Archive for 'YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power'
Member of YABLOKO Federal Council convicted by Karelian court
Press Release, 28.04.2016 On 27 April, Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced Svetlana Chechil, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, to 1.5 years in a penal colony. Today, YABLOKO will hold pickets by the Public Prosecutor General’s Office protesting against such a decision. Nikolay Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the party, and Galina Mikhaleva, Deputy Chair of the Moscow […]
Posted: April 28th, 2016 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Youth YABLOKO offered President of Russia to resign due to the scandal with offshore companies
Press release, 07.04.2016 On 6 April Andrei Sklyarov, leader of Youth YABLOKO in Rostov conducted a picket where he asked Vladimir Putin to follow the example of Prime Minister of Iceland and resign.
Posted: April 8th, 2016 under Street Actions, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Youth Policies.
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Residents of Petrozavodsk intend to deprive of mandates those city councilors who voted for the dismissal of the ex-Mayor
Novaya Gazeta, 18.01.2016 Photo: Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk. Photo by RIA Novosti Residents of Petrozavodsk intend to deprive of mandates those city councilors who voted for the dismissal of the ex-Mayor Galina Shirshina. The TASS agency informs that the motion on registration of the initiative group for conducting a local referendum has been submitted […]
Posted: January 20th, 2016 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on dismissal of Petrozavodsk Mayor Galina Shirshina
Blog post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 25.12.2015 Dismissal of Galina Shirshina from the post of Petrozavodsk Mayor represents a political revenge on behalf of Governor of Karelia Alexander Khudilainen. Galina Shirshina was elected Petrozavodsk Mayor by people. The authorities always resort to arbitrary rule and force when they fail to win elections honestly.
Posted: December 27th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Emilia Slabunova considers dismissal of Petrozavodsk Mayor Galina Shirshina be a political order from Governor Khudilainen
Press Release, 25.12.2015 Emilia Slabunova, YABLOKO Chairperson and MP of the Karelian Legislative Assembly, considers dismissal of Galina Shirshina, Petrozavodsk Mayor, be a political order of Governor Alexander Khudilainen.
Posted: December 27th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Lev Shlosberg elected Politician of the Year by the readers of the popular Vedomosti newspaper
Press release, 25.12.2015 Lev Shlosberg, YABLOKO Political Committee member, journalist and ex MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, has been elected Politician of the Year by the readers of the popular Vedomosti newspaper.
Posted: December 25th, 2015 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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On the inadmissibility of the use of law enforcement resource in political struggle in Karelia
Resolution of the 18th YABLOKO Congress, 24.12.2015 The Congress states that pressure from the administrative and the law enforcement bodies of the Republic of Karelia on the leaders and members of the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO has been steadily increasing.
Posted: December 25th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Deputies of Karelia Legislative Assembly demand that cancellation of Petrozavodsk mayoral elections must be acknowledged unconstitutional
Press release, 14.10.2015 A group of deputies of the Karelia Legislative Assembly appealed to the Constituional Court demanding to aknowledge that the law on cancelling mayoral elections in Petrozavodsk, capital of the Republic, and the Kostomushka city is unconstitutional.
Posted: October 15th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO demands that Communist Party explain the use of quotation marks when mentioning political repressions victims
Press release, 09.10.2015 Chair of the Penza branch of YABLOKO Sergei Oleynik demanded that the head of the Communist Party regional branch Georgy Kamnev should apologise for mentioning the political repressions victims where the word “victims” was intentionally put into quotation marks.
Posted: October 11th, 2015 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Evgenia Sukhorukova, Karelian YABLOKO team member, faces imprisonment
Press Release, 29.09.2015 Evgenia Sukhorukova is Vice Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, and member of the Karelian YABLOKO team.
Posted: September 30th, 2015 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Yavlinsky on Shlosberg’s case: “Political violence will sooner or later lead to total violence”
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, 25.09.2015 The deprivation of Lev Shlosberg’s deputy status in the Pskov Regional Assembly on the invented and by far politically motivated grounds is the political mopping up with the person who has been fighting for the prosperity of his region, for the honour and dignity of the Russian military men both […]
Posted: September 26th, 2015 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Mitrokhin demands to investigate land plots fraud on behalf of Communist party candidates
Press release, 09.09.2015 YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded an application to Head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bustrikin demanding to investigate the involvement of the Communist party candidates in the land plots fraud in the Novosibirsk region.
Posted: September 9th, 2015 under Elections, Regional elections 2015, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO intends to hold a mass protest action against the expansion of the powers of the law enforcement
Ekho Moskvi radio station, 24.07.2015 In September YABLOKO intends to hold a mass protest action against the legislative initiatives to expand the powers of the law enforcement. Such a statement was made by party leader Sergei Mitrokhin at the Ekho Moskvi radio station.
Posted: July 28th, 2015 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Public Prosecutor demanded to remove a bust monument to Joseph Stalin in Lipetsk
Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 28.07.2015 Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Soviet district of Lipetsk demanded to dismantle a sculpture bust of Joseph Stalin installed in Kuznechnaya street [in Lipetsk] issuing a note of admonition to Anna Shamayeva, Deputy City Mayor. The Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the sculpture bust was installed unlawfully, thus, had to be removed.
Posted: July 28th, 2015 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Public Prosecutor issued a note of admonition to Deputy Mayor of Lipetsk for installing a bust monument to Joseph Stalin
Press Release, 27.07.2015 The Prosecutor’s Office of the Soviet district of Lipetsk issued a note of admonition to Anna Shamayeva, Deputy City Mayor, pointing out the inadmissibility of violation of the law, as the bust sculpture to Joseph Stalin unlawfully installed by the Communist Party had not been removed. This was stated in the answer […]
Posted: July 28th, 2015 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Petrozavodsk Mayor Galina Shirshina may be removed from office on June 3
Argumenty.ru, Valentina Karelova, 02.06.2015 Mayor of Petrozavodsk [the capital of the Republic of Karelia] Galina Shirshina doesn’t rule out that during the session of the City Council, which will take place on 3 June, deputies can go beyond giving low estimation to her work. Nevertheless, she is not going to rest on oars and is […]
Posted: June 2nd, 2015 under Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Law and order must be restored in Krasnokamsk
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 28.04.2015 In the night from 25 to 26 April a crime was committed in Krasnokamsk: unidentified persons burned two KAMAZ garbage trucks belonging to the Uralkomp company headed by Olga Kolokolova, leader of the Perm branch of YABLKO, YABLOKO Bureau member.
Posted: April 29th, 2015 under YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Immediate release of the Yabloko activists
Vihreät De Gröna, 10.04.2015 Green Member of the European Parliament Heidi Hautala and Green Member of the Finnish Parliament Johanna Sumuvuori call for an immediate release of the two political detainees Olga Zaletskaya and Alexandra Kornilova in the Republic of Karelia.
Posted: April 10th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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YABLOKO to conduct a rally for resignation of Karelian Governor
Announcement, 07.04.2015 On April 7 YABLOKO Bureau member Dmitry Rybakov will conduct a rally in Petrozavodsk demanding the resignation of the Karelian Governor Alexandr Khudilainen.
Posted: April 8th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Supreme court of Karelia transferred Olga Zaletskaya and Alexandra Korlnilova to house arrest
Press release, 06.04.2015 Today the Supreme court of the Republic of Karelia varied the restraint measure of Olga Zaletskaya and Alexandra Kornilova from pretrial detention to house arrest. The court attached to the case the signatures of 230 citizens and voters, 1922 signatures collected on the Internet as well as the bails by academician Vyacheslav […]
Posted: April 7th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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