Press Release, 29.07.2019

On Saturday 27 June, after the mass arrest of participants of the action in support of unregistered candidates for the elections to the Moscow City Duma, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, published a petition on the change.org platform.

Rybakov demanded immediate convening of an emergency meeting of the Moscow City Duma. “Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Oleg Baranov, Lieutenant General of police and head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, and Mikhail Vorobyov, Major Lieutenant of police and head of the Main Directorate of the Federal National Guard Service of the Russian Federation in Moscow, should report at the meeting on what happened in the centre of Moscow and arbitrariness on the part of security agencies,” runs the petition.

It should be noted that  1071 people, including 47 minors, were detained at the unpermitted protest action in the centre of Moscow.

In addition to the demands to release all the detainees, Yabloko insists on registering all the candidates from the party who overcame the barrier of collecting three per cent of voters’ signatures in their constituencies as required by law:

Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow;

Daria Besedina, architect and head of department in the Urban Projects Foundation;

Maxim Kruglov, expert of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre;

Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights;

Kirill Goncharov, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper “We Are Muscovites!”;

Yelena Rusakova, head of the municipal council in Gagarinsky District of Moscow;

Anastasia Bryukhanova, municipal deputy of Shchukino District and expert of the Urban Projects Foundation;

Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee.