Archive for 'Human Rights'
Head of the Novorzhevsky district Sofya Pugacheva fined for “discrediting the Russian army”
Press Release, 16.08.2022 Photo: Sofya Pugachyova / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service The Pushkinogorsk District Court in the Pskov Region found Sofya Pugachyova, head of the Novorzhevsky District elected from Yabloko, guilty of “discrediting the Russian army” due to the disappearance of the letters V and Z from the windows of the district […]
Posted: August 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The Irkustk branch of Yabloko started litigation for the right to hold a rally against articles about “discrediting the army” and “fakes about the army”
Press Release, 11.08.2022 Photo: A rally in Irkutsk, 2020 / Photo from social media The Irkutsk branch of Yabloko, together with civil activists, filed a lawsuit against the city administration of Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia. The lawsuit was filed with the Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk for administration’s refusal to give […]
Posted: August 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
After Alexander Shishlov was accused of “discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”, he began getting threats and insults
Press Release, 11.08.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, appealed to the Public Prosecutor of St.Petersburg Viktor Melnik in connection with the fact that after initiating administrative proceedings against him (at the initiative of the St. Petersburg […]
Posted: August 17th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Yabloko municipal deputy in St. Petersburg accused of “discrediting the armed forces”
Press Release, 6.08.2022 Photo: Dmitry Baltrukov / Photo from Dmitry Baltrukov’s personal archive Dmitry Baltrukov, a Yabloko deputy of the municipal council of the municipality Smolninskoye in St.Petersburg, was accused of “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”. The district police officer informed Baltrukov of this after monitoring his social media accounts by the […]
Posted: August 17th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko’s St.Petersburg MP Alexander Shishlov accused of “discrediting the Armed Forces”
Press Release, 29.07.2022 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Petrogradsky District of St.Petersburg filed a protocol on an administrative offense against Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and a member of the Federal Political Committee […]
Posted: August 1st, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
In the Komi Republic, a Yabloko member fined 60,000 roubles for “discrediting the army” and “insulting the authorities”
Press Release, 27.07.2022 Photo: Vera Zabaluyeva / Photo from Vera Zabaluyeva’s personal archive On 30 March, the City Court of Ukhta fined Yabloko member Vera Zabaluyeva 60,000 roubles under the Articles on “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and “insulting the authorities” (Article 20.1 Part 3 of the […]
Posted: July 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko regional branches to hold actions of sending letters of support to political prisoners
Press Release, 26.07.2022 The Yabloko party holds actions in support of political prisoners in different Russian regions. Any Russian citizen can participate. The participants of the actions can bring their own postcards and write words of support to any political prisoner, as well as sign postcards specially printed by Yabloko for politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and […]
Posted: July 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Grigory Yavlinsky: “Protests fail to affect politics not only in Russia, but also in the world”
Corriere Della Sera, 22.07.2022 Photo: Peace March in Moscow in 2014 / Photo by Yevgeny Nadalinsky, Kommersant On 16 July, the influential Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera published an interview with Grigory Yavlinsky on the situation in connection with the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Unfortunately, there are fragments in the Corriere Della Sera publication […]
Posted: July 25th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The Moscow authorities are trying to prevent Yabloko candidate Alexei Krapukhin from running in the municipal elections in the Moscow district of Krylatskoye
Press Release, 20.07.2022 Photo: Alexei Krapukhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow authorities are trying to prevent Alexei Krapukhin, a member of the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and Yabloko candidate in the forthcoming Moscow municipal election, from running in the municipal elections in the Moscow district of Krylatskoye […]
Posted: July 21st, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Andrei Morev arrested for 15 days and may be deprived of the right to participate in elections
Press Release, 20.07.2022 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and head of the Yakimanka district of Moscow, was arrested for 15 days for “demonstrating extremist symbols”.
Posted: July 20th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Andrei Pivovarov sentenced to four years in prison and an eight-year ban on political activities
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram Channel, 15.07.2022 Photo: Andrei Pivovarov A court in Krasnodar sentenced Andrei Pivovarov, a public figure and former candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, to four years in prison and an eight-year ban on political activities.
Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
Comments: none
Letters to the victims of the “censorship article”: postcards to Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev can be taken at the office of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 18.07.2022 Photo: postcards to Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev: “Freedom to Vladimir Kara-Murza and all political prisoners!” “Freedom to Mikhail Afanasyev and all political prisoners!” Yabloko has printed postcards in support of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev, who are in custody on criminal cases about “fakes about the army”. In Moscow, one can […]
Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Yabloko office in Moscow is collecting guarantees for Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov so that the court would release them on bail
Press Release, 15.07.2022 Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov The Yabloko party in Moscow has started collection of guarantees for politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov, the author of the Protest MGU Telegram Channel, so that they could be released on bail. Kara-Murza and Ivanov are now under arrest on criminal charges of “fakes about […]
Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
“This is the initiative of workers for the money of advertisers.” The management of St.Petersburg subway answered the question of Yabloko about “Z-advertising”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service “Z-posters” in the St. Petersburg subway are placed on the initiative of the trade union of workers, on the money of an advertising agency. That is how the subway management responded to Yabloko’s request about the legality of placing Z-signs in St.Petersburg metro.
Posted: July 14th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko member Konstantin Kononenko fined in Barnaul for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 The Zheleznodorozhny District Court in Barnaul, the Altai Territory, fined Konstantin Kononenko, an activist of the Yabloko party, 30,000 roubles under an administrative article on “discrediting the army.”
Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko member Vladimir Fateyev fined twice in Tambov for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 Photo: Vladimir Fateyev / Photo from social media On 11 July, the Tambov Regional Court upheld the decision of the Sovietsky Court of the city of Tambov on the guilt of Vladimir Fateyev, musician and a member of the Yabloko party, in “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code […]
Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Lyubov Zhiltsova, Yabloko deputy in the Pskov region, fined in the case of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022 Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova / Photo from pskov.yabloko.ru Lyubov Zhiltsova, teacher and Yabloko deputy of the Palkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov Region, was fined 30,000 roubles for “discrediting the army” for a photo with the words “No ** ***!”
Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The Chairman of the local branch of Yabloko in Novgorod found guilty of “spreading fakes” about the “special operation”
Press Release, 12.07.2022 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo from social media On 11 July, the Novgorod District Court fined Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, 30,000 roubles for “spreading false information” about the “special operation” on the VKontakte social network (Article 13.15 Part 9 of the Code of […]
Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Moscow City Court upheld the verdict against Nikolai Kavkazsky
Press Release, 11.07.2022 Photo: Nikolai Kavkazsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Moscow City Court rejected the complaint by Nikolai Kavkazsky, a human rights activist and a member of the Regional Council of the Moscow Yabloko, against the decision of the Basmanny District Court. On 25 June, Kavkazsky was found guilty of “demonstrating […]
Posted: July 12th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Candidate in Moscow municipal elections Maya Baidakova arrested for ten days
Press Release, 8.07.2022 Photo: Maya Baidakova (left) and Andrei Morev. / Photo from social media Maya Baidakova, deputy head of the legal department in the Council of Deputies of Yakimanka District in Moscow and a candidate for Moscow municipal deputies, was arrested for ten days under Article 20.3 of the Administrative Offences Code (“demonstration of […]
Posted: July 12th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none