Archive for 'Human Rights'
The Moscow Mayor answered the questions of the deputies of the Moscow City Duma, but did not say anything new
Press Release, 21.12.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin delivered a report to the deputies of the Moscow City Duma on the results of the work of the Moscow government in 2022. After a short report on the successes in the economy, social policies, the development of transport, and the […]
Posted: December 21st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly proposed to introduce criminal liability for calls for nuclear war
Press Release, 21.12.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko faction submitted to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg a draft resolution on a legislative initiative of the St.Petersburg parliament for the State Duma on the responsibility for calls for the use of nuclear weapons. Alexander Shishlov, head of the […]
Posted: December 21st, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A call for peace with Ukraine sounded in the State Duma for the first time
Press Release, 20.12.2022 Photo by Yevgenia Vlasova On 20 December, a “government hour” was held in the State Duma, during which representatives of non-parliamentary parties could ask questions to the Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov in his speech called for peace and the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement.
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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A lecture on the alternative non-military service was held at Yabloko
Press Release, 20.12.2022 On 16 December, the Yabloko party hosted a lecture “The Constitutional Right to Alternative Civilian Service in Modern Conditions” by Anatoly Pchelintsev, Doctor of Law, Honorary Advocate of Russia, and member of the Writers’ Union of Russia. Anatoly Pchelintsev as a former a military lawyer has extensive experience in protecting the rights […]
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Do not allow for militarisation of the school! Yabloko’s appeal to deputies, senators and the Minister of Education
Appeal by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko of 15.12.2022, published on 16.12.2022 Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant Yabloko demands to put an end to the militarisation of the school: not to make elementary military training a compulsory subject, not to allow for politicised and paramilitary events to be held at schools, and stop forcing schoolchildren […]
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Education and Science, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies, Youth Policies.
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The Investigative Committee: There will be no criminal case on the torture of a participant in “poetry readings”. Rape will be checked along with poetry
Press Release, 19.12.2022 Photo: An ambulance takes Artyom Kamardin to hospital from the Investigative Committee for the Tervskoy District in Moscow / Photo from social media The Investigative Committee refuses to open a criminal case against the law enforcement officers who allegedly mocked and tortured civil activists Artyom Kamardin, Alexandra Popova and Alexander Menyukov. This […]
Posted: December 20th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Give hope to those who need it most. Yabloko holds the final actions of 2022 of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 15.12.2022 The coming days, actions in support of political prisoners will be held in the offices of the Yabloko party across Russia. Yabloko invites all, who would like to support politicians and civil activists who were unjustly convicted or under investigation, to take part in the actions. Participants of the actions can sign […]
Posted: December 19th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The authorities of the city of Barabinsk refused to consider dissident Anatoly Marchenko an “outstanding figure”. The European Parliament warded the first the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Anatoly Marchenko and Nelson Mandela in 1988
Press Release, 19.12.2022 Photo: Anatoly Marchenko / Photo from the family archive The administration and the Council of Deputies of the city of Barabinsk, the Novosibirsk region, refused to perpetuate the memory of their famous fellow countryman, dissident and writer Anatoly Marchenko, because, in their opinion, he was not an outstanding figure and did not […]
Posted: December 19th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Valery Borshchyov “Political Idealism: an Illusion or a Reality”
Press Release, 16.12.2022 Photo: Valery Borshchov/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 21 December, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Valery Borshchyov, an outstanding human rights activist, dissident, a member of the Federal Political Committee, Co-Chairman of the Yabloko’s Human Rights Faction and Co-Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group. Valery Borshchev […]
Posted: December 19th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights.
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The Moscow City Court upheld the decision on the fine for “discrediting the army” to the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Andrei Morev
Press Release, 14.12.2022 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Tagansky District Court, which found Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko and the former head of the Yakimanka District Council in Moscow, guilty of “discrediting the army”. Morev was fined 50,000 […]
Posted: December 14th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On International Human Rights Day in Chuvashia, civil activists and Yabloko discussed the situation with human rights in Chuvashia
Press Release, 13.12.2022 Photo by the Yabloko branch in Chuvashia A round table dedicated to the International Human Rights Day was held at the National Library of Chuvashia on 10 December. The event was organised by the Chuvash republican public organisation Oscheye Delo (Common Cause). Members of the regional branch of the Yabloko party took […]
Posted: December 14th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma will hold a round table on the analysis of the Moscow experiment on introduction of face recognition in public areas
Press Release, 13.12.2022 Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant On 15 December, the Moscow City Duma will host a round table dedicated to evaluating the effectiveness of the federal experiment with face recognition systems in Moscow. Deputies, officials and experts will discuss approaches to assessing the effectiveness of the experimental face recognition system in Moscow, crime […]
Posted: December 14th, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the Russian Constitution Day, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko will hold a discussion about a law-governed state with adults
Press Release, 9.12.2022 Photo from kids.kremlin.ru On 12 December, the Russian Constitution Day, the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party invites all to take part in a discussion on the topic “A Police State or a Law-Governed State”. The discussion will be held in the office of the regional Yabloko branch at the address: […]
Posted: December 10th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Kirov branch of Yabloko dedicated its action of letters of support to women political prisoners
Press Release, 9.12.2022 Photo by the Kirov branch of Yabloko On 8 December, another evening of writing letters to political prisoners was held at the Kirov branch of Yabloko. This time the action was dedicated to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Posted: December 10th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A lecture on the alternative non-military service will be held at Yabloko
Press Release, 9.12.2022 On 16 December, the Yabloko party will host a lecture “The Constitutional Right to Alternative Civilian Service in Modern Conditions” by Anatoly Pchelintsev, Doctor of Law, Honorary Advocate of Russia, and member of the Writers’ Union of Russia. The lecture will begin at 19:00 (Moscow time).
Posted: December 9th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights.
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The District Court of Kazan for the third time considered the request for a search at Ruslan Zinatullin’s home and recognised it lawful
Press Release, 7.12.2022 Photo: Ruslan Zinalullin / Photo from social media The Sovetsky District Court of Kazan for the third time considered the request of the investigation to conduct a search at the home of Ruslan Zinatullin, head of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Tatarstan, and issued permission to […]
Posted: December 9th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Investigative Committee check the information about the torture of blogger Nekoglai
Press Release, 7.12.2022 Photo: a screenshot the @necoglaioff YouTube channel Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, demanding to check the information about the torture by police officers of the detainee Nikolai Lebedev, as well as asked to identify and bring all those responsible to justice.
Posted: December 9th, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, the founder of the Novy Focus media, fined 450,000 roubles for “inciting hatred” against the law enforcement
Press Release, 8.12.2022 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev, his wife Yelena and son / Photo from social media On 6 December, the City Court in Abakan, Khakassia, fined Mikhail Afanasyev, the founder of the Novy Focus media, 450,000 roubles under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“incitement of hatred”). Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the […]
Posted: December 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko deputies in four regional parliaments vouched for Vladimir Kara-Murza
Press Release, 8.12.2022 Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza at the Yabloko pre-election Congress in 2021 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, the Moscow Basmanny Court will hold a hearing to extend the measure of restraint in the form of detention for politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza. Vladimir Kara-Murza has been in jail since 22 April […]
Posted: December 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, 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, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov visited Astrakhan
Press Release, 5.12.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 3 December, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and his team came to Astrakhan to meet with Yabloko members and supporters and discuss the region’s problems with active citizens.
Posted: December 8th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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