Archive for 'Politics'
Altai YABLOKO demands to bring allocation of land plots for large families under control
Press Release, November 27, 2013 The Altai branch of YABLOKO demanded the authorities to take the allocation of land plots for families with many children under control. According to Article 28 paragraph 2 of the Federal Law No. 138-FZ of June 14, 2011, citizens having more than two children acquire the right to get a […]
Posted: November 28th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO protested against an infill construction at a playground
Press Release, November 25, 2013 The YABLOKO party and the residents of the Filyovsky park district, Moscow, conducted a rally against an infill construction at the territory of the children’s playground on November 24, 2013. About 500 local residents supported the rally.
Posted: November 25th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO protested against illegal constructions in Moscow’s Yasenyov district
Press Release, November 24, 2013 YABLOKO protested against illegal constructions in the Yasenyovo district, Moscow. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin took part in the rally. The residents of the district demanded to stop the construction of all contentious building sites around their apartment blocks until the land survey is conducted and also to dismiss the heads […]
Posted: November 25th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Authorities try to demolish children’s theatre in Sochi
Press Release, November 14, 2013 The authorities try to demolish a children’s theatre and a theatre school “Igra”(Play) in the Lazarevskoye settlement, Sochi. Several months ago the court resolved that the building of the theatre was constructed illegally.
Posted: November 18th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Ivanenko: Corruption will eat up any investment projects
Commentary, 07.11.2013 Sergei Ivanenko, famous economist and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee comments on the government’s plan to fully spend the National Welfare Fund (NWF).
Posted: November 11th, 2013 under Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO protested against dangerous plants
Press Release, October 28, 2013 YABLOKO protested against the work of dangerous plants in the Kozhukhovo district, Moscow, on October 27. The local residents are against the reconstruction of the industrial area in the district and want to obtain the construction of a public zone instead. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin participated in the rally.
Posted: October 29th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO paid tribute to the memory of Moscow theatre hostages
Press Release, October 26, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO activists paid tribute to the memory of hostages of a Moscow theatre who came to watch the Nord-Ost musical (in Dubrovka district, Moscow). The activists laid wreaths to the memorial plaque with the names of the victims set by the Theatre Center.
Posted: October 26th, 2013 under YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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YABLOKO expresses condolences to the victims of the act of terror in Volgograd
Condolences by Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, 22.10.2013 For and on behalf of the YABLOKO party we are conveying our condolences to the relatives and next of kin of the victims of the Volgograd act of terror. We are wishing speedy recovery to the injured.
Posted: October 22nd, 2013 under YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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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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Mitrokhin stopped illegal works in the Moskvoretsky Park
Press Release, October 16, 2013 YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin inspected the Moskvoretsky Park on October 16. He found out serious violations of the environmental legislation and reached the stop of the illegal construction works.
Posted: October 17th, 2013 under Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Public Prosecutor acknowledged theft amounting to 22 million roubles for renovation of the park detected by Sergei Mitrokhin
Press Release, October 15, 2013 An audit by the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office held after the inspection conducted by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin in the Vorovsky Park, Moscow, revealed embezzlement of funds allotted for renovation of the park in the amount of 22 million roubles.
Posted: October 15th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Youth Yabloko participated in a rally “Russia against cruelty”
Press Release, October 14, 2013 Activists of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO supported the rally “Russia against cruelty” organised by the animal advocates on October 12. The rally had taken place for the second time in Novosibirsk.
Posted: October 15th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO deprived state bureaucrats of six expensive cars
Press release, 01.10.2013 Today YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Centre won four law suits against state bureaucrats: three cases in the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service of the Moscow region and one in the Moscow Federal Anti-Monopoly Service. In total of antitrust authority has recognized the purchase of six cars unlawful.
Posted: October 1st, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Road to Good Governance
Report by Grigory Yavlinsky Forum 2000, Prague, September 16, 2013 It is a great privilege to be on the panel with such [high level] speakers [as Nobel Prize winners]. That is why I want to simply follow and to develop what has been said before.
Posted: September 19th, 2013 under Politics.
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Risks of Transitions. The Russian Experience
Report by Grigory Yavlinsky Forum 2000, Prague, September 16, 2013 It’s a great pleasure to be here and I’m very thankful for the invitation to see you and to speak to you. I would start with some quoting of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was asked once by Margaret Thatcher “What about transition in Russia?” And he […]
Posted: September 19th, 2013 under Politics.
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Grigory Yavlinsky made a speech at the world leaders’ conference Forum 2000
Press Release, September 16, 2013 Efficient state governance means not merely a technique or an algorithm, but a vector of development which is determined by the political system and the political elite, it means development of relations in the society based on trust, said YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky at the international conference Forum 2000 which […]
Posted: September 16th, 2013 under Politics.
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Andrei Nekrasov: Why I will vote for Sergei Mitrokhin
Andrei Nekrasov, a film director and script writer, specially for YABLOKO’s website, September 4, 2013 If I lived in Moscow all the time and had the right to vote there, I would vote for Sergei Mitrokhin.
Posted: September 5th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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An action in memory of the hostages of the North-Ossetian school held by St.Petersburg YABLOKO
Press release, September 2, 2013 In the evening of September 1, the schooling day in Russia, activists of St.Petersburg YABLOKO held an action in the centre of the city in memory of the hostages – children and grownups – killed in School No 1in Beslan, North Ossetia.
Posted: September 2nd, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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Mitrokhin did not allow Putin’s classmate to buy a posh car at the expense of the regional budget
Press Release, August 29, 2013 YABLOKO’s Anticoruption Centre did not allow the Arbitration Court of the Pskov Region to buy an expensive foreign car. After the complaint sent by YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) Department, the tender on the delivery of a posh car was cancelled.
Posted: August 29th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Black Sea Palaces of the New Russian Nomenklatura
Religion & Science in East and West journal, 7/8 2013, Vol.41 By YABLOKO Bureau member and head of YABLOKO’s Gender (Women’s) Faction Dr. Galina Michaleva New Russia’s nomeklatura, including the top officials, has been actively constructing palaces on the Black Sea cost, mostly in the national reserves, grabbing the shore, including public beaches.
Posted: August 29th, 2013 under Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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