Press Release, 2.11.2021

Photo: Andrei Avtoneyev / Photo by Ivanovskiye Novosti

The Frunzensky District Court found Andrei Avtoneyev, Chairman of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, guilty of organising a rally in memory of the victims of political repression. Avtoneyev was fined 21,000 roubles, but he will appeal this decision.

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Press Release, 30.10.2021

Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko

Deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly by a majority vote rejected the Yabloko bill, which envisaged relieve candidates for the post of the head of the region, nominated by parliamentary parties, from the need to collect signatures of municipal deputies and heads of municipalities in support of their nomination. Four parliamentarians voted for the initiative, 16 against, and three abstained.

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Press Release, 1.11.2021

Photo: Anna Tyomkina / official website of the European University at St. Petersburg

On Thursday, 11 November, a Zoom-lecture “What is gender” will be held by famous sociologist Anna Tyomkina at the Yabloko Party University and the Gender School of the Party. The lecture will begin at 18:00.

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Congratulations from Grigory Yavlinsky, 30.10.2021

Photo: Dmitry Muratov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

Dmitry Muratov, Editor-in-Chief of Novaya Gazeta, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a member of the Yabloko party, turns 60 on 30 October. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, congratulates Dmitry Muratov on the anniversary:

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Press Release, 30.10.2021

Photo: Andrei Avtoneyev / Photo by Ivanovskiye Novosti

The memorial event in memory of the victims of political repression in Russia organised by the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko took place in the park near the Ivanovo circus on 30 October. The participants of the action paid tribute to the memory of the victims of political repression and demanded the release of all the political prisoners who are currently in prison.

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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.10.2021

Photo: Solovetsky Stone monument to the victims of political repressions in Lyubyanskaya Square, Moscow, October 2021

Pyotr Gerasimovich Kunatsky, 37, worker at the construction site of the department of public education. Shot on 4 December, 1937.

Sergei Vasilievich Mokshanov, 55, head of the sports department of the Posyltorg of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade of the RSFSR. Shot on 22 March, 1938.

Pyotr Ivanovich Grushevsky, 32, a clerk at the Main Military-Industrial Directorate of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR. Shot on 28 June, 1930.

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Yuri Alekseyevich Dmitriev, 65, historian, Chairman of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights society, investigated the burial places of victims of Stalinist repressions. On 29 September, 2020, sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony.

Ivan Ivanovich Safronov, 31, journalist. Has been under arrest since July 13, 2020, and faces up to 20 years of imprisonment.

Azat Fanisovich Miftakhov, 28, graduate student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University. On January 18, 2021, sentenced to six years of imprisonment.

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Press Release, 29.10.2021

On Wednesday, 3 November, the launch of the book by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva “Along the Track of a Special Path” will take place. The event will take place via Zoom and will start at 18:00.

The authors of the book attempt to answer the question of why the peculiarities of Russian civilization impede modernisation, as well as consider the interaction of the government and society in a historical context.

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Press Release, 29.10.2021

Leaders, members and supporters of the Yabloko party took part in the action “Returning the Names” and read out the names of citizens shot during the Great Terror 1936-1938 and Stalinist repressions of 1930 – 1953. The action in memory of the victims of political repression has been annually organised by the Memorial human rights group since 2007. The action took place at the Solovetsky Stone monument in Moscow and gathered hundreds of people. The Solovetsky Stone in Moscow is one of the most significant monuments to the victims of political repression killed in Joseph Stalin’s period, 1930 – 1953. The stone was brought to Moscow from the territory of the former Solovetsky Camp, which became the symbol of the GULAG.

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Press Release, 29.10.2021

On 29 October, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the Gender faction and party activists and supporters laid flowers at the Solovetsky Stone monument in Moscow.

The Solovetsky Stone in Moscow is one of the most significant monuments to the victims of political repression killed in Joseph Stalin’s period, 1930 – 1953. The stone was brought to Moscow from the territory of the former Solovetsky Camp, which became the symbol of the GULAG.

The action took place on the eve of the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression. Every year on 29 October 29, for 13 years already, the Memorial human rights group (which was proclaimed a “foreign agent” by the authorities, the very label bearing strong connotations with repressions in the USSR) has been carrying out the action “Returning the Names” at the Solovetsky Stone, this year the action takes place online due to COVID restrictions: citizens read out the names of those shot during the Stalinist repressions.

