Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko in Kurgan will participate in the City Duma elections
Press Release, 2.07.2025 Photo: Yelena Panova / Photo from the personal archive Kurgan Yabloko has nominated Yelena Panova, Chair of the regional branch of the party, as a candidate for the Kurgan City Duma elections in single-mandate electoral constituency No. 3. For registration in the elections, the candidate for Peace and Freedom must provide the […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Voronezh Yabloko has nominated candidates for the Voronezh City Duma elections
Press Release, 2.07.2025 Photo: Volunteers of Voronezh Yabloko headquarters / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko Past week the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko nominated a list of 18 candidates for the Voronezh City Duma elections. The candidates’ electoral campaign is conducted under the common Yabloko slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Novosibirsk Yabloko will participate in elections for the City Council and local self-government
Press Release, 2.07.2025 Photo: Yabloko candidates Pyotr Kopylov and Valentin Fedotov The conference of the Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party has nominated Pyotr Kopylov, 38-year-old entrepreneur and public activist, a candidate for the Novosibirsk City Council elections in electoral constituency No. 4, and Valentin Fedotov, 70-year-old supplementary education teacher, inventor and environmental activist, […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Novoaltaysk, a candidate for Peace and Freedom from the Yabloko party will participate in the elections
Press Release, 2.07.2025 Photo: Artyom Reka / Photo from the personal archive The Bureau of the Altai regional branch of the Yabloko party has nominated a candidate for the by-elections of deputy to the Novoaltaysk City Assembly. Artyom Reka, 37, a car mechanic and Yabloko party member, has been nominated to run in single-mandate electoral […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Tatarstan has nominated a candidate for the Kazan City Duma
Press Release, 2.07.2025 Photo: Candidate Sofia Fyodorova / Photo by the regional branch of the party The Bureau of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan has nominated Sofia Fyodorova as a candidate for deputy of the Kazan City Duma in a single-mandate constituency. To be registered in the elections, the candidate needs […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko hosted a lecture by Sergei Shklyudov “The Experience of Electronic Voting in Estonia: Myths and Reality”
Press Release, 1.07.2025 Electronic voting is an extremely controversial tool. It has many supporters and many opponents. Some countries have tried to introduce electronic voting in their elections, but then inevitably returned to paper. Today, only the experience of Estonia is virtually the only example of the successful introduction of electronic voting into the electoral […]
Posted: July 1st, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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A unique mosaic panel in a sports facility building destroyed in Udmurtia. Yabloko has filed a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office about the sports minister’s inaction
Press Release, 30.06.2025 Photo: Mosaic panel in the Izhstal Ice Palace building / Photo from social media One of the rare monuments of 1970s mosaic art – a mosaic panel possessing artistic and historical value – was situated in the foyer of the Izhstal Ice Palace building in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. Despite assurances from Udmurtia’s Minister […]
Posted: June 30th, 2025 under Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Judiciary, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies.
