Archive for 'Overcoming Stalin’s Legacy'
Yabloko participated in the “Returning the Names” action dedicated to the memory of victims of Stalinist political repression of 1930 – 1953
Press Release, 29.10.2021 Leaders, members and supporters of the Yabloko party took part in the action “Returning the Names” and read out the names of citizens shot during the Great Terror 1936-1938 and Stalinist repressions of 1930 – 1953. The action in memory of the victims of political repression has been annually organised by the […]
Posted: October 29th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko members honoured the memory of victims of political repression of the Stalin’s period of 1930-1953
Press Release, 29.10.2021 On 29 October, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the Gender faction and party activists and supporters laid flowers at the Solovetsky Stone monument in Moscow. The Solovetsky Stone in Moscow is one of the most significant monuments to the victims of political repression killed […]
Posted: October 29th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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On the situation in Russia
Decision No 145 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant The situation in Russia, in almost all spheres, is currently determined by trends summarising the previous 25 years and set by the 2020 “constitutional reform” [Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution]. This […]
Posted: October 21st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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On the calls to vote of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Decision No 148 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo: Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), bows to the bust of Stalin on 5 March 2021, the anniversary of Stalin’s death / Photo by Irina Buzhor / Kommersant The Political Committee […]
Posted: October 18th, 2021 under Elections, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Do you say that the real opposition is the communists? Then expect new repressions, the Iron Curtain and a war”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 31.08.2021 Photo: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Photo by Alexander Miridonov /Kommersant Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov equated criticism of Joseph Stalin with an attack on the outcome of the Second World War. What for? It attracts communist voters to the [ruling] United Russia party and at the same time makes it […]
Posted: August 31st, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Situation in Crimea, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Anna Cherepanova: Mayor Busurin’s proposal to cancel the erection of a monument to victims of political reprisals is a huge mistake
Press Release, 23.03.2021 Photo: A sketch of the monument to the victims of political reprisals / photo from the official website of the Administration of Novgorod Sergei Busurin, Novgorod Mayor, is committing a huge human and political error. He proposed to the Novgorod Duma to cancel the decision to erect a monument to the victims […]
Posted: March 24th, 2021 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko held an interregional seminar in Yekaterinburg
Press Release, 12.03.2021 On 6-7 March, 2021, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov held seminars with regional headquarters of the party in Yekaterinburg. The participants of the seminars discussed the party’s coalition policy and the upcoming election campaign to the State Duma. In total, leaders and activists of Yabloko regional branches from […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A crime against everyone
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 23.02.2021 Today is the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland [in Russia]. A memorable day for all our multinational people, who defended our country shoulder to shoulder during the Second World War. I congratulate all those who today defend Russia from foes, diseases, poverty, arbitrariness and lawlessness. All those who […]
Posted: February 24th, 2021 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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The vertical of executioners
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.02.2021 Photo: Session of the Third Court of Cassation considering the case of Yuri Dmitriyev, 16 February, 2021 “Here, in the Sandarmokh area, a place of mass executions, over 7,000 innocent people were killed from 1934 to 1941 by the NKVD executioners: residents of Karelia, prisoners and special settlers of the White […]
Posted: February 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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The Investigative Committee to Emilia Slabunova: The Russian Military Historical Society exhumed not 17, but 20 people in the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh, but their identities have not been established
Press Release, 2.12.2020 The Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Karelia admitted that during the so-called expeditions of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), established by Vladimir Putin’s decree and chaired by ex-Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, to the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh the remains of twenty people were exhumed, […]
Posted: December 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko organised a picket in memory of victims of political reprisals
Press Release, 31.10.2020 On 31 October, a memorial picket was held at the monument to the victims of political reprisals in Rostov-on-Don. The picket was timed to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals, one of the picket applicants was the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko. Activists pay tribute not only to the […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko demanded from the Governor to ensure proper protection of the memorial complex Zolotaya Gora – the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims
Press Release, 30.10.2020 On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko appealed to Alexei Teksler, Governor of the region, with the demand to ensure proper protection and maintenance, as well as to organise an additional study of the memorial complex Zolotaya Gora, the burial place of victims […]
Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko proposed to create the Sandormokh Coalition to continue the work of imprisoned historian Yury Dmitriyev
Press Release, 30.10.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov made a proposal to create a public coalition Sandarmokh, which would continue the work of imprisoned historian Yury Dmitriyev. Rybakov stated this during his visit to the site of Stalin’s mass executions in Sandarmokh, Karelia. A large delegation of Yabloko leaders has specially arrived in Karelia to visit […]
Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky about honouring the memory of the victims of Stalin’s political reprisals
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 29.10.2020 Photo: Honouring the memory of the victims of political reprisals, the Solovetsky stone – the memorial to the victims of political reprisals, Lubyanka Square, Moscow. “The truth about our country, the real truth, will be told only to those and by those who love it with all their heart… […]
Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Stop the creeping Stalinisation in Russia. Yabloko leaders laid flowers to the memorial to the victims of political reprisals in Moscow
Press Release, 29.10.2020 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Party On the morning of October 29, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid flowers to the Solovetsky stone – the memorial to the victims of political reprisals – in Lubyanka Square in Moscow, honouring the memory […]
Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko leaders to visit the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Karelia on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Reprisals on 30 October
Press Release, 29.10.2020 On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals in Russia, a delegation of the Yabloko Party will come to Karelia to visit the Sandarmokh memorial cemetery in the Medvezhyegorsk region of the Republic.
Posted: October 29th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky urged to return the Last Address nameplates put in memory of Stalin’s victims and dismantled from 23 Rubinstein Street, St.Petersburg
Press Release, 20.10.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the party, wrote to the General Director of Housing and Utilities Systems of the North-West, whose management company removed 16 nameplates put in memory of victims of Stalinist reprisals from house No 23 in […]
Posted: October 20th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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He fought for freedom of his homeland!
Grigory Yavlinsky on the anniversary of the death of politician Alexander Yakovlev Press Release, 19.10.2020 15 years ago, Alexander Yakovlev died – a politician, a real front-line soldier during WW2, an honest and decent person. Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was a completely unique figure in Russian politics. Unlike many of those who were engaged in perestroika, […]
Posted: October 19th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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A Triumph of Lies
The sentence to Yuri Dmitriyev means the beginning of the government’s war against the society Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2020 Photo: Yuri Dmitriyev. Photo by AFP PHOTO /Scanpix/LETA The present Russian regime does not always need chemical warfare agents. Old proven tools also work well. If you need to get rid of undesired persons, shut the […]
Posted: September 30th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Soldiers’ graves are the greatest preachers of peace
Open letter of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko, 13.05.2020 On May 11-13, 2020, a number of media published news under provocative headlines and texts about the annual action in memory of the victims of the Second World War conducted by our colleague Sergei Dustin. These publications, together with the video, became the reason for the […]
Posted: May 15th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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