Archive for 'Politics'
After Lev Shlosberg’s appeal Public Prosecutor declared unlawful the transfer of state property to the non-profit organisation Loft
Press Release, 11.01.2021 At the request of Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko MP of the Regional Assembly of the Pskov Region, the Public Prosecutor of the Pskov region checked the legality of the transfer of three buildings in the historical centre of Pskov, which belonged to the Pskov city hospital, to the ANO Youth Development Centre “Loft” […]
Posted: January 11th, 2021 under The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has published an investigation into luxurious gifts from the Chelyabinsk Governor
Press Release, 23.12.2020 Photo: a screenshot of the main page of the investigation The Chelyabinsk branch of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has found purchases of luxury goods for gifts from the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler. Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre asks the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Main Control Department to […]
Posted: December 23rd, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The New Age Economy
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 5) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 18.12.2020 These days virtually all economic analysts concur that the pandemic and its consequences are exacerbating key negative trends in the global economy, such as the increasing gap between stock market indices and real economic processes, the rise in monopolies and […]
Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko branch in the Altai Republic nominated the head of the Ust-Koksinsky district to the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award
Press Release, 14.12.2020 The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Committee in the Altai Republic made a decision to include Oleg Kuligin, head of the Ust-Koksinsky district, in the list of nominees for the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award for the purchase of a Toyota Land Cruiser 200 luxury car for the needs of the district administration.
Posted: December 15th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demanded from St.Petersburg Governor to check the information on undeclared incomes of the ruling party deputies
Press Release, 10.12.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded from St.Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov to check the information on possible violations committed by 22 deputies of St. Petersburg municipalities representing the ruling United Russia party when they provided information on their incomes and property.
Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Russia has no objections to compensating for damage from corruption
The Russian Ministry of Justice responded positively to the proposal of Yabloko Press Release, 9.12.2020 Photo: Picture by Transparency International The Russian Ministry of Justice plans to agree with all the authorities Russia’s accession to the convention on civil liability for corruption. Such a response came from the Ministry to Yabloko’s proposal to guarantee everyone […]
Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Economy, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 1.12.2020 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is […]
Posted: December 1st, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre: officials in Dzerzhinsk ordered a lease for 5.5 million roubles. Two Kia Optima will cost the budget 1.5 times the market price
Press Release, 23.11.2020 Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko and Director of the regional branch of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, appealed to the Control and Audit Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Nizhny Novgorod Region demanding to check the reasonabless of the purchase at the indicated price of car […]
Posted: November 23rd, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Officials of the Dubna district fulfilled the demand of the Tula branch of Yabloko: the tender for the purchase of an expensive car is canceled
Press Release, 18.11.2020 The administration of the Dubna district of the Tula region fulfilled the demand of the Tula branch of Yabloko and cancelled the tender for the purchase of an expensive car for the needs of the administration. The corresponding entry appeared on the state procurement portal. This happened after the Tula branch of […]
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Tula branch of Yabloko demands to cancel the tender for the purchase of an expensive car for the needs of the Dubna district Administration in the Tula region
Press Release, 16.11.2020 The regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Tula region discovered on the public procurement website that the administration of the Dubna district decided to purchase a new Mitsubishi Outlander for 1,895,000 roubles. Activists of the Tula branch of Yabloko note that the car will most likely be used by the […]
Posted: November 17th, 2020 under Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Unidentified persons spoiled information signs on the office of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
In Novgorod, unidentified persons painted black information plates with the name of the party on the building where the office of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko is located. Press Release, 17.11.2020 “Unfortunately, this has been happening regularly. We understand that this is a reaction to the opposition activities of Yabloko, harsh criticism of the authorities, […]
Posted: November 17th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nomination for the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award is open
Press Release, 14.11.2020 The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko Party has opened the reception of nominees for the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award. The prize is awarded for the most wasteful public procurement contracts. The Golden Toilet Brush has two nominations – federal and regional – and two sets of awards: gold, silver and bronze […]
Posted: November 16th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yaroslav Shcherbakov: a Lamborghini worth only 100,000 roubles – now it will become a reality, but not for everyone.
Igor Artemyev was dismissed from the post of the head of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service yesterday Yaroslav Shcherbakov’s blog post, 12.11.2020 Photo: Igor Artemyev A Lamborghini worth only 100,000 roubles – now it will become a reality, but not for everyone! (from the experience of selling confiscated goods in Russia) Yesterday Igor Artemyev, head […]
Posted: November 13th, 2020 under Governance, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Tatiana Schneider: They want to accuse me of extremism for the post criticizing the Omsktekhuglerod plant
Tatiana Schneider’s blog post, 9.11.2020 On 3 November, I received a strange call from the police. An interesting conversation took place, the content of which caused me, to put it mildly, bewilderment. Also I even had to give a written explanation to the policeman. The essence of all this, for me, strange act was the […]
Posted: November 9th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov laid flowers at the Embassy of Austria and Embassy of France in Moscow
Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page, 3.11.2020 Photo: Nikolay Rybakov by the Embassy of France in Russia There have been quite a lot of mourning events lately, but this is the political reality in which we live. Together with Yabloko members Ivan Bolshakov, Grigory Grishin and Gleb Tumanov I laid flowers at the Embassy of Austria and […]
Posted: November 5th, 2020 under Condolences, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Без рубрики.
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How to get rid of Putin?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.10.2020 Will Mr.Putin remain President after 2024, they ask him at the Valdai Club meeting. My colleagues ask me about the same on a Yabloko party stream. Vladimir Putin compares himself to Saint Francis and says that “this must certainly end some day”. However, in Belarus, for example, the people decided that […]
Posted: November 4th, 2020 under Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Programme documents, Russia-Belarus Relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko demands from the regional parliament to abandon the increase in salaries to deputies’ aids by 20 million roubles
Press Release, 30.10.2020 Ryazan branch of Yabloko demands from the Ryazan Regional Duma to abandon the increase of salaries to deputies’ aids. Yabloko proposes to allot the funds planned for the increase of personnel salaries in the regional parliament to social expenses of the region.
Posted: November 2nd, 2020 under Regional and Local Elections, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre revealed signs of a cartel between municipalities and prisons in construction contracts worth 500 million roubles
Press Release, 27.10.2020 The Chelyabinsk branch of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party revealed signs of cartel collusion between municipalities and prisons in construction contracts worth 500 million roubels. Yaroslav Shcherbakov, head of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Centre and Chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko, applied to the Antimonopoly Service with […]
Posted: October 28th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demanded to enshrine in the law the right of citizens to compensation for damage from corruption
To do this, the President of Russia must sign a special international convention The Civil Law Convention on Corruption Press Release, 26.10.2020 The Yabloko Party Bureau demanded that President Vladimir Putin sign a convention on civil liability for corruption and submit it for ratification to the Federal Assembly. Earlier, Transparency International – Russia launched a […]
Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Everyone should have the right to compensation for damage from corruption
Statement of the Yabloko Party, 26.10.2020 DECISION # 2488 Moscow, October 16, 2020 Having discussed the information on the state of affairs with ensuring in Russia the right of citizens to compensation for harm from corruption, presented by Alexei Karnaukhov, head of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the YABLOKO Party, and Anton Pominov, Director General […]
Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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