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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Yabloko offices in St. Petersburg and Moscow will become collection points for New Year’s gifts for the homeless
Press Release, 10.12.2020
Yabloko traditionally joins the charity actions for homeless held by the Nochlezhka (Night Shlter) charity organisation. Yabloko calls on residents of Moscow and St.Petersburg to support the collection of gifts for the homeless, the kits will include food and things that will help a homeless person to survive in the street.
“For many years we have been participating in the projects by Nochlezhka and, with the help of party members and supporters, have been collecting New Year’s gifts for people in trouble and those who were left without a home. This year, the situation has become much more complicated for the homeless due to the pandemic. On New Year’s Eve, everyone can do a good deed – bring gifts to our offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg for people who are now in a much more difficult situation than any of us,” Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, said.
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Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Charity, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Residents of the village of Iset, with the support of the Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko, wrote to Prime Minister Mishustin with a demand to deal with overcharges for heating
Press Release, 10.12.2020
“We pay a lot of money for heating.” Such a statement was made by 400 residents of the Iset village of the Verkhnyaya Pyshma urban district. Residents sent an appeal to Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin demanding to deal with the overcharged tariffs for heating. The initiator of the appeal was Sergei Khorenzhenko, leader of the Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko.
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Posted: December 11th, 2020 under Economy, Housing and Utilities Reform, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Сhairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko plans to discuss issues of concern for Yabloko at a meeting of the regional Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 10.12.2020
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to the Legislative Assembly of the region with a request to admit him to participate in the next meeting of the regional parliament on December 15.
The regional branch of the party notes that according to the law on political parties, each party registered but not represented in the Legislative Assembly has the right once a year to participate in a meeting and consideration of agenda items selected by it in the legislative assembly.
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Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko hosted a meeting of human rights defenders dedicated to International Human Rights Day
Press Release, 10.12.2020
The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko hosted a meeting of representatives of several political parties, three members of the Human Rights Council under the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan and civil activists. The meeting was dedicated to the protection of human rights and International Human Rights Day.
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Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Russia has no objections to compensating for damage from corruption
The Russian Ministry of Justice responded positively to the proposal of Yabloko
Press Release, 9.12.2020
Photo: Picture by Transparency International
The Russian Ministry of Justice plans to agree with all the authorities Russia’s accession to the convention on civil liability for corruption. Such a response came from the Ministry to Yabloko’s proposal to guarantee everyone the right to compensation in court for damage from corruption.
In mid-October, the Yabloko Party Bureau adopted a statement demanding from the President of Russia to sign an international convention on civil liability for corruption, submit it for ratification to the Russian parliament and prepare the necessary amendments to the legislation.
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Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Economy, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The Moscow Mayor’s Office will take into account only one of 57 amendments submitted by municipal deputies to the Moscow budget via the Yabloko faction
Press Release, 9.12.2020
Photo: Maxim Kruglov, leader of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma
Maxim Kruglov, leader of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, submitted 57 proposals prepared by Moscow municipal deputies to the second reading of the Moscow budget for 2021. According to the present legislation, Moscow municipal deputies do not have the ability to influence the formation of the city budget. However, Maxim Kruglov launched a platform – an aggregator of amendments to the Moscow city budget from municipal deputies of the city – so that Moscow municipal deputies could introduce their amendments to the Moscow budget through the Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma.
In total, municipal deputies sent 172 amendments to Kruglov, but only a third of their proposals after examination were included in the final list of proposals submitted by the Yabloko faction to the second reading of the budget by the Moscow City Duma.
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Posted: December 10th, 2020 under Economy, Russian Economy, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The European Court of Human Rights declared the verdict of the Russian court on the case of physicist Danilov unjust
Statement by the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, 9.12.2020
Photo: Physicist Valentin Danilov in the office of the Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party in January 2018
The European Court of Human Rights ruled out that Russia violated the right of physicist Valentin Danilov to a fair trial. Four of the twelve jurors were linked with the state security bodies. Also, the judge did not allow a cross-examination of the ten experts who prepared the indictment and the questioning of 17 witnesses of the scientist’s defence. Among these witnesses were academicians who claimed that Danilov operated with published materials.
In 2004, he was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony for espionage, although in 2003 Danilov was acquitted by a different jury.
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Posted: December 9th, 2020 under Governance, Greetings, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Information Ochlocracy
Revolution in the information environment and the future of politics
POLITICAL ENTROPY (Chapter 3)
Grigory Yavlisky’s web-site, 09.12.2020
We are witnessing before our very eyes a serious transformation of the information and communications space which has already led to notable political and social changes and may have even more significant consequences in the medium and long term.
Drawing on the example of the mass media, one can track the extent to which serious changes have happened over the past 50 years.
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Posted: December 9th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko urges the Regional Electoral Commission to include its representatives in 26 territorial electoral commissions of the region
Press Release, 8.12.2020
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko submitted to the Regional Electoral Commission its proposals to include Yabloko representatives in the 26 territorial electoral commissions of the Chelyabinsk Region. By the end of December, the Regional Electoral Commission must decide on the new composition of territorial electoral commissions in 46 territories.
It should be noted that according to the norms of federal legislation, at least 50 per cent of the composition of electoral commissions should be formed on the basis of proposals from political parties. If candidates are nominated by parties represented in the federal and regional parliaments, the regional electoral commission is obliged to appoint them to the territorial electoral commissions. Candidates from all other parties are included in the composition of electoral commissions at the discretion of the Regional Electoral Commission.
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Posted: December 9th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko resumes the work of its public reception office
Press Release, 8.12.2020
The Ivanovo branch of Yabloko relaunches the work of its public reception office after a break caused by coronavirus restrictions at the address: office 106, per. Posadsky 4, Ivanovo.
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Posted: December 9th, 2020 under Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko proposes to allocate 144 billion roubles from the Moscow city budget to support businesses affected by the COVID pandemic
Press Release, 7.12.2020
The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma submitted a package of amendments for the second reading of the Moscow city budget for 2021 and the planning period of 2022-2023. A significant part of the amendments concerns allocation of funds for subsidies to organisations and individual entrepreneurs affected by restrictions due to COVID-19 lockdown. According to Yabloko, Moscow could allocate this money to help businesses to survive if it gave up senseless transport expenses and payment for the Mayor’s Office publicity campaigns.
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Posted: December 8th, 2020 under The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A criminal case filed against an activist of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 6.12.2020
A criminal case under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Intentional infliction of minor harm to health”) was opened against Artyom Gelfanov, a member of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko and an activist of the StopKambarka ecological movement.
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Posted: December 8th, 2020 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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