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Press Release, 28.10.2021

Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko

The Pskov branch of Yabloko proposed to the Regional Assembly to send a request to the Constitutional Court about the violation of the electoral rights of the so-called “foreign agents” and persons associated with them. The MPs rejected this initiative by a majority of votes: three parliamentarians voted “for”, 14 “against”, and one abstained.

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Press Release 28.10.2021

Photo by MaykovNikita/depositphotos

Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg have submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament a draft law, the adoption of which will completely eliminate the status of a “foreign agent” from Russian legislation. If the bill is supported by the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, it will be sent to the State Duma for consideration. The draft law was prepared by Lev Levinson, an expert of the Institute of Human Rights, at the request of the Yabloko faction deputies.

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Press Release 27.10.2021

Photo: Environmental journalist Tatiana Artyomova, Nikolai Rybakov and the leader of the Separate Collection movement Tatiana Nagorskaya. / Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service

On 27 October, the Fifth Alexei Yablokov Readings were held in St. Petersburg. This is an annual event in memory of Alexei Vladimirovich Yablokov (1933 – 2017), an outstanding Russian scientist, ecologist and politician, leader of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party.

Alexei Yablokov Readings join together environmental activists from all over the country and represent a platform for them to jointly find solutions to environmental problems and develop approaches to sustainable development and protection of nature.

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Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.10.2021

(*Negative selection is a mechanism prioritising and ensuring selection of the worst. See, for example, here)

The State Duma elections ended exactly one month ago. We approached these elections in a situation when the system had been consolidated and had started moving definitely and consciously to an aggressive-repressive model of relations with society. After 1 July 2020, a new modification of Putin’s vertical already emerged, following in the tracks of the authoritarian version¹. From the perspective of a value-based system and construction of the state, Russia’s post-Soviet modernisation ended in failure.

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Press Release, 26.10.2021

Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

On 26 October, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Ivan Bolshakov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov, and ex-candidate of Yabloko in the elections Gleb Tumanov laid flowers at the memorial “In Memory of the Victims of Terrorism” by the “Theatre Centre in Dubrovka”, Moscow.

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Press Release, 22.10.2021

To watch the lecture in English, please turn on the English subtitles in the video.

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Press Release, 20.10.2021

Photo: Vladimir Ryzhkov (centre) before handing the signatures in the Moscow Mayor’s Office

The increase in the “Moscow allowance” to pensioners in Moscow [a regional allowance which is decided by regional authorities] was a key point in the electoral programme of Vladimir Ryzhkov, a recently elected Moscow City Duma deputy from Yabloko.

Ryzhkov’s initiative to increase the “Moscow allowance” was supported by 5,700 Muscovites. In September, the signatures with a justification of the need to increase the “Moscow allowance” to pensioners were submitted to the Moscow Government. The appeal was considered by the city goevrment, and the corresponding changes were made to the draft budget for 2022.

In 2022, the minimum pension, together with the city allowance, will grow to 21,193 roubles – by almost a thousand roubles.

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Press Release, 20.10.2021

Photo by the Ryazan branch of Yabloko

Despite the numerous promises of the authorities to achieve a revision of the project for the development of the territory by the Bars shopping centre in Yesenina street in Ryazan, the developer was issued a building permit, and preparatory works began. The project was not revised.

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Press Release, 20.10.2021

To watch the conference in English, you can turn on English subtitles.

On Tuesday, 19 October, the European Dialogue expert group and the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party held a Zoom conference on the topic “Discrimination against women in the labour market and the fight against it in Russia, Europe and the CIS countries”.

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Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 15.10.2021

Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko

Democracy is air. One can ask the question, “Do you need air?” People can answer in different ways, but they will suffocate without air. The situation with democracy in our country is understandable, it is obvious. Democracy is the rule of the people, literally translated from Greek into Russian. It is quite obvious that there is no people’s power in our country.

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Anatoly Golov’s blog post, 20.10.2021

Photo by mike_laptev/depositphotos.com

Recently, President Putin, speaking of the 13,000 fatalities on the roads of the country in 2020, compared this to losses “in military actions”. True. Russia is losing a lot of people in the war that our drivers are waging against Russian roads.

However, there is another war, and the losses there are much greater! According to Rosstat [the Russian Federal Statistical Service], more than 400,000 people have died from COVID in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic! According to the official data of the operational headquarters, significantly more than 13,000 people died in October alone,

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