Archive for 'Protests in Russia'
The leaders of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko fined for the rally in the site specially designated for holding rallies without notifying the authorities
Press Release, 17.02.2021 In the photo: Ivan Krisanov / photo by the Press Service of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko On 17 February, the Oktyabrskiy District Court of Ivanovo found Ivan Krisanov, a Bureau member of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, guilty of committing an administrative offense under Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code of […]
Posted: February 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“That’s how you get to be hangmen – Just keep mum”*
Grigory Yavlinsky on why his article “No to Putinism and Populism” was published on time Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.02.2021 Photo: Moscow, January 31, 2021. Photo by RIA Novosti / Yevgeny Odinokov The article “No to Putinism and Populism. On the Implications of Current Politics” sparked a discussion. One of the most frequent objections is that the […]
Posted: February 16th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party Bureau supported Grigory Yavlinsky’s proposals stated in his article
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 11.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky/Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party adopted a statement supporting the theses outlined in the article “Without Putinism and Populism” by Grigory Yavlinsky and noted the relevance of this article. The statement was submitted to the Bureau for consideration […]
Posted: February 12th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: No to Putinism and Populism
On the implications of current politics Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.02.2021 Moscow, January 31, 2021 // © RIA NOVOSTI, Yevgeni Odinokov “If my people follows Gamsakhurdia, I will have to go against my people”. Merab Mamardashvili, 1989 Almost 10 years have passed since the protests of 2011. During this period we have witnessed different street […]
Posted: February 11th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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The leader of Yabloko demanded from the Ministry of Education and Science and the Higher Attestation Commission to deprive the Rector of Astrakhan State University of his scientific degree for plagiarism in the dissertation
Press Release 11.02.2021 Photo: Konstantin Markelov, Rector of Astrakhan State University/ photo from the official website of Astrakhan State University Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education, as well as Vladimir Filippov, Chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission, demanding to check the Ph.D. […]
Posted: February 11th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman demanded that the Public Prosecutor of the Maritime Territory stop persecuting party members
Press Release, 10.02.2021 In the photo: Marina Zheleznyakova / Photo from the personal page on Facebook Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an official letter to Roman Panteleyev, Public Prosecutor of the Maritime Territory, demanding to stop the persecution of party members in Vladivostok – Marina Zheleznyakova, Chair of the Maritime Territory regional branch of […]
Posted: February 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman demanded that the St. Petersburg Public Prosecutor raise an objection to the punishment imposed upon a dumb citizen who “shouted slogans”
Press Release, 9.02.2021 Photo by Alexander Dybin/ znak.com Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an official letter to the Public Prosecutor of St. Petersburg Sergei Litvinenko demanding that he take measures to cancel the punishment imposed upon a citizen with deaf dumbness. Yevgeny Agafonov was detained during a protest in St. Petersburg on January 31, 2021. […]
Posted: February 10th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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Nikolai Rybakov: The reason for the demonstrations in Russia is not the Alexei Navalny case, but the political situation in the country
Press Release, 8.02.2021 Yabloko Chairman told to the Russian Perviy Kanal (Channel One) and NTV television channels, as well as in recent interviews to the Portuguese radio TSF and the Kurdish channel RUDAW, that the main reason for the demonstrations in Moscow and other Russian cities was not the Alexei Navalny case, but the political […]
Posted: February 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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On February 14, a rally “against detentions and repressions” will be held in Kazan
Press Release, 5.02.2021 Photo: photobeginner/depositphotos In Kazan, the opposition managed to receive the consent of the authorities for a rally “against detentions and repressions and for the changes in the electoral laws for the State Duma elections”. The rally will take place in the centre of Kazan, opposite the Kazan Kremlin, on February 14. The […]
Posted: February 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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A search held in the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory
Press Release, 6.02.2021 In the photo: Marina Zheleznyakova / Photo from the personal page on Facebook In Vladivostok, police officers searched the apartment of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the regional branch of Yabloko in the Maritime Territory.
