Archive for 'Politics'
The state has allocated 4.6 billion roubles for New Year trees. Every second purchase took place without any competition
Press Release, 27.12.2018 Yabloko’s has detected that the Russian government allocated 4.6 billion roubles for the celebration of the New Year and Christmas; whereas gifts cost 2 billion roubles out of this amount. In almost 50 per cent of the purchases there was no competition. Anti-Corruption Policy Centre experts, gifts to children cost somewhat less […]
Posted: December 28th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko proposes to redirect 41 million roubles from the needs of officials to the resettlement of emergency houses and aid for people with disabilities
Press Release, 13.12.2018 Anna Cherepanova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Duma of Novgorod (North-West Russia), submitted amendments to the draft city budget for 2019. Cherepanova urged not to increase spending on labour remuneration for officials higher than the inflation index (4.3 per cent), nullify budget expenditures on PR of the Novgorod authorities in […]
Posted: December 13th, 2018 under Economy, YABLOKO Against Terrorism.
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The Clock Is Ticking for Business
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 06.11.2018 Need money for a national park in the Arctic? Not enough money for a port complex at Novaya Zemlya [archipelago in the Arctic Ocean]? Don not have 1.5 trillion roubles for a highway from Sochi to Crimea? The government’s 540 billion roubles allocated for the implementation of the May Presidential Decrees […]
Posted: December 6th, 2018 under Economy, Understanding Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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“If assigning state property to shell companies is not stopped, there will be nothing left in Russia”
Deputy Head of Yabloko Centre for Anti-Corruption Policy on the case of officials Obnosov and Prikhodko Alexei Karnaukhov’s blog post on Ekho Moskvy website, 9.11.2018 The cases of officials Obnosov and Prikhodko and the commercial interest of their families in space industry revealed by Novaya Gazeta have clearly shown three major problems of anti-corruption policy […]
Posted: November 14th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko is the party of a moral choice
Decision by Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 25.10.2018 Yabloko is the party of the European values. Yabloko has abided by democratic principles and employed lawful methods to gain power and political influence since the time the party was founded 25 years ago. We are the party of public affairs, we participate in elections and use parliamentary […]
Posted: November 7th, 2018 under History, Human Rights, Politics, Understanding Russia, Yabloko's Views.
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Upon Yabloko’s application Russian Federal Treasury confirmed that Christmas trees procured for Defence Ministry were overpriced
Press release, 26.09.2018 Russian Federal Treasury admitted the infringement of the initial (maximum) price assessment for the procurement of Christmas tress and decorations for Russia’s Defence Ministry. An unscheduled check-out took place upon Yabloko’s application. Yabloko’s Centre for Anti-Corruption Policies discovered that the Defence Ministry will buy 268 Christmas trees at the cost ranging from […]
Posted: September 27th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Public Prosecutor’s Office will check Tatarstan officials on the case of the Kazan Fair on the application of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 20.09.2018 The Centre for Anti-Corruption Policy of the Yabloko party appealed to the Tatarstan Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding that officials of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan be inspected for corruption. Officials are suspected of exceeding their official authority in organising tenders. Information about the illegal actions of […]
Posted: September 21st, 2018 under Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre launches 2017 report
The booklet contains the investigations, analytics and events by Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre Press release, 11.09.2018 Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre launched its latest report. The booklet contains civil investigations, non-governmental reports, expert reports and event organised by the centre in 2017. Lawyer Alexei Chumakov launched the booklet at Moscow International Book Fair on September 5.
