Archive for 'Political Parties'
Yabloko will not keep silent about COVID-19
Press Release, 29.07.2021. Photo by Igor Ivanko/ Kommersant The Yabloko party refused to sign an agreement proposed by the pro-government United Russia party on holding elections amid the coronavirus pandemic. The reason is the fourth paragraph of the document, which provides for the refusal of the political parties participating in the parliamentary elections to discuss […]
Posted: July 29th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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European liberal politicians wished Yabloko success in the elections to the State Duma
Press Release, 5.07.2021 Yabloko colleagues from sister parties and organisations from ten countries expressed their words of support and hope for the victory of the party in the upcoming elections to the State Duma. They sent their greetings and good wishes in the addresses that were broadcast at the Yabloko pre-election congress on July 3-4.
Posted: July 5th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The ALDE party, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family, YABLOKO Sister-parties, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov held a working meeting with PACE representatives
Press Release, 29.06.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 29 June, a meeting between Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and the PACE delegation led by PACE co-rapporteurs Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Ria Oomen-Ruijten (Netherlands, EPP/CD) took place in the Moscow office of Yabloko. The delegation is in Russia on a mission to assess […]
Posted: June 29th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Alexei Chumakov: Ketchup for wunderkinds
In Kirov, winners and prize-winners of the All-Russian Academic Olympics for Schoolchildren were awarded memorable ketchup and mayonnaise. Alexei Chumakov’s blog post, 7.06.2021 Photo from the official web-site of the Kirov administration In Kirov, winners and prize-winners of the All-Russian Academic Olympics for Schoolchildren were awarded memorable ketchup and mayonnaise. The head of the Kirov […]
Posted: June 7th, 2021 under Political Parties, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Nikolai Rybakov: This is a law against the list of Yabloko candidates
Facebook page by Nikolai Rybakov, 4.06.2021 Photo by Natalia Seliverstova /RIA Novosti Today Vladimir Putin has signed a law prohibiting citizens associated with “extremist” organisations from being elected as deputies. The content of this law is absurd in the best traditions of the adoption of insane laws by the State Duma, and allows absolutely any […]
Posted: June 7th, 2021 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Hans van Baalen, dedicated liberal and ALDE President, passed away.
Condolences, 30.04.2021 Photo by the aldeparty.eu Yesterday night, Hans van Baalen, our colleague and Chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), passed away. He was 60 years old. During his political career, Hans was a Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, Member of the European Parliament, President of […]
Posted: April 30th, 2021 under Condolences, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family, Без рубрики.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko demands resignation of the deputy head of the Yuzhsky district. The official organises campaigning for the pro-goverments United Russia party
Press Release, 01.04.2021 Photo: Svetlana Lelyukhina / Photo from the official website of the Yuzhsky municipal district of the Ivanovo region The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko intends to appeal to the Public Prosecutor’s office of the Ivanovo region with a demand to remove from office Svetlana Lelyukhina, acting the head of the Yuzhsky district of […]
Posted: April 1st, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky spoke at the international conference The Man Who Changed the World timed to coincide with Mikhail Gorbachev’s 90th birthday
Press Release, 5.03.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Olga Zdravomyslova, Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation, and Pavel Palazhchenko, head of the International Contacts and Press Service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko party Chairman, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, took part in the international […]
Posted: March 9th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Alexei Karnaukhov: The State Duma hides inquiries under the carpet
How the pro-government United Russia party stole Yabloko’s initiative and passed it off as its own Press Release, 4.03.2021 Since June, the State Duma was supposed to publish parliamentary inquiries on the website. It is a surprisingly good initiative: this way you can track whose interests the deputies are promoting and disclose the use of […]
Posted: March 5th, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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The reform in the Yabloko party: as it is, rather than as interpreted by Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Press Release, 4.03.2021 On 3 March, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published an article on the reform of the Yabloko party. The text by Darya Garmonenko, like many other texts by this author, is replete with errors and distortions. We publish the full text of the commentary of the Deputy Chairman of the party Ivan Bolshakov: – The […]
Posted: March 4th, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO Sister-parties.