Posted: February 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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The Сhair of the Tambov branch of Yabloko fined in a trumped-up case of organising a rally
Press Release, 5.02.2021 In the photo: Yana Zenkina / Yana Zenkina’s personal page in the Vkontakte social network The Leninsky District Court of Tambov sentenced Yana Zenkina, Chair of the Tambov regional branch of the Yabloko party, to a fine of 20,000 roubles. A case was initiated against the leader of the regional branch of […]
Posted: February 5th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Chairman demanded from the Public Prosecutor of Tatarstan to punish the security officials who put detained peaceful protesters face in the snow
Press Release, 4.02.2021 Photo by Artyom Mokhov Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildus Nafikov find and punish the law enforcement officers who, during the rally, unreasonably and toughly detained about 50 protesters. The Yabloko Chairman recalled that on January 31, 2021, officers of the security forces […]
Posted: February 4th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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Boris Vishnevsky: St. Petersburg has turned into a zone of lawlessness and police rule
Speech by the head of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, 3.02.2021 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky/ photo from the official website of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Laws have been passed in this room for more than a quarter of a century. However, for the past ten days St. Petersburg has ceased […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman demanded that the Rector of Astrakhan University reinstate the students expelled from the university
Press Release, 3.02.2021 Photo: Konstantin Markelov, Rector of Astrakhan State University/ photo from the official website of Astrakhan State University Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, sent an appeal to Konstantin Markelov, Rector of Astrakhan State University, demanding that the unlawfully expelled students be reinstated. On 29 January, 2021, the Rector expelled three students “in an administrative […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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Yabloko’s call centre continues to provide aid to detained protesters on 31 January
Press Release, 31.01.2021 In the Yabloko party’s federal call centre for assistance to those detained at the actions of 31 January continues its work. Lawyers and party activists work in the call centre. The call centre coordinates its work with the OVD-Info project providing information on the detained and legal aid to them and other […]
Posted: February 1st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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Protests and the tasks of the opposition
Statement by the Yabloko party, 29.01.2021 A new wave of political repression, targeted against a wide range of Russian citizens, the entire protesting civil society in Russia, has emerged. The public protest is caused by people’s fatigue and unacceptability for them of the twenty years of irreplaceable authoritarian rule by Vladimir Putin and the prospects […]
Posted: January 30th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Social Policies, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Lev Shlosberg was fined 20,000 roubles for offering protesters to go to Hyde Park on January 23
Press Release, 26.01.2021 Photo: Lev Shlosberg with his lawyer Tatyana Martynova in front of the building of the Pskov City Court / Photo by Lyudmila Savitskaya Lev Shlosberg was fined 20,000 roubles for offering protesters of the action of 23 January in support of Alexei Navalny and political prisoners to go to Hyde Park, the […]
Posted: January 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An administrative case was filed against Lev Shlosberg for “organisation of an unpermitted public event”
Press Release, 26.01.2021 Photo: The police banned peaceful protesters from entering the Hyde Park in Pskov on January 23, 2021 / Photo by Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Pskov On the morning of January 26, the police reclassified the events of Pskov on January 23, which they charge Lev Shlosberg, member of the Yabloko party Federal […]
Posted: January 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: For your and our freedom. Fighting for those who are imprisoned means defending yourself. To those who have not been taken to the police van yet
Novaya Gazeta, 26.10.2020 The public activity that has manifested itself in the recent days in protecting Alexei Navalny from political persecution is very high. I would like to hope that this will lead to an increase in public activity in defending other political prisoners, and there are hundreds of them in Russia. “We came out […]
Posted: January 27th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia.
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The Yabloko branch in Kalmykia picketed in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 25.01.2021 In the photo: Batyr Boromangnayev with a placard “Free political prisoners!” / the Kalmykian branch of Yabloko On 23 January, Batyr Boromangnayev, Chairman of the Kalmykian branch of the Yabloko party, held a single picket in Elista, capital of Kalmykia, in support of political prisoners in Russia and solidarity with imprisoned Ingush […]
Posted: January 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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