Grigory Yavlinsky: Putin and Biden – ”It takes one to know one”?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.03.2021
Photo: Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin. Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / RIA Novosti
On 2 October, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent journalist for the Washington Post, was killed and dismembered at the Saudi Arabian Сonsulate in Istanbul. Recently, US National Intelligence accused the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, of organising the assassination.
In an interview with the ABC television channel, which Russia does not stop discussing, US President Joe Biden spoke not only about Vladimir Putin, but also about Prince Salman. However, the latter was more fortunate. First, the journalist for some reason did not ask Biden if he considered the Crown Prince to be a murderer. And second, the American President himself has unequivocally clarified that Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder, but he was “our man who ordered the murder”. That is, “he is a nasty piece of work, but he is our nasty piece of work”. And the US has never persecuted their friends (heads of allied states), the American President added. Further Joe Biden spoke of the conditions of kind of possible forgiveness, that is, the price that, from the point of view of the United States, the Saudi allies must pay for the assassination.
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Posted: March 25th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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On solidarity with Ingush political prisoners
Statement by regional branches of the Yabloko party in the South of Russia, 25.03.2021
Photo by scullery/depositphotos
In the fall of 2018, a peaceful protest began in the Republic of Ingushetia, dozens of thousands residents of the region participated in it. The reason for such events was the signing of the clandestine border agreement with the Chechen Republic by Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, head of the Republic. The people’s protest reached its climax by March 2019. After the unjustified use of force by law enforcement officers in Magas, on the morning of 27 March, 2019, the investigating authorities opened a number of criminal cases involving about 60 people, residents of Ingushetia, 49 of whom were arrested. More than 30 people have already been convicted.
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Posted: March 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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After the appeal of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko the Federal Antimonopoly Service confirmed violations in the purchases for banquets and gifts for the Governor’s office
Press Release, 24.03.2021
Photo: Alexei Teksler Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region / Photo by Creative Commons
The Chelyabinsk Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service found violations in the public procurement of luxurious banquets and gifts by the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region. The Federal Antimonopoly Service carried out the corresponding audit after the appeal by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko.
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Posted: March 24th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova: Mayor Busurin’s proposal to cancel the erection of a monument to victims of political reprisals is a huge mistake
Press Release, 23.03.2021
Photo: A sketch of the monument to the victims of political reprisals / photo from the official website of the Administration of Novgorod
Sergei Busurin, Novgorod Mayor, is committing a huge human and political error. He proposed to the Novgorod Duma to cancel the decision to erect a monument to the victims of political reprisals. Novgorod is almost a sole regional centre where there is still no such monument.
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Posted: March 24th, 2021 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman conducted the fourth interregional party seminar in Sochi
Press Release, 22.03.2021
The fourth interregional seminar with regional branches of the Yabloko party took place in Sochi on March 20 – 21. Party leader Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov discussed with the participants of the seminar the preparations for the State Duma elections, as well as the party’s coalition policy.
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Posted: March 24th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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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
Photo by depositphotos/alexraths
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 the elderly the subsidies envisaged for them by law as partial compensation of their costs for the provision of their social services in 2021. On 18 March, deputies of the parliament of Karelia adopted amendments to the regional budget, the amendments provide for the allocation of the required funds.
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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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Dmitry Permyakov demands from the Federal Antimonopoly Service to give assessment on considerable spending of budget funds on PR by the Pskov City Duma
Press Release, 19.03.2021
Photo: Dmitry Permyakov / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service
Dmitry Permyakov, a deputy of the Pskov City Duma from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, appealed to the Pskov department of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service with a request to give a legal assessment of the procurement for the production and placement of image-building video clips about the work of local self-government bodies of Pskov on television. A competition for such procurement is being held by the city parliament. Permyakov believes that only state television and radio channels fit the established technical requirements, consequently citizens will not be able to receive objective information about the work of the authorities from non-state channels.
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Posted: March 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Gnezdilov: the war in Syria helped Vladimir Putin to divert public attention from Russia’s domestic problems
Press Release, 18.03.2021
Photo: The centre of Homs, Syria. Photo by gsafarek / Depositphotos.com
Alexander Gnezdilov, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, gave a comment to the oldest Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny. The publication was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the civil war in Syria. In 2015, by the decision of Vladimir Putin, Russia entered this war on the side of the regime of the Bashar al-Assad family ruling the country since 1970.
Alexander Gnezdilov stressed that “billions of roubles were wasted on war, instead of investing in overcoming poverty in Russia, improving health care and raising people’s living standards”. It should be noted that according to Yabloko’s estimates, as of March 2018, Russia’s participation in the war cost the state at least 172.3 billion roubles for the first 2.5 years.
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Posted: March 19th, 2021 under Economy, Foreign policy, Russian Economy, War in Syria, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Vladimir Putin is personally responsible for the lives of Novaya Gazeta journalists
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 18.03.2021
There are journalists in Russia who risk their lives writing about atrocious crimes committed by the authorities. We are talking about the journalists of Novaya Gazeta. The response to these courageous journalistic investigations is not only propaganda attacks: journalists are threatened with revenge, the Moscow office of the newspaper is attacked with a chemical poisonous substance. All these are real direct threats to the lives of a large number of people.
