Archive for 'Overcoming Stalin’s Legacy'
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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Emilia Slabunova visits Yekaterinburg
Emilia Slabunova’s twitter, 28.08.2018 https://twitter.com/YablokoParty/status/1034440810660618240 YABLOKO Party @YablokoParty YABLOKO Party retwitted Emilia Slabunova: Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova starts her visit in Yekterinburg, the Urals, by laying flowers to the memorial to vicitms of political reprisals. This is a mournful page in Russia’s history. This should never happen again.
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Emilia Slabunova: Russia’s Flag Day should be a holiday of honour and pride for the people
The Yabloko party took part in the march and rally on the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over the attempted coup d’etat in 1991 Press Release, 22.08.2018 Today, on Russia’s Flag Day, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party took part in the action dedicated to the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over attempted […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Memories of the Future
Grigory Yavlinsky reflects on the fate of great scientists who got under reprisals in the 1930s and draws parallels with modern Russia Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.07.2018 Aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev, whose planes were used throughout the country, “spied in favour of France”. Biologist Nikolai Vavilov, one of the most famous Russian scientists in the world, […]
Posted: July 26th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Shooting of the Romanovs’ royal family: no period of limitation
Grigory Yavlinsky on why the crimes of the Bolsheviks have not received a state assessment Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 17.07.2018 On the night of 17 July, 1918, the Bolsheviks shot the royal family [in Russia]. A century later the successors of those same Bolsheviks are still in power. They cynically exploit both the memory of the […]
Posted: July 18th, 2018 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Yabloko took part in the rally “For Free Russia”
The action against arbitrariness and reprisals was held on Academician Sakharov Prospect in Moscow Press Release, 10.06.2018 Today, Yabloko leaders and representatives of the party took part in the rally “For Free Russia Without Arbitrariness and Reprisals”, which took place on Academician Sakharov Prospekt. The party was among the organisers of the action against mass […]
Posted: June 13th, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Street Actions.
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Mass picket against torture and reprisals held in St.Petersburg
Press Release, 19.02.2018 On 18 February, over 100 St. Petersburg activists participated in a mass picket against torture and political reprisals organised by the Yabloko party by the monument to the victims of Stalin’s reprisals – the Solovetsky Stone. Boris Vishnevsky, leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg; Nikolai Rybakov; Deputy […]
Posted: February 19th, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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“Our society is ready to become a wall in the way of the state terror aimed at the citizens”
Press release, 29.10.2017 Yabloko leaders and activists participated in an annual action commemorating victims of political reprisals. Thousands of people come to the Solovetsky Stone at Lubyanka Square to read aloud the names of the people who were executed during the Great Terror. This year so many people came that each person received a sheet […]
Posted: October 30th, 2017 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Liberal International launches Liberal Manifesto 2017 in Russia
The event was held in Yabloko’s office Press Release, 14.10.2017 Russia was the first country to launch the Liberal Manifesto 2017, a document reflecting the goals of virtually all the liberal parties in the world. Representatives of the Liberal International (LI) arrived in Russia to present the Manifesto in Russia. The event took place in […]
Posted: October 17th, 2017 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Russia-Eu relations, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Altai branch of Yabloko commemorated victims of Stalinism
Press release, 23.08.2017 On 23d August, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, Yabloko’s candidates for deputies of the Barnaul City Duma, the Altai Territory, laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of political reprisals and held a moment of silence.
Posted: August 25th, 2017 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Great Terror and Modern Bolshevism
By Grigory Yavlinsky, 15.08.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky web-site Today it turns 80 years since the beginning of the Great Terror [unleashed by Joseph Stalin]. They say, why speaking about it again, because everything has already been said, and the present political topics are different. Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and even Vladimir Putin spoke of […]
Posted: August 18th, 2017 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Tags: #TheGreatTerror #OvercomingStalinsLegacy #ModernBolshevism
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The leader of the Orel branch of YABLOKO called Alexander Prokhanov to debate on the issue of installing a monument to Joseph Stalin in the city
Press Release, 15.08.2017 According to newsorel.ru, Alexander Nagolyuk, Coordinator of YABLOKO electioral headquarters in Orel, challenged conservative writer and publicist Alexander Prokhanov, whose Izborsk Club offered to put a monument to Joseph Stalin in Orel.
Posted: August 16th, 2017 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Memorials to Joseph Stalin are mockery of millions of people and historical memory
Press release, 28.06.2017 Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee released a statement condemning the decision to install a plaque commemorating a 1924 speech by Josef Stalin in Moscow State Law Academy.
Posted: June 28th, 2017 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: this happened to our grandfathers
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 30.10.2016 It was not so long ago. In our country. This happened to our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Millions of innocent people fell victims of political terror on the part of their own state. The Bolshevik system was protecting itself destroying the brightest, bravest and most educated, the best people of the country. […]
Posted: November 1st, 2016 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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YABLOKO paid tribute to the memory of victims of Stalin’s political reprisals
Press Release, 29.10.2016 On 29 October YABLOKO leaders and activists paid tribute to the memory of victims of Joseph Stalin’s political reprisals launched in 1938. On the eve of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Reprisals, they took part in the Returning of the Names action.
Posted: October 31st, 2016 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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YABLOKO will participate in the Returning of the Names annual action on paying tribute to the victims of Stalinism
Press release, 28 October On 29 October, on 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 of the Names action. They will pay tribute to the victims of Stalin’s reprisals by the Solovetsky stone at 1 p.m.
Posted: October 28th, 2016 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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