Lev Shlosberg was fined 20,000 roubles for offering protesters to go to Hyde Park on January 23
Press Release, 26.01.2021
Photo: Lev Shlosberg with his lawyer Tatyana Martynova in front of the building of the Pskov City Court / Photo by Lyudmila Savitskaya
Lev Shlosberg was fined 20,000 roubles for offering protesters of the action of 23 January in support of Alexei Navalny and political prisoners to go to Hyde Park, the place where all public gatherings do not need a notification or permission from the authorities. This is the lower margin of punishment uunder Article 20.2 Part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“organizing or holding a public event without filing a notice with the authorities of holding a public event in accordance with the established procedure”). Lev Shlosberg was accused of organisation of an “illegal action”, as police reported about the procession of people from the monument to the victims of the revolution to the Pskov Hyde Park during the protest action in Pskov on 23 January. The politician intends to appeal the verdict in the court of appeal.
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Posted: January 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An administrative case was filed against Lev Shlosberg for “organisation of an unpermitted public event”
Press Release, 26.01.2021
Photo: The police banned peaceful protesters from entering the Hyde Park in Pskov on January 23, 2021 / Photo by Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Pskov
On the morning of January 26, the police reclassified the events of Pskov on January 23, which they charge Lev Shlosberg, member of the Yabloko party Federal Political Committee and MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, with under Article 20.2 Part 2 (organisation of a public event without a permission of the authorities).
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Posted: January 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“The day of lifting the siege of Leningrad during the WW2 is not just the Leningrad Victory Day. This is the Day of Life”
Press Release, 27.01.2021
Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service
The Yabloko delegation headed by the party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov laid flowers at the monument sign of the hero-city Leningrad in the Alexander Garden in Moscow.
“The day of lifting the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War is not just the Leningrad Victory Day. This is the Day of Life. A day on which one especially needs to remember how valuable and fragile life is. What price Leningrad residents paid for peace and what responsibility lies on us for preserving this peace,” the leader of Yabloko stressed.
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Posted: January 27th, 2021 under History, Human Rights.
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Boris Vishnevsky: For your and our freedom. Fighting for those who are imprisoned means defending yourself. To those who have not been taken to the police van yet
Novaya Gazeta, 26.10.2020
Photo: by dimaberkut / depositphotos
The public activity that has manifested itself in the recent days in protecting Alexei Navalny from political persecution is very high. I would like to hope that this will lead to an increase in public activity in defending other political prisoners, and there are hundreds of them in Russia. “We came out not for Alexei Navalny, we came out for ourselves,” many protesters of 23 January said. There is no reason to doubt their sincerity. When we go out to defend other political prisoners, we also go out for ourselves. Because the repressive machine of the Stalinist type created in Russia – with the “state bodies that do not make mistakes” [in their reprisals, according to Joseph Stalin’s phrase] – can pull almost anyone into its mechanism at any moment. Therefore, the freedom of all Russian political prisoners (to quote a very clear statement by Grigory Yavlinsky) is our freedom. The demand for their release must be repeated every day. And the old slogan “For your and our freedom” is as relevant today as ever.
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Posted: January 27th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture on prevention of harassment
Press Release, 25.01.2021
Yulia Ostrovskaya. Photo from Yulia Ostrovskaya’s personal archive
On Wednesday, 27 January, the Yabloko Party University (in a zoom conference format) will host a lecture by Yulia Ostrovskaya on harassment in the professional sphere. The lecture will start at 18:00 MSK.
Yulia Ostrovskaya is Deputy Director of the Centre for Social and Labour Rights.
The lecture will focus on the following issues:
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Posted: January 25th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko branch in Kalmykia picketed in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 25.01.2021
In the photo: Batyr Boromangnayev with a placard “Free political prisoners!” / the Kalmykian branch of Yabloko
On 23 January, Batyr Boromangnayev, Chairman of the Kalmykian branch of the Yabloko party, held a single picket in Elista, capital of Kalmykia, in support of political prisoners in Russia and solidarity with imprisoned Ingush activists.
According to the leader of the regional party branch, dozens of Ingush activists who protested against the arbitrary transfer of their lands to Chechnya are under criminal prosecution by the Russian authorities for political reasons: Akhmed Barakhoev, Bagaudin Khautiev, Zarifa Sautieva, Malsag Uzhakhov, Musa Malsagov, Barakh Chemurziev, Ismail Nalgiev, Ali Hamkhoev and many others.
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Posted: January 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to Russian universities: do not expel students who participated in the protest actions
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.01.2021
The Yabloko party turns to heads of [Russian] educational institutions urging them to prevent expulsion of pupils and students who took part in political actions.
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Posted: January 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko calls heads of educational institutions to prevent expulsion of pupils and students who took part in political actions
Facebook post by Nikolai Rybakov, 25.01.2021
Photo: The placard runs: “I have the right to choose”
The Yabloko party calls heads of educational institutions to prevent expulsion of pupils and students who took part in political actions. This is contrary to the Russian Constitution, belies the common sense and will lead to exasperation and radicalisation.
Refusal of dialogue, a no-compromise approach and exasperation are a bad lesson taught by the authorities to the new generation.
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Posted: January 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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On the eve of protest rallies, Yabloko members were arrested in Arkhangelsk and Yakutsk
Press Release, 23.01.2021
Anatoly Nogovitsyn. Photo from the Anatoly Nogovitsyn’s personal archive
Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko, was arrested for 20 days. Administrative arrests for 48 hours have been assigned to members of the Arkhangelsk branch of Yabloko Yuri Chesnokov and the Deputy Chairman of the regional branch of the party Ruslan Akhmetshin.
