Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov denied registration as a candidate for elections
Press Release, 17.07.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov after a meeting of the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters This decision was made today by the electoral commission for electoral district No. 13, despite objections filed by Maxim Kruglov’s headquarters to the protocol of verifying signatures. Yabloko is preparing a legal complaint. According to […]
Posted: July 18th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The electoral commission is going to invalidate about a thousand signatures in support of the nomination of Maxim Kruglov in the elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 16.07.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov’s team before submitting signatures to the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters Maxim Kruglov, a Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma and the current deputy of the Moscow City Duma, told about the decision of the electoral commission to invalidate about a thousand signatures out […]
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office due to poor quality works on a military memorial in Staraya Russa dedicated to the victims of the World War II
Press Release, 16.07.2024 Photo: Plastic signs at the Simonovskoye cemetery in Staraya Russa / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko The Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the failure of the authorities to complete works to create a memorial in Staraya Russa to […]
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Electoral commissions are carrying out a political order to prevent Yabloko candidates from participating in municipal elections in St. Petersburg
Statement by the Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, 15.07.2024 Candidates for municipal deputies from the Yabloko party are being denied registration en masse. In the Admiralteysky, Central, Petrogradsky, Kirovsky and other districts of St. Petersburg, candidates are rejected registration on the same far-fetched grounds that do not correspond either to […]
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ministry of Justice hurried to add a candidate from the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko to the register of foreign agents in order to disrupt her registration
Press release, 13.07.2024 Photo: Anna Karulicheva with her team / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko On 12 July, three hours before the meeting of the electoral commission, which was supposed to consider the issue of registering Anna Karulicheva, a Yabloko candidate and former deputy of the Narva Okrug municipality in St.Petersburg, the Ministry of […]
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We Need a Ceasefire Now — Before It Is Too Late
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.07.2024 Armoured Peace Dove. Banksy. 2003 “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong”. Abraham Lincoln The most recent rotation of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union – which is usually a formal procedure in the European bureaucratic system — […]
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The construction of a tourist centre on the shores of Lake Onega in Karelia was stopped due to the efforts of Yabloko deputies and local residents
Press Release, 12.07.2024 Photo from social media The Karelian Interdistrict Environmental Public Prosecutor’s Office established that a plot of pine forest on the shore of Lake Onega with an area of over 6 hectares was transferred into private hands illegally. Forest lands, which include centuries-old pine forests, can be exclusively federal property. The public prosecutor […]
Posted: July 12th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“They are convicted for creativity. For not toeing the line. For making people think.” Yabloko leaders on the sentence to theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk
Press Release, 8.07.2024 On 8 July, the Second Western District Military Court of Moscow sentenced theatre director Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to six years in a general regime penal colony each in the case of “justifying terrorism”.
Posted: July 10th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to honour the memory of the victims of Stalin’s political repression in Sandarmokh, Karelia, and invites all the party supporters to participate
Press Release, 08.07.2024 Photo: A monument at the place of mass burial with an inscription “People, don’t kill each other!” On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Terror, on 5 August, the Yabloko delegation will go to the Sandarmokh, Karelia, the place of mass burial of victims of Stalin’s political […]
Posted: July 8th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Over 50,000 Muscovites signed for peace and freedom
Press Release, 7.07.2024 Photo: Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma and Yabloko’s candidate, meets with Muscovites Candidates for Moscow City Duma deputies from the Yabloko party were able to collect a total of 51,526 signatures from Muscovites in favour of their nomination that are required for their registration in […]
Posted: July 8th, 2024 under Elections, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Vladimir Kara-Murza hospitalised in prison. No information about his condition
Nikolai Rybakov’s post, 5.07.2024 Vladimir Kara-Murza has been taken to the prison hospital. His wife Evgenia reported this to the media. Defenders are not yet allowed to see him, there are no details about his condition. Let me remind you that in April 2023, the Moscow City Court sentenced Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in […]
Posted: July 5th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Nuclear war today. What are its prospects and what does the arrival of Viktor Orban have to do with it?
Telegram blog post by Nikolai Rybakov, 5.07.2024 Photo from social media. In 2023, nine countries increased their spending on nuclear weapons by 13%. This is a record high growth. According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), nuclear club countries have spent a record USD 91.4 billion on modernisation and the number of […]
Posted: July 5th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Court found Yabloko candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections Vladimir Kalinin guilty of “demonstrating extremist symbols”
Press Release, 5.07.2024 Yabloko candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections Vladimir Kalinin was found guilty of “demonstration of extremist symbols” for a post on social media in 2019 dedicated to the elections. He is fined 2,000 roubles and will not be allowed to participate in the elections. The decision was made by the Gagarinsky […]
Posted: July 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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‘No other way out’: Ceasefire agreement in Russia-Ukraine conflict is ‘necessary’
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 21.06.2024 Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko, says in his interview to Erin Molan, Sky News Australia, that there is “no other way out” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict but a ceasefire agreement.
Posted: July 3rd, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk Mayor’s Office sent Yabloko to collect signatures for nomination of its candidatesin the field. The party headquarters applied to court
Press Release, 3.07.2024 Photo: A screenshot of a map with locations for collecting signatures that the Chelyabinsk Mayor’s Office offered to the Yabloko party The administration of Chelyabinsk did not approve for the regional branch of the Yabloko party any of the one hundred locations which Yabloko applied for so that to collect signatures for […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St.Petersburg Yabloko demands that the Public Prosecutor’s Office look into the forged signatures of party deputies for a gubernatorial candidate
Press Release, 2.07.2024 The head of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg parliament, Alexander Shishlov, appealed to the city Public Prosecutor Viktor Melnik: the list of those municipal deputies who put their signatures for the candidate for Governor of St. Petersburg Alexei Kovalyov included members of Yabloko who did not support him.
Posted: July 2nd, 2024 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated 90 candidates to run in the municipal elections in St.Petersburg
Press Release, 29.06.2024 Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko On 28 June, the conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko nominated 25 more candidates for municipal deputies; earlier, on 24 June, the regional branch of the party nominated 70 candidates (five candidates will run in the elections in two electoral districts at once), […]
Posted: July 1st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated candidates to run in the upcoming regional and municipal elections
Press Release, 29.06.2024 Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko 13 candidates from Yabloko will conduct their election campaigns under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the ceasefire agreement!”. This was decided by the Conference of the regional branch of the party, held on 28 June.
Posted: July 1st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko nominated Alexander Yefimov as a candidate from the Rostov region for by-elections to the State Duma
Press Release, 27.06.2024 Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko nominated Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the party and an entrepreneur, as a candidate from the Rostov region in the by-elections for a State Duma deputy. Single-mandate electoral district No. 152 includes the Aksai district and the […]
Posted: July 1st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections.
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“That was the case when I couldn’t help but come.” Nikolai Rybakov took part in mourning ceremonies after the acts of terror in Dagestan
Telegram post by Nikolai Rybakov, 27.06.2024 Photos by the Yabloko Press Service Yesterday I was in Dagestan – in Makhachkala and Derbent. That was case when I couldn’t help but come. You all understand the tragic reason. I will return (https://eng.yabloko.ru/yabokos-statement-on-the-situation-in-dagestan ) to the substantive side of the problem more than once in the future. […]
Posted: June 28th, 2024 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Без рубрики.
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