Archive for 'Politics'
In Veliky Novgorod, Yabloko demands resignation of the mayor, as the budget of the city designed in officials’ interests
Press Release, 27.11.2025 Photo: Anna Cherepanova (centre) / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko On 26 November, a session of the Veliky Novgorod Duma took place, where Yabloko faction leader Anna Cherepanova voted “against” the draft city budget for 2026. She explained the faction’s position by saying that the draft budget for Novgorod causes […]
Posted: November 27th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko demands that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office investigate the procedure for record salary increase for Veliky Novgorod mayor
Press Release, 17.11.2025 Photo: Veliky Novgorod Mayor Alexander Rozbaum and Duma Speaker Konstantin Somov / Photo by the Veliky Novgorod Duma Press Service Yabloko Deputy Chair and Veliky Novgorod Duma deputy Anna Cherepanova is demanding that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office investigate the legality of a twofold salary increase for Veliky Novgorod Mayor Alexander Rozbaum […]
Posted: November 18th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko opposes doubling the salary of Veliky Novgorod’s mayor
Press Release, 21.10.2025 Photo: Veliky Novgorod Mayor Alexander Rozbaum and Duma Speaker Konstantin Somov / Photo by the Veliky Novgorod Duma Press Service On 24 October, the Veliky Novgorod Duma will consider the issue of record salary increases for local officials. Mayor Alexander Rozbaum is asking deputies to approve almost doubling his own salary — […]
Posted: October 22nd, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the anniversary of the terrorist attack on a Beslan school, Yabloko held memorial events for the victims
Press Release, 3.09.2025 Photo: Yabloko Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov and Deputy Chairman of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov at the Beslan victims’ memorial in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 1 September 2004, terrorists took more than 1,100 hostages at School No. 1 in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia. For more than […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2025 under History, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko programme for 14 September 2025 elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 14.08.2025 Novgorod Yabloko published its programme for the regional and local elections in the Novgorod Region due on 14 September 2025. The Novgorod branch of the party states that Yabloko is participating in the elections in order to achieve the following goals:
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yaroslav Shcherbakov on ex-Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky being placed on wanted list: worked and ran away
Yaroslav Shcherbakov’s blog post, 7.08.2025 Photo: The plaques state that (1) Boris Dubrovsky, Governor of Chelyabinsk Region from 24.09.2014 – 19.03.2019, participated in a cartel agreement. The established damage amounts to over 20 billion roubles. (2) Mikhail Yurevich, Governor of Chelyabinsk Region from 22.04.2010 – 15.01.2014, accused of taking bribes. The established damage amounts to […]
Posted: August 7th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Trump has no substantive position on Ukraine
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 30.07.2025 What is desperately needed now? Russia and Ukraine sign an agreement for an immediate ceasefire: troops stop at current positions and cease fire. After this, substantive negotiations are needed about the conditions and ways to achieve peaceful coexistence: about the new content of Russian-Ukrainian relations, European security architecture and its prospective […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2025 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Court will conduct a hearing on extending the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov
Press Release, 22.07.2025 Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 23 July, the Sovietsky District Court of Ryazan will consider the investigator’s petition to extend the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov, Editor-in-Chief of the Internet media Vid Sboku (Side View) and deputy of the Dubrovichy Council from Yabloko. The journalist and politician […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands the resignation of Acting Governor of Novgorod Region Alexander Dronov
Statement by the Bureau of the Novgorod Region branch of Yabloko, 21.07.2025 Photo: Alexander Dronov and Stanislav Shultsev / Photo from the social media of Acting Governor of Novgorod Region On 18 July 2025, [media] reported about the arrest of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Novgorod Region Stanislav Shultsev. He was with receiving […]
Posted: July 21st, 2025 under Economy, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A unique mosaic panel in a sports facility building destroyed in Udmurtia. Yabloko has filed a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office about the sports minister’s inaction
Press Release, 30.06.2025 Photo: Mosaic panel in the Izhstal Ice Palace building / Photo from social media One of the rare monuments of 1970s mosaic art – a mosaic panel possessing artistic and historical value – was situated in the foyer of the Izhstal Ice Palace building in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. Despite assurances from Udmurtia’s Minister […]
Posted: June 30th, 2025 under Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Judiciary, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies.