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Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee adopted the position of Grigory Yavlinsky and approved the direction of the party’s reform
Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 February 19, a regular meeting of the Federal Political Committee (FPC) of the Yabloko Party took place. The meeting was attended by all 17 members of the FPC. The Federal Political Committee considered two issues: the statement “On systemic threats […]
Posted: February 20th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Protests in Russia, 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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Maxim Kruglov: Moscow Mayor’s Office has cut the powers of the City Parliament and municipalities
Maxim Kruglov’s blog post, 18.02.2021 Photo: Maxim Kruglov, leader of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma Today, the Moscow authorities have finally revealed their strategy for the coming years. Instead of building modern, flexible, horizontal management structures, the Mayor’s Office and [the government’s] United Russia [party], on the contrary, concentrate all powers in […]
Posted: February 18th, 2021 under Moscow City Duma Elections 2014, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Political Parties, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre demanded to deprive “golden MP” Sergei Sopchuk of his mandate
Earlier, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office revealed his undeclared business worth over 38 billion roubles Press Release, 1.02.2021 Photo: Sergei Sopchuk, photo from the official website of the Legislative Assembly of the Maritime Territory Alexei Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko party Anti-Corruption Policy Сentre, appealed to the Chairman of the State Duma with a demand […]
Posted: February 1st, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The government of St. Petersburg does not rule out checking of financial statements of 19 United Russia party municipal deputies after Yabloko’s inquiry
Press Release, 13.01.2021 The government of St. Petersburg does not rule out that Alexander Beglov, Governor of the city, initiates an inspection of 19 out of 22 municipal deputies from the United Russia party, who did not declare their families’ property in their financial statements. This follows from the answer of Alexander Belsky, Vice Governor […]
Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: We get an electoral system that looks like a black cat in a dark room
Press Release, 29.12.2020 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko Pskov parliamentarians adopted amendments to the Electoral Code of the Pskov Region. All parties, except for the ruling United Russia party, opposed multi-day voting in the elections, as well as voting in the yards and other similar changes, as they make […]
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We consider the activities of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region destructive and leading to the elimination of the principles of the political balance in the region
Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 29.12.2020 A year ago, at the end of 2019, there was a change in the leadership of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region. The electoral system of the region during this time fully demonstrated extremely negative consequences of personnel changes, blatant incompetence of the new leaders and […]
Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The pro-Mayor’s majority in the Moscow City Duma thwarted the adoption of the law on parliamentary investigations
Press Release, 24.12.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov Yesterday, on December 23, the Moscow City Duma considered the bill on parliamentary investigations submitted by Maxim Kruglov, the leader of the Yabloko faction. According to the document, any facts of violation of the city laws, the rights of Moscow residents, non-fulfillment of the budget, manipulation with city property, […]
Posted: December 25th, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the democratic coalition in the Altai Territory
Statement by the Yabloko branch in Altai, 21.12.2020 Increasingly more people in Russia are beginning to understand that the policy of the ruling regime has led the country to a dead end, depriving the people of the future. The multi-day voting “on stumps” on an amendment to the Russian Constitution, in order to reset the […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2020 under Education and Science, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko initiated a collective statement on the inadmissibility of canceling the mixed system in municipal elections
Press Release, 20.11.2020 The Saratov branch of Yabloko held a round table and invited to it all the registered political parties of the Saratov region. Following the meeting, which was attended by representatives of the parties A Just Russia, Parnas, Russian National Union, as well as the all-Russian movement #Changes, a statement was adopted demanding […]
Posted: November 21st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Unidentified persons spoiled information signs on the office of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
In Novgorod, unidentified persons painted black information plates with the name of the party on the building where the office of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko is located. Press Release, 17.11.2020 “Unfortunately, this has been happening regularly. We understand that this is a reaction to the opposition activities of Yabloko, harsh criticism of the authorities, […]
Posted: November 17th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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