Nikolay Rybakov met with candidates for deputies, activists and local residents

Press Release, 14.08.2020

During his working visit to Kostroma on Thursday, August 13, Nikolai Rybakov examined the destroyed sewage treatment plant in the village of Tatarskoye and discussed with local residents the problems they face in their daily life.

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Statement by the Yabloko party, 13.08.2020

The Yabloko Party expresses solidarity with the citizens of Belarus protesting against the unfair election of the head of state and the usurpation of power by Alexander Lukashenko. The suppression of legitimate protests by brutal force, the brutality of the security forces, blood and violence in the streets of Belarusian cities must not go unpunished.

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Press Release, 13.08.2020

On August 12, the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party filed a law suit with the Chelyabinsk Regional Court demanding to annul the refusal of the Electoral Commission of the Chelyabinsk Region to register the regional list of candidates for deputies of the Legislative Assembly nominated by Yabloko.

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The head of Yabloko took part in an environmental campaign and met with the activists of the regional party branch

Press Release, 12.08.2020

The action Red Card for Environmental Violations was organised in front of the government building of the Chelyabinsk region on the day of the visit of the head of Yabloko to Chelyabinsk, August 10. Its goal was to draw the Governor’s attention to the unfavorable environmental situation in the region. Chelyabinsk is one of the Russian cities with the highest level of emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere; it was included in the presidential May Decrees with the instruction to reduce emissions by 20 per cent by 2024.

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Appeal of the deputies of regional legislative assemblies of the Russian Federation, 12.08.2020

On August 9, 2020, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won the presidential elections in the Republic of Belarus. Numerous evidence gives every reason to believe that the election results were falsified. Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner of the elections, against the will of the Belarusian people.

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The nuclear submarine K-141 sank 20 years ago

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.08.2020

On 12 August, 2000, the nuclear submarine K-141 “Kursk” exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during an exercise. Onboard there were 118 crew members: officers, warrant officers, sailors and civilian specialists. All died.

Could the Kursk tragedy result from the deplorable state of the Russian fleet? It could. Could bad weather prevent the rescue operation? They could. Was it possible to allow British and Norwegian rescuers, who possessed special deep-sea equipment, which we did not have, into the area of ​​the sinking? We were obliged to. Was it possible to save the 23 sailors who survived in the 9th compartment? It is unknown.

But the rescuers were not allowed. People were not saved.

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Press Release, 11.08.2020

Photo: Ronald Ayrapetyan

Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding to investigate into unlawful detentions of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the party, as well as anonymous threats against him.

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Press Release, 10.08.2020

Activists of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko held a series of single pickets against the repressive policy of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, as well as in support of the protest of the residents of Khabarovsk when the authorities arrested the governor of the region who won the election against the United Russia candidate.

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Only provocateurs, sadists and rapists should be tried. But all of them in this case are representatives of the state

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 24.07.2020

The New Greatness case is fabricated. Neither investigators nor prosecutors conceal this. Four law enforcement officers who directly fabricated this criminal case are witnesses in the case: they themselves created an extremist organisation, wrote its charter, they themselves attracted young people into it, instructed the recruited participants and provoked them to make statements they were later charged with.

All the accused are still young people. At the time of the arrest, Anna Pavlikova was 17 years old, Maria Dubovik – 19, Vyacheslav Kryukov – 20, Sergei Gavrilov and Ruslan Kostylenkov – 25, Dmitry Poletayev – 29, Rustam Rustamov – 30, Pavel Rebrovsky – 31, Petr Karamzin – 32, Maxim Roshchin – 39. Some of those arrested under torture and threats gave confessions and made a deal with the investigation, someone managed to escape from house arrest. The girls who were in terrible conditions in the pre-trial detention centre were diagnosed with serious illnesses. Young people were tortured, at least one of those arrested was raped by law enforcement officers. All these are well-known methods of the Stalinist-Bolshevik terror, the tools of the NKVD-KGB punishers. This is the old ignominy, but not the “new greatness.”

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Statement by the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, 27.07.2020

Photo: Oleg Mandrykin, Yabloko candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk region

In the Arkhangelsk region, Oleg Mandrykin was nominated for the post of Governor. He represents the STOP-SHIES coalition – a protest movement to prevent the construction of landfills in the region, consisting of 36 public organisations and associations. The candidate is actively working so that to pass the “municipal filter”. At present, 165 signatures [of municipal deputies] out of 189 required have been collected and the consent of another 20 municipal deputies has been obtained. [Collection of a certain number of signatures in favour of nomination of candidates is a mandatory requirement of the Russian law. Signatures must be collected in compliance with strict requirements and within a short interval of time. Gubernatorial candidates have to collect signatures of municipal deputies in their support in the situation when most of municipal deputies come from the ruling United Russia party and block candidates from other parties from elections by refusing to sign for them.]

