Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko Chairman called on the Russian President and Chairpersons of both the chambers of the Russian parliament to submit Yabloko’s bill envisaging abolishing the laws on foreign agents and undesirable organisations
Press Release, 28.10.2020 Photo: Action in memory of journalist Irina Slavina who committed self-immolation. Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov called on Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the upper and lower chambers of parliament Valentina Matviyenko and Vyacheslav Volodin to introduce the bill developed by the Yabloko party and envisaging abolishing of the […]
Posted: October 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Grigory Grishin penalised under administrative law for a single picket against three-day voting
Press Release, 27.10.2020 Grigory Grishin, a member of the Yabloko Party Bureau, was brought to administrative responsibility for picketing the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region against the introduction of three-day voting in the by-elections held on September 13, 2020.
Posted: October 27th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Lev Shlosberg believes that the director of the Sebezhsky National Park unlawfully demands permission from local residents to visit the park
Press Release, 27.10.2020 Photo: View of Lake Sebezhskoye and the territory of the Sebezhsky National Park from the Castle Hill in Sebezh / Photo by Lev Shlosberg Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region from the Yabloko party, asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia and Public Prosecutor’s […]
Posted: October 27th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demanded to enshrine in the law the right of citizens to compensation for damage from corruption
To do this, the President of Russia must sign a special international convention The Civil Law Convention on Corruption Press Release, 26.10.2020 The Yabloko Party Bureau demanded that President Vladimir Putin sign a convention on civil liability for corruption and submit it for ratification to the Federal Assembly. Earlier, Transparency International – Russia launched a […]
Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Everyone should have the right to compensation for damage from corruption
Statement of the Yabloko Party, 26.10.2020 DECISION # 2488 Moscow, October 16, 2020 Having discussed the information on the state of affairs with ensuring in Russia the right of citizens to compensation for harm from corruption, presented by Alexei Karnaukhov, head of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the YABLOKO Party, and Anton Pominov, Director General […]
Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Yabloko branch in Kalmykia launched public actions demanding resignation of the officials in the Republic of Kalmykia
Press Release, 21.10.2020 On 19 October, the Kalmykia branch of Yabloko organised a rally in Elista, the capital of the Republic. According to Batyr Boromangnayev, Chairman of the regional branch of the party, the aim of the rally was to openly express public opinion on the socio-economic and political situation in the Republic of Kalmykia.
Posted: October 21st, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky urged to return the Last Address nameplates put in memory of Stalin’s victims and dismantled from 23 Rubinstein Street, St.Petersburg
Press Release, 20.10.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the party, wrote to the General Director of Housing and Utilities Systems of the North-West, whose management company removed 16 nameplates put in memory of victims of Stalinist reprisals from house No 23 in […]
Posted: October 20th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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He fought for freedom of his homeland!
Grigory Yavlinsky on the anniversary of the death of politician Alexander Yakovlev Press Release, 19.10.2020 15 years ago, Alexander Yakovlev died – a politician, a real front-line soldier during WW2, an honest and decent person. Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was a completely unique figure in Russian politics. Unlike many of those who were engaged in perestroika, […]
Posted: October 19th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Rybakov urged Putin to change environmental policy and allow NGOs to conduct environmental monitoring
Press Release, 14.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin a roadmap to change environmental policy against the backdrop of events in Kamchatka. The head of Yabloko proposes, among other things, creating a federal register of objects of accumulated environmental damage, instructing the government to amend the regulation plan in the field […]
Posted: October 16th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy.
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The parliamentary majority of the Moscow City Duma rejected Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution, prohibiting torture and introducing a contract-based army
Press Release, 15.10.2020 The Moscow City Duma rejected two bills with amendments to the Constitution submitted by the Yabloko faction. The bills were proposed to be adopted as a legislative initiative and sent to the federal parliament – the State Duma. The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma submitted a package of nine bills […]
Posted: October 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, The Russian Army, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Oleg Rodin re-elected Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The General Meeting of the Yabloko branch announced a minute of silence in memory of journalist Irina Slavina Press Release, 14.10.2020 Photo: “Nizhny Novgorod will not forgive it” – an action in memory of journalist Irina Slavina who set herself on fire in front of the Interior Department office in protest against continuous pressure and […]
Posted: October 14th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party changed the logo on its website in support of children with cerebral palsy
Press Release, 9.10.2020 The Yabloko Party joined the Dobroshrift (KindFont) campaign and changed the font in its logo to support people with motor disabilities. Dobroshrift is a social project of the Podarok Angelu (Gift to an Angel) foundation, which has been held for the second year, on the first Wednesday of October, the International Day […]
Posted: October 9th, 2020 under Charity, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman proposed to put a memorial plaque at the site of murder of musician Timur Kacharava
Press Release, 8.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Rybakov sent an appeal to the General Director of the Bukvoed bookstore chain with a request to put a memorial plaque on the wall of the bookstore in memory of Timur Kacharava, St. Petersburg musician, anti-fascist activist, and one of the organisers of the Food Instead of Bombs movement in […]
Posted: October 8th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Rybakov urged Vice PM Tatyana Golikova to support families with disabled children amid coronavirus restrictions
Press Release, 8.10.2020 Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova with a request to help families raising children with disabilities and young people with disabilities of working age with severe multiple developmental disabilities, due to the difficulties arising against the background of the introduction of coronavirus restrictions.
Posted: October 8th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Andrei Babushkin, Russia’s Human Rights Committee member, demanded that President review the legislation in connection with self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina
Press Release, 8.10.2020 Andrei Babushkin, member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and member of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, sent appeals to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Presidential Adviser Valery Fadeyev calling them to revise legislation, in particular, the law on fakes, and to conduct an investigation into […]
Posted: October 8th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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14th tragic anniversary since the murder of Anna Polytkovskaya, journalist and human rights activist. The customers are unpunished
FB post by Nikolai Rybakov, 7.10.2020 Today is [the 14th anniversary from] the day of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. I brought flowers from Yabloko to the place of her death. 14 years have passed – only one year is left to investigate. Customers are not announced and not held liable. And murders continue.
Posted: October 7th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Powerlessness in politics and indifference of society gives rise to despair, a feeling of complete deadlock and it… kills
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2020 On 16 January, 1969, Jan Palach, a 20-year-old student of the Faculty of Philosophy, set himself on fire in the very center of Prague, in Wenceslas Square. He took this step in protest against the indifference of society, which resigned itself to the end of democratic reforms, known as the Prague […]
Posted: October 5th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Nikolai Rybakov demanded from the Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case under the article “incitement to suicide” in connection with the death of journalist Irina Slavina
Press Release, 4.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee initiate a criminal case under the article “incitement to suicide” over the tragic death of Irina Slavina, Editor-in-Chief of Koza Press, who set herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy […]
Posted: October 5th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The apartment of the Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko was searched. The activist’s arm was dislocated and equipment confiscated
Press Release, 1.10.2020 On 1 October, a search was carried out in the apartment of Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. Early in the morning the police burst into the apartment, began to beat Sadomovsky on the floor, dislocated his arm, despite the fact that the Deputy Chairman of the […]
Posted: October 1st, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A Triumph of Lies
The sentence to Yuri Dmitriyev means the beginning of the government’s war against the society Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2020 Photo: Yuri Dmitriyev. Photo by AFP PHOTO /Scanpix/LETA The present Russian regime does not always need chemical warfare agents. Old proven tools also work well. If you need to get rid of undesired persons, shut the […]
Posted: September 30th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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