Archive for 'Political Parties'
Media merger risks further censorship in Russia
LI News, December 17, 2013 On the same day a media shake-up in Russia saw a merger of two pro-governmental news agencies, LI full member Yabloko has raised concerns about the liquidation of the Moscow Books Chamber, which comes as a consequence of from the same Presidential Decree to ‘improve the efficiency of public media’.
Posted: December 19th, 2013 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Let’s protect the Internet from pogrom!
Statement by YABLOKO’s Chairman, December 18, 2013 The State Duma passed the bill which allows the state prosecutors to block websites containing illegal information without the judicial approval in the first reading yesterday.
Posted: December 18th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Liberals around the world mark International Human Rights Day
December 10, 2013 Statement on Behalf of Liberal Leaders Commemorating the International Human Rights Day 2013 The International Human Rights Day, which we celebrate today, marks the important progress we have achieved in the struggle for universal human rights worldwide. It is also a day for reflection, as we pause to consider the many difficulties […]
Posted: December 13th, 2013 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: All-Russia People’s Front proposal to liquidate local government is anticonstitutional
Press Release, December 6, 2013 Representative of the All-Russia People’s Front Olga Timofeyeva proposed President Putin to liquidate local government in large cities and municipal districts and leave it only in towns and regions of large cities, but divest the local government of nearly all authority allowing them only to “recondition the roads” and “remove […]
Posted: December 9th, 2013 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Sergei Mitrokhin at the meeting between non-parliamentary parties and President of Russia
Press Release, November 21, 2013 On November 20, non-parliamentary parties’s leaders had a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin spoke about the reprisals against the activists in the Krasnodar region. He mentioned the case with Chair of the Kransnodar branch of YABLOKO Andrei Rudomakha and Professor Mikhail Savva.
Posted: November 21st, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Valery Borshchev: We are determined to appeal to Public Chamber to dissolve Public Monitoring Committee
Press Release, November 19, 2013 Member of YABLOKO Political Committee, former head of the Public Monitoring Committee and its member for nearly nine years Valery Borshchev explained why 17 members of the Public Monitoring Committee of the third convocation left the hall during the elections of their chairperson. According to Borshchev, such an outcome was […]
Posted: November 21st, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Russian liberals march for tolerance in St. Petersburg
LI News, November 7, 2013 LI’s Russian full member party, Yabloko, has organized its tenth march against hatred in St. Petersburg, attended by hundreds of supporters under the slogan “for Russia without pogroms.”
Posted: November 7th, 2013 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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YABLOKO picketed the Federation Council against the change of the electoral law
Press Release, October 30, 2013 YABLOKO municipal deputy conducted a one-person picket outside the Federation Council, the upper House of Parliament, against the new bill which allows to conduct the elections to the Moscow City Duma and the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg only in single-seat constituencies and breaks the equality of the constituent territories before […]
Posted: November 1st, 2013 under Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO conducted a meeting with Jonge Democraten
Press Release, October 26, 2013 The Moscow branch of Youth YABLOKO conducted a meeting with Jonge Democraten, young Dutch liberals, at YABLOKO office on October 25, 2013. Ivanka Bloom, Stefan de Koning, Noortje Visser, Eva van Sloten, Maya de Waal, Hanna Hekkert, Bram Has, Matthijs Olde, Eva Rogaar became YABLOKO’s guests.
Posted: October 27th, 2013 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Stop changing the electoral law!
Statement of the YABLOKO party, October 25, 2013 The YABLOKO party expresses it strong disagreement with adoption by the State Duma of the Russian Federation by new changes once again turning inside out the electoral law.
Posted: October 26th, 2013 under Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Mitrokhin demands to prosecute Zhirinovsky for Nazi statements
Press Release, October 25, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee with the demand to bring a criminal case against Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of LDPR faction in the State Duma, under the article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “inciting ethnic hatred and enmity”. According to Mitrokhin, […]
Posted: October 25th, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO activist detained after protesting outside the State Duma
Press Release, October 22, 2013 YABLOKO protested near the State Duma against the bill which will allow to conduct the elections to the Moscow City Duma and the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg only in single-seat constituencies. YABLOKO activist smashed a “crazy printer” which symbolised a large number of repressive bills adopted by the State Duma […]
Posted: October 22nd, 2013 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO protested against the dangerous construction
Press Release, October 20, 2013 YABLOKO and the residents of the Fili-Davidkovo district, Moscow, conducted a rally against the infill construction. The construction of a seventeen-storied apartment block can do harm to the nearby apartment buildings.
Posted: October 21st, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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On the inadmissibility of the use of law enforcement resource in the political struggle in the Republic of Karelia
Statement by YABLOKO Bureau, October 9, 2013 The Investigative Committee of Karelia opened a criminal investigation on unlawful allocation of land in the Prionezhsky region. The criminal case is politically motivated and has absolutely no legal basis under it, it is targeted at removing Svetlana Chechil from the contest for the post of the head […]
Posted: October 9th, 2013 under Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Success for Russian Liberals in Municipal Elections
LI News, Press Release, September 12, 2013 LI full member, Yabloko, have won 70 seats in local parliaments and will have two heads of towns after the latest round of regional and municipal elections in Russia.
Posted: September 13th, 2013 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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One of the top women in Holland spoke about the European experience in the solution of gender problems
Press Release, June 14, 2013 On June 11, YABLOKO’s Gender faction held a round table on “Women’s rights and opportunities. European experience and Russia’s problems” with Caecilia van Peski, representative of the Dutch Democratic party D66.
Posted: June 14th, 2013 under Gender Faction, YABLOKO Sister-parties.
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