Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko demands that the Moscow Mayor immediately lift the anti-COVID ban on public actions
Press Release, 10.05.2023 The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, sent a letter to the Mayor’s Office, signed by Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction. On 5 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted: May 11th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Liberal InternationaI names Vladimir Kara-Murza the 2023 Prize for Freedom Winner and demands his release
Press Release, 8.05.2023 Photo: Meeting of the LI Executive Committee / Photo from the LI web-site Liberal International (LI) announced journalist and public figure Vladimir Kara-Murza the winner of the 2023 Prize for Freedom. LI also adopted a resolution submitted by the Yabloko party demanding the release of Kara-Murza and immediate provision of medical aid […]
Posted: May 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family, YABLOKO Sister-parties, Без рубрики.
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“Eternal memory. Endless gratitude. Huge respect”
Press Release, 9.05.2023 On the 78th anniversary of the Victory in the Second World War, leaders and members of the Yabloko party visited the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, where more than 10,000 soldiers and commanders of the Red Army are buried, and laid flowers at the memorial and the graves of the French pilots of […]
Posted: May 9th, 2023 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nothing Is More Valuable Then Human Life
On the need for a ceasefire and an end to the military actions Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 07.05.2023 Photo: Oleg Petrasyuk // EPA The bloodletting in Ukraine is remorseless, continuing for the second year running. We are on the threshold of a new escalation in the military confrontation fraught with further countless losses of life. I […]
Posted: May 8th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Yegorov, Chairman of the Vologda branch of Yabloko, detained
Press Release, 3.05.2023 Photo: Search in the apartment of Nikolai Yegorov / Photo from social media The apartment of Nikolai Yegorov, Chairman of the Vologda branch of Yabloko, was searched. Yegorov had been already twice brought to administrative responsibility for his posts calling for peace on the Vkontakte social media.
Posted: May 5th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the responsibility of journalists
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March 2023 Published on 2.05.2023 The stand of journalists is of particular importance in the conditions of the special military operation, total government propaganda and censorship. Today the key political and value-based choice depends on how your word turns the scale: either for the continuation of […]
Posted: May 5th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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On the historical risks of Russia’s artificial estrangement from European civilisation
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March 2023 Published on 27.04.2023 Photo by Vladimir Sergeyev, RIA Novosti The Statute of the Council of Europe, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the European Charter of Local Self-Government, the European Social Charter, the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, the […]
Posted: April 28th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The court declared unlawful the refusal of the local authorities to give a permission to Yabloko to hold a rally against electronic military draft papers
Press Release, 26.04.2023 The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg declared unlawful the refusal of the local administration of Murino (the Leningrad region) to approve a rally against electronic military draft papers, which the St. Petersburg Yabloko announced for 29 April. The local administration must reconsider the notice of Yabloko for holding a rally. The decision […]
Posted: April 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Maxim Kruglov on surveillance over Moscow conscripts: the Moscow Chief Military Enlistment Officer contradicts himself
Maxim Kruglov’s blog post, 26.04.2023 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Maxim Loktev, the Chief Military Enlistment Officer of Moscow, contradicted himself in his response to my deputy’s inquiry: Moscow military registration and enlistment offices do not use the city’s video surveillance system to spy on conscripts, he wrote to me, […]
Posted: April 26th, 2023 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputies of the Pskov Region Assembly of Deputies rejected the Yabloko bill on amnesty on the articles on military censorship
Press Release, 25.04.2023 Photo: The Pskov Region Assembly of Deputies / Photo by sobranie.pskov.ru At the April session, the Pskov region parliamentarians refused to support and send to the State Duma a draft resolution submitted by Yabloko MP Artur Gaiduk on the release of people brought to criminal responsibility or convicted for the first time […]
Posted: April 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko denied a permission for the demonstration under the slogans “For Peace” and “Against Electronic Military Draft Papers”
Press Release, 22.04.2023 Photo: Police accompanies demonstrators at the May Day demonstration in Novosibirsk, 2018 / Photo by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko The Novosibirsk Mayor’s Office informed the regional branch of the Yabloko party about their refusal to give a permission for the declared May Day demonstration.
Posted: April 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On Russia and its citizens
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March 2023 Published on 21.04.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Mutual distrust and intolerance towards opponents have been deliberately imposed on people in modern Russia. Sanctions under “political articles” have appeared in the legislation and are being tightened; and political repressions are rapidly intensifying in […]
Posted: April 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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“There are no barriers to thoughts. I am by your side, by each of you.” Yabloko activists write letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 20.04.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service In April, actions of writing letters to political prisoners will again be held at the central office of the Yabloko Party and its regional branches. As usual, everyone who would like to send a few kind words and wishes to those unjustly deprived of their freedom […]
Posted: April 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko submitted an application for conducting a May Day demonstration for peace and against electronic call-up papers
Press Release, 20.04.2023 Photo: The May Day demonstration in Novosibirsk, 2018 / Photo by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, in accordance with the decision of the Bureau of the regional branch, has submitted a notification to the Mayor’s Office about the organisation of the May Day demonstration, which is traditional […]
Posted: April 21st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputies of the Yabloko faction of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly published their income declarations
Press Release, 20.04.2023 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Deputies of the Yabloko faction of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky submitted their income declarations in a personalised form. They did not hide their income from voters, despite the fact that the law […]
Posted: April 21st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko seeks to oblige the heads of municipalities and districts to publish their annual reports on the Internet
Press Release, 19.04.2023 Photo: The Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia submitted to the Assembly its legislative initiative to supplement the Law “On the General Principles of Organisation of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation” […]
Posted: April 21st, 2023 under Governance, Human Rights, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov came to Abakan, Khakassia, to support journalist and Yabloko party member Mikhail Afanasyev in court
Press Release, 19.04.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today Yabloko Chairman Rybakov personally came to the hearings of the Abakan City Court of the Republic of Khakassia in a criminal case against Mikhail Afanasyev, Editor-in-Chief of the Novy Focus online media and a member of the Yabloko party.
Posted: April 21st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Maxim Kruglov: Digital technologies have finally come to the service of the authoritarian-repressive state
Maxim Kruglov’s blog post, 18.04.2023 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Maxim Loktev, the Chief Military Enlistment Officer of Moscow, openly stated that the Moscow video surveillance system had been actively used to determine the places of residence of conscripts, who were certainly, very much needed at present. In general, they […]
Posted: April 21st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the work of the party in the present conditions
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March, 2023 Published on 18 April, 2023 The Federal Political Committee decided the following:
Posted: April 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The St.Petersburg Yabloko was denied approval for a rally against the law on electronic call-up papers under an absurd reason. Yabloko submitted a new application
Press Release, 17.04.2023 The administration of the city of Murino in the Leningrad region did not give a permission to Yabloko on holding of the first rally in Russia against electronic call-up papers for military service, which the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko planned to organise on Sunday, 23 April. The application in electronic form was […]
Posted: April 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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