Archive for 'Human Rights'
Public Prosecutor’s Office asks court to declare Boris Vishnevsky’s 2015 collection of articles “extremist material”
Press Release, 30.09.2025 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and film director Alexander Sokurov (left) at the launch of the book “Chronicles of the Revived Arkanar” by Boris Vishnevsky at the Mayakovsky Library in St Petersburg, 7 April 2016 / Photo by Alexander Chizhenok, Kommersant A lawsuit on administrative violation has been filed with St.Petersburg City Court by […]
Posted: October 1st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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There Is Only One Solution
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2025 Heads of the member states of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada. 15-17 June 2025 // Wikimedia The hostilities between Russia and Ukraine continue against the backdrop of declarations on the need for a ceasefire that are at times sincere, but more frequently hypocritical. Fighting of such magnitude and duration was […]
Posted: September 30th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosts a book launch by journalists Nadezhda Azhgikhina (Russia) and Katrina vanden Heuvel (USA) “We Still Believe…”
Press Release, 25.09.2025 On Tuesday, 7 October, the central office of the Yabloko party will host a book launch by Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Katrina vanden Heuvel ” Hope Springs Eternal” published as part of a project by the “Association of Researchers of Russian Society – 21 Century”. The event starts at 7:00 PM.
Posted: September 26th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“Donald Trump’s public opinion changes endlessly.” Nikolai Rybakov on the US President’s position regarding the conflict in Ukraine
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 25.09.2025 Photo: Screenshot from broadcast of Donald Trump’s speech in the UN In just one day, Donald Trump launched scathing criticism of “green” energy, migration policy and the UN. However, his most telling statements were about the Ukrainian conflict, which, among other things, contradict his own administration’s official position.
Posted: September 26th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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In Vladivostok, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory is on trial for her greetings posted on Victory Day, 9 May 2021
Press Release, 25.09.2025 Photo: Marina Zheleznyakova / Photo by the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory Since August 2025, Primorsky Regional Court has been hearing a criminal case brought under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code (“Rehabilitation of Nazism”) against Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko regional branch in Maritime Territory. She is charged […]
Posted: September 25th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: There will be no conventional war between Russia and NATO
Zhivoi Gvozd Youtube channel, 23.09.2025 Watch the discussion switching into English soundtrack Once again about the necessity of concluding an immediate ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine. It is important for all participants in the conflict — both direct and indirect — to understand that in current conditions, its escalation, as is already happening, will […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions to conduct its regular action of writing letters to political prisoners in September – October
Press Release, 20.09.2025 In late September and early October, Yabloko party regional offices will host traditional actions of writing letters to political prisoners. The actions will be held in Yabloko offices in different cities throughout Russia from 20 September through to 8 October.
Posted: September 22nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky responded to Vladimir Putin’s call to “depoliticise” Stalin’s role in WWII with words from Nikita Khrushchev’s report
Boris Vishnevsky special for the Yabloko web-site, 19.09.2025 Photo: Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev on the Mausoleum tribune / Photo from akg-images, EAST NEWS Vladimir Putin called on deputies to “depoliticise” Stalin’s role in victory in the Great Patriotic War [a term used in the former USSR, Russia and some post-Soviet states to describe the […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko began the fight against blocking calls in messengers in Russia
Press Release, 18.09.2025 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service At the first session of St Petersburg’s parliament after summer vacations, the Yabloko faction proposed that Legislative Assembly deputies adopt an appeal to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin about cancelling the blocking of calls in popular messengers WhatsApp and Telegram introduced by […]
Posted: September 19th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko held a Lesson of Peace – an art workshop for refugee children
Press Release, 16.09.2025 Drawing dreams, making wishes and feeling like an important part of the community – this is the kind of workshop that Yabloko devised together with volunteers for refugee children whom the Committee for Civil Assistance is taking care of. The children painted with acrylic paints, decorated biscuits, and also danced to their […]
Posted: September 17th, 2025 under Charity, Human Rights.
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Yabloko conducted its fourth election campaign “For Peace and Freedom” in 27 Russian regions
Press Release, 15.09.2025 Photo: Campaign billboard in Veliky Novgorod / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service In the recent elections, under conditions of ongoing “special operation” and state repressions against dissidents, Yabloko managed to get elected to the Kaluga City Duma, as well as four municipal councils in the Pskov Region. In total, the party […]
Posted: September 15th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leaders summarised the political results of the 2025 election campaign
Press Release, 15.09.2025 164 candidates from the Yabloko party participated in elections in 39 electoral campaigns across 19 regions of our country under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!” Yabloko leaders summarised the political results of the election campaign at a briefing in the party office on the night of 15 September.
Posted: September 15th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the work of the Yabloko headquarters in the elections of 12-14 September
Press Release, 11.09.2025 164 candidates from the Yabloko party are participating in the elections under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!” in 19 regions of Russia. On all days of voting, a hotline will be open for members of electoral commissions, observers and voters. Lawyers and electoral experts will be on […]
Posted: September 11th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko party chairman Nikolai Rybakov travelled to the Pskov Region to support Yabloko candidates in the municipal elections
Press Release, 7.09.2025 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov with candidate for Pskov City Duma in district No. 3 Andrei Tsatsenko during door-to-door campaining in Pskov On 2 and 3 September, Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, together with head of the party Analytical Centre Ivan Bolshakov and head of the party staff Yevgenia Vlasova, visited the Pskov Region […]
Posted: September 10th, 2025 under Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko stands for Russia without torture
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 8.09.2025 Photo by Valery Melnikov, Kommersant Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on the denunciation of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Punishment. The Yabloko party expresses its absolute disagreement with this initiative. This step is unacceptable from the point […]
Posted: September 8th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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On the anniversary of the terrorist attack on a Beslan school, Yabloko held memorial events for the victims
Press Release, 3.09.2025 Photo: Yabloko Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov and Deputy Chairman of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov at the Beslan victims’ memorial in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 1 September 2004, terrorists took more than 1,100 hostages at School No. 1 in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia. For more than […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2025 under History, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputies of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly from Yabloko intend to demand that the Prime Minister and Federal Antimonopoly Service stop blocking voice calls in messengers
Press Release, 3.09.2025 The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg has prepared appeals on behalf of the Assembly to the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Maxim Shaskolsky and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, demanding they influence the situation and stop the violation of fair competition and a number of Constitutional provisions (Articles 8, […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko on “ethnic-oriented” surveillance cameras in St. Petersburg: unconstitutional, useless and expensive
Press Release, 1.09.2025 Photo from open sources Surveillance cameras that recognise people’s ethnicity have been launched in St. Petersburg. This was announced by Igor Nikonov, deputy head of the city administration’s committee on information technology and communications, during the “zero readings” of the 2026-2028 city budget. Yabloko deputies in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Olga […]
Posted: September 1st, 2025 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Now there are nuclear weapons — such a solution as before no longer exists”
Interview to the “I Gryanul Gram” YouTube channel Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 11.08.2025 Broadcast of 8 August 2025 First, about the most important thing. If we set the task of developing not just an agreement on a temporary ceasefire, but a strategic solution on the ways and methods of advancing toward stable and long-term peace, then […]
Posted: August 27th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Head of Tatarstan criticises anti-migrant law opposed by Yabloko. Commentary by Maxim Kruglov
Press Release, 25.08.2025 Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant Not taking a foreign child into a Russian school because they don’t know Russian is stupid. This is the view not only of the Yabloko party, but also of Tatarstan head Rustam Minnikhanov. The speech of the President of Tatarstan at a meeting of education and science […]
Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights.
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