Posted: September 11th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Sanctions and Prospects
The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018 Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, […]
Posted: August 29th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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At the request of Yabloko, the Accounts Chamber and the Federal Antimonopoly Service will check the legality of the spending on the restoration of the Capitol dome in Havana, Cuba
Press Release, 17.08.2018 Yabloko party Chairperson Emilia Slabunova sent an appeal to Alexei Kudrin, Chairman of the Russian Accounts Chamber, demanding to check the effectiveness of spending Russia’s budget funds for the restoration of the Capitol’s dome in Havana, the capital of Cuba. At the same time, Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre appealed to the Federal […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko revealed a cartel on purchase of medicines in the Mari El Republic
The republican department of the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service in Mari El filed a case against the participants of the collusion Press Release, 03.08.2018 The republican department of the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service in Mari El filed a case on the violation of the antimonopoly legislation in the procurement of medicines for public healthcare institutions in the […]
Posted: August 10th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Ministry of Justice accredited Yabloko as an independent expert on anti-corruption expertise
Press Release, 08.08.2018 Photo: Alexei Karnaukhov, deputy head of the Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation granted the Yabloko party the status of an independent expert organisation for conducting anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and different projects. Yabloko has become the first party to receive such a […]
Posted: August 8th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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After Yabloko’s appeal the Federal Antimonopoly Service files a case against a cartel on cleaning of snow in Moscow
Press Release, 24.07.2018 The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) filed a case on violation of the antimonopoly legislation at the tender for snow cleaning in Moscow. The case was raised on one of the statements of Yabloko in connection with poor cleaning past winter. Six companies inter-connected through their founders are accused of violating Clause […]
Posted: July 27th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Honest and brave: 15 years since the death of Yuri Shchekochikhin, journalist and Yabloko’s MP
FB post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 03.07.2018 15 years have passed since the death of Yuri Shchekochikhin, journalist and Yabloko’s MP. One of the most honest and courageous journalists in the history of modern Russia was brutally murdered. There was virtually no investigation – the case of Shchekochikhin’s death was closed several times without giving any […]
Posted: July 4th, 2018 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The third attack on the house of Svetlana Vasilkova, Yabloko’s deputy of the Pustoshkinsky District Assembly, the Pskov region
Press Release, 23.04.2018 Svetlana Vasilkova, Yabloko’s deputy of the Pustoshkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov region, was attacked for the third time. This happened on the threathold of the report of the dstrict head before the deputies. Unidentified persons smashed two bricks through the bedroom window of Svetlana Vasilkova’s private house in the Pustoshka town […]
Posted: April 26th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko demands from the State Duma to deprive five MPs of their mandates
Transparency International found their illegal businesses Press Release, 25.04.2018 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova on the request of Transparency International – Russia demanded that the State Duma conduct an investigation into illegal businesses of five of Duma deputies. The five deputies are suspected of owning business in Russia and France. Four out of five deputies are […]
Posted: April 25th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Anti-Corruption Commission of the Municipal Council of Khamovniki District, Moscow, to discuss fire safety, 2018 FIFA World Football Cup Russia and the conflict of interest of the head of the district
Press Release, 03.04.2018 Photo: Alexei Karnaukhov. On Friday, 6 April, the first meeting of the commission for security and anti-corruption of the local Council of Deputies will be held in the Khamovniki district (Moscow). The key issues of the meeting are inspecting fire safety in the district after the tragedy in Kemerovo (when a fire […]
Posted: April 4th, 2018 under Local and Municipal Elections 2017, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Political Economy. Kemerovo
Grigory Yavlinsky: “The key cause of the tragedy in Kemerovo is the merger of business and government” Smart Power Journal, 02.04.2018 The key cause of the tragedy in Kemerovo is the merger of business and government on all levels, which underlies the economic, the political and the socio-political structure of modern Russia. First, this evident […]
Posted: April 2nd, 2018 under Economy, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre asks the Office of the Moscow Mayor to report on processing of garbage in the city
Press Release, 29.03.2018 Photo from the web-site of OOO Khartia company. Garbage is been sorted manually. Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, demanded from the Office of the Moscow Mayor to report on sorting and processing of garbage in the city. Contractors working on state contracts must build sorting stations and garbage processing […]
Posted: March 30th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko demands from Vladimir Putin to dismiss Governor Aman Tuleyev and Minister of Extraordinary Situations Vladimir Puchkov after a fire in the shopping mall in Kemerovo and establish a public commission so that to investigate the causes of the tragedy
Press Release, 27.03.2018 Yabloko party Chair Emilia Slabunova sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding to dismiss Governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev “in connection with the loss of confidence” after the tragedy in Kemerovo, where several dozen people died in a fire in the shopping mall Winter Cherry. Slabunova also demanded […]
Posted: March 27th, 2018 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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