Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has published an investigation into luxurious gifts from the Chelyabinsk Governor
Press Release, 23.12.2020
Photo: a screenshot of the main page of the investigation
The Chelyabinsk branch of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has found purchases of luxury goods for gifts from the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler. Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre asks the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Main Control Department to check the facts of ineffectiveness of budget spending.
The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre lawyers analysed the execution of the government contracts for the provision of services for the provision of protocol events in 2019-2020, concluded between the Governor’s Administrative Department and the OOO PROTOKOL compnay (the company is 100% owned by the regional government). In the investigation published on the website of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre clearly showed what presents the Governor makes, to whom and how much they cost.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov will take part in the press conference “The trial of the leaders and activists of the Ingush protest”
Press Release, 22.12.2020
On December 28, Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will take part in a press conference on the start of the trial of seven leaders and activists of the Ingush protest: Akhmed Barakhoev, Malsag Uzhakhov, Zarifa Saytiyeva, Barakh Chemurziev, Musa Malsagalov, Ismayil, and Bagaudin Khautiev. The press conference will begin at 11:00. The conference will take place in the office of the Moscow Helsinki Group at the address: Moscow, Krasina 15, building 1.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“The authorities are preparing to actively rig the elections”. Deputy Chairman of Yabloko on the new composition of Moscow territorial electoral commissions
FB page by Ivan Bolshakov, 19.12.2020
The Moscow City Electoral Commission has published the names of new members of territorial electoral commissions, which will also conduct elections to the State Duma [in 2021]. It is no secret that the formation of the commissions takes place under the control of the authorities, which send loyal people to them not only from the [pro-government] United Russia party, but also from other parties and public associations.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2014, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the democratic coalition in the Altai Territory
Statement by the Yabloko branch in Altai, 21.12.2020
Increasingly more people in Russia are beginning to understand that the policy of the ruling regime has led the country to a dead end, depriving the people of the future.
The multi-day voting “on stumps” on an amendment to the Russian Constitution, in order to reset the presidential terms of Vladimir Putin, during the Covid-19 pandemic, demonstrated the authorities’ disregard for the lives and health of Russian citizens.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2020 under Education and Science, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko congratulated people with disabilities on the New Year
Press Release, 21.12.2020
The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko, with the support of sponsors and the Ufa Public Development Fund, brought New Year gifts to elderly people with disabilities in the cities of Ufa and Neftekamsk. The gifts were distributed by five Yabloko employees to 11 addresses. The regional branch plans to repeat the action in January 2021 and give more gifts during the New Year holidays.
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Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The conference of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko re-elected the leaders of the regional department for another term
Press Release, 21.12.2020
On December 20, 2020, a conference of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Tatarstan was held.
The delegates heard the reports of the Сhairman, the Bureau of the regional branch, and the Control and Audit Commission. Ruslan Zinatullin was re-elected as Chairman of the regional Yabloko. Ildus Salakhov, Vladimir Solovtsov and Marat Kurbanov were re-elected deputy chairmen of the regional branch of the party.
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Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The New Age Economy
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 5)
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 18.12.2020
These days virtually all economic analysts concur that the pandemic and its consequences are exacerbating key negative trends in the global economy, such as the increasing gap between stock market indices and real economic processes, the rise in monopolies and growth of inequality. Arguably, the pandemic is consolidating the political power of oligarchic interests and postponing the opportunity to implement urgent economic reforms, creating an extremely conservative economic context (See «The pandemic and politics»).
When considering the link between the global financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 and the current recession with long-term trends, fundamentally new factors were identified in the modern global economy. For example, consolidation of the impact of historical and technological rents on structural changes in developed countries to the benefit of the new economy, and reinforcement of material inequality both within developed economies and also in the global economy, and also a change in the nature of the impact of scientific and technological progress on the economy. The thesis that public perceptions of benefits play a far bigger role in the economy than commonly believed has been confirmed.
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Posted: December 21st, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Five out of seven Yabloko nominees will work in the Omsk territorial electoral commissions from Yabloko
Press Release, 18.12.2020
Five out of seven Yabloko nominees will work in the Omsk territorial electoral commissions from regional branch of the Yabloko party. Four Yabloko candidates were approved to the five territorial electoral commissions of Omsk and one candidate was approved for the district territorial electoral commission.
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Posted: December 18th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko calls the City Duma to decline the draft budget of Ryazan for 2021 due to its non-transparency and large administrative and faked expeditures
Press Release, 17.12.2020
The Ryazan branch of Yabloko calls deputies of the Ryzan City Duma to decline the draft budget of Ryazan for 2021 and the planning period of 2022-23 when considering the document on December 17.
According to Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the regional branch of the party, there are at least three reasons for this:
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Posted: December 18th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko proposed that the authorities should pay compensation for blocking travel passes to pensioners and schoolchildren
Press Release, 16.12.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov in connection with regional authorities blocking of travel cards, which allow certain categories of citizens to use public transport for free or with benefits. He also called on the regional authorities to pay compensations for imposing such restrictions.
