The Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko once again demanded to cancel the auction for the leasing of 11 retro-style trams
Press Release, 15.04.2021
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Chairman of Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko Oleg Rodin sent another appeal to the Control and Accounts Chamber of the city of Nizhny Novgorod demanding to cancel the auction for leasing 11 tram cars in retro style.
The Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko considers the purchase unreasonable, in his opinion, the actions of the administration contribute to the overestimation of budget expenditures and violate the principle of efficient use of budget funds.
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Posted: April 15th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov assessed the “garbage reform” during his visit to Ivanovo
Press Release, 15.04.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov made a working visit to Ivanovo on 13 April, 2021.
In Ivanovo Rybakov met with Vladimir Yarchenkov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OOO “Regional Operator for Handling of Solid Municipal Waste”, and discussed the garbage reform, tariffs, sorting and disposal of garbage in the Ivanovo region.
After the meeting Rybakov visited a waste sorting plant with the capacity of 250,000 tons of processed waste per year. After the launch of the new line, the plant sorts out the waste from 19 districts.
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Posted: April 15th, 2021 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We demand an immediate end to the persecution of DOXA magazine staff
Statement by the Yabloko party, 14.04.2021
Photo: Alla Gutnikova, Editor of the DOXA magazine / Photo by @avtozaklive
Another act of pressure on independent journalism is taking place. Searches were carried out in the homes of the staff of the students’ magazine DOXA. They face up to three years in prison on an absurd charge of persuading minors to commit unlawful actions.
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Posted: April 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Anna Cherepanova was summoned to the police under an administrative case after giving unsatisfactory assessment to the Governor’s performance
Press Release, 14.04.2021
Photo: Anna Cherepanova /Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The police handed a summon to Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and deputy of the Novgorod Duma. Cherepanova got a notification to come to the police department where an administrative protocol will be drawn up on her under Article 20.2 Part 2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (Organisation or holding of a public event without filing a notice of a public event in the prescribed manner). Police claims were caused by a rally in memory of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, which took place in Novgorod’s “Hyde Park” (a specially designated place where holding a rally does not require any notifications of the authorities) on 27 February.
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Posted: April 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko plans to determine candidates for the State Duma via primaries
Press Release, 13.04.2021
Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
The Chelyabinsk regional branch of Yabloko made a decision to recommend to the Party Congress to nominate candidates for State Duma from the region basing on the results of primaries. The selection of candidates for State Duma deputies from the Yabloko party in the Chelyabinsk region will be carried out in five single-mandate constituencies.
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Posted: April 13th, 2021 under Coalition Policy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Stop pressure on investigative journalist Roman Anin
Statement by the Yabloko party, 12.04.2021
Photo: Roman Anin. / Photo by Vazhniye Istorii
On 9 April, the Federal Security Service (FSB) conducted a six-hour search of the house of Roman Anin, Editor-in-Chief of Vazhniye Istorii (Important Stories). After the search, the investigators took the journalist away for questioning. We consider such actions to be a crude attempt to put pressure on independent journalism and demand that the investigative actions against Roman Anin be stopped.
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Posted: April 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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“State regulation of prices and inflation”. Online lecture by Dr. Igor Nikolayev at the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 12.04.2021
Photo: Igor Nikolayev / Photo by the Yabloko Press service
On Thursday, 22 April, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Dr. Igor Nikolayev “State regulation of prices and inflation”. The lecture will be held via Zoom and will begin at 19:00.
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Posted: April 12th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Yabloko candidate Olga Vshivkova won the elections to the Duma of the Kungur Municipal District, the Perm Territory
Press Release, 12.04.2021
Photo: Olga Vshivkova/ Photo from the personal of Olga Vshivkova in the VKontakte social network
Olga Vshivkova, a candidate from the Perm branch of Yabloko, won the election of deputies of the Duma of the Kungur Municipal District of the 1st convocation in the two-mandate constituency. Vshivkova, nominated by Yabloko, gained more than 35% of the votes, ahead of the candidate from the pro-government’s United Russia party and the current deputy by only four vote. The second candidate from the Yabloko party in the same district, environmental activist and journalist Yekaterina Burylova, came fourth.
Olga Vshivkova is a Yabloko party supporter and Chair of the “Kungur, the Territory of Goodness” charitable foundation.
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Posted: April 12th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Birthday greetings to Grigory Yavlinsky
Congratulations from Nikolai Rybakov and Alexei Arbatov, 10.04.2021
On 10 April, the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party Grigory Yavlinsky celebrates his birthday. Yabloko party chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Alexei Arbatov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the Centre for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of Russian Academy of Sciences (published in the Kommersant newspaper) congratulate Grigory Yavlinsky on his birthday.
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Posted: April 12th, 2021 under Greetings.
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Hands off the Artdocfest film festival
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 9.04.2021
These days, the 14th International Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest is being held in different cities of Russia.
This year, the organisers of the festival faced pressure from law enforcement and regulatory agencies, refusal of cinemas to provide venues, provocations of odious nationalist groups and, finally, direct threats of physical violence, which ultimately led to the cancellation of screenings and the transfer of events online.
