Archive for 'Human Rights'
Information Ochlocracy
Revolution in the information environment and the future of politics POLITICAL ENTROPY (Chapter 3) Grigory Yavlisky’s web-site, 09.12.2020 We are witnessing before our very eyes a serious transformation of the information and communications space which has already led to notable political and social changes and may have even more significant consequences in the medium and […]
Posted: December 9th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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A criminal case filed against an activist of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 6.12.2020 A criminal case under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Intentional infliction of minor harm to health”) was opened against Artyom Gelfanov, a member of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko and an activist of the StopKambarka ecological movement.
Posted: December 8th, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the Political Systems of the New Age
POLITICAL ENTROPY (Chapter 2) Digital technologies and the globalisation of disorder As a series of events sent shockwaves globally, a large-scale process proceeded in the background imperceptibly, with the creation of new forms and methods to manage social phenomena, to all intents and purposes representing the birth of a new type of political system. It […]
Posted: December 4th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Court declared null and void the unsatisfactory assessment given by the pro-government party deputies to Yabloko’s head of the Novorzhevsky district Sofya Pugachyova
Press Release, 2.12.2020 Photo: Sofia Pugachyova and her lawyer Yelena Mayatnikova In September 2019, two Yabloko activists and deputies – 38-year-old Sofya Pugachyova from Novorzhev and 59-year-old Svetlana Vasilkova from Pustoshka won elections and became heads of districts. However, representatives of the ruling United Russia party began to interfere with their performance of their duties, […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Appeal to human rights defenders about blocking of the house of the leader of the Ingush branch of Yabloko by the law enforcement
Press Release, 2.12.2020 Photo (from left to right): Magomed Mutsolgov and Ruslan Mutsolgov Magomed Mutsolgov, public figure, journalist and human rights activist, forwarded an appeal to Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Valery Fadeyev, Chairman of the Council on Civil Society Development and Human Rights under the President of the Russian […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Investigative Committee to Emilia Slabunova: The Russian Military Historical Society exhumed not 17, but 20 people in the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh, but their identities have not been established
Press Release, 2.12.2020 The Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Karelia admitted that during the so-called expeditions of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), established by Vladimir Putin’s decree and chaired by ex-Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, to the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh the remains of twenty people were exhumed, […]
Posted: December 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 1.12.2020 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is […]
Posted: December 1st, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Gender Faction hosted international conference “Situation with Protection of Women’s Rights in the situation of COVID lockdowns. International Experience”
Press Release, 27.11.2020 On 24 November, on the threashold of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November) and the launch of this year’s international campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence” Yabloko Gender Faction conducted international on-line conference “Situation with Protection of Women’s Rights in the situation of COVID […]
Posted: November 27th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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After Yabloko’s appeal, 26 regions lifted restrictions on street actions
Press Release, 26.11.2020 Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko, at a picket against the amendments to the Constitution, on 23 June, 2020 A year after Yabloko’s appeal to the Public Prosecutor’s Offices of 43 Russian Federation subjects with a demand to bring regional laws on rallies in line with the Constitution, […]
Posted: November 26th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Professionalism Versus Insanity
Statement on the resumption of the activities of the Public Constitutional Council Novaya Gazeta, 25.11.2020 The Public Constitutional Council, which we established in January 2020 in response to the President’s initiative to amend the Constitution of the Russian Federation, warned at the same time that the adoption of the proposed amendments to the Basic Law […]
Posted: November 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko calls on the regional government to open data on the causes of excess mortality in the region
Press Release, 19.11.2020 Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, sent an inquiry to the regional Ministry of Healthcare demanding to open data on the reasons for the increase in mortality in 2020. The analysis of open data of Rosstat (the Russian statistical agency) in the Chelyabinsk region shows that 2,043 more deaths […]
Posted: November 20th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the search in the house of Alexander Korovainy, leader of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Krasnodar
Statement by Nikolai Rybakov and Olga Tsepilova, 18.11.2020 Today, on 18 November, 2020, a search was conducted in the private house of Alexander Korovainy, Chairman of the Krasnodar regional branch of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Yeisk City Council. The search began at 6 o’clock in the morning
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Unidentified persons spoiled information signs on the office of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
In Novgorod, unidentified persons painted black information plates with the name of the party on the building where the office of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko is located. Press Release, 17.11.2020 “Unfortunately, this has been happening regularly. We understand that this is a reaction to the opposition activities of Yabloko, harsh criticism of the authorities, […]
Posted: November 17th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko will host an online conference “The situation with the protection of women’s rights in the COVID era. International experience”
Press Release, 16.11.2020 On 24 November 24 an international online conference “The situation with the protection of women’s rights in the COVID era. International experience” will be held in Yabloko. The conference is organised by the Gender faction of the Yabloko party. The conference will be held via Zoom and will start at 17:30.
Posted: November 16th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov and Boris Vishnevsky honoured the memory of St. Petersburg doctors who died during the COVID-19 epidemic
Press Release, 13.11.2020 Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, took part in events in memory of St. Petersburg doctors who died in the fight against COVID-19.
Posted: November 16th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Yabloko Chairman urged St.Petersburg Governor to put a memorial plaque at the site of murder of antifascist Timur Kacharava
Press Release, 13.11.2020 On the 15th anniversary of the murder of anti-fascist and musician Timur Kacharava, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, asking him to put a memorial plaque at the site of murder of antifascist Timur Kacharava.
Posted: November 13th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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The Yabloko faction in the Karelian parliament made amendments to the law on the regional ombudsman
Deputies called on the Human Rights Commissioner of Russia to withdraw the approval of the current candidacy for the Karelian Ombudsperson Press Release, 11.11.2020 Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova and Ivan Gusev introduced amendments to the second reading of the bill “On the Commissioner for Human Rights […]
Posted: November 12th, 2020 under Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands from the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to protect the participants of single pickets
Press Release, 9.11.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, detained during a single picket in support of arrested journalist Ilya Azar, 1 June 2020. The Bureau of the Yabloko Party sent appeals to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev demanding to protect participants in […]
Posted: November 9th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Tatiana Schneider: They want to accuse me of extremism for the post criticizing the Omsktekhuglerod plant
Tatiana Schneider’s blog post, 9.11.2020 On 3 November, I received a strange call from the police. An interesting conversation took place, the content of which caused me, to put it mildly, bewilderment. Also I even had to give a written explanation to the policeman. The essence of all this, for me, strange act was the […]
Posted: November 9th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov laid flowers at the Embassy of Austria and Embassy of France in Moscow
Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page, 3.11.2020 Photo: Nikolay Rybakov by the Embassy of France in Russia There have been quite a lot of mourning events lately, but this is the political reality in which we live. Together with Yabloko members Ivan Bolshakov, Grigory Grishin and Gleb Tumanov I laid flowers at the Embassy of Austria and […]
Posted: November 5th, 2020 under Condolences, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Без рубрики.
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