Archive for 'Human Rights'
Nikolay Rybakov in Krasnoyarsk: about the “black sky”, the problems of the Yenisei and the underfunding of medicine
Today’s working day is in Krasnoyarsk. Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 6.08.2021 The nature of the region starts brining you joy already on the approach to the Dmitry Hvorostovsky airport. Endless taiga, hills, and the great Yenisei river. At the same time, it is hard to breathe in Krasnoyarsk – because of the large number of […]
Posted: August 10th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The leader of Yabloko demanded that the Krasnoyarsk Governor redistribute 1 billion roubles of the regional budget to fight the pandemic
Press Release, 6.08.2021 Photo: Governor Alexander Uss is taken temperature. / Photo from the official web-site of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Nikolai Rybakov, the leader of the Yabloko party candidates list in the elections to the State Duma, demanded that the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Uss, redistribute the regional budget and provide support to […]
Posted: August 10th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg was removed from the State Duma elections in a single-mandate constituency. Statements by the leaders of Yabloko
Press Release, 9.08.2021 Photo: Lev Shlosberg. / Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service The Moscow City Court made a decision to cancel the registration of Lev Shlosberg as a candidate for State Duma elections in a single-mandate constituency. The decision was adopted on the administrative claim by Andrei Pangayev, a candidate for State Duma […]
Posted: August 10th, 2021 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolay Rybakov visited Novosibirsk within the framework of his election tour
Yabloko leader met with residents, the Governor, and visited a waste sorting plant and an animal shelter Press Release, 4.08.2021 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and residents of Novosibirsk / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Nikolai Rybakov, Сhairman of the Yabloko party, visited Novosibirsk within the framework of his election tour to the Russian regions. Rybakov […]
Posted: August 5th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko has published its election programme for the State Duma elections
Press Release, 29.07.2021. Photo: Nikolai Rybakov (in the centre), Yabloko Chairman and leader of the party list for the 2021 parliamentary elections. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The final version of the election programme of the Yabloko party “Freedom and Law. Hope for the Future” has been published. The programme has five sections. […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Programme documents, Protection of Environment, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, Без рубрики.
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The Supreme Court: the decision of the Central Electoral Commission on cancellation of video broadcasts from polling stations must be appealed to the Constitutional Court
Press Release, 23.07.2021 Photo: Chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev and Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin. Photo: by Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant The Supreme Court dismissed the administrative law suit of the Yabloko party against the Central Electoral Commission regarding the cancellation of public video broadcasting from polling stations. The Supreme Court did […]
Posted: July 26th, 2021 under Elections, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Yabloko party appealed to the Supreme Court with a claim against the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, 19.07.2021 Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin/ Kommersant The Yabloko party filed an administrative lawsuit with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the recognition of the Central Electoral Commission’s decision on cancelling public broadcasts from polling stations during elections of the State Duma deputies inappropriate to the law. On 14 July, the Central […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2021 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma demands an investigation into the brutal detention of a woman who refused to wear a mask at the Multifunctional Public Services Centre
Press Release, 28.06.2021 Photo by irek-murtazin.livejournal.com According to Novaya Gazeta, the police dragged a handcuffed woman out of the building of the Multifunctional Public Services Centre on the asphalt and left her lying in the street unconscious before taking her to the police station. However, the woman told to the police officers that her daughter […]
Posted: June 29th, 2021 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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Abduction of women from a shelter is a violation of human rights by security forces
Statement by the Yabloko Gender Faction, 15.06.2021 Photo: Halimat Taramova / screenshot of the publication on Svetlana Anokhina’s Instagram page On 10 June, Chechen and Dagestan security forces broke into a crisis centre in Makhachkala, Dagestan, kidnapping Khalimat Taramova and her girlfriend Anna Manylova (the latter was later released). Human rights defender Svetlana Anokhina and […]
Posted: June 18th, 2021 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko: One of the main reasons for the failure of coronavirus vaccination in Ryazan is organisational chaos in the healthcare system
Press Release, 18.06.2021 On 16 June, Yelena Sorokina, the head of the Ryazan city administration, said that “unfortunately, the number of cases of coronavirus infection has not been decreasing in the city,” and asked “the heads of Ryazan enterprises to think over the ways of encouraging, for example, granting days off, to employees who took […]
