Archive for 'Human Rights'
Donbass: a Peaceful Alternative
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 17 January 2022 Photo by Ilya Pitalyev / Kommersant In actual fact, the war started eight years and has never stopped, leaving over 13,000 dead, and countless refugees. Hundreds of thousands of Donbass residents are actually hostages in Moscow’s geopolitical games. Meanwhile the entire campaign of intimidation and scaremongering about war and […]
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko has already collected 15,000 signatures against war with Ukraine
Press Release, 21.02.2022 Photo: the Rostov-on-Don region, February 2022. Photo by Igor Ivanko / Kommersant As of Monday noon MSK, 15,025 people left their signatures under the anti-war petition launched by Yabloko on its website. The number of signatures rose by more than 30 per cent after the aggravation of the situation in the so-called […]
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov called on the upper chamber of the Russian parliament to revoke permission for President Putin to use the army abroad
Press Release, 21.02.2022 Photo by Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant On the eve of the 518th meeting of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament – the Federation Council, – which will be held on February 22, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to all members of the Federation Council with a proposal to cancel the […]
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Over 10,000 signed Yabloko’s petition against the war between Russia and Ukraine
Press Release, 19.02.2022 Photo: Anti-war action “The Peace March” in St. Petersburg, 2015. Photo by Alexander Koryakov/Kommersant Yabloko has collected over 10,000 signatures against the war with Ukraine under a petition on the website of the Yabloko party.
Posted: February 21st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: No to war!
Yabloko leader addressed citizens of Russia with a statement “No to war!”. Press Release, 17.02.2022 Nikolai Rybakov: War means violence, tears and suffering. For some persons war means authority and money. But the death of innocent people is not worth any money.
Posted: February 17th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine in 36 regional collection points
Press Release, 16.02.2022 Attention: the number of regions in the title changes as we open new points of collection of signatures. Photo: A sign at the collection point in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Regional branches of the Yabloko party launched a collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine in their […]
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Independent American and Russian women call for peace
Press Release, 16.02.2022 Chair of the Yabloko Party Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva also signed the letter Photo by Maxim Bogodid / RIA Novosti We are women from the United States and Russia who are deeply concerned about the risk of imminent war between our two countries, who together possess over 90% of the world’s nuclear […]
Posted: February 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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NO TO WAR! Collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine
13.02.2022 The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. We will collect signatures not only on the Internet, but also in our offices across the country. Wherever we can, and where covid sanitary restrictions allow, we will conduct picketing. The list of collection points will be published soon. Please share the […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine
Press Release, 13.02.2022 The Yabloko party launches collection of signatures against the war with Ukraine. Signatures under a petition to the Russian government will be collected not only on the Internet, but also in the offices of Yabloko across the country. Yabloko activists will go on pickets in the regions where covid sanitary restrictions allow. […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Alexander Korovainy will continue to work in the Yeysk District Council
Press Release, 14.02.2022 Photo: Alexander Korovainy /Photo from Alexander Korovayny’s social networks Alexander Korovainy, a member of Yabloko and ex deputy of the Yeisk District Council, was appointed assistant to Alexander Baturints, a current deputy of the Yeisk District Council and a supporter of the party.
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Three Yabloko party members were included into the ranking of public activists of the Krasnodar Territory
Press Release, 08.02.2022 Photo: Alexander Biryukov, Alexander Korovainy, and Sofia Pilyukova / Photo from social networks Alexander Korovayny, a former deputy of the Yeisk District Council from the Yabloko party, Alexander Biryukov, a Yabloko member and Deputy Chairman of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, and Sofia Pilyukova, a public activist and a Yabloko volunteer in […]
Posted: February 14th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The offices of the ex-candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko Oleg Mandrykin were searched
Press Release, 9.02.2022 Photo: Oleg Mandrykin and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov (left). / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service All the offices of the real estate agency Variant in Severodvinsk, the Arkhangelsk region, headed by Oleg Mandrykin, one of the leaders of the STOP-SHIES coalition [a public movement against organisation of a giant landfill instead […]
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Boris Vishnevsky urged to check the dismissal of a teacher from a St. Petersburg school for reсiting verses by poets repressed in the Stalin’s period and labelled “enemies of the people”
Press Release, 7.02.2022 Photo by wikimapia.org Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Natalia Putilovskaya, Chair of the St.Petersburg Committee on Education, with a request to conduct a check into the actions of Svetlana Lebedeva, Principal of School No. 168, who, according […]
Posted: February 11th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky called on the Public Prosecutor General to launch prosecutor’s investigation into the threats of Chechen politicians and security officials to the family of a retired judge and journalists
Press Release, 4.02.2022Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo from the website of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and deputy chairman of Yabloko, sent an appeal to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General of Russia, with a request to launch prosecutor’s investigation into for signs of […]
Posted: February 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Online seminar of the Yabloko Gender faction “Reproductive rights: from prohibition to freedom to dispose of one’s own body, or vice versa”
Press Release, 4.02.2022 Photo by iofoto/depositphotos The Gender faction of the Yabloko party and the European Dialogue expert group are holding an international online seminar within the framework of the Women’s Time project: “Reproductive rights: from prohibition to freedom to dispose of one’s own body or vice versa”. The seminar will be held on 8 […]
Posted: February 8th, 2022 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that Vladimir Putin stop the violation of the rights of citizens in Chechnya
Press Release, 3.02.2022 Photo by Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant On 3 February, Nikolai Rybakov demanded from Vladimir Putin to restore the rights of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic.
Posted: February 3rd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Artur Gaiduk: Legislation on “foreign agents” is an instrument of pressure and repression
Press Release, 31.01.2022 Photo: Artur Gaiduk, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko At the January session, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly rejected Yabloko’s initiative to introduce a federal bill envisaging the exclusion of the concept of “foreign agents” and the related norms from Russian legislation. The bill was developed by lawyers of […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts
Press Release, 28.01.2022 Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy and ex Chairman of Yabloko, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts. Such measures were taken as part of the enforcement proceedings on administrative cases of offenses in connection with Mitrokhin’s participation […]
Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Prevent catastrophe – prevent war with Ukraine
Yabloko’s call on the Russian society Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 150 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022 Photo: Peace March, Moscow, 2014. Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko calls on the Russian society and the Russian authorities under no circumstances […]
Posted: January 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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On emergency measures to prevent war
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 149 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022 The life, health, safety and well-being of millions of people in Russia and Ukraine are under threat. A military clash between the two neighbouring states is becoming more and more likely, fraught with huge casualties. This is a conflict of […]
Posted: January 27th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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