Archive for 'Regional policies and Local Self-Governing'
Yabloko members Viktor Shalyakin and Vitaly Bovar, detained at the municipal deputies congress, received fines
Press Release, 25.05.2021 Photo: Vitaly Bovar (right) / Photo from Vitaly Bavar’s Facebook page Late in the evening of 24 May, the Novgorod District Court imposed fines on Viktor Shalyakin, the Chairman of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, and Vitaly Bovar, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the St. Petersburg municipality Vladimirsky […]
Posted: May 26th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “I demand to stop police pressure on the leaders of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and release all the detainees”.
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 24.05.2021 Photo from the Anna Cherepanova Facebook page On Saturday, 22 May, the authorities of Novgorod (North-West Russia) carried out another police action targeted at the intimidation of civil society. The unlawful dispersal of the congress of municipal deputies from different Russian cities (Zemsky Congress) and the detention of its […]
Posted: May 24th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: We need to develop the economy, not poverty in the country. Yabloko leader assessed the President’s Address to the Federal Assembly
Press Release, 22.04.2021 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov spoke at a meeting of the Party Bureau on 22 April, 2021. In his speech, Rybakov assessed the President’s Address to the Federal Assembly. According to Rybakov, Vladimir Putin’s address was no different from his […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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After the appeal of the deputy from Yabloko, the Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that the utilities tariffs in Zaborie had been set unlawfully
Press Release, 19.04.2021 The Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the data of the investigation of Anatoly Kivva, a deputy of the Zaboryevsky rural settlement (the Ryazan region) from the Yabloko party, that the municipal organisation “Byt” providing utility services had illegally set tariffs for the population and collected money from residents in accordance with these tariffs. […]
Posted: April 19th, 2021 under Economy, Housing and Utilities Reform, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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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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Statement by Yabloko deputies of the Moscow parliament on political terror on behalf of the Moscow police
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 15.03.2021 Photo: Detention of Sergei Mitorkhin These days, the whole country has been witnessing a new round of a systemic campaign aimed at suppressing opposition politics in Russia. Past week, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, presented to the Moscow City Duma his […]
Posted: March 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko held an interregional seminar in Yekaterinburg
Press Release, 12.03.2021 On 6-7 March, 2021, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov held seminars with regional headquarters of the party in Yekaterinburg. The participants of the seminars discussed the party’s coalition policy and the upcoming election campaign to the State Duma. In total, leaders and activists of Yabloko regional branches from […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Maxim Kruglov: Moscow Mayor’s Office has cut the powers of the City Parliament and municipalities
Maxim Kruglov’s blog post, 18.02.2021 Photo: Maxim Kruglov, leader of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma Today, the Moscow authorities have finally revealed their strategy for the coming years. Instead of building modern, flexible, horizontal management structures, the Mayor’s Office and [the government’s] United Russia [party], on the contrary, concentrate all powers in […]
Posted: February 18th, 2021 under Moscow City Duma Elections 2014, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Political Parties, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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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 Yabloko faction did not support the draft budget of Moscow for 2021
Press Release, 11.12.2020 The Yabloko party deputies in the Moscow parliament did not support the Moscow draft budget adopted late in the evening on December 10. Maxim Kruglov, Sergei Mitrokhin and Daria Besedina voted against, Yevgeny Bunimovich abstained. Discussion of the amendments to the budget lasted over 11 hours, 93 amendments were submitted by deputies […]
Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Education and Science, Elections, Healthcare, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 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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Residents of the village of Iset, with the support of the Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko, wrote to Prime Minister Mishustin with a demand to deal with overcharges for heating
Press Release, 10.12.2020 “We pay a lot of money for heating.” Such a statement was made by 400 residents of the Iset village of the Verkhnyaya Pyshma urban district. Residents sent an appeal to Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin demanding to deal with the overcharged tariffs for heating. The initiator of the appeal was […]
Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Economy, Housing and Utilities Reform, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Court declared null and void the unsatisfactory assessment given by the pro-government party deputies to Yabloko’s head of the Novorzhevsky district Sofya Pugachyova
Press Release, 2.12.2020 Photo: Sofia Pugachyova and her lawyer Yelena Mayatnikova In September 2019, two Yabloko activists and deputies – 38-year-old Sofya Pugachyova from Novorzhev and 59-year-old Svetlana Vasilkova from Pustoshka won elections and became heads of districts. However, representatives of the ruling United Russia party began to interfere with their performance of their duties, […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Tatyana Nagibina: In the midst of the pandemic in Omsk, the regional administration bought new cars for officials
Tatyana Nagibina blog post, 19.11.2020 What a “happiness” it is to live in the Omsk region, as our “achievements” put us ahead of all Russian regions. How our officials love to excel! Our officials do not cease to amaze us with their ideas on how to help themselves, come up with something so that to […]
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Elections, Healthcare, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, 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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Head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma provided municipal deputies the right to introduce amendments to the Moscow city budget
Press Release, 11.11.2020 Photo: Maxim Kruglov Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, has launched a platform – an aggregator of amendments to the Moscow city budget from municipal deputies of the city. The aggregator enables the municipal deputies of Moscow to make amendments to the draft City Budget for […]
Posted: November 11th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Preservation of the architectural look of the city and the quality of life of city residents should become a priority in the urban planning policy of Yekaterinburg
Statement by the Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko, 10.11.2020 (On introduction of amendments to the Rules for Land Use and Development of the Urban District – Municipality the City of Yekaterinburg” (Decision No. 29/42 of the Yekaterinburg City Duma of October 27, 2020) The erroneous perception and interpretation by the municipal authorities of Yekaterinburg of the […]
Posted: November 10th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky sent St.Petersburg Governor an appeal from more than 100 deputies of St. Petersburg municipalities with a demand to abandon the municipal “budget reform”
Press Release, 9.11.2020 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the city Governor Alexander Beglov from municipal deputies who strongly oppose the municipal “budget reform” proposed by the Governor: […]
Posted: November 10th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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