Archive for 'Human Rights'
Lev Shlosberg and Saria Saburskaya, Ombudsperson of the Republic of Tatarstan, defend arrested activists Yelena Izotova and Anatoly Malov
Press Release 3.02, 2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Yelena Izotova On 16 January, Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies and member of the Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, addressed Sariya Saburskaya, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Tatarstan, in connection with administrative arrests of Yelena Izotova, leader of the Yabloko’s […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko creates a party commission to draft constitutional amendments alternative to Vladimir Putin’s
Press Release, 31.01.2020 Yabloko has created a party commission to draft constitutional amendments alternative to those of President Putin’s. This decision was made today by the Party Bureau. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will head the commission. The Executive Secretary of the commission will be Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman.
Posted: January 31st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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We demand to stop criminal prosecution of civil activists of Ingushetia
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 31.01.2020 On 27 December, 2019, criminal cases were initiated against civil activists of the Republic of Ingushetia Malsag Uzhakhov, Akhmed Barakhoyev, Musa Malsagov, Barakh Chemurziyev, Bagaudin Hautiyev, Ismail Nalgiyev, Zarifa Sautiyeva and Akhmed Pogorov, under [the charges envisaged in] the article [of the Cirminal Code of the Russian Federation] on […]
Posted: January 31st, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Lecture by Vladimir Ryzhkov “Constitutional reform: what will happen and how it should be?”
Press Release, 30.01.2020 The Yabloko Party University resumes its work. Speeches of famous politicians, political scientists, social scientists and economists (Igor Nikolayev, Grigory Amnuel, Yevgeny Gontmakher, Nikolai Petrov, Tatyana Vorozheykina and others) are planned in the curriculum. Classes will be held mainly on Wednesdays at 19.00.
Posted: January 30th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Soon!, Без рубрики.
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The political situation in Russia at the beginning of 2020 and the need for real change
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 28.01.2020 The 2020 Presidential Address [to the Federal Assembly], amendments to the Constitution hastily introduced [by the government], and formation of a new government of the Russian Federation testify to the policies of the authorities that led the country into a dead end are maintained. The main thing […]
Posted: January 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy.
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Public Constitutional Council on the alternative amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 24.01.2020 The Public Constitutional Council has begun work on an alternative package of amendments to the Constitution. This was announced at a briefing in Moscow by its founders – Yegeny Gontmakher, Leonid Nikitinsky, Vladimir Ryzhkov and Grigory Yavlinsky. The Public Advisory Council, which will include Tamara Morshchakova and Mikhail Krasnov, authors of the […]
Posted: January 28th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Deputy Chairman of the Altai branch of Yabloko, who had been beaten by police, held a picket near the walls of the regional Public Prosecutor’s office
Press Release, 22.01.2020 Photo: Alexander Kondrov, Deputy Chairman of the Altai regional branch of Yabloko, “I demand justice”. Alexander Kondrov, Deputy Chairman of the Altai regional branch of the Yabloko party and head of the research and production laboratory of the Altai Techological University, held a one-person picket (that does not require any permission from […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Amendments to the Constitution have to be developed by those who will live here
Grigory Yalvinsky’s Facebook page, 22.01.2020 The breakdown of the Constitution proposed by the President and furnished with decorative procedures, is not only an already familiar manifestation of disrespect for the people, but also, above all, a manifestation of the political vector: towards not only preserving the current system, but making it even more authoritarian, closed […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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President makes a move to g1
Emilia Slabunova on the key amendment to the Constitution Novaya Gazeta, 22.01.2020 The most intriguing thing in the draft amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, introduced by the President to the State Duma, the most intriguing thing is the paragraph “g.1” proposed by him to Article 83, which defines the powers of the […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies.
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Yabloko to form a council on the development of alternative amendments to the Constitution and seek their consideration in a referendum
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 19.01.2020 President Vladimir Putin has decided to make urgent changes to the Constitution. The proposals made by him in his [annual] Address [to the Federal Assembly] are vague and incomprehensible from a legal point of view. It is proposed to isolate Russia from […]
Posted: January 21st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“There are no changes, there is a cementing of power”
Nikolai Rybakov on Radio Free Europe 17.01.2020 On January 16, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in the Facing the Event programme hosted by Yelena Rykovtseva. The guests of the studio – Sergey Obukhov, former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fishman, journalist from the Dozhd television channel, and […]
Posted: January 21st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Omsk branch of Yabloko to hold a rally “For the quality of life and a clean city”
Press Release, 20.01.2020 On 26 January, a rally “For the quality of life and a clean city, against air pollution” will be held in Omsk. The rally is organised by Tatyana Nagibina, Chair of the Omsk branch of Yabloko, and is supported by the Omsk City Public Council. The rally will begin at 12.00.
Posted: January 21st, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko will take part in the organisational committee of the Boris Nemtsov Memorial March
The application for the march will be submitted for 29 February Press Release, 20.01.2020 Kirill Goncharov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, and Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the Gender Faction, Professor of the Russian State University for Humanities, joined the organizational committee of the Boris Nemtsov Memorial March on behalf of the Yabloko […]
Posted: January 20th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Yabloko leaders and activists laid flowers in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed by neo-Nazis
Press Release, 19.01.2020 Today, leaders, members and supporters of the Yabloko party paid tribute to lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova who were murdered by neo-Nazis from the BORN group on the doorstep of Prechistenka Street 3, Moscow, on 19 January, 2009. Yabloko has been holding memorial actions paying tribute to Markelov and Baburova […]
Posted: January 20th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Yelena Izotova went on hunger strike
Earlier, the activist was arrested for five days for participating in a series of one person pickets for the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan Press Release, 17.01.2020 Yelena Izotova, Chair of the Tatarstan Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party, went on a hunger strike. Earlier, the activist […]
Posted: January 17th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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MPs from the ruling United Russia party introduced a bill on the liquidation of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 17.01.2020 State Duma deputies from the ruling United Russia Gadzhemet Safaraliyev, Yevgeny Marchenko and Valentin Subbot introduced amendments to the law on political parties to the lower house of the Russian parliament to liquidate the Yabloko party for “diminishing the authority of the state in the international arena”. The explanatory note to the […]
Posted: January 17th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Political Parties, Politics, Situation in Crimea, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Putin’s proposals mean masking of the conservation of the system
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 16.01.2020 The initiatives contained in the annual Address of President Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly do not cause illusions. No significant changes or democratisation of the system is expected. The declared initiatives are targeted at strengthening the political system that has developed over the past 20 years and maintaining Putin […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights.
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The leader of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Tatarstan and other opponents of the construction of the waste incineration plant arrested
Press Release, 16.01.2020 The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan (Tatarstan) sentenced the participants of the movement against the construction of a waste incineration plant near Osinovo to arrest and fines. Yelena Izotova, one of the leaders of the movement and Chair of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Tatarstan, was arrested for five days for participating […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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“Putin is preparing a new public post for himself.” Yabloko leaders on the President’s Address to the Federal Assembly
Press Release, 15.01.2020 I his annual Address to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed amending the Russian Constitution, apparently aimed at preserving him at the top of state power even after 2024, when his presidential term expires. Much was said about overcoming poverty in the country, which he has been leading for more […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov on the Address of Vladimir Putin to the Russian palriament
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 15.01.2020 Today’s Presidential Address [to the parliament] has finally returned us to the Leonid Brezhnev [stagnation] period [in the USSR]: slow reading of the text written on paper, silent audience but bursting into applause at the right moments. Certainly, the directors of the event counted on resounding success of the promises […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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