Archive for 'The Russian Army'
Yabloko has published its election programme for the State Duma elections
Press Release, 29.07.2021. Photo: Nikolai Rybakov (in the centre), Yabloko Chairman and leader of the party list for the 2021 parliamentary elections. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The final version of the election programme of the Yabloko party “Freedom and Law. Hope for the Future” has been published. The programme has five sections. […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Programme documents, Protection of Environment, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against Terrorism, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, Без рубрики.
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The parliamentary majority of the Moscow City Duma rejected Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution, prohibiting torture and introducing a contract-based army
Press Release, 15.10.2020 The Moscow City Duma rejected two bills with amendments to the Constitution submitted by the Yabloko faction. The bills were proposed to be adopted as a legislative initiative and sent to the federal parliament – the State Duma. The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma submitted a package of nine bills […]
Posted: October 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, The Russian Army, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin
Press Release, 3.06.2020 In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin. They want to bring him to administrative responsibility for a series of single pickets against mandatory army conscription, which he held by two regional military registration and enlistment offices on 15 May, the International Day of Conscientious Military Objectors.
Posted: June 3rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Russian Army, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Tatarstan branch of Yabloko conducted one-person pickets against the conscription slavery
Press Release, 15.05.2020 On May 15, the International Day of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service, Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan, held a series of one-person pickets (that do not require any permissions from the authorities) against the conscription slavery in Russia and against human rights violations in […]
Posted: May 15th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, The Russian Army.
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Yabloko sends its emergency programme to combat COVID-19 pandemic to the Russian President, government and parliament
Press Release, 31.03.2020 Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov sent the authorities a programme of socio-economic and political measures developed by the party to overcome the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The document was sent to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, members of both houses of parliament, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, as well as to the […]
Posted: March 31st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko proposed a programme of urgent measures to support citizens and business people during the COVID-19 pandemic
Press Release, 28.03.2020 According to Yabloko, the Russian authorities should provide all possible support to citizens facing the threat of not only becoming infected with coronavirus, but also losing their means of subsistence, as well as private businesses. The party has developed a programme of urgent measures, consisting of 20 points of a socio-economic measures […]
Posted: March 30th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Russian Army, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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On the dangers of eliminating the international nuclear arms control system
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019 The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses its deep concern over the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the US intention to withdraw from the Open Sky Treaty, and the uncertain prospects for extending the existing or concluding […]
Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, The Russian Army.
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They are preparing Russia for a war
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 5.04.2019 They are preparing Russia for a war. The propagandise. They intimidate. They threaten. Kinzhal (Dagger), Sarmat, Poseidon, Peresvet… Endless news about the “newest deadly” weapons. “Wonderful,” Putin says, “a gift to the country for the New Year is the Avangard missile.”
Posted: April 22nd, 2019 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, The Russian Army, Без рубрики.
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Yavlinsky: Putin’s policy has brought Russia close to the real threat of a great war
Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 01.03.2018 Vladimir Putin has announced a large-scale arms race in his Address to the Federal Assembly. He threatens the whole world with new nuclear missiles. It seems that Putin has confidence in the possibility of limited use of tactical nuclear weapons. It is impossible to imagine anything more dangerous and erroneous […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2018 under Presidential elections 2018, The Russian Army.
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Grigory Yavlinsky revealed the message of his presidential campaign: free elections, free economy and free people
Press Release, 21.09.2017 On 21 September, Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, whom the party intends to nominate for the 2018 presidential election, revealed the key messages of his election campaign at a press conference at the Interfax news agency. The press conference was also attended by deputy heads of Yabloko Nikolay Rybakov […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2017 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Presidential elections 2018, Russian Economy, The Russian Army, War in Syria.
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Statement on the kidnapping of Mikhail Konev, chair of PARNAS Youth
The ALDE party, 26.04.2016 Commenting on the developing news from Russia, ALDE Party President Hans van Baalen MEP said: “It is with regret that I hear the news from our ALDE Party member party in Russia PARNAS that the chair of their youth wing Mikhail Konev was today kidnapped from the military registration and enlistment […]
Posted: April 26th, 2016 under Human Rights, The ALDE party, The Russian Army.
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Free Mikhail Konev!
26.04.2016 Yabloko Youth calls for the immediate release of Mikhail Konev, leader of PARNAS Youth wing. According to the reports on the social media, Mikhail has been kidnapped from the military registration and enlistment office in Moscow. Despite the fact that the activist has an exemption from military service the army conscription commission found him fit […]
Posted: April 26th, 2016 under Human Rights, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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Tula YABLOKO Youth protested against conscription
Press release, 05.04.2016 YABLOKO Youth activists in Tula joined the federal action of protest conducted by the youth faction of YABLOKO against the conscription system in Russia. The action was timed to the beginning of the spring draft.
Posted: April 6th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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Sverdlovsk YABLOKO Youth conducted pickets agaisnt conscription
Press release, 06.04.2016 On 5 April, the Sverdlovsk region YABLOKO Youth conducted one-person pickets against the draft system in Russia. The street action of protest took place by the military registration and enlistment office in Yekaterinburg.
Posted: April 6th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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Krasnodar YABLOKO Youth protested against conscription
Press release, 04.04.2016 The Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO Youth conducted one-person pickets against the conscription system. The picket took place in the city of Yeysk, the Krasnodar Territory. Alexander Korovayny, leader of local YABLOKO Youth participated in the street action of protest.
Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army.
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Novosibirsk YABLOKO Youth conducted picketing against conscription
Press release, 04.04.2016 The Novosibirsk YABLOKO Youth conducted a picket against the conscription system in Russia. The activits claim that Russia must move to a professional army based on contract principles. The protest action took place in the city centre. The local party activits also participated in the event.
Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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North Ossetia YABLOKO Youth supports army based on contract principles
Press release, 04.04.2016 Alan Alikov, an activist of North Ossetia YABLOKO Youth, conducted a one-person picket is support of the army based on contract principles. The picket took place in Vladikavkaz.
Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army.
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Stavropol YABLOKO Youth protests against conscription
Press release, 04.04.2016 On 3 April, the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO Youth conducted a one-person picket against the conscription system in Russia.
Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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Moscow YABLOKO Youth conducted picketing against conscription
Press release, 04.04.2016 On 3 April, Moscow YABLOKO Youth activists conducted picketing against the conscription system in Russia and against the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy. The action was timed to the beginning of the spring draft.
Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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The Supreme Court to consider an appeal on classifying military casualties in peacetime
Press Release, 09.11.2015 On 10 November, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will hear the appeal of public figures against the refusal to recognize the presidential decree to classify military casualties in peacetime unlawful.
Posted: November 10th, 2015 under Human Rights, The Russian Army.
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