Archive for 'Human Rights'
We demand to adopt measures for reduction of domestic violence
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 23.04.2020 In the context of the coronavirus pandemic and self-isolation, the number of cases of domestic violence against women, children and the elderly has significantly increased, whereas women are the first to become victims. This applies to all countries, emphasised UN Secretary General António Guterres. In Russia, the situation is […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Gender Faction, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Yabloko calls on the government to pay 12,000 roubles to students and 50,000 roubles to university professors
Press Release, 22.04.2020 The Yabloko party has proposed to the Russian government a set of measures to support students and university professors in the situation of the coronavirus epidemic: cash payments to students (12,000 roubles) and university professors (50,000 roubles); transfer of students who have lost their jobs to state-financed places; interest-free loans for the […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2020 under Economy, Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leaders demanded to institute criminal proceedings against head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and provide state protection to Novaya Gazeta journalist
Press Release, 21.04.2020 A statement by the Congress of the Intelligentsia was published on the Internet. The statement was signed by many prominent members of the Yabloko party, including party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky, members of the Federal Political Committee Valery Borschyov, Svetlana Gannushkina, Emilia Slabunova, Viktor Sheinis and Lev Shlosberg, co-chair […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova.
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Grigory Yalvinsky: They are preparing Russia for digital slavery
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.04.2020 We could observe the first results of the introduction of electronic passes in Moscow in [overcrowded] metro yesterday [due to the authorities total check of all the passengers for their passes]. To allow such a crowd in the subway at the midst of the epidemic and quarantine means to demonstrate a […]
Posted: April 17th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Municipal deputies from Yabloko in Ryazan demanded to stop the forced collection of money from state employees to fight against coronavirus
Press Release, 17.04.2020 Yabloko municipal deputies of the Ryazan region appealed to Governor Nikolai Lyubimov, Ivan Panchenko, regional Public Prosecutor, and Igor Grekov, Vice Governor and head of the coronavirus task force, in connection with the forced collection of money from state employees to fight against coronavirus. Deputies Konstantin Smirnov and Anatoly Kivva insist on […]
Posted: April 17th, 2020 under Economy, Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies.
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Yabloko calls on the President and Government to expand the list of supported non-profit organisations
Press Release, 16.04.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov appealed to President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to provide support to the entire sector of non-profit organisations, regardless of their type of activity and sources of funding. At the moment, the government is ordered to implement support measures only for non-profit organisations providing aid to […]
Posted: April 16th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Liberal International on Twitter
@liberalinternat on twitter, 15.04.2020 Russian economist, politician & co-founder of @yabloko, @yavlinsky alerts us to the seriousness of the #COVID19 situation which requires honesty from the country’s leadership above all else… This is #WhatLiberalsThink on #WednesdayWisdom? Source
Posted: April 15th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Yabloko continues to urge governors to redirect funds allocated to campaign for Putin’s amendments to the Constitution to the fight against COVID-19
Press Release, 15.04.2020 Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov continues forwarding appeals to the heads of Russian regions. He calls for redirecting the funds allocated in the regional budgets for campaigning in the all-Russian voting for Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments to needs of healthcare and assistance to citizens in difficult life situations.
Posted: April 15th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Yabloko MPs of the Moscow City Duma demand from the Moscow authorities to proceed from the presumption of innocence of citizens and check digital passes introduced during COVID-19 epidemic selectively
Press Release, 15.04.2020 The Yabloko faction in Moscow City Duma appealed to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, in connection with large queues of passengers to enter metro stations and traffic jams at entrances to Moscow that emerged on April 15 after the introduction of digital […]
Posted: April 15th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Police came to Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. He published a post on how a girl was infected with a coronavirus in a hospital
Press Release, 15.04.2020 Policemen came to Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. The policemen tried to give a warning about the inadmissibility of dissemination of fake information. Earlier, Alexei Sadomovsky published a post on social networks about how a girl was infected with a coronavirus in a hospital. On the […]
Posted: April 15th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Boris Vishnevsky asked St.Petersburg Governor to give a clear definition of the term “self-isolation” in order to end the arbitrariness of law enforcement
Press Release, 14.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, asked St.Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov to give a clear definition of the term “self-isolation” in order to end the arbitrariness of law enforcement. The term is mentioned in the decree of the Government of St. Petersburg “On measures […]
Posted: April 14th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Boris Vishnevsky called on the police to provide social assistance to elderly residents of St.Petersburg sent to “self-isolation”
Press Release, 13.04.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, called on Roman Pugin, head of the St. Petersburg police, to consider the possibility of involving police officers in providing social assistance to elderly residents of St. Petersburg who are forcibly sent to “self-isolation” and are deprived of […]
Posted: April 13th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Human Rights Council, demands that the Federal Penitentiary Service allow the Ombudsman and independent human rights activists to enter the Irkutsk penal colony
Press Release, 11.04.2020 Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Human Rights Council and the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, demands that the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service urgently provide access to the Ombudsman, independent human rights activists, and journalists to the Irkutsk colony, where there was a riot, and then a fire. Babishkin […]
Posted: April 13th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Save Sergei Ryzhov!
Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 10.04.2020 To the Federal Penitentiary Service; To the Federal State-Funded Institution Pre-Trial Detention Facility No 1 Of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Samara region The Saratov regional branch of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko is deeply concerned about the health condition […]
Posted: April 10th, 2020 under Human Rights.
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We demand a check on unreasonable detention and use of force against participants of the Alliance of Doctors during their humanitarian mission
Statement by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, 3.04.2020 On 2 April, 2020, the head and members of the independent Alliance of Doctors medical workers union carried out a humanitarian mission in the Novgorod Region. Medical union workers brought by car medical masks, goggles, protective suits, and disinfectants to the hospitals and ambulance stations, which are […]
Posted: April 7th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Yabloko Bureau: 10 per cent of Russia’s GDP should be allocated for direct financial support of citizens and the private businesses
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 3.04.2020 The situation in Russia has been rapidly changing for the worse. The number of people affected by COVID-19 infection has been growing every day. In most regions, bans and restrictions have been imposed on the work of enterprises and organisations in public catering, trade, tourism, culture, sports, entertainment and […]
Posted: April 6th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Urgent and broad amnesty is needed to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 3.04.2020 The Yabloko party believes that in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic urgent measures must be taken to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in places of custodial restraint, and demands to conduct an urgent and broadest amnesty.
Posted: April 6th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Supporter of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko fined 150,000 roubles for bringing posters for a picket against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
The court hearing was held as video conferencing Press Release, 27.03.2020 On 27 March, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan, assigned a fine of 150,000 roubles to Marina Shoetova, supporter of the Tatrstan branch of Yabloko. The court hearing was held in a video conferencing regime. The law enforcement and the […]
Posted: March 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Ruslan Mutsolgov called for the release of those arrested in the case of protests in Magas in order to exclude the risk of coronavirus infection in jail for them
Address by the Chairman of the Ingush Yabloko, 25.03.2020 Address by the Chairman of the Ingush Yabloko To: Yury Chaika, Authorised Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West Federal District and Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, head of the Republic of Ingushetia An extremely alarming situation has developed in the world at present, […]
Posted: March 25th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Yabloko Chairman calls on young party members to become volunteers and help the risk groups during the COVID-19 outbreak
Address by Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman, 24.03.2020 Dear friends, very difficult times have come. The coronavirus epidemic is increasingly spreading in Russia. The number of cases is growing, the federal government and the authorities of different regions are taking more stringent quarantine measures. Many enterprises and organisations are forced to stop working, some people switch […]
Posted: March 25th, 2020 under Charity, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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