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Federal Political Committee Decision No. 134, 27.07.2020

Having heard and discussed the report of Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee [of the Yabloko party], the YABLOKO Federal Political Committee decided:

1. Confirm the standpoint that the entire procedure of the so-called “popular vote”, as well as the very introduction of amendments to the Basic Law of the Russian Federation, in all its components are illegal, unlawful and do not comply with the current Constitution.

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Statement by Yabloko Bureau, 24.07.2020

The latest events in the Khabarovsk Territory [when thousands of people came into the streets after Governor of the region they voted for against the ruling party candidate was arrested and dismissed from his post] showed the failure of the concept of the vertical of power and the entire Putin system of governing the country, and also demonstrated the price of the LDPR party and all its appointees.

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Press Release, 24.07.2020

On July 24, the regional electoral commission of the Chelyabinsk region decided to refuse registration to Yabloko candidates for the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region.

The Yabloko party submitted to the electoral commission 13,878 voters’ signatures in support of nomination of the party candidates, as required by law, but the electoral commission considered that over 20 per cent of these signatures (about 1,500 signatures) were invalid and unreliable and refused registration to Yabloko candidates.

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Press Release, 27.07.2020

On July 24, the district electoral commission for constituency No 25 decided to deny registration for the elections to the City Duma for Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. The electoral commission recognized 16 signatures out of 146 for the nomination of Alexei Sadomovsky as invalid. (Collection of a certain number of signatures in favour of nomination of candidates is a mandatory requirement of the Russian law.  Signatures must be collected in compliance with strict requirements and within a short interval of time. If over 10 per cent of the total number of collected signatures are recognised during verification by the electoral commission as invalid, the candidate is denied registration.) The candidate sent a complaint about the commission’s actions to the City Electoral Commission and began again collecting signatures in support of his nomination.

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Press Release, 23.07.2020

The management of the Central Kislovodsk military health centre dismissed activist of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko Ronald Ayrapetyan from his job as a waiter in the canteen of the health centre. He was told that “an employee with opposition views cannot work in their canteen” and was offered to write a request of resignation from the position of a waiter.

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Investigative Committee denies European lawmakers access to the Nemtsov case files

By Boris Vishnevsky,  Member of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and Yabloko Deputy Chair

Novaya Gazeta, 13.07.2020

On June 19, the European Court of Human Rights communicated Zhanna Nemtsova’s complaint over the official investigation into the death of her father Boris Nemtsov who was assassinated on February 27, 2015. Her complaint states that the Russian authorities have pointedly refused to classify the murder as politically motivated, have failed to establish the motives and question several key suspects, and have been withholding video footage from the scene of the crime.

International oversight procedures into the investigation of Boris Nemtsov’s assassination were launched by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in 2017, and by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2019.

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Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 02.07.2020  

Photo by Kristina Kormilitsyna / Kommersant

As a result of the special operation carried out by the authorities to destroy Russian statehood, the Constitution, with amendments of 2020 and “resetting” the presidential terms personally for Vladimir Putin, was removed from the legal framework. The process of destruction of law throughout the country has been launched.

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Press Release, 8.07.2020

Photo: Svetlana Prokopyeva after the trial

Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, expressed his opinion that journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva did not end up with the six years in the colony, as the Public Prosector had been asking, thanks to the wide publicity, which did not allow lawlessness to be committed behind closed doors. But the only fair decision would be to declare the Pskov journalist innocent and release her from criminal liability, Shlosberg said.

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Appeal by the Bureau of the Yabloko Party, 9.07.2020

The Yabloko party has always supported and will continue to support the struggle of residents of the Chelyabinsk region against the unlawful construction by AO The Russian Copper Company, which is fully controlled by offshore companies, of the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant, a first-class hazard enterprise in the immediate vicinity of the city of Chelyabinsk.

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A dissenting opinion of the Yabloko member of the St.Petersbrug Electoral Commission

Press Release, 9.07.2020

Olga Pokrovskaya, member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission with a casting vote from the Yabloko party and Chair of the Party Arbitration, refused to vote for approving the protocol of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission on the results of voting in St. Petersburg at the All-Russian vote on the approval of Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. Following the vote on amendements in St. Petersburg, Pokrovskaya as member of the City Electoral Commission attached her dissenting opinion to the protocol.

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