Archive for 'Human Rights'
Boris Vishnevsky: The lessons of symmetry. Why the Russian Foreign Ministry does not allow member of the PACE delegation to Russia
Novaya Gazeta, 28.05.2020 Photo by Vladimir Klopovsky, Obzor: Emanuelis Zingeris and Boris Nemtsov Two years ago, in the summer of 2018, the deputy of the Sejm of the Republic of Lithuania and one of the most famous Lithuanian politicians Emanuelis Zingeris was banned from entering Russia for five years. Meanwhile, he was not going to […]
Posted: June 1st, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Eu relations.
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Yabloko Chairman demanded that the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg police release the participants detained during one-person picketing
Press Release, 29.05.2020 Detention of Kirill Gontcharov. Photo by Novaya Gazeta Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an official appeal to the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to release the detained participants of one-person picketing and stop the detentions. “Exiting the isolation regime, […]
Posted: May 29th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Freedom to Ilya Azar!
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 28.05.2020 Photo: Ilya Azar picketing in front of the Moscow Interior Department on Petrovka street on May 26. The Yabloko party is outraged by the unlawful prosecution of the journalist and Moscow municipal deputy Ilya Azar, who was sentenced by court to 15 days of administrative arrest for a one-person picket […]
Posted: May 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan continues picketing against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 26.05.2020 The Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party organised a protest action calling to turn down Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution. Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of the party, held a one-person picket [which does not require any permissions from the authorities). He is certain that since the government […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko appealed to Public Prosecutor General after more than 200 students were expelled from the Russian State Social Sciences University. One of the expelled is a member of Yabloko
An appeal by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 27.05.2020 The Federal Bureau of Yabloko appealed to Public Prosecutor General of Russia after more than 200 students were unlawfully expelled from the Russian State Social Sciences University during the pandemic when they could not even appeal the decisions of the university management. One of the expelled […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Online conference on the situation with migrants in Russia during the pandemic
Press Release, 20.05.2020 On Tuesday, 19 May, the Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko Party, Yabloko’s Gender Faction, and the Committee for Combating Xenophobia held an online conference “The situation with Migrants in Russia during the Pandemic”. The situation with migrants has become much more complicated during the pandemic, and even removal of restrictions on […]
Posted: May 21st, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Andrei Babushkin’s online lecture on police actions during the pandemic will be held at Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 18.05.2020 On 28 May, Andrei Babushkin’s online lecture “Police Actions During the Pandemic” will be held at Yabloko Party University. The lecture will begin at 16.00. Andrei Babushkin is member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, Chairman of the Committee for Civil Rights and member of the Council for the Development […]
Posted: May 18th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Young people are dissatisfied with the state system of falsehood
Alexander Gnezdilov comments for the influential Japanese newspaper Putin’s record drop in popularity Press Release, 18.05.2020 Alexander Gnezdilov, member of the Yabloko Party’s Federal Political Committee, gave a commentary for the influential Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun for an article where the newspaper’s special correspondent investigated the causes of a serious drop in President Vladimir Putin’s […]
Posted: May 18th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Social Policies, Yabloko Youth, Youth Policies.
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The Tatarstan branch of Yabloko conducted one-person pickets against the conscription slavery
Press Release, 15.05.2020 On May 15, the International Day of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service, Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan, held a series of one-person pickets (that do not require any permissions from the authorities) against the conscription slavery in Russia and against human rights violations in […]
Posted: May 15th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, The Russian Army.
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Soldiers’ graves are the greatest preachers of peace
Open letter of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, 13.05.2020 On May 11-13, 2020, a number of media published news under provocative headlines and texts about the annual action in memory of the victims of the Second World War conducted by our colleague Sergei Dustin. These publications, together with the video, became the reason for the […]
Posted: May 15th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Online conference on the situation with migrants in Russia during the pandemic
Press Release, 15.05.2020 On Tuesday, 19 May, the Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko Party, Yabloko’s Gender Faction, and the Committee for Combating Xenophobia will hold an online conference “The situation with Migrants in Russia during the Pandemic”. The conference will begin at 16.00 MSK.
Posted: May 15th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Impunity of the police means lawlessness of citizens
Statement by the Yabloko party, 14.05.2020 On 13 May, the Russian government introduced to the State Duma a package of amendments to the Law “On Police”, unreasonably expanding the powers of the police and threatening the rights of citizens. The Yabloko party considers the adoption of this bill unacceptable. In particular, it is proposed to […]
Posted: May 15th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Nikolai Rybakov on the Russian parliament’s hurried legitimisation of police lawlessness and creation of the basis for further election fraud
Nikolai Rybakov’s FB post, 13.05.2020 Today two resonant bills were submitted to the State Duma: on voting by mail and on the right of policemen to open cars. So, under the auspices of the fight against the epidemic, the authorities take the most vile steps – legitimisation of police lawlessness and creation of the basis […]
Posted: May 14th, 2020 under Elections, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko to hold the May Day demonstration online
Press Release, 30.04.2020 The Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party will hold the First of May demonstration online. Everyone can join the stream which starts this Friday at 12:00. The organiser of the online demonstration is Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the party’s regional branch.
Posted: April 30th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky urged St.Petersburg authorities not to punish doctors for publicising the problems of the system to combat coronavirus
Press Release, 28.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Oleg Ergashev, Vice Governor of St.Petersburg. Vishnevsky asked Ergashev to take measures to prompt and daily publication of clear and precise statistics on hospitals treating patients with coronavirus, the […]
Posted: April 30th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Emilia Slabunova calls for resignation of the Karelian Ombudsperson for plagiarism in the report on the human rights situation in Karelia in 2019
Press Release, 29.04.2020 Emilia Slabunova, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, believes that Larissa Boychenko, Human Rights Ombudsperson in the Republic of Karelia, should be dismissed. Slabunova came to the conclusion about the incompetence of the Ombudsperson after reading the report of the […]
Posted: April 29th, 2020 under Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky proposed to create Public Commission for control over the use of digital technologies by the state
Press Release, 28.04.2020 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, proposed to create Public Commission for control over the use of digital technologies by the state. He wrote about this in his article called Digital Danger, published by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper today . The Public Commission should include IT […]
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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The Omsk branch of Yabloko will help victims of pseudo-lawyers
Press Release, 28.04.2020 At the end of the summer of 2019, managers and psychologists, posing as professional lawyers, opened a spacious bright office in one of the central shopping centres in Omsk. A colorful sign with a phone number advertised allegedly high professionalism of the specialists of this firm. Relying on the trust of citizens, […]
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Government has supported Yabloko’s programme to fight domestic violence
Press Release, 27.04.2020 The government commission, chaired by Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, recommended that regional authorities provide support to victims of domestic violence. To this end, the commission invites the heads of the interior in the regions to ensure institution of criminal proceedings under Article 116.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation […]
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Yabloko proposes a programme of measures to fight domestic violence upsurging during quarantine
Press Release, 23.04.2020 The Yabloko party insists that the government should take immediate measures to prevent the upsurge of domestic violence. Such measures include immediate reaction of the police to reports of violence, provision of a sufficient number of shelters for victims, hotel rooms inclusive, and cancellation of liability for violation of the isolation regime […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Gender Faction, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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