Posted: June 18th, 2021 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolay Rybakov: the Central Electoral Commission will bear the liability for election violations
Press Release, 16.06.2021 Video by the Yabloko Press Service On 16 June, the Central Electoral Commission held a meeting on the appeals from the Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov and the Ombudsman in St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov sent to the head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova, with a proposal not to introduce a three-day […]
Posted: June 18th, 2021 under Elections, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Freedom in Russia and our human dignity are our responsibility. No one, including President Biden, will solve these problems for us
What to expect from the Geneva summit Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 16.06.2021 Joe Biden was “asked” at the G7 meeting and the NATO summit, to speak toughly with Putin. And so it will be: we will hear some new words about the “red lines” and about the price that the Kremlin will have to pay. […]
Posted: June 17th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-US Relations.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko calls on the regional Ombudsman to respond to massive violations of citizens’ rights during protest actions
Press Release, 11.06.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko Deputy Chairman of the Saratov branch of Yabloko Fyodor Demyanchuk sent an open letter to the Ombudsman for Human Rights in the Saratov Region. Demyanchuk called on the regional Ombudsman to prepare a special report on massive violations of citizens’ rights […]
Posted: June 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands to initiate a criminal case into the poisoning of writer Dmitry Bykov
Press Release, 11.06.2021 Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin and Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov open a criminal case into the poisoning of the writer Dmitry Bykov with an organophosphate nerve agent. Rybakov refers to an investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider (https://theins.ru/politika/242567 ), which convincingly proved […]
Posted: June 11th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko goes on campaigning for legal protection of the participants of the rally of 21 April
Press Release, 10.06.2021 Trials of the participants of the April 21 rally in support of political prisoners continue in the Ivanovo region. Five sessions of the courts of first instance have taken place by today. In all the cases, the hearings were postponed at the request of the defence to establish additional circumstances and motions […]
Posted: June 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Exposing corruption and openly criticising the government is regarded as extremism now
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 10.06.2021 Photo by Anton Denisov / RIA Novosti The Yabloko party considers the decision of the Moscow City Court to recognise Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and related organisations as extremist to be politically motivated. This is another step targeted at banning the activities of public organisations that expose corruption […]
Posted: June 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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On the persecution of journalist Arseniy Vesnin
Statement by Nikolai Rybakov and Boris Vishnevsky, 8.06.2021 Photo: Arseny Vesnin / Photo from Arseny Vesnin’s Facebook page The Yabloko party is outraged by the persecution of Arseny Vesnin, a well-known St. Petersburg journalist, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekho Moskvi radio station in St. Petersburg, whom the Investigative Committee is trying to accuse of “libel […]
Posted: June 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulated the residents of Ingushetia on the Republic Day
Congratulations from the Yabloko party Chairman, 4.06.2021 Dear residents of Ingushetia, I would like to send you our greetings on the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Ingushetia and wish prosperity to your Republic and its people. During the years of ordeals, showing wisdom and strong will, the residents of Ingushetia fought […]
Posted: June 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: This is not a Davos. This is a “vanity fair” for domestic use
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post at the Ekho Moskvi web-site, 4.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the President of Russia/ http://www.kremlin.ru The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is a depressing sight. Not only because there are many respectable men in expensive suits, traveling in expensive cars in the centre of the city (I saw myself […]
Posted: June 4th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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The leaders of the Gender faction took part in the online seminar: “Discrimination Against Women and the Fight for Gender Equality”
The European Dialogue Expert Group, 3.06.2021 On Monday, 31 May, the first meeting within the framework of the cycle of international online seminars “Time for Women” took place. The topic of the seminars is gender equality and advancement of women, the events are organised by the European Dialogue Expert Group and the Gender Faction of […]
Posted: June 4th, 2021 under Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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