Archive for 'Human Rights'
20 years since the tragedy in the Beslan school. Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in the Belsan school
Telegram channel by Nikolai Rybakov, 3.09.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service It is 20 years since the Beslan tragedy. Together with the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko party, Kirill Goncharov, I came to the Moscow memorial to the victims of the Beslan [school attack]. On 1 September, 2004, terrorists took more than 1,000 […]
Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Condolences, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko is going to hold a rally in Moscow in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 3.09.2024 Yabloko is going to hold a rally in Moscow in support of political prisoners. An application of holding a mass event was submitted to the Moscow Mayor’s Office today, on 3 September. The planned date for the event is 14 September.
Posted: September 3rd, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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There will be no candidates for peace and freedom during elections in Moscow. The Moscow City Court approves withdrawal of six Yabloko candidates from municipal elections in the Kurkino district of Moscow
Press Release, 2.09.2024 Photo: Municipal candidate Maria Chuprina during the campaign. / Photo from social media Today, judges of the Moscow City Court rejected the appeals of all six Yabloko candidates against the decision of the Tushinsky District Court to remove them from the snap municipal elections in the Kurkino district of Moscow that are […]
Posted: September 2nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov appealed to the Minister of Defence in connection with information about the participation of conscripts in military operations in the Kursk region
Press Release, 30.08.2024 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov, asking to organise an investigation into the information about the participation […]
Posted: August 30th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg refused to recognise unlawful the decision to include Boris Vishnevsky in “foreign agents” register
Press Release, 28.08.2024 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 27 August, the trial on the suit of Boris Vishnevsky, a Yabloko deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, against the Ministry of Justice, whose officials […]
Posted: August 28th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to host a roundtable discussion dedicated to the anniversary of the outbreak of World War I
Press Release, 27.08.2024 Photo from open sources On 10 September, the Yabloko party office in Moscow will host a roundtable discussion dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Historians, experts, and the Yabloko party leaders will take part in the discussion. Everyone is invited. The event will be streamlined on […]
Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Karelian branch of Yabloko nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council, for the post of regional Ombudsperson for human rights
Press Release, 27.08.2024 Photo: Olga Tuzhikova. Photo: regional branch of the party The term of office of the current Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights in Karelia expires on 12 September. The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council from […]
Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, imprisoned journalist and a member of Yabloko, wins the Free Media Awards press prize
Press Release, 27.08.2024 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev makes his final statement in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia and a member of the Yabloko party, became a prize winner of the Free Media Awards, a prestigious award for independent journalists who refuse to give in to threats. For […]
Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko held a meeting with party supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites
Press Release, 26.08.2024 Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko Past week, a meeting of Yabloko members and supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites took place in Kaliningrad. The meeting was timed to coincide with the opening of the new office of the regional branch. The office became a place […]
Posted: August 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Courts in Moscow and the Moscow Region removed from the elections nine Yabloko candidates campaigning for peace and freedom
Press Release, 23.08.2024 Photo: Yabloko candidates to municipal deputies of the Kurkino district, Moscow/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow removed six previously registered Yabloko candidates from the snap election to the municipal council of the Kurkino district in Moscow. Earlier, the Moscow Regional Court deregistered three candidates […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A second criminal case filed against Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of the Kamchatka Yabloko and journalist, under an article on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 23.08.2024 Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court ruled to remand Yefimov in custody until 21 October. A lawyer is working with the journalist. Details of the case are being clarified. It should be noted that in March 2023, Vladimir Yefimov was fined 200,000 roubles under […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Don’t deprive citizens of elections in Kurkino!
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 23.08.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 20 August, 2024, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow received lawsuits demanding the cancellation of the decisions of the Territorial Electoral Commission on the registration of six candidates nominated by the Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Vladimir Dorokhov may be made a “foreign agent” through provocations. Dorokhov applied to the police and the FSB
Press Release, 22.08.2024 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 August, Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, received two money transfers to his accounts from an Armenian citizen whom Dorokhov does not know. Each transfer amounted to 2,000 roubles. Vladimir Dorokhov is certain […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Moscow Yabloko candidates in municipal elections to the Kurkino district municipal council may be removed from the race
Press Release, 21.08.2024 Photo: Yabloko candidates in snap elections in the Kurkino district, Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service In Moscow all six Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies in the Kurkino district may be removed from the race. Two self-nominated candidates filed lawsuits in the Tushinsky District Court in Moscow against the electoral […]
Posted: August 21st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Let’s support those who are still in captivity. Yabloko invites all to the actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 21.08.2024 Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions is holding another action of writing letters to political prisoners. After a historic prisoners exchange between several countries, as a result of which those to whom we wrote letters to pretrial detention centre and penal colonies where they were kept, and about whom we worried […]
Posted: August 21st, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We are eternally indebted to them”. Yabloko honoured the memory of the defenders of democracy in 1991
Press Release, 21.08.2024 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov, Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva, and other party members laid flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia” at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring […]
Posted: August 21st, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Moscow to honour the memory of the victims of the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 20.08.2024 Photo from open sources Members and supporters of Yabloko will meet at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring on August 21 at 11:45 so that to lay flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia”.
Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Nikolai Kavkazsky, a Moscow Yabloko member, fined for the second time for “displaying extremist symbols”
Press Release, 20.08.2024 Photo: Nikolai Kavkazsky outside the Basmanny Court, 2022 / Photo from Nikolai Kavkazsky’s personal archive The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced Nikolai Kavkazsky to a fine of 2,000 roubles under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“propaganda or public demonstration of Nazis’ symbols or the symbols of other extremist organisations”). […]
Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Summing up the results of registration of Yabloko candidates in 2024 elections
Press Release, 17.08.2024 The campaign of registration of Yabloko candidates in elections at various levels has been completed in all regions of Russia and in Moscow. As of today, 73 Yabloko candidates are participating in 31 election campaigns in nine regions of the country under a single party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the […]
Posted: August 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko party demands an end to repression against politicians and citizens fighting for fair elections in Russia
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 15.08.2024 Photo: Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, and Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of the Golos independent observers movement, at a round table devoted to organization of election observation as part of the All-Russian Civil Forum, 25 November, 2017 / Photo by Golos On 14 August, the […]
Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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