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Posted: March 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the international environmental forum Clean Country
Press Release, 16.03.2021
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov. Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the round table “The Influence of Ecology on the Formation of the Political Agenda” which was organised as part of the programme of the international environmental forum Clean Country held in Skolkovo.
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Posted: March 18th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko launches The School of Regional Policy
Press Release, 18.03.2021
Photo by Yaiuspeh777/depositphotos
The Ivanovo regional branch of the Yabloko party announces the launch of the educational project The School of Regional Politics, which will be implemented in April-May 2021.
The main task of the School is to increase the legal literacy of the residents of the Ivanovo region and encourage their more active involvement in the socio-political life of the region. The training will take place within the framework of three educational blocks:
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Posted: March 18th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Russian Orthodox Church as a social structure: what is important to know. A Zoom lecture by Nikolai Mitrokhin
Press Release, 17.03.2021
Photo: Nikolai Mitrokhin /photo from Nikolay Mitrokhin’s Facebook page
On 24 March 24, historian Nikolai Mitrokhin will deliver a Zoom lecture within the framework of the Party University. The lecture will start at 19:00 MSK.
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Posted: March 17th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, History.
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Yabloko deputies in the Moscow State Duma demand from the Moscow police to investigate the chemical attack on the office of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper
Press Release, 16.03.2021
Photo: The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, from left to right: Sergei Mitrokhin, Daria Besedina, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Maxim Kruglov.
Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, sent an appeal to the head of the Moscow police, Oleg Baranov, with a proposal to prove the effectiveness of the Safe City electronic surveillance system after a chemical attack on the Novaya Gazeta editorial office.
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Posted: March 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Без рубрики.
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The Principles of the Yabloko Party Coalition Policies, 2021
Decision of the Federal Political Committee No. 138 of February 26, 2021, published on March 16, 2021
In accordance with the statement of the 17th Congress of the Party “On the priorities of coalition policies” dated June 17, 2012, and the Decision of the Federal Political Committee of the Party No. 81 dated January 23, 2016, which approved the Principles of the Party’s Coalition Policies, the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko considers it necessary to once again state clear and transparent Principles of the Party’s Coalition Policies.
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Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Coalition Policy, Без рубрики.
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For every man, there’s a law to convict him under
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.03.2021
Photo: Participants of the Municipal Forum in a police van. Photo by Avtozak Live
Police detained over 170 municipal deputies in Moscow. This is how the authorities are fighting the pandemic and “undesirable organisations” [the Russian law “on undesirable organisations” gives prosecutors the power to extrajudicially declare foreign and international organisations “undesirable” in Russia and shut them down].
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Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Timur Kuashev's case, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded to open a criminal case on the fact of extrajudicial killings in Chechnya
Press Release, 16.03.2021
Photo: The law enforcement forces in Grozny, Chechnya. Photo by Said Tsarnayev / RIA Novosti
On 15 March, Novaya Gazeta published another part of the investigation into extrajudicial killings of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic. With reference to the publication, this was also reported by other media, in particular, RBC.
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, appealed to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, and Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, with a demand to conduct a check on the facts set out in the published investigation and initiate a criminal case based on the results of the check.
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Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Yabloko held an interregional seminar in Krasnoyarsk
Press Release, 15.03.2021
Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman of the party Ivan Bolshakov held the third interregional seminar with regional headquarters in Krasnoyarsk on March 12 – 14. The seminar was attended by heads and employees of Yabloko branches from nine regions: Perm region, Krasnoyarsk region, Maritime Territory, Altai Territory, Tomsk region, Kemerovo region, Vologda region, Saratov region and the Republic of Yakutia. The participants discussed preparations for the elections to the State Duma, the principles and technologies of the election campaign, as well as the coalition policy of Yabloko.
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Posted: March 16th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, 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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Statement by Yabloko deputies of the Moscow parliament on political terror on behalf of the Moscow police
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 15.03.2021
Photo: Detention of Sergei Mitorkhin
These days, the whole country has been witnessing a new round of a systemic campaign aimed at suppressing opposition politics in Russia.
Past week, Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow police, presented to the Moscow City Duma his report on his work in 2020. Opposition deputies criticised the actions of the law enforcement, recalled numerous violations of the statute and the law on the police at winter opposition rallies, obstruction to the work of lawyers and journalists, the cynical Fortress Plan, unlawful detentions of Muscovites and the morally controversial use of urban video surveillance and face identification systems.
The Yabloko faction and a number of opposition MPs voted against the adoption of this report.
Finally, instead of working on their mistakes, the top officials of the law enforcement agencies decided to once again try to intimidate representatives of the opposition.
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Posted: March 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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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.
In particular, Yabloko activists call for the abolition of the 1.5 billion roubles tax break granted to the Fortum company and call on the largest companies operating in Kalmykia (Lukoil, KTK) to pay the taxes to the region in full.
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Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Economy, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko held an interregional seminar in Yekaterinburg
Press Release, 12.03.2021
On 6-7 March, 2021, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov held seminars with regional headquarters of the party in Yekaterinburg. The participants of the seminars discussed the party’s coalition policy and the upcoming election campaign to the State Duma. In total, leaders and activists of Yabloko regional branches from 13 regions (Moscow, Volgograd, Perm, Voronezh, Orenburg, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Rostov and Chelyabinsk regions, Stavropol and Transbaikal regions) took part in the seminar.
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Posted: March 12th, 2021 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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