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Posted: January 24th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko launched a call centre to help detained protesters on 23 January
Press Release, 23.01.2021
In the Yabloko party launched a federal call centre for assistance to those detained at the rallies on 23 January.
Lawyers and party activists work in the call centre. The call centre coordinates its work with the OVD-Info project providing information on the detained and legal aid to them and other human rights projects.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Без рубрики.
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On the street protests on 23 January, 2021
Statement by the Yabloko party, 22.01.2021
An unlawful repressive state with the unlimited personal, irreplaceable power of Vladimir Putin has been formed in Russia. The laws are being applied in the way that Putin and his ruling group wish.
The regime will use unlimited brutality and force against protesters. Protesters must be fully aware of the grave danger they and those they call to the streets will face. Calls to minors to participate in unpermitted actions are categorically unacceptable, such calls are irresponsibly criminal – no matter who they come from.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Alexei Karnaukhov: What else is Putin hiding?
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 22.01.2021
Photo: The cover of Yabloko’s brochure about the Black Sea country houses of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Patriarch Kirill and Alexander Tkachev, then Governor of Krasnodar Territory, 2011
Recently, Alexei Navalny has released a documentary about President Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik. It graphically retells media investigations, revelations by the palace builders, and Yabloko’s investigation of 2011. Few expected such a luxurious decoration inside the palace with an area of 17,691 sq m and vineyards of imperial proportions.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2021 under Protests in Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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School directors may get advisors on moral building and disciplinary work. Emilia Slabunova comments on the government’s initiative
Based on the Uchitelskaya Gazeta publication, 19.01.2021
Emilia Slabunova. Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
School directors in ten pilot Russian regions will get advisors on moral building and disciplinary work with a rate of pay amounting to 15,000 roubles. This was announced by Minister of Education of Russia Sergei Kravtsov during his meeting with the President on 12 January. Is it feasible to introduce such new position? What might the functions [of such advisors] be? Emilia SLABUNOVA, Honoured Teacher of Russia, member of the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia and member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, told Uchitelskaya Gazeta about this:
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Posted: January 20th, 2021 under Education and Science, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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After the application of the Ryazan branch Yabloko, the Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the facts of payment for the uncompleted work by officials of the city of Kasimov
The materials for initiating the proceedings were sent to the Investigative Committee
Press Release, 18.01.2021
Photo by the Ryazan branch of Yabloko
After the application of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in connection with the acceptance and payment for uncompleted work on the improvement of the city garden in the city of Kasimov, the regional Public Prosecutor’s office sent the materials to the Investigative Committee which would consider the issue of criminal prosecution against Larissa Mirzoyan, head of the administration and housing and communal services of the city.
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Posted: January 20th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“This is not an accident, it can happen over and over again.” Yabloko laid flowers at the place of murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova
Press Release, 19.01.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid flowers at the scene of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova at Prechistenka 3 in Moscow. Markelov and Baburova were shot dead by neo-Nazis on 19 January, 2009.
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Posted: January 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: According to the Laws of the Ruling Group
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.01.2021
Old brick wall of prison with barbwire background
Photo by SergeMat / Depositphotos.com
Mathematician Azat Miftakhov was sentenced to six years in prison for a broken window in the office of [the ruling] United Russia [party]. The crime has not been proven, and one of the two anonymous witnesses has died.
Historian Yury Dmitriyev [who found in Karelia one of the largest places of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Russia] was sentenced to 13 years in prison. The case against the historian was completely fabricated in revenge for his activities in perpetuation of the memory of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals.
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Posted: January 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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The Director of Russian Youth and the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region became the prize-winners of the Golden Toilet Brush anti-prize
The Governor of the Chelyabinsk region received a prize in a special nomination “VIP-Gifts to Officials”
Press Release, 16.01.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party has summed up the results of the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award for officials’ most wasteful state procurement purchases. The first prize went to Alexander Bugayev, Director of Russian Youth (Rosmolodezh) for the state procurement for the development of “soft skills” of the Cossacks for 3 million roubles. The Golden Toilet Brush in the regional nomination was awarded to Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, for purchasing an elite tour for two Instagram bloggers in the state procurement purchase for 2.3 million roubles. The Governor of the Chelyabinsk region received a special prize – The Golden Сaviar Dish – for his expensive elite gifts to other officials.
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Posted: January 18th, 2021 under Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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On the detention of Alexei Navalny in the Sheremetyevo airport
Statement by the Yabloko party Chairman, 18.01.2021.
Yabloko considers detention of Alexei Navalny an inadmissible method of political fight.
We demand the release of all political prisoners in Russia.
Nikolai Rybakov,
Yabloko party Chairman
Posted: January 18th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia.
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Yabloko’s Vladimir Efimov became a prize-winner of the Journalistic Glory of Kamchatka award
Press Release, 14.01.2021
Photo: Vladimir Efimov, photo from his personal Facebook page
Vladimir Efimov, Chairman of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, received the top prize of the Kamchatka regional branch of the Union of Journalists of Russia: the Journalistic Glory of Kamchatka award. He got the award for his great contribution to the development of journalism in Kamchatka.
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Posted: January 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko demands to check the feasibility of the luxury purchases by Governor’s office worth 24 million roubles
Press Release, 14.01.2021
Photo: Alexei Teksler, Governor of the Chelyabinsk region / photo from the official website of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko appealed to the regional control and supervisory authorities demanding to check the feasibility of budget spending totaling to 24 million roubles. The money was spent by the Governor’s Office on purchases of a premium car, luxury gifts and banquets. The relevant statements were sent to the Control and Accounts Chamber, the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the Main Control Department of the region.
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Posted: January 15th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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