Archive for 'Human Rights'
Recognition of Alexander Lukashenko as lawfully elected President of the Republic of Belarus contradicts to the state interests of Russia
Appeal of the deputies of regional legislative assemblies of the Russian Federation, 12.08.2020 On August 9, 2020, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won the presidential elections in the Republic of Belarus. Numerous evidence gives every reason to believe that the election results were falsified. Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner of the elections, against the will of the […]
Posted: August 13th, 2020 under Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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Vitaly Zubenko called on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate into unlawful persecution of the activist of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 11.08.2020 Photo: Ronald Ayrapetyan Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding to investigate into unlawful detentions of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the party, as well as anonymous threats against him.
Posted: August 12th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held pickets in support of the Belarus society and the right of Khabarovsk to freely elect head of the region
Press Release, 10.08.2020 Activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held a series of single pickets against the repressive policy of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in support of the protest of the residents of Khabarovsk when the authorities arrested the governor of the region who won the election against the […]
Posted: August 12th, 2020 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Без рубрики.
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The New Greatness case means the old ignominy
Only provocateurs, sadists and rapists should be tried. But all of them in this case are representatives of the state Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.07.2020 The New Greatness case is fabricated. Neither investigators nor prosecutors conceal this. Four law enforcement officers who directly fabricated this criminal case are witnesses in the case: they themselves created an […]
Posted: July 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Member of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko was fired from job for a single picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 23.07.2020 The management of the Central Kislovodsk military health centre dismissed activist of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko Ronald Ayrapetyan from his job as a waiter in the canteen of the health centre. He was told that “an employee with opposition views cannot work in their canteen” and was offered to write a […]
Posted: July 27th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Is the name of the mastermind a state secret?
Investigative Committee denies European lawmakers access to the Nemtsov case files By Boris Vishnevsky, Member of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and Yabloko Deputy Chair Novaya Gazeta, 13.07.2020 On June 19, the European Court of Human Rights communicated Zhanna Nemtsova’s complaint over the official investigation into the death of her father Boris Nemtsov who was assassinated […]
Posted: July 16th, 2020 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Lev Shlosberg: A court decision means that society can influence key decisions of the authorities
Press Release, 8.07.2020 Photo: Svetlana Prokopyeva after the trial Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, expressed his opinion that journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva did not end up with the six years in the colony, as the Public Prosector had been asking, thanks to the wide publicity, which did not allow lawlessness to […]
Posted: July 10th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Tomsk Yabloko activists are summoned to police for participation in Yabloko’s campaign against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 9.07.2020 Members and supporters of the Tomsk regional branch of the Yabloko party are summoned to the police, where they have to give explanations about a group photo in which activists are pictured with leaflets “I am for the Constitution without nullification and amendments”.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist receives threats because of his protest against Putin’s reset of his presidential terms
Press Release, 8.07.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Stavropol Territory, received threats from unidentified persons. The activist found a note with threats in his postbox on 8 July. The note ran that if Ronald Ayrapetyan came out again to protest against Putin, he would go to jail.
Posted: July 9th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The law is targeted against those who are telling the truth about the annexation of Crimea
Ivan Bolshakov on the new law on the inadmissibility of violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation Ivan Bolshakov’s Facebook post, 8.07.2020 They introduced the first bill for implementation of the new Constitution – [targeted at] declaring those who allegedly call for a violation of the territorial integrity of the country as extremists.
Posted: July 8th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Statement in connection with the arrest of journalist Ivan Safronov
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 7.07.2020 Ivan Safronov, former correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, was detained on suspicion of treason. The apartment of Taisiya Bekbulatova, Editor-in-Chief of Kholod.Media, was searched. Journalists’ colleagues were detained during [solidarity] single pickets [that do not require any permissions from the authorities] near the Federal Security Service building in Moscow.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Arkhangelsk branch of Yabloko nominates Oleg Mandrykin, representative of the STOP-SHIES coalition, as candidate for Governor in the forthcoming election
Press Release, 6.07.2020 Photo: Oleg Mandrykin On June 21, the conference of the Arkhangelsk regional branch of Yabloko nominated Oleg Mandrykin, representative of the STOP-SHIES coalition, as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk region in the forthcoming election.
Posted: July 7th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Sentence to journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva must be canceled
Statement by the Yabloko party, 6.07.2020 The Bureau of the Yabloko party considers the conviction of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva not only the result of a fabricated “case”, but also the actual destruction of the right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by Article 29 of the Constitution of Russia. Despite the fact that the sentence is […]
Posted: July 6th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Life and politics do not end on July 1
Ivan Bolshakov on the results of the “All-Russia vote” on Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments Facebook post by Ivan Bolshakov, 2.07.2020 A miracle has not happened and could not happen. Certainly, the results announced by the Central Electoral Commission have nothing to do with reality. The “All-Russian voting” was reduced to an absurd post-modern show humiliating […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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In Astrakhan, police seized Yabloko leaflets against the reset Putin’s presidential terms
The deputy of the regional Duma, who was taking the leaflets to the Yabloko office, is facing administrative responsibility Press Release, 29.06.2020 The police seized leaflets against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms from Dmitry Anufriyev, Chairman of the Astrakhan branch of Yabloko and MP of the Astrakhan Regional Duma. Anufriyev’s car was stopped […]
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko called on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check on the actions of the police who detained Yabloko activist for a single picket
Press Release, 29.06.2020 Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko, filed an application with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Stavropol Territory about abuse of power by police officers. The leader of the regional branch of the party asks the Public Prosecutor to verify the legality of the detention of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member […]
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An insult to public intelligence. Grigory Yavlinsky on the “popular vote” on Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.06.2020 Photo: a voting station. A “popular vote” to amend the Constitution is like a rape. That is, it resembles coercing into something that you initially did not want and what should not have happened, and the longer and more persistently they persuade you, the more disgusting it becomes. Now people, even […]
Posted: June 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia arrested for eight days for a single picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 27.06.2020 On June 25, police detained Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, after a single picket (such pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) against constitutional amendments allowing Vladimir Putin to remain on the post of President of Russia until 2036. The court sent the leader of the […]
Posted: June 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police forcibly ousted a member of the electoral commission from Yabloko from the voting station. The electoral commission refused to allow her to control the sealing of ballots
Press Release, 26.06.2020 In Skhodnya, near Moscow, the police forcibly ousted Kristina Klimayeva a member of the precinct electoral commission from Yabloko, from the voting station. Klimayeva last night tried to control the sealing of ballots after the first day of voting. She had to call an ambulance, as due to stress her blood pressure […]
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights.
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The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region banned Yabloko’s pickets against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 25.06.2020 The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region turned down Yabloko’s application for pickets in Yekaterinburg against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution, citing the Ministry’s lack of information about the possibility of extending the COVID high-alert mode.
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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