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Yabloko announces recruitment for summer school on crypto-finance and anti-money laundering
Press Release, 19.06.2025 The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party is opening applications for the summer online school “Money Laundering in the Crypto Era: Shadow Finance, Technologies, and Systemic Countermeasures”. The school is dedicated to state policies and practices of prosecuting criminal money both in Russia and the international context.
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Between Times: On the Titanic
On the Problems and Threats of the New Era Grigory Yavlinsky’s Telegram channel, 23.12.2024 Picture: “The Sinking of the Titanic” by Willy Stever, 1912 The key crisis of our time lies in the imperceptible but ever-increasing loss of human values and meanings in world politics combined with the lack of understanding of this problem, rather […]
Posted: December 27th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko Federal Political Committee: on the global crisis, nuclear threats and the policies of the future
Press Release, 28.11.2024 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Party Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, and Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On the eve of the Federal Council of Yabloko, which will convene in Moscow on 30 November, a meeting of […]
Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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On the Yabloko Party’s fundamental political position in the current conditions
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024 Photo: Yabloko’s poster “Changes Will Come!”, September 2021 elections / Photo by Vitaly Ankov, RIA Novosti The Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party considers it necessary to reiterate the most pressing key positions of the Party: – Ceasefire. Exchange of […]
Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Federalism, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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On the situation in the world and Russia and the position of the Yabloko Party
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024 Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant The world is changing irreversibly and qualitatively. A large-scale institutional crisis is beginning, it is manifested in the systematic inoperability of many international institutions, as well as the crisis of political systems in the leading countries […]
Posted: November 28th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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“There is always a place for a choice.” Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview for the documentary “The Unfinished Time”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 8.10.2024 Complete interview with English subtitles Since the late 1980s, Russia has repeatedly found itself at critical crossroads. There was a choice, there was an opportunity to fundamentally change the country’s future for the better and avoid another tragedy. In other words, over the past 35 years, Russia has repeatedly had a […]
Posted: October 11th, 2024 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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The Estate Museum of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in Udmurtia will be renovated. The leader of the Udmurtian branch of Yabloko, Iya Boronina, has been seeking this since September 2023
Press Release, 28.08.2024 Photo: The Estate Museum of Pyotr Thaikovsky / Photo by Wikimedia Commons The funds for the renovation of the cultural site of federal significance were allocated by the Government of the Russian Federation: orders on the allocation of funds to Udmurtia and other regions were signed on 13 August, 2024. This happened […]
Posted: August 28th, 2024 under Governance, History, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Investigative Committee, at the request of Yabloko’s Arthur Gaiduk, opened a case of fraud in the projects running under the state programme for the development of rural areas in the Pskov region
Press Release, 25.07.2024 Photo: Centre for Cultural Development in Lyady, April 2024/ Photo from the community “Citizens of the Plussky District” The Pskov Interdistrict Investigative Department of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Pskov region, after an appeal from Yabloko deputy Artur Gaiduk to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the […]
Posted: July 25th, 2024 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office due to poor quality works on a military memorial in Staraya Russa dedicated to the victims of the World War II
Press Release, 16.07.2024 Photo: Plastic signs at the Simonovskoye cemetery in Staraya Russa / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko The Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the failure of the authorities to complete works to create a memorial in Staraya Russa to […]
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“That was the case when I couldn’t help but come.” Nikolai Rybakov took part in mourning ceremonies after the acts of terror in Dagestan
Telegram post by Nikolai Rybakov, 27.06.2024 Photos by the Yabloko Press Service Yesterday I was in Dagestan – in Makhachkala and Derbent. That was case when I couldn’t help but come. You all understand the tragic reason. I will return (https://eng.yabloko.ru/yabokos-statement-on-the-situation-in-dagestan ) to the substantive side of the problem more than once in the future. […]
Posted: June 28th, 2024 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Без рубрики.
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