Archive for 'Social Policies'
President Putin did not give a single answer to Russians’ pressing questions. Yabloko Bureau on the President’s message to the Federal Assembly
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 22.04.2021 The Bureau of the Yabloko party notes that the presidential address of Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly did not contain a single answer to the most pressing issues for [Russian] citizens (such as drop of incomes, price rise and stagnation of the economy), neither did it contain a […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Politics, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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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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The goal of Yabloko is to fight for freedom and the future of Russia
Statement by the 21st Congress of Yabloko dated 4.04.2021, published on 20.04.2021 Photo by Vitaly Timkiv / RIA Novosti The YABLOKO congress states that the situation in our country has qualitatively changed over the past year. On 1 July, 2020, there was a breakdown of the Russian statehood in the form in which it existed […]
Posted: April 20th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Privatisation in Russia, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia made the parliament of Karelia allocate subsidies envisaged by law for nursing homes for the elderly
Press Release, 19.03.2021 More than 31 million roubles will be allocated to private nursing homes for the elderly in the Republic of Karelia. Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Emilia Slabunova and Ivan Gusev, managed to make the parliament of the Republic of Karelia allocate to the nursing homes for […]
Posted: March 22nd, 2021 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Members of Kalmykian branch of Yabloko go on picking against unjustified tax breaks for large companies
Press Release, 12.03.2021 Photo by the Press Service of the Kalmykian branch of Yabloko On 11 March, members of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Kalmykia held single pickets near the People’s Khural of Kalmykia (the parliament of Kalmykia) demanding to abolish the practices of unreasonable granting of tax benefits to certain business companies. […]
Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Economy, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: What threatens Putin and what threatens Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 26.02.2021 423 agents of “foreign secret services” were identified in Russia in 2020, as Vladimir Putin said. At the meeting of the Board of the Federal Security Service, Putin spoke about the key, in his view, modern threats to Russia: spies, terrorists, hackers and opponents of the Sputnik V [vaccine against COVID]. These […]
Posted: March 1st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Politics, Protests in Russia, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Без рубрики.
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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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Protests and the tasks of the opposition
Statement by the Yabloko party, 29.01.2021 A new wave of political repression, targeted against a wide range of Russian citizens, the entire protesting civil society in Russia, has emerged. The public protest is caused by people’s fatigue and unacceptability for them of the twenty years of irreplaceable authoritarian rule by Vladimir Putin and the prospects […]
Posted: January 30th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Social Policies, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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School directors may get advisors on moral building and disciplinary work. Emilia Slabunova comments on the government’s initiative
Based on the Uchitelskaya Gazeta publication, 19.01.2021 Emilia Slabunova. Photo by the Yabloko Press Service School directors in ten pilot Russian regions will get advisors on moral building and disciplinary work with a rate of pay amounting to 15,000 roubles. This was announced by Minister of Education of Russia Sergei Kravtsov during his meeting with […]
Posted: January 20th, 2021 under Education and Science, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the democratic coalition in the Altai Territory
Statement by the Yabloko branch in Altai, 21.12.2020 Increasingly more people in Russia are beginning to understand that the policy of the ruling regime has led the country to a dead end, depriving the people of the future. The multi-day voting “on stumps” on an amendment to the Russian Constitution, in order to reset the […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2020 under Education and Science, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko proposed that the authorities should pay compensation for blocking travel passes to pensioners and schoolchildren
Press Release, 16.12.2020 Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov in connection with regional authorities blocking of travel cards, which allow certain categories of citizens to use public transport for free or with benefits. He also called on the regional authorities to pay compensations for imposing such restrictions.
Posted: December 17th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies.
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THE PANDEMIC AND POLITICS
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 4) Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 15.12.2020 INTRODUCTION The year 2020 is drawing to a close. One can only imagine what will come next. According to Deutsche Bank strategists, the era of globalisation, which has lasted for almost four decades, is coming to an end and will […]
Posted: December 15th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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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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All amendments of the Pskov Yabloko deputies to the regional budget for 2021 are devoted to healthcare
Press Release, 11.12.2020 Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly 18 amendments and 25 proposals to the draft budget of the Pskov region for 2021. All the amendments are targeted at the increase of funding for health care. Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg […]
Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko offices in St. Petersburg and Moscow will become collection points for New Year’s gifts for the homeless
Press Release, 10.12.2020 Yabloko traditionally joins the charity actions for homeless held by the Nochlezhka (Night Shlter) charity organisation. Yabloko calls on residents of Moscow and St.Petersburg to support the collection of gifts for the homeless, the kits will include food and things that will help a homeless person to survive in the street. “For […]
Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Charity, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko hosted a meeting of human rights defenders dedicated to International Human Rights Day
Press Release, 10.12.2020 The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko hosted a meeting of representatives of several political parties, three members of the Human Rights Council under the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan and civil activists. The meeting was dedicated to the protection of human rights and International Human Rights Day.
Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko resumes the work of its public reception office
Press Release, 8.12.2020 The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko relaunches the work of its public reception office after a break caused by coronavirus restrictions at the address: office 106, per. Posadsky 4, Ivanovo.
Posted: December 9th, 2020 under Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko hosts international conference on protecting women’s rights
ALDE Party Press-Release, 3.12.2020 On 24 November, the Gender Faction of Yabloko, ALDE member party in Russia, hosted an international online conference with international participants from ALDE member parties focussing on protecting women’s rights during COVID-19 lockdowns, drawing from experiences across country borders. Chair of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov, opened the conference and spoke […]
Posted: December 7th, 2020 under Education and Science, Gender Faction, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Emilia Slabunova on the Russian school
Press Release, 30.11.2020 On Thursday, December 3, the Yabloko Party University will hold a Zoom-lecture by ex-Chair of Yabloko Emilia Slabunova on “The Russian School: Between the Past and the Future”. The lecture will start at 19:00.
Posted: November 30th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Education and Science, Social Policies.
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The Yabloko party demanded from Prime Minister Mishustin not to cut payments to medical workers
Press Release, 26.11.2020 Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, in which he urges the head of government to amend Decree No. 1762 on the state measures of social support and to increase payments to health workers in the situation of the COVID pandemic, as well as […]
Posted: November 26th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies.
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