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12, 2010
Yelena Plotnikova, a member of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party and an expert on environmental safety, submitted documents to participate in the competition for the post of the head of the Yemanzhelinsky urban settlement. The nomination of Yelena Plotnikova to the post of the head of Yemanzhelinsk was supported by the Regional Council of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko.
The Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the lower court’s decision not to consider Yabloko’s claim challenging the decision of the Central Electoral Commission on three-day early voting.
“The Supreme Court confirmed the reluctance of the judiciary to delve into the violations of the Central Electoral Commission of the federal law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights,” says Yabloko lawyer Grigory Makarov.
An on-line lecture by Yuri Korgunyuk, leading researcher of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of department of Political Science of the Informatics for Democracy Foundation (INDEM), was held at the Yabloko Party University on 30 September. The topic of the lecture was “Parties and party systems: trends and development prospects”.
In connection with the formation of new lists of territorial electoral commissions members in the Ivanovo region, the regional branch of the Yabloko party is starting to select members of the commissions with the right of a casting vote.
On 1 October, a search was carried out in the apartment of Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. Early in the morning the police burst into the apartment, began to beat Sadomovsky on the floor, dislocated his arm, despite the fact that the Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko immediately said that he was not resisting. Laptops were confiscated during the search (including those of Sadomovsky’s brother and his girlfriend), three flash drives and a smartphone.
On October 1, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will consider the complaint of Yabloko about the refusal of the Supreme Court to consider the party’s claim against the Central Electoral Commission which had issued a resolution on a three-day voting in elections.
The Regional Council of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko issued a statement on non-recognition of the results of elections of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region, stating that the elections of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region held in the Chelyabinsk Region for three days (in accordance to the recent resolution of the Central Electoral Commission) on September 11, 12 and 13, “were a fake, and their result cannot be recognised as legitimate”.
The sentence to Yuri Dmitriyev means the beginning of the government’s war against the society
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2020
Photo: Yuri Dmitriyev. Photo by AFP PHOTO /Scanpix/LETA
The present Russian regime does not always need chemical warfare agents. Old proven tools also work well. If you need to get rid of undesired persons, shut the mouth of truth-seekers, then there are investigative bodies, courts and prisons for this. To be more precise, there are no longer real investigative bodies and courts in Russia. The Investigative Committee, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Public Prosecutor General’s Office, the courts – all these are just tools of the punitive system inherited from the Bolsheviks.
Yuri Dmitriyev, a 64-year-old historian and human rights activist, was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony. Everyone knows very well, including judges and public prosecutors, that his case has been rigged from the beginning to the end. However, one can easily read the personal hatred and revenge to the Russian people of modern Stalinists – high-ranking officials – in the filthy and vile slander against an innocent and honest person. They saw how many people of different professions and views supported and defended Dmitriyev, and, looking with horror at Belarus, proactively declared a hybrid war on society. The decision of the Supreme Court of Karelia [sentencing Dmitriyev to 13 years in prison instead of releasing him] is a deliberate and coordinated blow to the entire Russian society.
There is a war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia and Azerbaijan report hundreds of deaths. [Russia’s Foreign Minister] Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin over the phone “express concern” and urge “to prevent further escalation”.
For 28 years, Russian diplomacy have been trying to produce an impression of Moscow’s mediation in the peace process, but, judging by what is happening, could not achieve anything. Certainly, France and the United States also took part in the peace settlement. But Karabakh is very far from them, but only some 300 km to our border.
Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov will deliver lectures for participants in the All-Russian Environmental Lawyer Competition and students studying environmental law at universities in three Russian cities. The topic of the lecture is “The main environmental problems of Russia and public participation in the protection of the environmental rights of citizens: initiative groups, the media, and the Internet.”
Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, received an answer to his appeal to the Central Electoral Commission about non-recognition of the results of the elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. It follows from the answer the Central Electoral Commission that the appeal was forwarded for consideration to the Electoral Commission of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. The Central Electoral Commission indicated that it intends to keep under control the consideration of this issue in the regional electoral commission.
Yury Orlov was a real hero. His whole life has been evidence of this: he participated in the war, was an outstanding physicist and, like the best people of his time, advocated human rights, gradually making it his main task in life. The Moscow Helsinki Group, of which Yury Orlov was one of the founders, not only spoke out in defence of political prisoners in the Soviet Union, but also educated people, fearlessly spoke about the sense of human dignity and freedom.
A concert in support of political prisoners was held at the Interior Theater of St. Petersburg. Musicians Maksim Leonidov, Maksim Ermachkov, Pyotr Olesov, Dmitry Podosenov, Mikhail Novitsky and others participated in the concert. The idea to hold such a concert belongs to Oleg Maksakov, Chairman of the Primorsky local branch of Yabloko in St.Petersburg and assistant to the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky. Oleg Maksakov was also the organizer of the event.
The conference of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko elected a new leadership.
Oleg Komissarov became the successor of Oksana Demchenko, now ex Chair of the regional branch of the party who resigned. Komissarov, leader of the largest local branch of the Krasnoyarsk Yabloko in Zheleznogorsk, was elected by a majority vote on an alternative basis.
The conference of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko nominated candidates from the democratic opposition for the by-election to the Yekaterinburg City Duma. The candidates were chosen via primaries held on the initiative of Yabloko which determined the candidates during a joint preliminary vote of Yabloko and other democratic parties and political organisations in Yekaterinburg.
On 30 September, Yuri Korgunyuk, leading researcher of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of department of Political Science of the Informatics for Democracy Foundation (INDEM), will deliver an online lecture at Yabloko’s Party University. The topic of the lecture is “Parties and party systems: trends and development prospects”. The lecture will begin at 19:00.
On 22 September, activists of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko filed several lawsuits demanding to cancel the results of early voting at dozens of city precinct electoral commissions. Also, in a number of cases, democratic candidates demand that the results of voting at polling stations on the election day 13 September be canceled. In particular, 16 lawsuits were filed by Denis Anatolyev, Yabloko’s candidate in constituency No. 19.
Photo: A polling station in the village of Kamenskoye, the city of Chernyakhovsk
On Monday, September 21, Nikolai Zyuzin, candidate from the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko in constituency No. 18, filed a lawsuit with the Chernyakhovsky City Court to declare protocol of the electoral commission on the results of voting at one of three precincts – in the village of Kamenskoye, the city of Chernyakhovs – null and void. A discrepancy was recorded in this precinct on a single voting day, September 13: the number of ballots issued to voters exceeded the number of ballots issued by the territorial electoral commission. This gives a legal basis to challenge the results of voting in this precinct in particular and in the district as a whole.
A charitable concert in support of political prisoners will be held at the Interior Theatre (Nevsky Prospect 104) on 27 September. The concert is organised with the participation of members of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the party and head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, will attend the concert.
At the UN General Assembly, Vladimir Putin again spoke about a multipolar world. But a “multipolar world” means that one pole will have almost the whole world, the other will include China with North Korea, and on the third pole, apart from everyone else, Russia with Lukashenko, Novichok and missiles.
