Archive for 'Human Rights'
“The authorities are striving to destroy the very possibility to legally engage in politics in the country”
Press Release, 1.06.2021 Photo: Dmitry Gudkov at the Yabloko congress. /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko leaders expressed solidarity with Dmitry Gudkov, Andrei Pivovarov and other opposition figures whose houses are being searched today. NIKOLAI RYBAKOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE YABLOKO PARTY: – On the eve of the elections to the State Duma, the […]
Posted: June 1st, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Yabloko’s Alexander Kobrinsky about defending those detained at rallies in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 26.05.2021 Photo: Alexander Kobrinsky / Photo from the personal archive During unpermitted rallies on 23 and 31 January, the majority of those detained were in St. Petersburg. St.Petersburg police not only dispersed peaceful people with inexplicable cruelty, but also drove them into police vans by hundreds, so that to draw up protocols of […]
Posted: May 27th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko members Viktor Shalyakin and Vitaly Bovar, detained at the municipal deputies congress, received fines
Press Release, 25.05.2021 Photo: Vitaly Bovar (right) / Photo from Vitaly Bavar’s Facebook page Late in the evening of 24 May, the Novgorod District Court imposed fines on Viktor Shalyakin, the Chairman of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, and Vitaly Bovar, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the St. Petersburg municipality Vladimirsky […]
Posted: May 26th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “I demand to stop police pressure on the leaders of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and release all the detainees”.
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 24.05.2021 Photo from the Anna Cherepanova Facebook page On Saturday, 22 May, the authorities of Novgorod (North-West Russia) carried out another police action targeted at the intimidation of civil society. The unlawful dispersal of the congress of municipal deputies from different Russian cities (Zemsky Congress) and the detention of its […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Airplane hijacked: any criminal and terrorist methods without any restrictions will be used in Belarus and Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 23.05.2021 Photo: Roman Protasevich /Photo from social networks Opposition journalist Roman Protasevich [from Belarus] was kidnapped by special services in Minsk. For this purpose, a passenger plane of the Irish airline Ryanair flying over Belarus was forced to land at the Minsk airport by means of provocation (under the pretext of […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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Police came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko. The police plans to bring the Chair of the regional party office to administrative responsibility
Press Release, 24.05.2021 Photo: Ksenia Sverdlova / Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko Police officers came to the office of the Saratov branch of Yabloko. The police said that they were looking for the Chair of the regional branch of the party, Ksenia Sverdlova, so that to bring her to […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Defender
To the 100th anniversary of Academician Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.05.2021 Photo: Andrei Sakharov. The 1st Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR, 1989 The prosperity of Russia is possible only if our country develops as a free and democratic state. This condition was once very precisely formulated by Academician Sakharov. Andrei Dmitriyevich […]
Posted: May 21st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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A photo exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Acad. Andrei Sakharov banned by the Moscow Mayor’s Office will be held at the Yabloko office
Press Release, 20.05.2021 Photo: Academician Andrei Sakharov / Photo by Sergei Guneyev, RIA Novosti The photo exhibition of the Andrei Sakharov Center* “Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov: Anxiety and Hope”, which will not take place in Chistoprudny Boulevard due to the ban of the Moscow Mayor’s Office, will be held at the central office of the Yabloko […]
Posted: May 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Understanding Russia.
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Discrimination based on political views is becoming cynical, open and widespread. Where is the Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation?
Blog post by Emilia Slabunova, 17.05.2021 The trade union of the Moscow metro reports mass dismissals of workers – at least 50 people lost their jobs since the beginning of May. However, different figures are quoted: 100 and 200 people. They differ, since not everyone has yet applied to the trade union for protection. The […]
Posted: May 18th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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On the inadmissibility of persecuting students for political reasons
Congress Resolution No. 409, published on 14.05.2021 To: The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation The Russian Union of Rectors Heads of institutions of higher education of the Russian Federation Address Persecution of university students for their civic and political activity has become more frequent in Russia. Those who openly express their civil and […]
Posted: May 14th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Education and Science, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Social Policies, YABLOKO Congresses, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Why there is no place for freedom of speech in Putin’s system
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.04.2021 Photo by Yury Belyat / MBKh Media Twenty years ago, a hostile takeover by the state of NTV, the first all-Russian TV channel independent of the state, took place. By common consent, NTV, established in 1993, became a world-class TV channel [in Russia] in a few years. But in 2001, a […]
Posted: April 30th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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Yevgeny Bunimovich: “The Ministry of Education prohibits educational activities! It is like in George Orwell’s books! “
Press Release, 29.04.2021 Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich Yevgeny Bunimovich, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Education and a member of the Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, called the ameded law on educational activities represents a manifestation of censorship. The law will come into force on 1 June and will seriously limit […]
Posted: April 29th, 2021 under Education and Science, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan participated in the formation of a joint headquarters for independent observation of elections in the region
Press Release, 27.04.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan The Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and the Association of Tatarstan Observers signed a memorandum on the creation of a joint regional headquarters of election observers during the Forum of Kazan Opposition Forces, which took place in Kazan on 24 April. They […]
Posted: April 28th, 2021 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko announces a public campaign for the legal protection of the participants of the rally of 21 April
Press Release, 27.04.2021 Photo by saiko3p/depositphotos On 27 April, the Bureau of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko issued a statement announcing launch of a public campaign for the legal protection of the participants of the rally of 21 April. “On 21 April, a rally in support of Alexei Navalny and other prisoners of conscience was […]
Posted: April 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court dismissed the lawsuit initiated by the police and aimed at prosecution of Anna Cherepanova for her post on the Vkontakte social network
Press Release, 27.04.2021 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko The Novgorod District Court terminated the administrative case against Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and deputy of the Duma of Novgorod, due to the lack of an administrative offense. The police intended to […]
Posted: April 27th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the intensification of political reprisals in Russia
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 22.04.2021 The Yabloko party states that large-scale political reprisals have been unleashed in Russia. The intensification of the persecution of political opponents and merely those people who actively disagree with Putin’s policies represents a direct consequence of the unlawful changes in the Constitution of the Russian Federation implemented by the […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, Без рубрики.
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President Putin did not give a single answer to Russians’ pressing questions. Yabloko Bureau on the President’s message to the Federal Assembly
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 22.04.2021 The Bureau of the Yabloko party notes that the presidential address of Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly did not contain a single answer to the most pressing issues for [Russian] citizens (such as drop of incomes, price rise and stagnation of the economy), neither did it contain a […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Politics, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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On the police brutality on 21 April, 2021
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 22.04.2021 Photo by Ilya Pitalev / RIA Novosti April 21 again became the day of the triumph of police arbitrariness in Russia. Once again, mass-scale, unmotivated detentions of participants in peaceful actions with unjustified and disproportionate use of force took place throughout the country. We note the particularly brutal actions […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: We need to develop the economy, not poverty in the country. Yabloko leader assessed the President’s Address to the Federal Assembly
Press Release, 22.04.2021 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov spoke at a meeting of the Party Bureau on 22 April, 2021. In his speech, Rybakov assessed the President’s Address to the Federal Assembly. According to Rybakov, Vladimir Putin’s address was no different from his […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko demanded the release of Nizhny Novgorod residents detained on the threashold of the protest action on 21 April
Press Release, 21.04.2021 Photo: Oleg Rodin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, appealed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Nizhny Novgorod region with a demand for the immediate release of Nizhny Novgorod residents detained on April 21, on the eve of the action […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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