Archive for 'Politics'
Sergei Mitrokhin: Moscow Mayor’s idea to deprive small businesses of judicial rights violates the Constitution
Press release, 12.01.2017 Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee, head of the Anti-corruption Centre of the party, calls Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev not to support the initiative of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on depriving small business of the right to dispute the monetary value of the premises, that are bought back from the […]
Posted: January 15th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Court to consider Svetlana Chechil’s petition on early release
Press release, 21.12.2016 On December 22, the court will consider Svetlana Chechil’s petition on early release. YABLOKO Federal Council member Svetlana Chechil is serving one and a half years sentence in a Prison Settlement No. 9 in Russia’s northern Karelia Region (a penal colony in a remote area where prisoners are free to roam the […]
Posted: December 21st, 2016 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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Sergei Mitrokhin calls Muscovites to participate in public hearings
Press release, 19.12.2016 Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, calls the Muscovites to participate in the public hearings on urban planning, see expositions and send written requests.
Posted: December 20th, 2016 under Environmental Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO’s deputy in the Karelian Legislative Assembly goes on hunger strike to support his voters
Press release, 13.12.2016 On December 7, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia, member of YABLOKO’s faction Andrei Rogalevich went on a hunger strike during the plenary meeting of the Karelian parliament where the draft of the regional budget for 2017 was being considered in the second reading. According to the deputy, […]
Posted: December 16th, 2016 under Elections, Situation in Karelia.
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Alexei Karnaukhov participated in a discussion on political corruption
Press release, 15.12.2016 Deputy head of YABLOKO’s anti-corruption centre Alexei Karnaukhov participated in a discussion on political corruption. The event was conducted by Transparency International Russia.
Posted: December 15th, 2016 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Altai branch of YABLOKO claims that chair of the city council must comply with the law
Press release, 30.11.2016 Chair of YABLOKO’s branch in the Republic of Altai Nina Dumnova forwarded an appeal to the prosecutor of the Gorno-Altaisk city Yuri Kukhanov demanding to check whether chair of the city council Yuri Nechayev complies with the law.
Posted: December 1st, 2016 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Emilia Slabunova visited Svetlana Chechil in a prison settlement
Press release, 21.11.2016 Last week YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova and head of the Karelia party branch Alexandra Spiridonova visited YABLOKO Federal Council member Svetlana Chechil, who is serving one and a half years sentence in a Prison Settlement No. 9 in Russia’s northern Karelia Region (a penal colony in a remote area where prisoners are […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2016 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: After the act of terror in the theatre in Dubrovka. 14 years later
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 25.10.2016 The 24the of October, 2002. [The theatre in] Dubrovka, [Moscow]. The terrorists who took unarmed people [who came to the theatre] hostages demanded that I should come to them for negotiations. They turned out to be quite young people who did not understand anything. And these were absolutely different negotiations compared […]
Posted: October 26th, 2016 under YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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YABLOKO undermines an oligarch’s monopoly of school textbooks
Press release, 21.10.2016 On YABLOKO’s claim, the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service conducted an investigation and found out that the Moscow State Department of Education violated the anti-monopoly legislation by ordering schools to buy textbooks published by the Prosveshcheniye Publishing House. The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service issued instructions to the Moscow Department of Education to rectify the discovered […]
Posted: October 24th, 2016 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO demands that the authorities must stop intimidating YABLOKO activists in Zhukovsky, the Moscow Region
Press Release, 28.09.2016 Today YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova, forwarded YABLOKO statement to the law enforcement and Public Prosecutor on persecution and intimidation of YABLOKO activists in Zhukovsky, the Moscow Region.
Posted: September 29th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The Supreme Court of Karelia dismissed YABLOKO’s appeal on withdrawal of the party list of candidates in the elections to the Petrozavodsk City Council
Press Release, 12.09.2016 Today the Supreme Court of Karelia dismissed YABLOKO’s appeal on withdrawal of the party list of candidates in the elections to the Petrozavodsk City Council.
Posted: September 13th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, Situation in Karelia.
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“We have not forgotten how the state abandoned defenseless children and their mothers in Beslan”
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 03.09.2016 A terrorist attack taking the lives of 334 people, including 186 children, happened in Belsan, [North Ossetia], twelve year ago. We express our deepest sorrow and condolences to all the relatives and friends of the innocent victims. Terrorism and terrorists taking the lives of innocent people can not be […]
Posted: September 6th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Igor Artemyev: Prices on medicines maybe overstated by 160 times in Russia
RIA-Novosti, 27.08.2016 Prices on medicines containing the same substances, but sold in Russia under different trademarks, are in some cases overstated by 160 times, said Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service and member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee.
Posted: August 29th, 2016 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the IOC decision and the necessity of changes in Russian sports
Specially for the website, 25.07.2016 The day before the IOC decided not to ban all Russian team from the Rio Olympics 2016. Chair of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky told the journalists whether the IOC decision was political and what should one do to change the situation with Russian sports for the better.
Posted: July 26th, 2016 under Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Galina Shirshina tops YABLOKO list of candidates to the City Council of the capital of Karelia
Press Release, 25.07.2016 Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk and Advisor to YABLOKO Chair, has topped the list of the party in the elections to the Petrozavodsk City Council. Such decision has been adopted by the Regional Council of the Karelian YABLOKO today.
Posted: July 25th, 2016 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2016, Situation in Karelia.
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YABLOKO Anticorruption Policy Centre detected use of administrative resource by candidates from the ruling United Russia
Press Release, 21.07.2016 YABLOKO Anticorruption Policy Centre headed by Sergei Mitrokhin pointed out four cases of massive use of administrative resource by candidates from the ruling United Russia party in their parliamentary election campaign. Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee and head of Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, informed head of the Central Electoral Commission […]
Posted: July 22nd, 2016 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Ex Mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina appealed her dismissal from the post of the Mayor in the Supreme Court of Russia
TASS, by Igor Lukyanov, 19.07.2016 Ex Mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina appealed her dismissal [from the post of the Mayor] in the Supreme Court of Russia.
Posted: July 20th, 2016 under Situation in Karelia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the doping scandal: There are lies in every cell of the system
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 19.07.2016 The report which was published by the World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday shows all the world what is really going on in Russia. Alexander Bortnikov [director of the FSB -Federal Security Service] has nothing to do with the doping test manipulations of the FSB officers … Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko […]
Posted: July 20th, 2016 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO leaders laid flowers to the Embassy of France
Press release, 15.07.2016 “International terrorism is sending us one challenge after another, and every time it is a sign and a signal to all the peoples, that we must join hands. We can stop this evil only by united efforts. One must stop sorting out relationship between the states, otherwise the evil will prevail over […]
Posted: July 15th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Moscow YABLOKO commemorated victims of terror attack in Nice
Press release, 15.07.2016 Sergei Mitrokhin, Federal Political Committee member, Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, laid flowers to the Embassy of France and made an entry in the book of condolence.
Posted: July 15th, 2016 under YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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