Archive for 'Human Rights'
The Public Prosecutor’s Office canceled the decision of the investigation on non-initiation of a criminal case against a telephone terrorist who had allegedly mined the office of the St. Petersburg Yabloko
Press Release, 9.03.2023 Photo: The exhibition / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Central District of St. Petersburg canceled the decision of the investigator of the district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs which refused to initiate a criminal case on a false report about mining of the […]
Posted: March 10th, 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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“Let us hug every woman political prisoner!” Yabloko activists sent a thousand postcards to women political prisoners
Press Release, 9.03.2023 Photo: the action in Pskov In the recent weeks, actions in support of political prisoners were held in the regional offices of the Yabloko party. The actions focused on support to women political prisoners were timed to coincide with International Women’s Day. Yabloko members and civil activists prepared about a thousand letters […]
Posted: March 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Director of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre: Recognition of Transparency International as an “undesirable organisation” in Russia maintains the trend towards repression against civil society
Press Release, 7.03.2023 Photo: Yelena Panfilova, founder of Transparency International – Russia, and Anton Pominov, ex-Director of the organisation / Photo by Gennady Gulyaev, Kommersant The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party expresses its unconditional support for colleagues from Transparency International – Russia and protests against the recognition of the international movement Transparency International […]
Posted: March 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko submitted to the Moscow City Duma a draft law on amnesty under criminal articles on military censorship
Press Release, 7.03.2023 Photo by Oleg Kharaeyev, Kommersant The faction of the Yabloko party in the Moscow City Duma, exercising the right of regional parliaments to initiate bills in the State Duma, submitted to the Moscow city parliament a draft resolution for the State Duma “On declaring an amnesty”. The draft envisages termination of criminal […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started”
Press Release, 9.03.2023. Photo: Denis Volkov / Photo from social media On 21 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Attitude towards the special military operation a year after it started”. The lecturer is Denis Volkov, Director of the Levada Centre.
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Supreme Court of Karelia upheld the decision on fining Emilia Slabunova for “discrediting the army” through her call to spend money on education, and not on “special operations”
Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 March, the Supreme Court of Karelia held a hearing on the appeal of Emilia Slabunova, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia from Yabloko. Slabunova, together with defence lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky, asked to cancel the decision of the Petrozavodsk […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko goes on conducting actions in support of political prisoners dedicated to 8 March
Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: one of the post cards “Freedom to Political Prisoners!” This week, actions in support of political prisoners continue in regional offices of Yabloko. Yabloko members and activists sign postcards specially printed for women political prisoners – civil activists, politicians and journalists who are kept behind bars.
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Koshman, a Chelyabinsk lawyer and a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, attacked
Press Release, 6.03.2023 Photo: Nikolai Koshman immediately after the attack Nikolai Koshman, a Chelyabinsk lawyer and a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, was attacked in Chelyabinsk in the morning of 6 March. Unidentified people were on the watch for Koshman at the entrance of his apartments block. Nikolai has a broken arm and […]
Posted: March 9th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A criminal case on “military fakes” against Abakan journalist Mikhail Afanasyev submitted to court
Press Release, 4.03.2023 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo from social media The materials of the criminal case on the dissemination of “fakes about the army” using official position (Article 207.3, Part 2, paragraph “a” of the Criminal Code of the RF) against Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of Yabloko and the editor of the Novy Focus […]
Posted: March 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An action in support of political prisoners was held at Yabloko: participants wrote 500 letters and prepared a letter in defence of Vladimir Kara-Murza
Press Release, 3.03.2023 On 2 March, the traditional Yabloko action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners was held at the central office of the Yabloko party, organised by the Moscow branch of the party with the support of the PolitzekInfo project. The action was dedicated to women – political prisoners, who fell into the […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Goncharenko: “Another resident of the Altai Territory was fined for “likes”
Blog post by Alexander Goncharenko, 28.02.2023 Photo: Alexander Goncharenko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service According to local media, a pensioner from Novoaltaysk was found guilty of “discrediting the use of the Russian army” as part of a “special operation”. A 69-year-old man, put likes under photographs and publications on the topic of “discrediting […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Udmurtia has managed to achieve a revision the positive decision of the state expertise on the disposal of extremely hazardous waste in the Kambarka plant
Press Release, 2.03.2023 Photo: Iya Boronina connecting with the Moscow City Court / Photo from the personal archive On 27 February, the Moscow City Court, as a court of appeal, held hearings on the claim of Iya Boronina, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia, against the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly rejected the Yabloko bill on criminal liability for propaganda of nuclear war
Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: The Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies / Photo by sobranie.pskov.ru Four MPs voted for the bill, thirteen voted against, and six abstained. Earlier, the Governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, wrote in his opinion on the Yabloko bill on criminal liability for propaganda of nuclear war that “a call to commit […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2023 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Presidential Administration did not find “legal grounds” for issuing a decree on the end of mobilisation, although they wrote earlier that there such grounds did take place
Press Release, 1.03.2023 Photo by Viktor Karatayev / Kommersant The administration of the President of the Russian Federation believes that there are no legal grounds for issuing a separate decree on the completion of partial mobilisation. This is announced in an official response to the inquiry of Boris Vishnevsky, deputy head of the Yabloko faction […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow branch of Yabloko invites all to an action of writing letters to political prisoners with live music and reciting poetry
Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: “Freedom to all political prisoners!” by Olga Kovalchuk, the Republic of Karelia, Russia On the eve of International Women’s Day, 8 March, the Moscow branch of Yabloko will hold an action of writing letters to political prisoners. We would like to dedicate this action to women political activists, as well as […]
Posted: March 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Viktor Shalyakin, a member of the Novgorod Yabloko Regional Council, won the second lawsuit against the Russian Federation
Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, won the second lawsuit against the Russian Federation in connection with the illegal prosecution under the administrative article on “discrediting the army”. On 27 February, the Novgorod District Court […]
Posted: March 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko honoured the memory of politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and Russian regions
Press Release, 28.02.2023 Photo: Kazan / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 27 February, eight years ago, opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was killed by the walls of the Kremlin on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. On the day of the murder, Yabloko annually holds commemorative events in Moscow and Russian regions in memory of Boris […]
Posted: March 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“It was a public execution because Boris Nemtsov believed that Russia should not fight with anyone”
Press Release, 27.02.2023 Yabloko honoured the memory of Boris Nemtsov who was murdered by the Kremlin walls on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, on 27 February 2015. Today, on the eighth anniversary of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the leaders and activists of Yabloko came to the scene of the tragedy – the Bolshoi […]
Posted: February 27th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko is looking for donors of lots for the auction in support of political prisoners and those persecuted for political reasons
Press Release, 27.02.2023 On 11 March, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko and the human rights project “You Are Not Alone 74” (https://t.me/tyneodin74 ) will hold a charity auction in support of political prisoners and those persecuted for political reasons. The auction will start at 15:00. Lots, which anyone can put up by filling out the […]
Posted: February 27th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: What I would say to external experts
Special for the Yabloko website, 27.02.2023 Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service What would I say should be done, if – very unlikely – some external experts asked me what is needed for Ukraine and Europe now? I would say that a “road map” is needed. For ten years and twenty […]
Posted: February 27th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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