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Maxim Kruglov on the proposal of the head of the Presidential Human Rights Council to expel foreign families from the country: “The head of the Human Rights Council has apparently forgotten what his job is”
Press Release, 27.06.2025 Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev called for expelling migrant families from Russia if their children do not go to school. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are almost 786,000 minor foreigners in Russia. At the same time, the number of […]
Posted: June 27th, 2025 under Education and Science, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Gender Faction took part in the roundtable of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Club, dedicated to the history of the Russian women’s movement
Press Release, 26.06.2025 Photo by the Gorbachev Foundation First Deputy Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Olga Radayeva participated part in the roundtable of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Club project, which was held at the Gorbachev Foundation in June. The starting point for the discussion was the books by women’s movement historian Irina Yukina “Russian […]
Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Pskov Regional Court leaves Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party Lev Shlosberg under house arrest
Press Release, 26.06.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg /Photo by Pskov Yabloko On 11 June, the Pskov City Court ruled that Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party Lev Shlosberg should be arrested until 8 August. Shlosberg is at home, under house arrest, deprived of access to a telephone, mail, and the Internet, he is also restricted in […]
Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Moscow’s Chief Sanitary Doctor will assess, at Yabloko’s request, the coronavirus threat cited by the Moscow authorities when banning protest actions
Press Release, 26.06.2025 Photo: A mass sporting event at one of Moscow’s stadiums during the period of “coronavirus restrictions” / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant The letter to Yelena Andreyeva, Chief Sanitary Doctor of Moscow, was sent by the applicants of the pickets for the dismantling of the bas-relief depicting Joseph Stalin as the “father […]
Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Once again Yabloko in the St.Petersburg parliament proposes taking the first step toward free elections by returning the voting rights to “foreign agents”
Press Release, 25.06.2025 Photo: Alexander Shishlov at the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg /Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg parliament The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg has once again submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament its initiative to return the passive electoral right (the right to be elected) to citizens recognised […]
Posted: June 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow authorities refused to allow Yabloko to hold pickets for the dismantling of a bas-relief with Joseph Stalin in the Moscow metro. Yabloko is going to appeal the refusal in court
Press Release, 24.06.2025 Photo by Yevgeny Biyatov, RIA Novosti The formal reason for the refusal of the Prefecture of Central Administrative District of Moscow to approve Yabloko pickets was the “current epidemiological situation”. The authorities continue to refer to the decree of the Mayor of Moscow dated 8 June, 2020, which maintains the previously introduced […]
Posted: June 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Where is Seda? At its actions of writing letters to political prisoners, Yabloko will appeal to the President with a demand to investigate the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova
Press Release, 23.06.2025 Photo: Seda Suleimanova / Photo from open sources Yabloko has prepared special postcards dedicated to Seda Suleimanova, a Chechen girl who ran away from relatives who threatened her with honour killing for her refusal to agree to a forced marriage, was forcibly returned to Chechnya and, ultimately, disappeared. There has been no […]
Posted: June 24th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko lit candles in memory of the victims of World War II
Press Release, 22.06.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the 84th anniversary of the attack of the fascist Germany on the USSR, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrible tragedy that affected the lives and destinies of hundreds of millions of people – participants in the events of the first half […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: How to break the negotiating impasse?
Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 20.06.2025 Why are the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations taking so long and so painful? Because they are constantly trying to drag out the negotiations as much as possible. Who is trying? Both the sides. But one side is advancing, while the other, on the contrary, is losing increasingly more territory.
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Novgorod Yabloko nominated Viktor Shalyakin as a candidate for the post of Governor of Novgorod Region
Press Release, 20.06.2025 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo: by the Novgorod Region branch of Yabloko The Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated Viktor Shalyakin as a candidate for the post of Governor of Novgorod Region in the forthcoming elections. The conference delegates decided to nominate Viktor Shalyakin, a former military man, for the early elections of […]
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites to the screening of Marlen Khutsiev’s film “People of 1941”
Press Release, 20.06.2025 Photo: Screenshot of the film “People of 1941” On the evening of 21 June, on the threashold of a sad anniversary of fascist Germany’s attack on the USSR on 22 June 1941, we will conduct screening of Marlen Khutsiev’s film “People of 1941” paying tribute to the heroes and victims of the […]
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko has submitted an application for a series of one-person pickets in Moscow for the removal of the Stalin bas-relief at Taganskaya metro station
Press Release, 19.06.2025 Photo: Kirill Goncharov and Maxim Kruglov at the office of the Prefecture of the Central Administrative District, Moscow/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The initiators of the action are Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, as well as representatives of the Moscow branch of the party: authorised representative of the regional branch Maxim […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly submitted a bill to abolish the discriminatory ban on participation in elections for “foreign agents”
Press Release, 18.06.2025 Photo: Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg / Photo by the St.Petersburg parliament Press Service The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly has prepared and submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament a draft federal law on restoring passive electoral rights for Russian citizens included in the “foreign agents” registry. According to the […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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