Archive for 'Human Rights'
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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“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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