posted: October 9th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Tatarstan honoured the memory of two murdered journalists – Anna Politkovskaya and Irina Slavina. An hour later, the memorial was destroyed
Press Release, 7.10.2024 On 5 October, the Yabloko party activists in Tatarstan laid flowers at the monument to the victims of political repression in memory of journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Irina Slavina. Yabloko in Kazan annually honours the memory of the murdered journalists. This year, the memorial event was obstructed by police officers and the […]
Posted: October 7th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Kirov branch of Yabloko a conference and elected its governing bodies. Artur Abashev was elected Chairman of the regional branch for a second term
Press Release, 7.10.2024 Photo: Artur Abashev, Polina Kuskova and Tatyana Naumovich / Photo by the Kirov branch of Yabloko Past weekend, the regional branch of Yabloko in the Kirov region held a Conference, where they discussed the results of their work over the past two years, elected new leadership and decided on a work plan […]
Posted: October 7th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: Thank you for your solidarity
From Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 2.10.2024 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNS ACTIVITIES RELATING TO FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG. [This capitalised section is a text […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Statement by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov regarding the criminal case against Lev Shlosberg
2.10.2024 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today’s searches at Lev Shlosberg’s and his father’s apartment represent a continuation of the political intimidation campaign by the authorities against our comrade and the entire Pskov branch of our party. When the authorities cannot, are not capable of conducting an honest competitive struggle […]
Posted: October 2nd, 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 Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg is a suspect in a criminal case on violating the law on “foreign agents”
Press Release, 2.10.2024 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, is a suspect in a criminal case under Article 330.1 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Evasion of duties stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents”).
Posted: October 2nd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Chelyabinsk Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the Mayak nuclear tragedy in 1957
Press Release, 30.09.2024 September 29 marked 67 years since the Kyshtym nuclear accident – a nuclear explosion at the Mayak chemical plant. The explosion was the result of a violation of the cooling regime of the storage tank for radioactive waste. In its severity, the accident is second only to the Chernobyl and Fukushima-1 accidents. […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko elected new leadership of the branch
Press Release, 29.09.2024 Photo: Olga Tsepilova at the Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of the party On 28 September, the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party elected the governing bodies of the branch for the next two years. Olga Tsepilova, who previously held the […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: On Politics and Violence
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 30.09.2024 Illustration: The Stoning of St. Stephen, a biblical story from The Acts of the Apostles. 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG […]
Posted: September 30th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko to host a meeting with former political prisoner Dmitry Skurikhin
Press Release, 25.09.2024 Photo: Dmitry Skurikhin by his store / Photo from social media An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners will be held in Novgorod Yabloko on 27 September with the participation of Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad Region who served an imprisonment term of 1.5 years for “discrediting the […]
Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko raised 1.7 million roubles at an auction in support of political prisoners and continues to accept donations
Press Release, 25.09.2024 Photo: Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky introducing his lot / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The auction featured 28 lots: works of art and personal belongings of politicians, political prisoners, writers, publicists and journalists, musicians, artists, etc. The most expensive lots of the auction were a drawing by Alexandra Skochilenko, ex-political prisoner […]
Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“We just wait for any news every day.” Yabloko invites all to a charity auction and its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 20.09.2024 Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko Yabloko continues to support Russian political prisoners. On 24 September, a charity auction will be held in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow. In the coming weeks, actions of writing letters to political prisoners will be held in the Moscow branch and regional branches […]
Posted: September 21st, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosted a book launch about Nikita Khrushchev
Press Release, 18.09.2024 “Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System” is a new biography of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1953-1964), written by his great-granddaughter, a world-famous political scientist, professor at the New School in New York. On 17 September, Nina Khrushcheva spoke about the book […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The first court hearing on the merits of the case of Vasily Neustroyev from the St. Petersburg Yabloko has been scheduled on 25 September
Press Release, 18.09.2024 Photo: Vasily Neustroyev/ Photo from social media The hearing on the merits of the case against Vasily Neustroyev will take place in the St. Petersburg City Court on 25 September, after 15 months of his imprisonment. The case will be heard by a judge only, since all the defendants in the case […]
Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Academician Alexei Arbatov: “You have every reason to be scared, because a nuclear war is the end of our civilisation, when the survivors will envy the dead”
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 14.09.2024 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Academician Alexei Arbatov is the head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee. He is one of the […]
Posted: September 17th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Pskov branch Yabloko gets new deputies in Plyussky, Dnovsky, Usvyatsky and Porkhov municipal districts
Press Release, 16.09.2024 At the September elections in the Pskov region, four lists of candidates from the Yabloko party managed to overcome the threshold, receiving from 5.46% to 13.63% of voters’ support. The interests of citizens in the deputies’ assemblies of municipal districts will be represented by seven new deputies from Yabloko. The elected candidates […]
Posted: September 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Justice has added Vladimir Dorokhov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 13.09.2024 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Ministry of Justice has added Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”. Dorokhov became the eighth member of Yabloko and the third Deputy Chairman of the party to […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko called on the Red Cross to organise humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from the combat zone in the Kursk region
Press Release, 13.09.2024 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Rybakov called on the Red Cross to become an international mediator in organising negotiations on a ceasefire and creating humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians of the Kursk region from the combat […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the St. Petersburg Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Electoral Commission investigate the attack on a Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission
Press Release, 12.09.2024 Photo: The moment of the attack on the Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission /screenshot video by Fontanka.ru Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the St. Petersburg Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Electoral Commission investigate the attack on Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission Alexander Klyukov, who had […]
Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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