Archive for 'Overcoming Stalin’s Legacy'
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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Yabloko releases a documentary “Boris Misnik. A man from Monchegorsk”
Press Release, 12.05.2020 Yabloko releases a documentary “Boris Misnik. A man from Monchegorsk”. It is dedicated to one of the leaders of our party – Boris Grigoryevich Misnik. In the 1990s, Boris Misnik headed the Russian Mining and Metallurgical Union and was a State Duma deputy from the Yabloko party. The childhood years of Boris […]
Posted: May 13th, 2020 under History, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko demanded to verify the legality of the installation of the monument to Joseph Stalin in Volgograd
Press Release, 23.12.2019 The Volgograd branch of Yabloko demanded that the Volgograd Mayor’s Office and the Public Prosecutor’s Office check whether the Communist Party had the right to install a bust of Joseph Stalin in Volgograd. Yabloko’s Dmitry Lyubitenko posted a petition on the Internet demanding that the monument be dismantled.
Posted: December 24th, 2019 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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On the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, Yabloko held an action in memory of the pupils of military schools who resisted the Bolsheviks
Press Release, 7.11.2019 On 7 November, the Moscow branch of Yabloko held its traditional action honouring the memory of officers and pupils of military schools who fought in the streets of Moscow against usurpation of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. For the first time, an action in memory of those who with arms in […]
Posted: November 11th, 2019 under History, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “This is a crime of the Stalin’s regime and the entire Bolshevik system”
Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 30.10.2019 Lubyanka, 2019. Returning of the Names, an action in memory of victims of political repressions – millions of people were killed [in Stalin’s period]. This is a crime of the Stalin’s regime and the entire Bolshevik system. But the Russian authorities still refuse to give an official legal assessment to […]
Posted: October 30th, 2019 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko paid tribute to the memory of victims of political reprisals.
Leaders and activists of Yabloko took part in the Returning of the Names action Press Release, 30.10.2019 On 29 October, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, Yabloko leaders and activists took part in the action Returning of the Names organised by the Memorial human rights society. Thousands of […]
Posted: October 30th, 2019 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Public Prosecutor General’s Office refuses to give answers on the lawsuit of Yabloko about excavations in the memorial of Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh
Press Release, 19.09.2019 Photo: Boris Misnik, Jan Raczynski and Emilia Slabunova Today, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow decided not to consider the claim of the Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Karelian Public Prosecutor’s Office on checking the legality of the excavations of the graves of the victims […]
Posted: September 20th, 2019 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Slabunova applies to court against Public Prosecutor General’s Office for refusal to check the excavations of the graves of Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh by the Russian Military Historical Society
Press Release, 16.09.2019 The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow will consider the lawsuit of Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Karelia for their refusal to examine on merit the excavations of the graves of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals by the Russian Military Historical Society in […]
Posted: September 17th, 2019 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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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: 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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