Archive for 'Politics'
The goal of Yabloko is to fight for freedom and the future of Russia
Statement by the 21st Congress of Yabloko dated 4.04.2021, published on 20.04.2021 Photo by Vitaly Timkiv / RIA Novosti The YABLOKO congress states that the situation in our country has qualitatively changed over the past year. On 1 July, 2020, there was a breakdown of the Russian statehood in the form in which it existed […]
Posted: April 20th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Privatisation in Russia, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko once again demanded to cancel the auction for the leasing of 11 retro-style trams
Press Release, 15.04.2021 Photo by TischenkoPhoto/depositphotos Chairman of Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko Oleg Rodin sent another appeal to the Control and Accounts Chamber of the city of Nizhny Novgorod demanding to cancel the auction for leasing 11 tram cars in retro style. The Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko considers the purchase […]
Posted: April 15th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Stop pressure on investigative journalist Roman Anin
Statement by the Yabloko party, 12.04.2021 Photo: Roman Anin. / Photo by Vazhniye Istorii On 9 April, the Federal Security Service (FSB) conducted a six-hour search of the house of Roman Anin, Editor-in-Chief of Vazhniye Istorii (Important Stories). After the search, the investigators took the journalist away for questioning. We consider such actions to be […]
Posted: April 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Dustin continues single pickets for the reduction of unreasonably high heating tariffs in Baltiysk
Press Release, 29.03.2021 Photo: Sergei Dustin / Photo by the Press Service of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko On 25 March, Sergei Dustin, a human rights activist and head of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Baltiysk, was detained during his single picket (single pickets do not require any permissions from authorities) outside […]
Posted: March 29th, 2021 under Economy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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After the appeal of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko the Federal Antimonopoly Service confirmed violations in the purchases for banquets and gifts for the Governor’s office
Press Release, 24.03.2021 Photo: Alexei Teksler Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region / Photo by Creative Commons The Chelyabinsk Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service found violations in the public procurement of luxurious banquets and gifts by the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region. The Federal Antimonopoly Service carried out the corresponding audit after the appeal by […]
Posted: March 24th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Dmitry Permyakov demands from the Federal Antimonopoly Service to give assessment on considerable spending of budget funds on PR by the Pskov City Duma
Press Release, 19.03.2021 Photo: Dmitry Permyakov / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service Dmitry Permyakov, a deputy of the Pskov City Duma from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, appealed to the Pskov department of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service with a request to give a legal assessment of the procurement […]
Posted: March 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexei Karnaukhov: The State Duma hides inquiries under the carpet
How the pro-government United Russia party stole Yabloko’s initiative and passed it off as its own Press Release, 4.03.2021 Since June, the State Duma was supposed to publish parliamentary inquiries on the website. It is a surprisingly good initiative: this way you can track whose interests the deputies are promoting and disclose the use of […]
Posted: March 5th, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What threatens Putin and what threatens Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Politics, Protests in Russia, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service confirmed the unlawfulness of the transfer of three buildings in the centre of Pskov to the non-profit organisation Loft
Press Release, 19.02.2021 Photo: Lev Shlosberg, Deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko / Photo be the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko ANO Youth Development Centre “Loft” still continues to work in the historical buildings in the centre of Pskov, despite the violations revealed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the […]
Posted: February 20th, 2021 under Economy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Defenders of the Chelyabinsk pine forest again defended the natural monument in the Court of Appeal
Press Release, 2.02.2021 Photo: The Chelyabinsk city pine forest / Wikimedia Commons The second Court of Appeal once again confirmed that the decision of the regional Legislative Assembly to change the boundaries of the Chelyabinsk pine forest was unlawful. The court, located in St. Petersburg, overturned the decision of the deputies to seize part of […]
Posted: February 2nd, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre demanded to deprive “golden MP” Sergei Sopchuk of his mandate
Earlier, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office revealed his undeclared business worth over 38 billion roubles Press Release, 1.02.2021 Photo: Sergei Sopchuk, photo from the official website of the Legislative Assembly of the Maritime Territory Alexei Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko party Anti-Corruption Policy Сentre, appealed to the Chairman of the State Duma with a demand […]
Posted: February 1st, 2021 under Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Protests and the tasks of the opposition
Statement by the Yabloko party, 29.01.2021 A new wave of political repression, targeted against a wide range of Russian citizens, the entire protesting civil society in Russia, has emerged. The public protest is caused by people’s fatigue and unacceptability for them of the twenty years of irreplaceable authoritarian rule by Vladimir Putin and the prospects […]
Posted: January 30th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Social Policies, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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On the street protests on 23 January, 2021
Statement by the Yabloko party, 22.01.2021 An unlawful repressive state with the unlimited personal, irreplaceable power of Vladimir Putin has been formed in Russia. The laws are being applied in the way that Putin and his ruling group wish. The regime will use unlimited brutality and force against protesters. Protesters must be fully aware of […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Alexei Karnaukhov: What else is Putin hiding?
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 22.01.2021 Photo: The cover of Yabloko’s brochure about the Black Sea country houses of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Patriarch Kirill and Alexander Tkachev, then Governor of Krasnodar Territory, 2011 Recently, Alexei Navalny has released a documentary about President Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik. It graphically retells media investigations, revelations by the […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2021 under Protests in Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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After the application of the Ryazan branch Yabloko, the Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the facts of payment for the uncompleted work by officials of the city of Kasimov
The materials for initiating the proceedings were sent to the Investigative Committee Press Release, 18.01.2021 Photo by the Ryazan branch of Yabloko After the application of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in connection with the acceptance and payment for uncompleted work on the improvement of the city garden in the […]
Posted: January 20th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Director of Russian Youth and the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region became the prize-winners of the Golden Toilet Brush anti-prize
The Governor of the Chelyabinsk region received a prize in a special nomination “VIP-Gifts to Officials” Press Release, 16.01.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party has summed up the results of the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award for officials’ most wasteful state procurement purchases. The first prize went […]
Posted: January 18th, 2021 under Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko demands to check the feasibility of the luxury purchases by Governor’s office worth 24 million roubles
Press Release, 14.01.2021 Photo: Alexei Teksler, Governor of the Chelyabinsk region / photo from the official website of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko appealed to the regional control and supervisory authorities demanding to check the feasibility of budget spending totaling to 24 million roubles. The money was spent by […]
Posted: January 15th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The government of St. Petersburg does not rule out checking of financial statements of 19 United Russia party municipal deputies after Yabloko’s inquiry
Press Release, 13.01.2021 The government of St. Petersburg does not rule out that Alexander Beglov, Governor of the city, initiates an inspection of 19 out of 22 municipal deputies from the United Russia party, who did not declare their families’ property in their financial statements. This follows from the answer of Alexander Belsky, Vice Governor […]
Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The head of the Zaboryevskoye settlement falsified the decision on the raise of her salary
Yabloko deputy Anatoly Kivva, who exposed the fraud, appealed to the police Press Release, 12.01.2021 Photo: Anatoly Kivva, deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Zaboryevskoye rural settlement. The Ryazan branch of Yabloko. Irina Kopylova, head of the Zaboryevskoye rural settlement, falsified the decision of the Council of Deputies to increase her wage supplement. […]
Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko appealed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in connection with the officials’ acceptance of non-implemented landscaping works in Kasimov
Press Release, 11.01.2021 The Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party appealed to regional Public Prosecutor Ivan Panchenko in connection with the fact that on December 7, as follows from the documents posted on the Public Procurement Portal, officials signed an acceptance certificate (signed by Vladimir Lusenkov, an employee of the Kasimov city administration) for the […]
Posted: January 11th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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