Archive for 'Social Policies'
Activists supported by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko conducted a civil campaign for free access to the parks, 4,000 signatures collected
Press Release, 23.09.2020 On Monday, 21 September, Alexandr Makhankov, member of the Bureau of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko and Chairman of the local Yabloko branch in the city of Pushkin, together with representatives of the #Khochuvpark (I Want to the Park) initiative group, submitted to the reception of the Governor of St. Petersburg a […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov congratulated the students of the Logos high school on the beginning of the school year: “Everything that happens in the country depends on you”
Press Release, 1.09.2020 Today, on September 1, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the Logos high school in Dmitrov, Moscow Region. The Logos high school is ranked one of the best educational institutions in Russia. In his speech at the ceremony of the beginning of the school year Nikolai Rybakov wished the students freedom and respect […]
Posted: September 1st, 2020 under Education and Science, Greetings, Без рубрики.
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Students reinstated to the university at the demand of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office. The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City State Duma helped the students who were arbitrarily expelled during the COVID quarantine to get reinstatement
Press Release, 28.08.2020 Natalya Pochinok, Rector of the Russian State Social University, had to cancel her order on the expulsion of Anton Ocheretin and Danila Petrov from the university, after the Public Prosecutor General’s Office proposed her to eliminate violations of the legislation on education. Students were expelled in April this year for trying to […]
Posted: August 31st, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region banned Yabloko’s pickets against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 25.06.2020 The Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region turned down Yabloko’s application for pickets in Yekaterinburg against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution, citing the Ministry’s lack of information about the possibility of extending the COVID high-alert mode.
Posted: June 26th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The authorities hinder the Saratov branch of Yabloko to freely disseminate information about the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms
Press Release, 25.06.2020 More than five advertising agencies refused to place Yabloko’s banners with a slogan I AM AGAINST THE RESET [OF PRESIDENTIAL TERMS] because of “fear of the city administration”. The companies are afraid to lose the bid for the right to placement of advertising structures. This was stated by the manager of the […]
Posted: June 25th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko calls on the Governor to cancel the Victory Parade
The region is ranked fourth in Russia as of the number of COVID cases Press Release, 19.06.2020 The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to Governor Gleb Nikitin with a demand to cancel the Victory Day parade in Nizhny Novgorod scheduled on June 24 instead of May 9 due to the epidemic. The corresponding appeal […]
Posted: June 19th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Bashkiria calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the WW2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa during the epidemic
Press Release, 17.06.2020 Albert Khusainov, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria, sent an appeal to the head of the region Radiy Khabirov. The leader of the regional branch of Yabloko calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the World War 2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa […]
Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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LI President endorses ALDE Party statement concerning arrests in Russia
Press Release, 5.06.2020 Liberal International, the world federation of liberal political parties, has endoresed the statement made by ALDE on the latest arrests in Russia. Yabloko has been member of Liberal International since 1998. Here goes the text from Liberal International: LI President Hakima el Haite endorses the statement made by ALDE Party President and […]
Posted: June 8th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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“Freedom of expression is inviolable!” Yabloko deputies demand from the head of the Moscow police to give explanations on the arrests of protesters
Press Release, 5.06.2020 Photo: Arrest of Maxim Kruglov The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma demands immediate admission of Yabloko deputies from the head of the Moscow police chief Oleg Baranov. An official letter of this was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Chairman of the faction, and was sent to the police department in Moscow […]
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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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 Chairman demanded that the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg police release the participants detained during one-person picketing
Press Release, 29.05.2020 Detention of Kirill Gontcharov. Photo by Novaya Gazeta Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an official appeal to the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to release the detained participants of one-person picketing and stop the detentions. “Exiting the isolation regime, […]
Posted: May 29th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Freedom to Ilya Azar!
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 28.05.2020 Photo: Ilya Azar picketing in front of the Moscow Interior Department on Petrovka street on May 26. The Yabloko party is outraged by the unlawful prosecution of the journalist and Moscow municipal deputy Ilya Azar, who was sentenced by court to 15 days of administrative arrest for a one-person picket […]
Posted: May 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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Housing for young people, resettlement of communal apartments and construction of metro. Boris Vishnevsky amended the law on adjusting the budget of St. Petersburg
Press Release, 27.05.2020 Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, made three amendments to the law on adjusting the city’s budget for 2020. Vishnevsky proposes to preserve the previously planned expenses for the programme Affordable Housing to Young People, which the Governor wants to reduce by a total […]
Posted: May 28th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko calls the regional authorities to support the regional ground electric transport companies
Press Release, 26.05.2020 Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, appealed to Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, with a demand to include the MP Nizhegorodelectrotrans and MUP Express in Dzerzhinsk companies into the list of enterprises affected by the coronavirus pandemic that should receive aid from the […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan continues picketing against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 26.05.2020 The Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party organised a protest action calling to turn down Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution. Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of the party, held a one-person picket [which does not require any permissions from the authorities). He is certain that since the government […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko appealed to Public Prosecutor General after more than 200 students were expelled from the Russian State Social Sciences University. One of the expelled is a member of Yabloko
An appeal by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 27.05.2020 The Federal Bureau of Yabloko appealed to Public Prosecutor General of Russia after more than 200 students were unlawfully expelled from the Russian State Social Sciences University during the pandemic when they could not even appeal the decisions of the university management. One of the expelled […]
Posted: May 27th, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Boris Vishnevsky prepared a draft decision of the St. Petersburg parliament on no confidence in Governor Beglov
Press Release, 22.05.2020 Photo: Governor Beglov and Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and the head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent to the Legal Department of the city parliament a draft decision on […]
Posted: May 22nd, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Emilia Slabunova: One should not be surprised at the quality of Russian education with such an attitude
The Karelian parliament did not support Yabloko’s proposal to compensate teachers for the cost of distance teaching Press Release, 22.05.2020 The legislative assembly of Karelia refused to support the appeal of the Yabloko faction to the head of the Russian government Mikhail Mishustin on the problems of the Russian education system in the context of […]
Posted: May 22nd, 2020 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Altai branch of Yabloko proposes to reallocate 37 million roubles of the Barnaul budget from holidays and souvenirs to support of citizens and business
Press Release, 21.05.2020 An expert group under the Bureau of the Yabloko party in the Altai Territory, headed by Andrei Tkachenko, discovered over 37 million roubles in the budget of Barnaul that the authorities of the regional capital had planned to spend on gifts and celebrations. The Altai branch of Yabloko suggested that the city […]
Posted: May 21st, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova appealed to the Investigative Committee, Public Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to check the damage to the monument One Thousand Years of Russia with chemicals
Press Release, 20.05.2020 Anna Cherepanova, deputy of the Duma of Veliky Novgorod and Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, turned to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigative Committee and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. She demands a check on the fact of damage to the monument One Thousand Years of Russia as […]
Posted: May 21st, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Healthcare, Protection of Environment, Social Policies.
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