Archive for 'YABLOKO against Corruption'
The hearings went without us, but we marched through Moscow chanting “Sobyanin to dismissal!”
Press release, 06.06.2017 Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, leader of the Moscow branch of the party Sergei Mitrokhin and municipal deputy of Moscow Elena Rusakova were not allowed to participate in the parliamentary hearings on the renovation of Moscow housing, as the State Duma was frightened of unenviable uncomfortable questions the deputies had to face.
Posted: June 6th, 2017 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko was not allowed to participate in the parliamentary hearings on the renovation of Moscow housing
Press Release, 06.06.2017 Yabloko was not allowed to participate in the parliamentary hearings on the renovation of Moscow housing, as the State Duma was frightened of unenviable uncomfortable questions the deputies had to face. The so-called “renovation” implies that a full 10 per cent of Moscow’s housing is set to be torn down and 1.6 […]
Posted: June 6th, 2017 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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MP and ex Public Prosecutor of Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya had to defend herself against Yabloko’s accusations
Press release, 05.06.2017 Natalia Poklonskaya, deputy of the State Duma and ex Public Prosecutor of Crimea, explained the reporters why she did not declare a car in her income tax statement as well as her husband’s property and income. According to Poklonskaya, she is not married and mentioned that she had a husband in mass […]
Posted: June 5th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: the Ministry of Emergency Situations failed to prevent victims during a severe storm in Moscow due to its poor performance
Press Release, 30.05.2017 The Moscow hurricane of 29 May killed 16 people and about 100 Muscovites are in hospitals. During the thunderstorm of 29 May many people complained that they had not been warned. Thus, many reported that text messages on the emergency situation did not come to their telephones. A spokesman for the Ministry […]
Posted: May 31st, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The government intends to make the state budget even less transparent
Press Release, 30.05.2017 The government’s amendments to the state budget introduced past week to the State Duma for the first time lacked the data on total expenditures for defence or security. Thus it will be even more difficult to monitor where the secret expenditure are allotted to. Yabloko believes that the structure of the current […]
Posted: May 30th, 2017 under Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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MP and ex Public Prosecutor of Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya hides a car and a husband. Yabloko Anti-Corruption Police Centre asks the Prosecutor General’s Office to check the MP’s income tax statements
Press Release, 23.05.2017 Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre suspects that Natalia Poklonskaya, deputy of the State Duma, has not declared a car in her income tax statement, and also conceals her husband’s property and income. Sergei Mitrokhin, head of the Centre sent a letter to the Public Prosecutor General demanding to check the Poklonskaya’s statements.
Posted: May 23rd, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko launches Golden Toilet Brush 2017 negative award
Press Release, 18.05.2017 The Yabloko party has announced an open selection of nominees for the negative award Golden Toilet Brush 2017. The prize is made in the form of golden toilet brush and will be awarded to the officials who make the most absurd and wasteful purchase for the state budget money.
Posted: May 18th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Unidentified individuals tired to burn Yabloko activist’s house in the Tver Region
Press release, 04.05.2017 The house of Vladimir Yegorov, Chair of Yabloko’s local branch in Toropets, the Tver Region, was attacked. On May 2, unidentified individuals broke windows of his house and intended to set the place on fire.
Posted: May 5th, 2017 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Mitrokhin qualifies the appointment of Deputy Prime Minister’s son CEO as a conflict of interests
Press release, 02.05.2017 Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and head of the party’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, applied to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Government of the RF demanding to verify compliance of the appointment of Deputy Prime Ministers’s son CEO with the legislation on the prevention and management of conflict […]
Posted: May 4th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Pskov Department of the Anti-Monopoly Service filed a case on cartel agreement between the administration of Pskov and two “twin” companies of the brothers Kukhi and Kolpakov
Press Release, 21.04.2017 Lev Shlosberg, MP from the YABLOKO party of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembl, applied to the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Pskov region asking the Service to institute proceedings under Article 16 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” (prohibition of restricting competition agreements or concerted actions) in […]
Posted: April 25th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre revealed collusion in the provision of PR services for the Rostov regional authorities
Press Release, 11.04.2017 The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found signs of collusion between suppliers (a cartel) in public procurement to cover the work of the Governor, the Legislative Assembly and other authorities of the Rostov Region in the mass media for the amount of 158.5 million rubles (approximately 2.3 million Euro). Most of the state […]
Posted: April 12th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Mitrokhin demands to stop a shopping centre construction conducted by Prosecutor General’s son
Press release, 06.04.2017 Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Centre, demanded to stop a shopping centre construction conducted by the company of Prosecutor General’s son Artyom Chaika in the territory of a protective zone of Losiny Ostrov National Park, Moscow. Yabloko’s anti-corruption experts claim that the construction works do not meet the environmental regulations and […]
Posted: April 7th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Demolition of five-storey apartment blocks violates the Constitution
Press release, 07.04.2017 On April 6, the Moscow branch of Yabloko conducted a round table on the demolition of five-storey apartment blocks. In February the Moscow government launched a mass-scale project on the renovation of the housing fund, which involves the demolition of about 8000 apartment blocks constructed in 1950-1972 and rehousing about 1,6 million […]
Posted: April 7th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has confirmed the cartel agreement between the Public Chamber and the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs
Press Release, 13.03.2017 The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has confirmed the presence of a cartel agreement between the Public Chamber and the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodyozh). This was stated in the letter by the Federal Antimonopoly Service sent to Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the YABLOKO Federal Political Committee and head of the YABLOKO Anti-Corruption […]
Posted: March 13th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: The bill on protection of applicants on corruption must be supplemented
Press Release, 20.02.2017 YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre took part in the public discussion of the bill on the protection of the rights of the applicants on corruption. Draft amendments to the law “On Combating Corruption” were proposed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. The lawyers of YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Policy […]
Posted: February 21st, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: the Russian Pension Fund is going to spend 27 mln roubls on travel of its employees in 2017
Press Release, 15.02.2017 YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Policies Centre has found out that the Russian Pension Fund is going to spend (without any tenders) 27 million roubles on for official travel of its staff in 2017. Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee and head of Anti-Corruption Policies Centre, demands that the Fund should reduce this […]
Posted: February 16th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Mikhail Gorny launched a book on anti-corruption in YABLOKO’s School of Modern Politics in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 27.01.2017 Mikhail Gorny, Bureau member of St.Petersburg YABLOKO and professor of the Higher School of Economics, launched the book Fighting Corruption: Modern Technologies, published under his editorship.
Posted: January 30th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Centre prepared a survey on the situation with corruption in 2016
Press Release, 27.01.2017 YABLOKO’s Anti-Corruption Centre, headed by Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, released a survey on the situation with corruption in Russia in 2016 http://www.yabloko.ru/2017/01/27. It analyses the cases of 2016 that got loud the profile cases last year, legislation, law enforcement practices and the authorities’ response to civil investigations.
Posted: January 30th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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“Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Modern Technologies” book to be launched in St. Petersburg
Press release, 23.01.2017 On January 26, Mikhail Gorny will launch a book “Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Modern Technologies” which was published under his editorship. The event will take place within YABLOKO’s school of modern politics.
Posted: January 23rd, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: Moscow Mayor’s idea to deprive small businesses of judicial rights violates the Constitution
Press release, 12.01.2017 Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO Federal Political Committee, head of the Anti-corruption Centre of the party, calls Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev not to support the initiative of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on depriving small business of the right to dispute the monetary value of the premises, that are bought back from the […]
Posted: January 15th, 2017 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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