Archive for 'Human Rights'
We demand to immediately release detained journalist Golunov and check the legality of police actions
Statement by the Yabloko party, 7.06.2019 On the evening of Thursday, 6 June, Ivan Golunov, Meduza’s correspondent, was beaten and detained by police in Moscow. The police allegedly discovered prohibited substances on him when he went to meet with the source. On the same day, searches were conducted at Golunov’s home.
Posted: June 7th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: A Catcher in the Lie
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 3.06.2019 The Internet has been discussing the new series Chernobyl. They write that this is one of the most significant films not only about the catastrophe, but also about the USSR in general. As a contemporary of these events, I can say that all my friends and acquaintances who had at least […]
Posted: June 6th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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A unified state ideology is a way to totalitarianism
Yabloko Bureau statement, 30.05.2019 In recent years, a number of leaders of the present Russian government began raising a question of the need to create and legislate a single ideology. Now, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been switched to the promotion of this idea. An appeal has been made to […]
Posted: May 31st, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Emilia Slabunova visited a charitable event in support of imprisoned Yuri Dmitriyev, head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society
Press Release, 30.05.2019 On 29 May, Yabloko Chairperson Emilia Slabunova took part in a charitable event in support of Yuri Dmitriyev, historian, head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society, and one of the founders of the Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor memorial complexes where victims of Stalin’s reprisals are buried. Expeditions led […]
Posted: May 30th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky about the dismissal of journalists of the Kommersant newspaper
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.05.2019 Picture: Yes-No “An exceptionally corporate issue”. This is how the Kremlin explained the dismissal of journalists from the Kommersant newspaper for publishing an article about Valentina Matviyenko and Sergei Naryshkin [the paper wrote about possible dismissal of Matviyenko, Chair of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, and […]
Posted: May 25th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech.
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The Parliament of Karelia did not support the initiative of Yabloko to punish officials for the lack of respect for human rights and freedoms
Press Release, 23.05.2019 MPs of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia did not support the initiative of Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Karelian parliament and Chair the Yabloko party, on punishment of for disrespect for human rights and freedoms.
Posted: May 23rd, 2019 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko activists in Tula held a series of pickets
Police confiscated the picket placards the activists used in their pickets Press Release, 23.05.2019 On 20 May, Yabloko activists held a series of one-person pickets in the centre of Tula. One Yabloko member picketed by the regional government office.
Posted: May 23rd, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Street Actions, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The fate of Oleg Sentsov and the future of our country
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.05.2019 It turns five years in May as Oleg Sentsov, [Ukrainian] film director, has been kept in a Russian prison – without proven guilt, a fair trial and objective investigation (it is known that no one suffered from Sentsov’s actions), but most likely, a citizen of Ukraine, 42-year-old father of two children, […]
Posted: May 14th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: The Kremlin Is the Birthplace of Our Fear
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.05.2019 They say Kolyma [one of the GULAG places in north-east Russia] is the birthplace of our fear. But no, it is not Kolyma. And neither [the camps of] Magadan, nor Mordovia, nor Norilsk, nor Komi. And not even all 427 camps of the GULAG. Homeland of our fear is the Kremlin.
Posted: May 6th, 2019 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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On the lost time and the “sovereign armored train”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Vladimir Putin said that the decree on the simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine was “a humanitarian measure”. That is, it is like taking care of people who are suffering. In fact, in order to alleviate the suffering […]
Posted: April 30th, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Situation in Crimea, Understanding Russia.
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An Opponent’s View
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.04.2019 Grigory Yavlinsky’s book The Putin System has been published by Columbia University Press, New York. How power works in present-day Russia, how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule for over 20 years — these questions are often misunderstood and the answers remain opaque. In The Putin System, Russian […]
Posted: April 30th, 2019 under Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Watch The Optimists in your language now
Press Release, 23.04.2019 Watch the documentary The Optimists dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Yabloko with English (or other) subtitiles now. Choose your language in the Settings of the video. The documentary covers the key periods in the history of the Russian Federation and the development of the Yabloko party.
Posted: April 25th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko demanded from regional Public Prosecutor to investigate fraud with land in the city of Baltiysk
Press Release, 16.04.2019 Photo: Sergei Dustin at his one-person picket. Sergei Dustin, member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, picketed the Kaliningrad Oblast Public Prosecutor’s Office with a placard “Does Baltiysk need a blind Public Prosecutor?” The activist called on the supervisory authority to pay attention to the inaction of Dmitry Prokhorov, Public Prosecutor of […]
Posted: April 18th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko’s human rights activists filed an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for conducting a march “The First of May Against Torture and Discrimination”
Press Release, 17.04.2019 Photo: Organisers of the action: Svetlana Gannushkina, Lev Ponomaryov and Valery Borschyov Valery Borshchyov and Svetlana Gannushkina, renowned human rights activists and members of the Yabloko party, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office to hold a march in the city centre on 1 May “The First of May Against Torture […]
Posted: April 17th, 2019 under Human Rights, Street Actions.
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Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov on arrests and searches in Ingushetia
Press Release, 15.04.2019 Photo: Magomed Mutsolgov and Ruslan Mutsolgov The authorities of Ingushetia continue searches and arrests after the March rallies in Magas against the border agreement with Chechnya. Protest leaders Ahmed Barakhoyev, Barakh Chemurziyev and Musa Malgasov have already been arrested for two months. Today, the law enforcement accompanied by military equipment (!) came […]
Posted: April 16th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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A criminal case initiated on publication of a fake newspaper imitating Pskov Yabloko’s Grazhdanin paper
Press Release, 11.04.2019 A criminal case was initiated by the police on publication of a fake newspaper imitating Pskov Yabloko’s Grazhdanin (Citizen) paper. The criminal case against an indefinite number of persons was raised under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Libel).
Posted: April 12th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018.
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Yabloko activists sentence to fines of 47,000 roubles and 90 hours of compulsory community service for an anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk
Press Release, 11.04.2019 Photo: the rally in Arkhangelsk Trials over participants and organisers of the rally against the plans of the authorities to create landfills in the Arkhangelsk region for the storage of Moscow garbage go on for the second day. Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the anti-garbage rally in Arkhangelsk, was assigned […]
Posted: April 12th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Protection of Environment.
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Deputy Chair of the Arkhangelsk branch of Yabloko fined 16,000 roubles for participation in the anti-garbage rally and Yabloko’s organiser of the action faces the second arrest
Press Release, 10.04.2019 Prosecution of the organisers and participants of the anti-garbage rally of 7 April goes on in Arkhangelsk. On the evening of 10 April, Yuri Chesnokov, one of the organisers of the environmental protest in Arkhangelsk and member of the Regional Council of the Yabloko party, was detained for the third time.
Posted: April 11th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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The Education Committee of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia supported the bill by Emilia Slabunova on the right of the family to teach all children in one school
Press Release, 10.04.2019 The Education Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia unanimously supported the draft federal law on the right of the family to teach all children in one school. The draft law was developed by Emilia Slabunova, MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and Yabloko Chairperson. The initiative was […]
Posted: April 11th, 2019 under Education and Science, Human Rights.
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Yabloko held a rally against the “garbage reform” in Yekaterinburg
Yabloko Deputy Chairman Nikolai Rybakov took part in the rally Press Release, 8.04.2019 On Sunday, 7 April, a rally against the “garbage reform” was held in Yekaterinburg. The action was organized by the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party. Residents are dissatisfied with the unreasonable increase of tariffs for waste disposal and lack of […]
Posted: April 10th, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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