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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, Dmitry Kobylkin, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, and Governor of the Voronezh Region Alexander Gusev in connection with illegal cutting of trees in the Severny Les (Northern Forest) forest park in Voronezh.
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov visited the Voronezh region on Monday, August 31, as part of his election tour on the threashold of regional elections.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov appealed to Alexander Gusev, Governor of the Voronezh Region, in connection with the illegal felling of trees in the Severny Les (the Northern Forest) forest park, the only large forest area in the Northern residential area of Voronezh. In recent months, trees were cut on the territory of the forest, and at the end of August there was a clash between local residents and unidentified persons who installed a fence around the park.
“You trust us – we work for you!” – such is the slogan of the election campaign led by the Yabloko team running in the elections of the District Council of Deputies of the city of Berezovsky, the Krasnoyarsk region. There are seven candidates on the party list, they are people of different professions and ages who are respected by their fellow citizens.
Well-known members of the Yabloko party stood surety for imprisoned journalist Ivan Safronov accused in treason. Among those bailing for the journalist were Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, seven deputies of regional parliaments, well-known human rights activists and heads of three municipal districts of Moscow.
Today, on September 1, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the Logos high school in Dmitrov, Moscow Region. The Logos high school is ranked one of the best educational institutions in Russia. In his speech at the ceremony of the beginning of the school year Nikolai Rybakov wished the students freedom and respect for the freedom of other people.
Ksenia Sverdlova, candidate for the regional Duma from the Yabloko party and Chair of the Saratov regional branch of the party, appealed to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, and Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, asking them to stop the interference of law enforcement agencies and the Saratov city administration in the election campaign.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and head of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited Kazan and Osinovo, the Republic of Tatarstan, on August 28.
During his stay in the town of Osinovo, Nikolai Rybakov first visited the construction site of an incineration plant. The decision to build this plant caused discontent among local residents and environmental activists. For several months they held protests demanding to stop the construction. But despite the actions, it was announced that the construction of the plant should be completed in 2022.
Natalya Pochinok, Rector of the Russian State Social University, had to cancel her order on the expulsion of Anton Ocheretin and Danila Petrov from the university, after the Public Prosecutor General’s Office proposed her to eliminate violations of the legislation on education. Students were expelled in April this year for trying to leave the hostel for the pharmacy. From the point of view of the management of the university, this was a gross violation of the temporary rules for living in a hostel, introduced in connection with the quarantine.
The Zheleznogorsk City Court, having considered the claim from the LDPR party against the electoral commission of the municipality, ruled to cancel the registration of the list of Yabloko in the elections to the Zheleznogorsk City Council that are due on September 13. The court agreed with the arguments of LDPR about violations allegedly committed by Yabloko in nominating candidates.
However, neither the territorial electoral commission nor the regional branch of Yabloko recognised the claims and intend to prove the case in a court of a higher instance, basing on the federal legislation and the charter of the Yabloko party. Two appeals – from the electoral commission as the administrative defendant and the Yabloko party as the interested person – were filed with the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court. The case will be heard on September 2 by the administrative board of the regional court.
The YABLOKO party demands the criminal prosecution of Chelyabinsk environmentalist Vladimir Kazantsev must be immediately stopped.
Vladimir Kazantsev is one of the most famous and effective lawyers in Russia in the field of environmental law, who for many years has been defending the constitutional rights of residents of the Urals to a favourable environment, reliable information about its condition, and environmental safety of citizens.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will visit Voronezh on Monday, August 31.
At 12:00 Rybakov will take part in the discussion “What About the Environment?”. The participants will discuss how the city’s economy can develop without creating an environmental collapse. Later in the day, the head of Yabloko will meet with environmental activists and defenders of city parks and forests, as well as an initiative group advocating the preservation of the Master sports and technical club.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will arrive in Tatarstan on Friday, August 28. During the day, he will visit Kazan and the town of Osinovo, where he will meet with local residents and party candidates in local elections. During the visit, Rybakov will also give interviews to local media.
On August 26, the Leninsky District Court of the city of Ivanovo refused to register Andrey Avtoneyev, Chairman of the Ivanovo branch of the Yabloko party, as a candidate for deputies of the Ivanovo City Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 4. Judge Uenkova did not see violations in the actions of the territorial electoral commission of the Leninsky District, which did not register Avtoneyev in the race, and left the claim without satisfaction.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the town of Shakhty in the Rostov region on Tuesday, August 25. The visit took place on the eve of regional elections.
A series of pickets dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine took place in Novosibirsk on August 24. The annual public action has become traditional for Novosibirsk thanks to a group of citizens who have been actively advocating normalisation of relations between Russia and Ukraine since 2014 and against the military intervention of the Russian authorities into the affairs of other states. The organisers of the action are members of the Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party.
In September 2020, the Yabloko party will launch the Candidate School – an educational project as part of the campaign to prepare for the 2022 municipal elections in Moscow.
29 years ago, a group of gray, but high-ranking Soviet officials tried to turn history back and return a huge country to the same gray past as they were. But hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets to defend their future. Then, in August 1991, people had been openly demanding for several years already freedom and democracy, cessation of state lies, elimination of the command-administrative system, censorship and lawlessness… And the members of the State Emergency Committee [which attempted the coup] did not understand at all what was happening in the country, they lived as if in another world, they did not know what people wanted, what they hoped for, what they were striving for. This is generally typical of those who have been sitting at the top of power for decades. The State Emergency Committee did not believe that the absolute majority of the country’s citizens would be against them. Therefore, the coup – despite the fact that it was organised by the Chairman of the KGB, the Minister of Defence, and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – failed in just a couple of days, smashed to smithereens.
The Arkhangelsk Regional Court rejected the claim of Oleg Mandrykin, Yabloko’s candidate for Governor, against the regional electoral commission. The activist backed by the Stop Shies coalition [a public movement fighting against creation of dumps of garbage imported to the region from Moscow] challenged the denial of registration as a candidate for Governor.
