Everyone should have the right to compensation for damage from corruption
Statement of the Yabloko Party, 26.10.2020
DECISION # 2488
Moscow, October 16, 2020
Having discussed the information on the state of affairs with ensuring in Russia the right of citizens to compensation for harm from corruption, presented by Alexei Karnaukhov, head of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the YABLOKO Party, and Anton Pominov, Director General of ANO Centre for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiatives of Transparency International – Russia,
the Bureau of the YABLOKO Party decided the following:
- Adopt a statement “Everyone should have the right to compensation for damage from corruption” on the need for Russia to join the Council of Europe’s civil liability convention on corruption.
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Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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With the support of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko, the residents of Birsk managed to cancel the construction of an incineration plant
Press Release, 26.10.2020
Ministry for Natural Resources and the Environment of the Republic of Bashkortostan gave its conclusion on the impossibility of building a waste incineration plant in the region and decided to abandon the construction of this facility in the city of Birsk. This information is contained in the response from the Ministry to the appeal of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko.
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Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov Region branch of Yabloko will hold party primaries to nominate candidates for the regional parliament
Press Release, 23.10.2020
Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov reiognal branch of Yabloko and deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly, commented on the situation around the upcoming elections to the Pskov Regional Assembly and the State Duma of Russia to the Pskov branch of the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
In particular, Lev Shlosberg said that in the spring of 2021, the regional branch of the party, just like five years ago, would announce open primaries among party members for the top candidates of the list to the regional parliament: “This is our principled position: all Yabloko members in the Pskov region will vote. All interested party members who are ready to be nominated will be able to vote, submit their proposals and programmes, and thus a consensus decision will be made, which, most likely, will be approved by the conference of our regional branch, although any primaries are deliberative.
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Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Combatting corruption in public procurement: instructions for the candidate.” Online lecture by Alexei Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre
Press Release, 23.10.2020
Yabloko is running a Candidate School for those wishing to participate in the elections from the party. On Saturday, October 24, Yabloko will host an online lecture for the School. The lecture will be delivered by Alexey Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko Party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre. The lecture will begin at 15:00.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The winners and the undefeated. The Pskov branch of Yabloko sums up the results of the 2020 elections and the prospects for the next elections
Based on the publication in Grazhdanin, 23.10.2020
Photo: The Pskov Yabloko team at the traditional autumn meeting in Pushkinogorie, October 10, 2020.
The regional and local elections of September 2020, when deputies to councils of districts, urban and rural settlements, as well as the head of the Sebezhsky district were elected in the Pskov region have already become history. The candidates from the Pskov branch of Yabloko managed to get (more precisely, to win) 21 deputy mandates in the representative bodies of local self-government in nine districts. The elections in the new conditions with a three-day voting became a test of strength for the Pskov Yabloko, which was passed with honour both by those who won and those who failed to get enough votes to secure victory.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host an online lecture by Nikolai Petrov “Transformation of the Russian Regime and the Decision-Making Mechanism”
Press Release, 23.10.2020
On 30 October, Yabloko to host an online lecture by Nikolai Petrov, a well-known political scientist and Professor at the Higher School of Economics: “Transformation of the Russian Regime and the Decision-Making Mechanism”. The lecture will be held via Zoom and will start at 19:00.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “The State Duma, which is unable to utter a word against the President and the security forces, must be driven away in the 2021 elections”
Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page, 22.10.2020
A couple of years ago, it seemed that Russia simply did not have a more helpless, incompetent and antipopular parliament than the State Duma of the past, the sixth convocation, which was justly nicknamed “the mad printer” [for the speed of stamping laws]. But looks like the current parliamentary corps will compete with it for a place in history: these ladies and gentlemen have had the honor to synchronise the Russian legislation with Putin’s version of the Constitution and with the “1 July” political reality in general [which emerged on the day of “voting” for Putin’s Constitutional amendments on 1 July] .
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Posted: October 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Protection of Environment, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko demands to declare the competition for the post of Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod void
Press Release, 22.10.2020
On 21 October, Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, sent an appeal to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod with a demand to declare the competition for the post of Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod void.
The competition commission made a decision to conduct interviews with candidates via video-conferencing, as reported on the website of the City Duma.
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Posted: October 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko sent its representatives to six territorial electoral commissions
Press Release, 21.10.2020
The Ivanovo regional branch of the Yabloko party nominated voting members of the territorial electoral commissions. The corresponding package of documents was sent to the regional electoral commission. If approved, the following representatives of Yabloko will defend the competitiveness and transparency of elections in the territorial electoral commissions (TEC):
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Posted: October 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Kalmykia launched public actions demanding resignation of the officials in the Republic of Kalmykia
Press Release, 21.10.2020
On 19 October, the Kalmykia branch of Yabloko organised a rally in Elista, the capital of the Republic. According to Batyr Boromangnayev, Chairman of the regional branch of the party, the aim of the rally was to openly express public opinion on the socio-economic and political situation in the Republic of Kalmykia.
