Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko laid flowers to the people’s memorial at the site of murder of Boris Nemtsov
Yabloko party’s Facebook page, 28.02.2019 Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder, Sergei Mitrokhin, ex Chairman of Yabloko, and party activists paid tribute to the memory of Boris Nemtsov four years after he was murdered by the Kremlin walls at Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge.
Posted: February 28th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Nikolay Rybakov laid flowers to the site of murder of Boris Nemtsov
Nikolay Rybakov’s Facebook page, 27.02.2019 Today, four years after politician Boris Nemtsov was shot on the bridge by the Kremlin wall, people come to the site of his murder, where the so-called people’s memorial had been created by volunteers. The authorities refused to give a permission to create a memorial, so democratic people created a […]
Posted: February 27th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leaders and activists will lay flowers to the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 26.02.2019 Photo from memorial action of 2018 On Wednesday, 27 February, activists and leaders of the Yabloko party will lay flowers to the site of murder of politician Boris Nemtsov politician on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow.
Posted: February 26th, 2019 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Actions in memory of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities were held with support of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 25.02.2019 The Yabloko party participated in the actions commemorating Boris Nemtsov. The actions took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov and other Russian cities on Sunday, 24 February, 2018. In Moscow, Yabloko activists formed a column with a banner “Yabloko is the party of peace and is against war! ”. The column was […]
Posted: February 26th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Video address by Nikolay Rybakov to Public Prosecutor General and head of the Investigation Committee on the case of Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 22.02.2019 Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, recorded a video address to Yury Chaika, Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigation Committee of Russia, in connection with prosecution of Lev Shlosberg, head of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, by law enforcement agencies and criminals.
Posted: February 22nd, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections.
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Pskov Yabloko receives threats from some criminals. Who has sent them?
Lev Shlosberg’s Facebook page, 21.02.2019 Dear friends, Unfortunately the situation is far from being calm and peaceful in Pskov. Last morning, an unidentified man (allegedly an acting or former employee of the law enforcement or secret services) stuck a piece of paper on the sign of the public reception office of a deputy of the […]
Posted: February 21st, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the criminal case against Lev Shlosberg and the Pskov branch of Yabloko, and the possibility of change in Russia: This is an anti-constitutional act suppressing legal opposition
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 15.02. 2019 On 15 February, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and Yabloko founder, commented to the Ekho Moskvi radio station on a criminal case against the Pskov branch of Yabloko and Lev Shlosberg, Pskov Yabloko leader and MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly. Yavlinsky noted that the search […]
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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We demand to stop the pre-investigation check on municipal deputies Andrei Morev and Viktor Kotov
Statement by Yabloko Chairperson, 19.02.2019 Photo: Andrei Morev The Yabloko party expresses serious concern over the fact that Andrei Morev, Moscow municipal deputy from Yabloko, was summoned for interrogation to the Investigation Committee of the Yakimanka district of Moscow.
Posted: February 20th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko will take part in the march in memory of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Actions will be held this Sunday, 24 February Press Release, 18.02.2019 Representatives of the Yabloko party are members of the organising committees of the Boris Nemtsov March in Moscow and St. Petersburg. These actions paying tribute to the memory to the politician shot on the bridge opposite the Kremlin four years ago will be held […]
Posted: February 18th, 2019 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Criminal case against Pskov Yabloko is a case against the whole party and against the Russian Constitution
Statement, 14.02.2019 The Yabloko party expresses a categorical protest against the search conducted by the Investigation Department of the Investigation Committee of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pskov Region in the premises of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party on 13 February. A politically motivated forceful persecution of opposition […]
Posted: February 15th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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The Pskov office of Yabloko is being searched
Press release, 13.02.2019 The Investigation Committee is conducting a search in the office of the Pskov regional branch of the Yabloko party, as Dmitry Permyakov, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch confirmed to the Press Service.
Posted: February 14th, 2019 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2018, Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Election 2018.
