Archive for 'Human Rights'
Yabloko is the party of a moral choice
Decision by Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 25.10.2018 Yabloko is the party of the European values. Yabloko has abided by democratic principles and employed lawful methods to gain power and political influence since the time the party was founded 25 years ago. We are the party of public affairs, we participate in elections and use parliamentary […]
Posted: November 7th, 2018 under History, Human Rights, Politics, Understanding Russia, Yabloko's Views.
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Yabloko commemorates victims of political reprisals in Cheboksary
Press release, 1.11.2018 The Yabloko party participated in a rally commemorating the victims of political repressions on Cheborsary on 30 October.
Posted: November 6th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Irkutsk branch of Yabloko commemorates victims of the Great Terror
Press release, 1.11.2018 The Irkutsk branch of Yabloko participated in series of one-person pickets to commemorates the victims of the Great Terror.
Posted: November 6th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko commemorates victims of political reprisals in Ufa
Press release, 1.11.2018 On the Remembrance Day of the Victims of Political Repressions members of the Bashkiria Republic branch of Yabloko visited a memorial in Ufa, brought flowers and commemorated their relatives and friends who suffered from repressions.
Posted: November 5th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Vladimir Putin through his Administration refuses to grant a pardon to Oleg Sentsov upon Yabloko’s request
Press release, 01.11.2018 Vladimir Putin will not consider granting a pardon to a Ukranian film director Oleg Sentsov without Sentsov’s personal petition and a recommendation from the governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District where the prisoner is serving his sentence. This follows from the response of the Presidential Directorate for Protection of Citizens’ Constitutional Rights […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko joins a ceremony to commemorate Soviet political prisoners in Chelyabinsk
Press release, 31.10.2018 On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, Yabloko activists in Chelyabinsk participated in the Returning the Names ceremony. The memorial ceremony takes place every year to commemorate victims of the Great Terror.
Posted: November 1st, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko commemorates victims of political reprisals in St. Petersburg
Press release, 31.10.2018 On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, activists of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party took part in the Returning the Names memorial action to pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals.
Posted: November 1st, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko speaks out against installing a monument to Joseph Stalin in Novosibirsk
Press release, 31.10.2018 On 30 October, the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko participated in a rally to commemorate the victims of political reprisals. The activists of the party also joined an action against the installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Novosibirsk.
Posted: November 1st, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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A ceremony to commemorate victims of political repressions takes place in Barnaul
Press release, 31.10.2018 On 30 October, the Barnaul branch of Yabloko participated in a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the Great Terror. Alexander Kondrov, Deputy Chair of the Altai Krai party branch, told those present about his relatives who were repressed. Alexander Goncharenko, Chair of Yabloko in the Altai Krai, said that 150,000 people […]
Posted: November 1st, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko commemorates victims of political reprisals
Press release, 31.10.2018 On 28 October, activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko participated in the Returning the Names memorial action to pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals. According to the participants of the action, it is impossible to bury the most tragic chapters of the Soviet history. Yabloko activists and […]
Posted: November 1st, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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“The current political system is a step away from becoming a political mechanism of terror”
Press release, 29.10.2018 On 29 October, the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party took part in the Returning the Names memorial action to pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals. The participants of the action, one after another, read out the […]
Posted: October 30th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko to participate in Returning the Names memorial action
Press release, 18.10.2018 On 29 October, the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will take part in the Returning the Names memorial action. They will pay tribute to the victims of Joseph Stalin’s reprisals by the Solovetsky stone.
Posted: October 18th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko Centre for New Municipal Policy to hold a round table on the safety of municipal deputies
Press release, 16.10.2018 On 22 October, Yabloko Centre for New Municipal Policy will hold a round table on the safety of municipal deputies in Moscow. Yabloko deputies who were elected to municipal councils in September 2017 have faced pressure on behalf of their opponents, government representatives and law enforcement.
Posted: October 16th, 2018 under Human Rights, Local and Municipal Elections 2017.
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A state-financed institution takes away Yabloko municipal deputy’s reports from mail boxes
Press release, 15.10.2018 On 12 October, Yabloko activists delivered reports on the work carried out by Yabloko municipal deputy Irina Kopkina in Moscow’s Strogino District over the course of a year. Later that evening local residents posted on social media that representatives of Zhilishchnilk, a state funded institution responsible for housing and utilities services, were […]
Posted: October 16th, 2018 under Freedom of Speech.
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One of the authors of the Russian Constitution Victor Sheinis about the idea of “pinpointing changes” to the Constitution
Press Release, 12.10.2018 A few days ago, Valery Zorkin, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, said that it is necessary to “pinpoint changes” to the Russian Constitution in order to eliminate the shortcomings of the Fundamental Law of the Russian Federation.
Posted: October 15th, 2018 under Human Rights, Understanding Russia.
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“We all know where these bullets came from”
Press release, 9.10.2018 A rally to commemorate Anna Politkovskaya, a Novaya Gazeta journalist, was held in St. Petersburg on 8th October. She was murdered at an entrance hall of the apartment where she lived in Moscow on 7 October, 2006.
Posted: October 11th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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A family car of a municipal deputy from Yabloko attacked for the second time
Press Release, 8.10.2018 On the night of 4 to 5 October, unidentified persons punctured the tires in the car of the son of Irina Kopkina, Yabloko’s municipal deputy in the Moscow district of Strogino. This has become the second attack on the car of the family of the deputy for the past few months. Kopkina […]
Posted: October 9th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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New bloodshed in the Caucasus must be avoided
Yabloko speaks in defence of the leader of its Ingush branch and for an open discussion of the border problem between Ingushetia and Chechnya Statement of the Yabloko party, 2.10.2018 The Yabloko party demands to stop persecution of Ruslan Mutsolgov, leader of the Yabloko branch in Ingushetia, and public activists protesting against the transfer of […]
Posted: October 3rd, 2018 under Human Rights, Understanding Russia.
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Yabloko demands that Oyub Titiev, Chair of Memorial human rights group in the Chechen Republic, be released without delay
Yabloko Bureau’s appeal to President Vladimir Putin, 28.09.2018 The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko demands that Oyub Titiev, Chair of the Chechen branch of the Memorial human rights groups, be released immediately. A criminal case against Titiev is an illegal response to his daily heroic work on the protection and saving of people’s lives in […]
Posted: October 1st, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko demands that Putin take measures to save Oyub Titiev’s life
Press release, 28.09.2018 The Yabloko party demanded that Oyub Titiev, Chair of the Chechen branch of the Memorial human rights groups, be released and protected immediately. His life is in imminent danger now. Titiev must be protected by the federal governmental bodies, runs Yabloko’s statement.
Posted: September 30th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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