Archive for 'Human Rights'
The Social Democratic Faction of Yabloko held a round table “How do we see the future of Russia?”
Press Release, 29.03.2023 The Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko party held a round table “How do we see the future of Russia?”. Three main scenarios for the development of events were discussed at the round table: peace; neither peace nor war; and the third world war.
Posted: March 29th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Democratic faction, Social Policies.
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Vladimir Yefimov to make his last statement at the trial on 31 March. A decision on his criminal case can be made on the same day
Press Release, 29.03.2023 On 31 March, Vladimir Yefimov, a journalist and the leader of the regional branch of Yabloko, will make his las statement at the trial over him in the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court. The verdict can be pronounced on the same day. Vladimir Yefimov is accused of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1 […]
Posted: March 29th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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New court hearings on the case of Yabloko’s Mikhail Afanasyev begin
Press Release, 28.03.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev with his wife Yelena and two younger children / Photo from the personal archive On 29 March, the Abakan City Court will launch hearings on the criminal case of “fakes about the army” against journalist Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party and a laureate of the Andrei […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko prepares for the elections: a party conference scheduled, a discussion about the programme held, and formation of electoral commissions began
Press Release, 28.03.2023 Photo by the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko Past weekend, the Regional Council of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko appointed the conference of the regional branch, which will put forward a list of Yabloko candidates for deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. The conference will take place in June. Also the […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Federal Political Committee of Yabloko: “We are not going to leave Russia and will fight for its future”
Press Release, 28.03.2023 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Political Committee, and Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Political Committee On 24 March, a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, a collegial governing body that formulates the party’s position on major political issues between congresses, took place at the central […]
Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko urged Vladimir Putin to exclude the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from the register of foreign agents
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: WWF in Russia Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin with an appeal to exclude the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from the register of foreign agents. According to Rybakov, the decision on listing WWF in the register of foreign agents must be canceled, […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Alexander Shishlov: “A Stalinist state with its main feature – the priority of the state over the individual – is being reproduced in Russia”
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A basis for Russia’s cardinal civilizational U-turn and the country’s leaving the mainstream development of human civilization is being created in Russia. Such a statement was made by Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“This is the stem that does not allow one to bend down.” Actions of writing letters to political prisoners to be held in Moscow and Russian regions
Press Release, 24.03.2023 Photo: A drawing by imprisoned journalist and blogger Yan Kotelevsky: a prisoner is breaking the chains of censorship, religion, mortgage, ignorance, slavery, and dictatorship. In the next two weeks, Yabloko will hold its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners. The actions will take place at the central office of the […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Anatoly Nogovitsyn fined 200,000 roubles for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 21.03.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 21 March, the Yakutsk City Court found Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and imposed on him a fine of […]
Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The chief of St.Petersburg police promised Yabloko to return the seized paintings by artist Yelena Osipova by May
Press Release, 23.03.2023 Photo: Artist Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Roman Plugin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, said that the paintings by the […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Lev Shlosberg on legal possibilities to conduct politics in Russia after the start of the “special operation”
Press Release, 23.03.2023 On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Legal Possibilities to Conduct Politics in Russia after 24 February, 2022: the Risks and Opportunities for the Yabloko Party”. The lecturer was Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and head of the Pskov branch of […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started” by Denis Volkov
Press Release, 22.03.2023 Photo: Denis Volkov / Photo from social media On 21 March, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started”. The lecturer was Denis Volkov, Director of the Levada Centre.
Posted: March 22nd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Searches at the homes of employees of the Memorial human rights society are a new step in the practices of political repressions in Russia
Statement by the Yabloko party, 21.03.2023 Photo by Safron Golikov / Kommersant On 21 March, 2023, investigators from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation came with searches to the employees of the Memorial [human right] society, including its leader Yan Rachinsky. The Yabloko party considers the searches at the homes of employees of the […]
Posted: March 21st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Anatoly Nogovitsyn: “We need to live in such a way that we can look into each other’s eyes in the future.” On 21 March, the court will announce the decision on the case of Yabloko’s Anatoly Nogovitsyn
Press Release, 20.03.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from the personal archive On 20 March, a trial on the case of “discrediting the army” by Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, was held in the Yakutsk City Court. The politician made his last appearance before the court. The decision will be […]
Posted: March 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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After Yabloko’s appeal, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Chelyabinsk region made a submission to the regional government due to the poor provision of consumables for diabetic children
Press Release, 20.03.2023 Photo by Vladislav Lonshakov / Kommersant Earlier, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko sent a collective complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Chelyabinsk region against the regional Ministry of Health in connection with the improper provision of non-original consumables for insulin pumps for children with diabetes.
Posted: March 20th, 2023 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Lev Shlosberg on legal possibilities to conduct politics in Russia after the start of the “special operation”
Press Release, 17.03.2023 Photo: Lev Shlosberg On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Legal Possibilities to Conduct Politics in Russia after 24 February, 2022: the Risks and Opportunities for the Yabloko Party”. The lecturer is Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and head of […]
Posted: March 17th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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An exhibition of paintings calling for peace, which had to be held in the St. Petersburg Yabloko office, risks turning into a criminal case on “fakes”
Press Release, 17.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the St. Petersburg Yabloko on 31 January, 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The paintings by the artist Yelena Osipova, which the police seized from the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, have, according to the police, “text inscriptions […]
Posted: March 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko proposes amnesty for those accused under criminal articles on military censorship
Press Release, 16.03.2023 Photo by chikennnsem@gmail.com/depositphotos Artur Gaiduk, Yabloko MP in the Pskov Regional Assembly, exercising the right of regional parliaments to initiate bills in the State Duma, submitted to the Pskov regional parliament a draft resolution for the State Duma “On Announcing an Amnesty”. Yabloko proposes to release from serving their sentences those who […]
Posted: March 16th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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MP of the Moscow City Duma Kruglov to the head of the Moscow police department: “The Moscow police has turned into a tool for political reprisal”
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Oleg Baranov, head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow / Photo by the Moscow City Duma Today, deputies of the Moscow City Duma heard a report by Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, on work […]
Posted: March 16th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On 20 March, the court may make a decision on the criminal case of the leader of the Yakutia branch of Yabloko Anatoly Nogovitsyn on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 15.03.2023 Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 20 March, a hearing will be held in the Yakutsk City Court at which the last word of the accused will be heard, and the judge will make a decision on the criminal case against Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutia […]
Posted: March 15th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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