Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yury Orlov, physicist and founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, passed away
Condolences, 28.09.2020 Yury Orlov was a real hero. His whole life has been evidence of this: he participated in the war, was an outstanding physicist and, like the best people of his time, advocated human rights, gradually making it his main task in life. The Moscow Helsinki Group, of which Yury Orlov was one of […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Condolences, Human Rights.
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A concert in support of political prisoners, organised by Yabloko members, was held in St. Petersburg
Based on Sever.Revlii, 29.09.2020 A concert in support of political prisoners was held at the Interior Theater of St. Petersburg. Musicians Maksim Leonidov, Maksim Ermachkov, Pyotr Olesov, Dmitry Podosenov, Mikhail Novitsky and others participated in the concert. The idea to hold such a concert belongs to Oleg Maksakov, Chairman of the Primorsky local branch of […]
Posted: September 29th, 2020 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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A charitable concert in support of political prisoners to take place in St.Petersburg
Press Release, 24.09.2020 A charitable concert in support of political prisoners will be held at the Interior Theatre (Nevsky Prospect 104) on 27 September. The concert is organised with the participation of members of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the party and head of the Yabloko faction in the […]
Posted: September 24th, 2020 under Charity, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Activists supported by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko conducted a civil campaign for free access to the parks, 4,000 signatures collected
Press Release, 23.09.2020 On Monday, 21 September, Alexandr Makhankov, member of the Bureau of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko and Chairman of the local Yabloko branch in the city of Pushkin, together with representatives of the #Khochuvpark (I Want to the Park) initiative group, submitted to the reception of the Governor of St. Petersburg a […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Introductory lecture on contemporary investigative journalism “Legal Risks and Personal Experience of Successful Investigations” was held in Yabloko
Press Release, 22.09.2020 The Yabloko party is launching a series of open discussions on contemporary journalistic investigation. The main topic of the introductory lecture, which took place on September 17, was “Legal Risks and Personal Experience of Successful Investigations”.
Posted: September 22nd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist was attacked with a knife and threatened with murder because of his protest activities
Press Release, 17.09.2020 Ronald Ayrapetyan, Yabloko activist from Kislovodsk, told the media that he was threatened with murder if he continued to take action against Putin and United Russia. According to Ayrapetyan, on the evening of 12 September, he was returning home after a walk with a friend. An unidentified masked man with a knife […]
Posted: September 17th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Their freedom is our freedom
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.09.2020 Danil Beglets, Kirill Zhukov, Yevgeny Kovalenko, Konstantin Kotov, Yegor Lesnykh, Eduard Malyshevsky, Maxim Martintsov, Ivan Podkopayev and Sergei Surovtsev. All of these people were sent to jail because they dared to speak out against the authorities’ criminal election fraud and because they were courageous enough to protest openly in the streets.
Posted: September 15th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Без рубрики.
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The Court of Appeal did not satisfy the complaint of Oleg Mandrykin against the refusal of the electoral commission to register him as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region
Press Release, 11.09.2020 The Second Court of Appeal of St.Petersburg did not satisfy the complaint of Yabloko candidate Oleg Mandrykin against the refusal of the electoral commission to register him as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.
Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2020, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Eleven regional Yabloko deputies and the party Chairman call on the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia to open a criminal case on Alexei Navalny’s poisoning
Press Release, 11.09.2020 Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and eleven Yabloko deputies from six regional legislative assemblies forwarded to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, a statement on investigation of a crime. Yabloko deputies urge Bastrykin to initiate a criminal case under Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation […]
Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Regional and Local Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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THE DAY AFTER
On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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The police tried to disrupt the lecture of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko for observers of the elections to the City Duma
Press Release, 10.09.2020 On September 9, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko” was holding a seminar for those who signed up to be observers at the upcoming elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. After the lecture began, police officers suddenly stormed in. They said that on they were acting on basis of a […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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For every investigative action there is a reaction of electoral opposition!
Statement by the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, 9.09.2020 A search was conducted in the apartment of Irina Maltseva, candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma from the Yabloko party, on 9 September at 6 a.m. The investigative actions were carried out on the basis of the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on the so-called […]
Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Searches in the apartments of candidates for deputies from Yabloko conducted in Tatarstan, Ivanovo and Novgorod regions
Press Release, 9.09.2020 Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin’s apartment after a search Searches were conducted in the apartments of Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and candidate to the Council of the Osinovsky rural settlement, and Irina Maltseva, ethnographer and candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma.
Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “The poisoning of Alexei Navalny should be investigated by an international investigation team”
Press Release, 7.09.2020 “An international investigation team should be created under the auspices of one of the credible international organisations so that to investigate the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a chemical warfare agent,” Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Party’s Federal Political Committee, said.
Posted: September 7th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
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A poisoned reputation
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.09.2020 Why does no one – not a single state in the world, not a single international organisation – believe what they say in Russia about Alexei Navalny’s poisoning? Probably because no one, except Russia, change urine probes of their athletes. Probably because only “tourists” from Russia go to admire the sights […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: Russia is now losing the Belarus of tomorrow
Press Release, 4.09.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, Deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko party Pskov regional politicians discussed the formation of a reserve from the Russian security and law enforcement for Belarus and Vladimir Putin’s support for the actions of Alexander Lukashenko at the Echo of Moscow in Pskov radio station. The opinions […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Belarus is being turned into a concentration camp
Freedom to political prisoners in Belarus! Freedom to Vitaly Shklyarov! Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.08.2020 Nobody knows the total number of political prisoners in Belarus. It is assumed that at least 7,000 people were detained during the protests only in August 9 – 13, and about forty criminal cases were initiated. About 600 citizens of Belarus […]
Posted: September 4th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations.
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Deputies and human rights activists from Yabloko stood surety for imprisoned journalist Ivan Safronov
Press Release, 2.09.2020 Well-known members of the Yabloko party stood surety for imprisoned journalist Ivan Safronov accused in treason. Among those bailing for the journalist were Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, seven deputies of regional parliaments, well-known human rights activists and heads of three municipal districts of Moscow.
Posted: September 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Ksenia Sverdlova demands that the Investigative Committee and the Public Prosecutor General’s Office stop the interference of security officials and the Saratov city administration in the election of deputies of the Regional Duma
Press Release, 30.08.2020 Ksenia Sverdlova, candidate for the regional Duma from the Yabloko party and Chair of the Saratov regional branch of the party, appealed to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, and Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, asking them to stop the interference of law enforcement agencies and the Saratov city […]
Posted: August 31st, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Students reinstated to the university at the demand of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office. The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City State Duma helped the students who were arbitrarily expelled during the COVID quarantine to get reinstatement
Press Release, 28.08.2020 Natalya Pochinok, Rector of the Russian State Social University, had to cancel her order on the expulsion of Anton Ocheretin and Danila Petrov from the university, after the Public Prosecutor General’s Office proposed her to eliminate violations of the legislation on education. Students were expelled in April this year for trying to […]
Posted: August 31st, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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