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Emilia Slabunova on the trial over Yuri Dmitriyev, Chair of the Karelian branch of the human rights society Memorial
Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 12.02.2019 While the state propaganda on the Russia-24 TV channel talks about the “so-called human rights activists”, without giving them a word, and the benefits of the expedition of the Russian Military-Historical Society to Sandarmokh [the place of shooting and burial of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals in Karelia], which causes […]
Posted: February 12th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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What can you do if you are being persecuted for political reasons? Online seminar by Yabloko’s Andrei Babushkin
Press Release, 12.02.2019 On Saturday, February 16, well-known human rights activist Andrei Babushkin will conduct a seminar in the Moscow office of the party on the topic “If you became a suspect, detainee or are accused in an offence”. The seminar will be broadcast on the Internet. Andrei Babushkin is member of the Federal Bureau […]
Posted: February 12th, 2019 under Human Rights.
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Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan held a picket in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 11.02.2019 Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan, held a one-person picket in support of Anastasia Shevchenko and other political prisoners in the center of Kazan on the eve of the “Mothers’ Rage” march (demonstrations against political reprisals held in different cities and demanding freedom for political prisoners […]
Posted: February 11th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Lev Shlosberg: The case against Svetlana Prokopyeva represents political terror
Press Release, 6.02.2019 The customer, organiser and executor of the criminal case against [journalist] Svetlana Prokopyeva is the Russian state. The goal of this ordered persecution is encroachment on freedom of speech and freedom of mass media in Russia, that is, the basis of the constitutional order. The Russian state has become a terrorist and […]
Posted: February 7th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Reprisals against the opposition mean a path to upheaval
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 4.02.2019 Blurring of distinction between peaceful opposition and revolutionaries is dangerous primarily for the state system The criminal case against Anastasia Shevchenko, activist of Otkrytaya Rossia (Open Russia), is the evidence of cynicism and elementary irrationality of the authorities. Applying house arrest to a mother of three minor children for […]
Posted: February 4th, 2019 under Human Rights.
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Nadezhda Agisheva: Polling numbers of the ruling United Russia party have dropped, and any mention of difficult and important topics is blocked at all levels.
Press Release, 4.02.2019 Oppositional Perm deputies accuse the city parliament leadership of censorship The leadership of the Perm Duma has banned posting on social networks of the city parliament videos of Nadezhda Agisheva, deputy from the Yabloko party, in particular, those on raising the retirement age, problems of lonely disabled people, as well as changing […]
Posted: February 4th, 2019 under Freedom of Speech.
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“We have never betrayed our principles and have always stood firm”. Interview with Sergei Ivanenko, deputy head of the Yabloko party
Specially for Yabloko website by Svetlana Prokudina, 12.01.2019 Sergei Ivanenko, Yabloko Deputy Chair, has turned 60 on 12th January. Sergei Victorovich is one of Grigory Yavlinsky’s closest colleagues. He was actively involved in the foundation of the Yabloko party. Ivanenko played one of the key roles in the work of Yabloko’s faction in the State […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2019 under Elections, History, Human Rights, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko to participate in all-Russia protest for protection of environment and against the “waste reform” in 32 Russian regions
Press release, 1.02.2019 On Sunday, 3 February, Yabloko will take part in a protest against the “waste reform” and for the solution of other environmental problems throughout the country. Yabloko activists plan to participate in rallies and pickets in 32 regions of the country, in half of these actions the party became the organiser of […]
Posted: February 1st, 2019 under Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Lev Shlosberg on liquidation of district newspapers in the Pskov region: this is neither legal nor rational
Press Release, 1.02.2019 Lev Shlosberg, MP from the Yabloko faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly and head of the Yabloko branch in the Pskov region, devoted his speech before the 28th session of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies to the liquidation of the district newspapers of the Pskov region and attempts to stop this […]
Posted: February 1st, 2019 under Freedom of Speech, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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