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Posted: October 21st, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky urged to return the Last Address nameplates put in memory of Stalin’s victims and dismantled from 23 Rubinstein Street, St.Petersburg
Press Release, 20.10.2020
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the party, wrote to the General Director of Housing and Utilities Systems of the North-West, whose management company removed 16 nameplates put in memory of victims of Stalinist reprisals from house No 23 in Rubinstein Street. Vishnevsky considers it necessary to return the nameplates to their place.
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Posted: October 20th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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He fought for freedom of his homeland!
Grigory Yavlinsky on the anniversary of the death of politician Alexander Yakovlev
Press Release, 19.10.2020
15 years ago, Alexander Yakovlev died – a politician, a real front-line soldier during WW2, an honest and decent person.
Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was a completely unique figure in Russian politics. Unlike many of those who were engaged in perestroika, those who had real power in the late Soviet years, Yakovlev understood what he was doing. He fought for freedom of his homeland!
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Posted: October 19th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko went to an environmental cleanup
Press Release, 19.10.2020
Activists of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko in Ufa supported the proposal of the new public movement “Green Shield of Bashkortostan-Kushtau” to hold an environmental cleanup in the Republic on 17 October. Albert Khusainov, Chairman of the Bashkian branch of Yabloko, took part in the environmental action.
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Posted: October 19th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Emilia Slabunova: It is unacceptable to drive observers into regional cages and introduce serfdom observation rights
Based on the publication in 7×7, 19.10.2020
On 15 October, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia adopted, in the first reading and by a majority of votes, several bills that deprive citizens of the right to observe regional and local elections of citizens from other regions. In the near future, such initiatives will be considered by the parliaments of other subjects of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: October 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Regional and Local Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Rybakov urged Putin to change environmental policy and allow NGOs to conduct environmental monitoring
Press Release, 14.10.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin a roadmap to change environmental policy against the backdrop of events in Kamchatka. The head of Yabloko proposes, among other things, creating a federal register of objects of accumulated environmental damage, instructing the government to amend the regulation plan in the field of ecology and nature management, and permitting NGOs to conduct environmental monitoring.
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Posted: October 16th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy.
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Russian regions: inequality of opportunities
Grigory Yavlinsky on the fact that well-being and career in Russia depend on the place of birth
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 4.10.2020
It is well known that the well-being and career of a person in Russia directly depends on the region in which he/she was born and raised. Inequality and injustice begin in our country from the place of birth.
The Pskov regional budget does not have money to procure firewood for the heating season, but the residents of the region regularly pay for the tests of various missiles. In the Saratov region, every third house has no sewerage system, but the taxes of the region’s residents finance a hybrid war in Donbass. The Chelyabinsk budget does not have funds to save the city from an environmental disaster, but Chelyabinsk residents’ money regularly goes to the war in Syria.
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Posted: October 16th, 2020 under Economy, Federalism, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia.
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The parliamentary majority of the Moscow City Duma rejected Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution, prohibiting torture and introducing a contract-based army
Press Release, 15.10.2020
The Moscow City Duma rejected two bills with amendments to the Constitution submitted by the Yabloko faction. The bills were proposed to be adopted as a legislative initiative and sent to the federal parliament – the State Duma.
The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma submitted a package of nine bills “The Constitution of Free People” developed by the Yabloko Party, the Public Constitutional Council and the best constitutional lawyers in Russia.
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Posted: October 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, The Russian Army, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A politician with a heart that belongs to his home city. Boris Vishnevsky turns 65!
Greetings from Yabloko leaders, 15.10.2020
Dear Boris Lazarevich,
Yabloko is proud that all these years we have been together, that your talent and ardent soul have attracted so many people to our ideas, goals and principles.
You are a politician with a heart that belongs to your home city.
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Posted: October 15th, 2020 under Greetings.
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The Stavropol branch of Yabloko held an action in support of the people of Belarus
Press Release, 15.10.2020
The Stavropol branch of Yabloko held an action in support of the people of Belarus. Vitaly Zubenko, head of the regional branch of the party, took part in the action. According to the participants, the action took place under the close scrutiny of about twenty police officers and the Centre for Combating Extremism.
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Posted: October 15th, 2020 under Foreign policy, Russia-Belarus Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Oleg Rodin re-elected Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The General Meeting of the Yabloko branch announced a minute of silence in memory of journalist Irina Slavina
Press Release, 14.10.2020
Photo: “Nizhny Novgorod will not forgive it” – an action in memory of journalist Irina Slavina who set herself on fire in front of the Interior Department office in protest against continuous pressure and searches by the law enforcement.
On 10 October, members of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko at the General Meeting re-elected Oleg Rodin as the Chairman of the regional branch of the party. Oleg Rodin was first elected to this post in 2018.
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Posted: October 14th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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