Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko deputies in the Moscow State Duma demand from the Moscow police to investigate the chemical attack on the office of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper
Press Release, 16.03.2021 Photo: The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, from left to right: Sergei Mitrokhin, Daria Besedina, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Maxim Kruglov. Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, sent an appeal to the head of the Moscow police, Oleg Baranov, with a proposal to prove the […]
Posted: March 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
For every man, there’s a law to convict him under
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.03.2021 Photo: Participants of the Municipal Forum in a police van. Photo by Avtozak Live Police detained over 170 municipal deputies in Moscow. This is how the authorities are fighting the pandemic and “undesirable organisations” [the Russian law “on undesirable organisations” gives prosecutors the power to extrajudicially declare foreign and international organisations […]
Posted: March 16th, 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, Timur Kuashev's case, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded to open a criminal case on the fact of extrajudicial killings in Chechnya
Press Release, 16.03.2021 Photo: The law enforcement forces in Grozny, Chechnya. Photo by Said Tsarnayev / RIA Novosti On 15 March, Novaya Gazeta published another part of the investigation into extrajudicial killings of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic. With reference to the publication, this was also reported by other media, in particular, RBC. […]
Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
Comments: none
Statement by Yabloko deputies of the Moscow parliament on political terror on behalf of the Moscow police
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 15.03.2021 Photo: Detention of Sergei Mitorkhin These days, the whole country has been witnessing a new round of a systemic campaign aimed at suppressing opposition politics in Russia. Past week, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, presented to the Moscow City Duma his […]
Posted: March 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The Investigative Committee refused to conduct an investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny at the request of Yabloko regional MPs Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 11.03.2021 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk / Photo by Artyom Avanesov The Main Military Investigation Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia believes that the appeal of the deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg with the demand […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko’s Emilia Slabunova calls the government of Karelia to abandon cutting of the forests around the settlements of the indigenous Vepsian people
Press Release, 11.03.2021 Photo from the official website of the Administration of the Ryboretsky Vepsian rural settlement Emilia Slabunova, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, calls the parties of the lease agreement concluded between the timber industry company OOO DOK Kalevala and the Republic of […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Yabloko deputies in the Moscow City Duma ask the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case on the possible fact of the poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza by the Federal Security Service
Press Release, 9.03.2021 Four deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma signed an appeal to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, with a request to open a criminal case on the fact of media reports about the possible poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. by officers of the Federal Security […]
Posted: March 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
Comments: none
Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky spoke at the international conference The Man Who Changed the World timed to coincide with Mikhail Gorbachev’s 90th birthday
Press Release, 5.03.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Olga Zdravomyslova, Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation, and Pavel Palazhchenko, head of the International Contacts and Press Service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko party Chairman, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, took part in the international […]
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
Comments: none
The Yabloko Party University will host Alexander Sungurov’s lecture on human rights
Press Release, 8.03.2021 On Friday, 12 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a Zoom lecture by Alexander Sungurov “Human Rights: Fundamentals of the Concept and Unresolved Problems”. The lecture will begin at 19:00. The lecture will cover the following issues:
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights.
Comments: none
“The Soviet and the Russian woman: how have the roles changed?” Online conference of Yabloko’s Gender faction
Press Release, 4.03.2021 On Thursday, 4 March, Yabloko’s Gender held a Zoom conference “The Soviet and the Russian woman: how have the roles changed?” The conference was dedicated to the 8 of March International Women’s Day. Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the faction, Olga Radayeva, First Deputy Chair of the faction, Tatiana Ovcharenko, Marina Karavayeva, Olga […]
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, History, Human Rights.
Comments: none
Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk demand from the head of the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case into the attempted murder of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr.
Press Release, 5.03.2021 Photo: Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg / Photo: Artyom Avanesov More than three weeks have passed since the publication of the investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider about the circumstances of the two attempts on murder on politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., but […]
Posted: March 5th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
Comments: none
Yabloko at the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov
Yabloko activists honoured the memory of the murdered politician throughout Russia Press Release, 1.03.2021 Photo: Nizhni Novgorod, the region where Boris Nemtsov was Governor in 1991-1997 On February 27, Yabloko members went to rallies, single pickets and other events in many regions of Russia so that to commemorate murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. In Moscow, […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Grigory Yavlinsky: What threatens Putin and what threatens Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Politics, Protests in Russia, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov spoke at a permitted rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Barnaul
Press Release 1.03.2021 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in a permitted rally in memory of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in Barnau, the Altai Territory. Barnaul became the only city out of 22 Russian cities, where the authorities satisfied Yabloko’s application for a mass action.
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
“The murder of Boris Nemtsov is a bleeding wound on the body of Russian society”
Yabloko leaders laid flowers to the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Nemtsov Bridge Press Release, 27.02.2021 Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky laid flowers at the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, which Muscovites have been calling the Nemtsov Bridge. The mourning action was also attended […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
“The Soviet and the Russian woman: how have the roles changed?” Online conference of Yabloko’s Gender faction
Press Release, 26.02.2021 On Thursday, 4 March, Yabloko’s Gender faction will hold a Zoom conference “The Soviet and the Russian woman: how have the roles changed?” The conference will begin at 19:00. The conference will be attended by Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the faction, Olga Radayeva, First Deputy Chair of the faction, Tatiana Ovcharenko, Marina […]
Posted: February 26th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko was denied approval of the Boris Nemtsov Memorial March in 21 out of 22 regions
Press Release, 25.02.2021 Photo: Yabloko at the Moscow March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov in 2017 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Regional authorities in 21 Russian regions refused to give permissions for Yabloko’s actions in memory of Boris Nemtsov. Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, was shot six times […]
Posted: February 26th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
A crime against everyone
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.02.2021 Today is the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland [in Russia]. A memorable day for all our multinational people, who defended our country shoulder to shoulder during the Second World War. I congratulate all those who today defend Russia from foes, diseases, poverty, arbitrariness and lawlessness. All those who […]
Posted: February 24th, 2021 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
Comments: none
Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee adopted the position of Grigory Yavlinsky and approved the direction of the party’s reform
Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 February 19, a regular meeting of the Federal Political Committee (FPC) of the Yabloko Party took place. The meeting was attended by all 17 members of the FPC. The Federal Political Committee considered two issues: the statement “On systemic threats […]
Posted: February 20th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Protests in Russia, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The court did not uphold the claim of the Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko on holding the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov.
Party members will take part in a memory watch and a round table Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Personal page of Maxim Petlin on Facebook On 20 February, the Leninsky district court of the city of Yekaterinburg refused to approve the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov and the memorial meeting. On February 19, the Sverdlovsk […]
Posted: February 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none