Archive for 'Human Rights'
Victor Kogan-Yasny: Decades and a year
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 04.02.2023 After Belovezh Accords of 1991 [when the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus secretly gathered in Belarus and declared that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist and established the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place as a successor entity], an authoritarian regime began to take shape in the […]
Posted: February 6th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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No one has fallen ill with plague or cholera in St. Petersburg, despite the Russian consumer safety watchdog justifying the ban on rallies by the danger of contamination with these diseases
Press Release, 03.02.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Russian consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor demanded a ban on public events in St. Petersburg due to the threat of the spread of not only COVID-19, but also cholera and plague. To date, however, not a single case of such contamination has been identified. This follows […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“The main unlearned lesson of the WWII is that war should never happen again.” Yabloko honoured the memory of the heroes and victims of the Battle of Stalingrad of the WWII
Press Release, 02.02.2023 Photo: Alexander Yefimov and Yabloko activists in Volgograd / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the 80th anniversary of the victory over the Hitler’s army in the Battle of the Volga, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party paid tribute to the memory of the heroes and victims of the Second […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova fined 30,000 roubles for “discrediting the army”. The court decision will be appealed
Press Release, 02.02.2023 Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today the Petrozavodsk City Court was examining, for four and a half hours, the case of an administrative offense by Emilia Slabunova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Sergei Balabayev, a member of the Bureau of the Yaroslavl Yabloko, is recommended for the post of Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yaroslavl region
Press Release, 02.02.2023 Photo: Sergei Balabayev / Photo from social media In April of this year, the term of service of the current Commissioner for Human Rights for the Yaroslavl region expires. Sergei Balabayev, a member of the Yaroslavl Yabloko Bureau, has been listed among the three contenders for the post of Ombudsman for Yaroslavl. […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova, a deputy of the Novgorod City Duma, demanded that the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ombudsperson respect the rights of political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov
Press Release, 01.02.2022 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Anna Cherepanova, a deputy of the Duma of Novgorod from Yabloko, sent inquiries to the Public Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Arkady Gostev and the Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova in defence of political […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The state to compensate moral damage for unlawful persecution to Viktor Shalyakin, the leader of the local branch of Yabloko in Novgorod
Press Release, 01.02.2023 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 30 January, the Novgorod District Court satisfied the claims Viktor Shalyakin, head of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Finance of Russia for compensation of his expenses connected […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“I beg you to write to me! It helps me a lot…” Actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners were held at Yabloko
Press Release, 01.02.2022 Photo: Cheboksary / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners were held at the central and regional offices of the Yabloko party past week and at the beginning of this week. Several hundred postcards and envelopes will go to penal colonies and pre-trial detention centres […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The police seized 19 Yelena Osipova’s paintings about peace from the office of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 01.02.2023 Photo: The Exhibition / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The police seized 19 paintings about peace by artist and activist Yelena Osipova. The paintings were exhibited at the office of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko at Spalernaya 13. On Wednesday, 1 February, police officers came to the Yabloko office, cordoned […]
Posted: February 1st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The office of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko cordoned off by the police
Press Release, 01.02.2023 Photo by the St.Petersburg Yabloko Police came to the office of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg at Shpalernaya 13, on Wednesday, 1 February. Police officers cordoned off the premises and said that they had received a call about a bomb threat.
Posted: February 1st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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“The police took away half of my paintings and did not return them”. An exhibition of Yelena Osipova opened at the office of St. Petersburg Yabloko
Press Release, 01.02.2023 Photo: Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service An exhibition of anti-war paintings and posters by the famous artist and activist Yelena Andreyevna Osipova opened at the office of the St. Petersburg branch of the […]
Posted: February 1st, 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, Без рубрики.
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The Petrozavodsk City Court will consider the case of “discrediting the army” against Yabloko deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova
Press Release, 01.02.2023 Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 2 February, the Petrozavodsk City Court will hold a hearing on the case of an administrative offense allegedly committed by Emilia Slabunova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and a member of the Federal Political Committee […]
Posted: February 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“PEACE-FUL Art Protest”. St.Petersburg Yabloko will host an exhibition of posters by Yelena Osipova
Press Release, 29.01.2023 Photo: Yelena Osipova St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko will host an exhibition of posters by the famous St. Petersburg artist and civil activist Yelena Osipova. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Tuesday, 31 January, at 18.30.
Posted: January 30th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Never again! Yabloko honored the memory of the victims of the siege of Leningrad during the World War 2.
Press Release, 27.01.2023 On 27 January, on the anniversary of lifting of the siege of Leningrad, the leaders of the Yabloko party laid flowers at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Boris Vishnevsky, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee Alexander Shishlov, member of the Federal Political […]
Posted: January 27th, 2023 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners was held in Moscow
Press Release, 27.01.2023 On 26 January , and action of writing letters to political prisoners was held at the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. This time 311 letters were written to 63 political prisoners. The actions lasted three hours. More than 60 people were present, they wrote words of support for political […]
Posted: January 27th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group means abandoning the priority of human rights in Russia”
Press Release, 27.01.2023 Photo: Valery Borshchyov, Co-Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group / Photo by Kristina Kormilitsyna, Kommersant The Moscow City Court, on false “grounds” made up by the Ministry of Justice, decided to liquidate the oldest human rights organisation in Russia – the Moscow Helsinki Group, established in 1976. Co-Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki […]
Posted: January 27th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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The pro-government majority in the Karelian parliament does not consider nuclear war propaganda dangerous
Press Release, 26.01.2023 Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia The parliamentary pro-government majority of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia rejected the draft federal initiative of the Yabloko faction envisaging criminal penalties for propaganda of nuclear war. The meeting of the Karelian Legislative Assembly was […]
Posted: January 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, 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 Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Court of Cassation recognised that the Chelyabinsk Yabloko was right in a dispute with the Mayor’s Office about holding a rally “For Peace”
Press Release, 25.01.2023 Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo from the personal archive On 25 January, the Seventh Court of Cassation dismissed the complaint of the Chelyabinsk Mayor’s Office against the decision of the regional court. The decision remains in force: the refusal of the city administration to the Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko […]
Posted: January 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture by Nadezhda Azhgikhina on the future of journalism in Russia and the world
Press Release, 26.01.2023 On 25 January, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “What will journalism be like in Russia and in the world?” by Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Ph.D. in Philology, member of the Executive Committee of Article 19, an international non-profit organisation protecting and promoting freedom of expression and freedom of information throughout the […]
Posted: January 26th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The parliament of St. Petersburg refused to consider Yabloko’s bill on a ban on nuclear war propaganda
Press Release, 25.01.2023 Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg The parliamentary majority of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg excluded from the agenda the draft federal initiative of the Yabloko faction envisaging criminal penalties for propaganda of nuclear war. This happened at the plenary meeting on Wednesday, 25 January. 35 […]
Posted: January 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, 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 Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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