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Posted: December 17th, 2020 under Healthcare, Social Policies.
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Members of the Yabloko Party will work in three territorial electoral commissions of the Kaliningrad region
Press Release, 17.12.2020
Photo: Member of the territorial electoral commission Valentina Balashova
The first stage on the formation of new compositions of territorial electoral commissions of the Kaliningrad region has come to an end. The Kaliningrad region branch of Yabloko applied for all nine vacancies in the territorial electoral commissions of seven urban districts of the Kaliningrad region. Only three were satisfied: in the territorial electoral commissions of the city of Kaliningrad.
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Posted: December 17th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s MPs in Pskov Arthur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg ask to initiate a criminal case on the poisoning of Alexei Navalny
Press Release, 17.12.2020
Photo: Yabloko deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg
Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko MPs in the Pskov Regional Assembly, sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee of Russia demanding to initiate a criminal case on the fact of encroachment on the life of public figure Alexei Navalny
In a statement addressed to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlossberg refer to an investigation conducted by the independent international group Bellingcat and The Insider with the participation of the NGO Anti-Corruption Foundation.
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Posted: December 17th, 2020 under Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly: “We need not only to force them to adopt lawful decisions on the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, but prevent them from taking unlawful ones”
The Insider, 16.12.2020
Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg will send an appeal to the Investigative Committee demanding to open a criminal case into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. The initiator of this, MP Boris Vishnevsky, told The Insider that he was not so naive as to believe that a criminal case would be immediately filed, but in this situation it would be important to force the law enforcement agencies to explain and justify [for their position].
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Posted: December 17th, 2020 under Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held single pickets on the eve of the Constitution Day
Press Release, 14.12.2020
On 11 December, on the eve of the Russian Constitution Day, activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held single pickets.
“All the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation are unlawful and completely disavow the meaning of both the key Chapters 1 and 2 [on human rights], and its entire content as a whole. The “presidential” Constitution completely belongs not to the Russian people, but to the Moscow Kremlin and its residents,” Vitaly Ilyin, Chairman of the regional branch of the party, said.
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Posted: December 16th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko will host an online discussion “Do We Need a Code of Ethics in the Party”
Press Release, 15.12.2020
On December 17, Yabloko will host an online discussion “Do We Need a Code of Ethics in the Party”. The discussion is organised by the Social Democratic and the Gender Factions of the Yabloko party. The discussion will start at 19:00.
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Posted: December 15th, 2020 under Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko branch in the Altai Republic nominated the head of the Ust-Koksinsky district to the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award
Press Release, 14.12.2020
The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Committee in the Altai Republic made a decision to include Oleg Kuligin, head of the Ust-Koksinsky district, in the list of nominees for the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award for the purchase of a Toyota Land Cruiser 200 luxury car for the needs of the district administration.
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Posted: December 15th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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THE PANDEMIC AND POLITICS
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 4)
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 15.12.2020
INTRODUCTION
The year 2020 is drawing to a close. One can only imagine what will come next. According to Deutsche Bank strategists, the era of globalisation, which has lasted for almost four decades, is coming to an end and will be replaced by the “age of disorder”1. Numerous unpredictable events and potential divergent paths lie ahead, and, as they say, no one knows which way we will go. However, even developments today are to a large extent indicative. For example, in public discourse pent-up demand for security is strengthening compared to the desire for freedom. From the state’s perspective, this translates into the tightening of controls, which have clearly been enjoying more public understanding, if not outright support. Tolerance of everyday restrictions and interference in private life has increased, inter alia, amongst the higher strata of society. This may also be true of political restrictions.
The value of the inviolability of private life is being degraded in line with the manipulation of individual interests and requirements which are being created artificially: this is a new trend which would appear to be here for the long haul. And all this is happening against a surge in populism: political systems appear unable to consolidate to block populist politicians, whereas the ability of the traditional elite to retain their role as a politically responsible class has weakened significantly.
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Posted: December 15th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction did not support the draft budget of Moscow for 2021
Press Release, 11.12.2020
The Yabloko party deputies in the Moscow parliament did not support the Moscow draft budget adopted late in the evening on December 10. Maxim Kruglov, Sergei Mitrokhin and Daria Besedina voted against, Yevgeny Bunimovich abstained.
Discussion of the amendments to the budget lasted over 11 hours, 93 amendments were submitted by deputies from the Yabloko faction.
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Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Education and Science, Elections, Healthcare, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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All amendments of the Pskov Yabloko deputies to the regional budget for 2021 are devoted to healthcare
Press Release, 11.12.2020
Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly 18 amendments and 25 proposals to the draft budget of the Pskov region for 2021. All the amendments are targeted at the increase of funding for health care. Artur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg proposed to redistribute 780 million roubles in the budget of the Pskov region.
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Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demanded from St.Petersburg Governor to check the information on undeclared incomes of the ruling party deputies
Press Release, 10.12.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded from St.Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov to check the information on possible violations committed by 22 deputies of St. Petersburg municipalities representing the ruling United Russia party when they provided information on their incomes and property.
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Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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