Archive for 'Politics'
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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With the support of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko, the residents of Birsk managed to cancel the construction of an incineration plant
Press Release, 26.10.2020 Ministry for Natural Resources and the Environment of the Republic of Bashkortostan gave its conclusion on the impossibility of building a waste incineration plant in the region and decided to abandon the construction of this facility in the city of Birsk. This information is contained in the response from the Ministry to […]
Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Combatting corruption in public procurement: instructions for the candidate.” Online lecture by Alexei Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre
Press Release, 23.10.2020 Yabloko is running a Candidate School for those wishing to participate in the elections from the party. On Saturday, October 24, Yabloko will host an online lecture for the School. The lecture will be delivered by Alexey Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko Party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre. The lecture will begin at 15:00.
Posted: October 23rd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre revealed signs of a cartel in major repairs of housing and landscaping in Moscow for 8.7 billion roubles
Firms close to Moscow officials participated in the tender Press Release, 9.10.2020 The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko Party has identified signs of cartel conspiracy in procurement for construction and major repairs in Moscow. The investigation was launched after residents of the Khamovniki district filed complaints about the quality of the repairs of their […]
Posted: October 9th, 2020 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Federal Antimonopoly Service filed a case on creation of a cartel on provision of public amenities in Moscow
Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre initiated the case worth 323 million roubles Press Release, 7.10.2020 The Moscow Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has filed a case on violation of antimonopoly laws against six companies. The case was opened after an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Policy of the Yabloko party about a cartel on […]
Posted: October 7th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Emilia Slabunova: Russia needs detoxification
FB post by Emilia Slabunova, 3.09.2020 Alexei Navalny [opposition politician and one of vocal critics of the regime] was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group, the German government said in a statement. Angela Merkel, in her commentary, stated unequivocally that “it was an attempt to silence him [Navalny]”. Unambiguous, because if it were […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found out that the author of Putin’s amendments to the Constitution possesses real estate worth almost 0.6 bln roubles and turned to the Public Prosecutor
Press Release, 1.07.2020 Photo: Talia Khabriyeva and Vladimir Putin The Yabloko party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found unexpectedly expensive elite real estate (worth almost 0.5 billion roubles) from Talia Khabriyeva, one of the key authors of Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. The investigation is published here.
Posted: July 1st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre opposed the classified purchases of the Russian Guard, the Federal Security Service and the Russian Federal Space Agency
The Finance Ministry bill leads to the non-transparency and corruption in public procurement Press Release, 15.06.2020 The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has prepared an independent anti-corruption examination of the bill of the Russian Ministry of Finance on classifying purchases for law enforcement agencies and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). The experts of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption […]
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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After Lockdown
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020 CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if […]
Posted: June 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre demanded to check the customer of the Social Monitoring tracing application for corruption
Previously, mass media pointed to indications of fraud in the tender Press Release, 20.05.2020 Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre demanded that the Investigative Committee check the heads of the State Public Institution Information City for a crime under Article 285 of the Criminal Code. According to mass media reports, before that the contractor in the development […]
Posted: May 21st, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Emilia Slabunova calls for resignation of the Karelian Ombudsperson for plagiarism in the report on the human rights situation in Karelia in 2019
Press Release, 29.04.2020 Emilia Slabunova, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, believes that Larissa Boychenko, Human Rights Ombudsperson in the Republic of Karelia, should be dismissed. Slabunova came to the conclusion about the incompetence of the Ombudsperson after reading the report of the […]
Posted: April 29th, 2020 under Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Omsk branch of Yabloko will help victims of pseudo-lawyers
Press Release, 28.04.2020 At the end of the summer of 2019, managers and psychologists, posing as professional lawyers, opened a spacious bright office in one of the central shopping centres in Omsk. A colorful sign with a phone number advertised allegedly high professionalism of the specialists of this firm. Relying on the trust of citizens, […]
Posted: April 28th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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After Yabloko’s release of the video about the Tula Regional Duma spending budget money on expensive cars, regional MPs decided to allocate money to buying ambulances
Press Release, 23.04.2020 The Tula Regional Duma refuses large purchases of expensive cars for the regional parliaments and allocates these 5 million roubles for the purchase of ambulances. Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula Yabloko, noted that this happened exactly 24 hours after Yabloko’s publication of the video about the purchase by the Tula Regional […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko demands from the government to review the list of systemically important companies
Press Release, 11.04.2020 Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin with a demand to review the list of 646 systemically important organisations that should receive state support. The party believes that this list was compiled in a non-transparent manner and in violation of the basic principles of market competition.
Posted: April 13th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Vladimir Medinsky, ex Minister of Culture, and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin received the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award for embezzlement on public procurement. Yuri Chaika, ex Public Prosecutor General, won the Silver Prize
Press Release, 24.01.2020 Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre drew up the results of a vote by the web-site visitors for awarding the Golden Toilet Brush 2019 anti-award to the most wasteful officials. Vladimir Medinsky, former Minister of Culture of Russia and currently President Putin’s aid, received most of the votes. He will receive the “golden toilet […]
Posted: January 27th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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MPs from the ruling United Russia party introduced a bill on the liquidation of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 17.01.2020 State Duma deputies from the ruling United Russia Gadzhemet Safaraliyev, Yevgeny Marchenko and Valentin Subbot introduced amendments to the law on political parties to the lower house of the Russian parliament to liquidate the Yabloko party for “diminishing the authority of the state in the international arena”. The explanatory note to the […]
Posted: January 17th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Political Parties, Politics, Situation in Crimea, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov on the Address of Vladimir Putin to the Russian palriament
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 15.01.2020 Today’s Presidential Address [to the parliament] has finally returned us to the Leonid Brezhnev [stagnation] period [in the USSR]: slow reading of the text written on paper, silent audience but bursting into applause at the right moments. Certainly, the directors of the event counted on resounding success of the promises […]
Posted: January 16th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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President’s Address to the nation: the conclusions
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.01.2020 Vladimir Putin has spoken with an Address to the Federal Assembly. People want change, the President said. And he proposed to amend the Constitution. So that no international courts, no international law would any longer interfere with the Construction of an isolated authoritarian (that is, sovereign, as Putin thinks) state. So […]
Posted: January 15th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: How much does the Crimean bridge cost?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 25.12.2019 They built a bridge from Taman to Kerch. It turned out three times more expensive than same kind of bridges in the world. They built it on budget money, and in our state and in such cases part of this money will be stolen. Like was the case with the Vostochny […]
Posted: December 26th, 2019 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko nominated Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika for Golden Toilet Brush anti-award
The winner of the anti-award will be determined by Internet voting Press Release, 24.12.2019 Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has identified nominees for the annual anti-award for “wasting the budget” via public procurement contracts. The list of nominees of 2019 includes the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky for bidding on behalf of the Ministry […]
Posted: December 25th, 2019 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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