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Posted: April 9th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov to visit the Ivanovo region
Press Release, 8.04.2021
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 13 April, the Chairman of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov, will arrive on a working visit to the Ivanovo region. During the visit, the Yabloko leader will meet with representatives of Ivanovo businesses, and discuss the implementation of the federal measures to support small and medium-sized businesses.
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Posted: April 8th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Stop repressions against representatives of civil society in the Republic of Ingushetia
Statement by the Yabloko party No 406, published on 8.04.2021
Adopted by the Yabloko Congress on 4 April 2021
Photo by master_18.mail.ru/depositphotos
In the fall of 2018, peaceful protests began in the Republic of Ingushetia, caused by the transfer of part of the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia under the control of the authorities of the Chechen Republic. The corresponding agreement was signed by the heads of the two constituent entities of the Russian Federation on 26 September, 2018 in violation of federal and regional laws, without taking into account the opinion of the residents of the Republic of Ingushetia and secretly from them.
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Posted: April 8th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ivanovo Regional Court canceled the fine for Yabloko member Ivan Krisanov, who organised a rally in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 6.04.2021
Photo: Ivan Krisanov / Photo by the Press Service of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko
On 5 April, the Ivanovo Regional Court considered an appeal against the ruling of the Oktyabrsky District Court against Ivan Krisanov, a member of the Bureau of the Ivanovo regional branch of the Yabloko party.
In February the court of the first instance imposed a fine on Krisanov in the amount of 20,000 roubles for allegedly exceeding the permissible number of participants in a rally in defence of political prisoners organised by Krisanov in Ivanovo’s “Hyde Park” [a specially designated place in the city where rallies and meetings can be held without any permissions from the authorities] on 31 January.
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Posted: April 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: There is a chance to stop the operation of resetting the presidential terms
Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 6.04.2021
Photo by jenoche/depositphotos
The Russian authorities intend to conduct a nationwide election campaign in an atmosphere of military hysteria.
I don’t want to repeat once again the phrase about “a small victorious war”, which the Putin regime is once again extremely in need, but we have to – everything is developing too alarmingly around Ukraine, as Russian troops are being pulled up to its borders.
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Posted: April 7th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Nikolay Rybakov: The reform of Yabloko will allow us to create strong, fair, respectful competition in the party
Press Release, 3.04.2021
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Сhairman Nikolai Rybakov began his speech at the 21st party Congress by mentioning the victims of political repression, the number of which has increased significantly over the past year. According to the Memorial human rights society, 378 people in Russia are persecuted or imprisoned for their political beliefs.
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Posted: April 7th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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The key decisions of the Yabloko congress: the reform of Yabloko, the demand to release political prisoners and elections to the State Duma
Press Release, 6.04.2021
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The key points
On 3-4 April, Yabloko held a new stage of the 21st Congress, which was attended by almost 120 delegates from several dozens of regions. The main topic of the Congress was the reform of Yabloko and the release of political prisoners. Grigory Yavlinsky was one of the first to speak from the rostrum of the Congress. He explained the meaning of the party reform: it should be targeted at preservation of the core of the democratic opposition in Russia under the conditions of an authoritarian mafia regime.
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Posted: April 6th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, Без рубрики.
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On the growing danger of a new war with the participation of Russia
Statement by the 21st Congress of Yabloko, 5.04.2021
Photo by Sergei Averin/RIA Novosti
In early April, there was an exacerbation of the military confrontation in Donbass. In recent days, significant movements of military units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been taking place.
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Posted: April 6th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko leaders spoke about the upcoming parliamentary election campaign
Press Release, 4.04.2021
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the second day of the Congress Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov spoke about some aspects of Yabloko’s upcoming parliamentary election campaign.
Nikolai Rybakov said that to the coalition policy of the party is developing, a large extent, as an alliance of Yabloko and citizens, and the main goal of the work is to create a serious single democratic opposition faction in the State Duma as a result of the elections. Another important task is to nominate a party candidate for the presidency in the next presidential elections.
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Posted: April 5th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Yabloko party Congress adopted a package of key proposals for the reform in the party
Press Release, 3.04.2021
Photo: Voting for the amendments to the Yabloko by-laws / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The delegates to the 21 st Congress of the Yabloko Party adopted a package of key proposals for reforming the party. Amending the party by-laws required votes of at least two-thirds of the delegates to the Congress.
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Posted: April 5th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “The opposition should force the authorities to dialogue”
Press Release, 3.04.2021
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky /Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
The goal of the reform in the Yabloko party is to preserve the political core of the democratic opposition in the authoritarian mafia state with a chauvinist ideology. Such a statement was made at the Yabloko congress by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko.
Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution made last year formally drew a line under the period of post-Soviet modernisation, Yavlinsky said. Now, the Basic Law enshrines the irreplaceability of Vladimir Putin’s personal power, as well as the foundations of a “corporate, mafia, authoritarian state with a chauvinistic ideology.” Yavlinsky also noted that the “anti-constitutional coup” of 1 July, 2020 [when a plebiscite for the amendments to the Constitution took place] remains outside the scope of public discussion, the society has not realised what happened.
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Posted: April 5th, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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