Grigory Yavlinsky: According to the Laws of the Ruling Group
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 19.01.2021
Old brick wall of prison with barbwire background
Photo by SergeMat / Depositphotos.com
Mathematician Azat Miftakhov was sentenced to six years in prison for a broken window in the office of [the ruling] United Russia [party]. The crime has not been proven, and one of the two anonymous witnesses has died.
Historian Yury Dmitriyev [who found in Karelia one of the largest places of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Russia] was sentenced to 13 years in prison. The case against the historian was completely fabricated in revenge for his activities in perpetuation of the memory of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals.
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Posted: January 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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The Director of Russian Youth and the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region became the prize-winners of the Golden Toilet Brush anti-prize
The Governor of the Chelyabinsk region received a prize in a special nomination “VIP-Gifts to Officials”
Press Release, 16.01.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party has summed up the results of the Golden Toilet Brush anti-award for officials’ most wasteful state procurement purchases. The first prize went to Alexander Bugayev, Director of Russian Youth (Rosmolodezh) for the state procurement for the development of “soft skills” of the Cossacks for 3 million roubles. The Golden Toilet Brush in the regional nomination was awarded to Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, for purchasing an elite tour for two Instagram bloggers in the state procurement purchase for 2.3 million roubles. The Governor of the Chelyabinsk region received a special prize – The Golden Сaviar Dish – for his expensive elite gifts to other officials.
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Posted: January 18th, 2021 under Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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On the detention of Alexei Navalny in the Sheremetyevo airport
Statement by the Yabloko party Chairman, 18.01.2021.
Yabloko considers detention of Alexei Navalny an inadmissible method of political fight.
We demand the release of all political prisoners in Russia.
Nikolai Rybakov,
Yabloko party Chairman
Posted: January 18th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia.
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Yabloko’s Vladimir Efimov became a prize-winner of the Journalistic Glory of Kamchatka award
Press Release, 14.01.2021
Photo: Vladimir Efimov, photo from his personal Facebook page
Vladimir Efimov, Chairman of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, received the top prize of the Kamchatka regional branch of the Union of Journalists of Russia: the Journalistic Glory of Kamchatka award. He got the award for his great contribution to the development of journalism in Kamchatka.
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Posted: January 17th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko demands to check the feasibility of the luxury purchases by Governor’s office worth 24 million roubles
Press Release, 14.01.2021
Photo: Alexei Teksler, Governor of the Chelyabinsk region / photo from the official website of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko appealed to the regional control and supervisory authorities demanding to check the feasibility of budget spending totaling to 24 million roubles. The money was spent by the Governor’s Office on purchases of a premium car, luxury gifts and banquets. The relevant statements were sent to the Control and Accounts Chamber, the regional Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the Main Control Department of the region.
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Posted: January 15th, 2021 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will honour the memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova on the anniversary of their murder
Press Release, 14.01.2021
Portraits of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. January 19, 2020. Photo by Yabloko Press Service
On Tuesday, 19 January, the leaders, members and supporters of the Yabloko party will lay flowers at the scene of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in Prechistenka Street in Moscow.
Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova were shot dead by neo-Nazis from the BORN group on 19 January, 2009.
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Posted: January 15th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The government of St. Petersburg does not rule out checking of financial statements of 19 United Russia party municipal deputies after Yabloko’s inquiry
Press Release, 13.01.2021
Photo by konstsem/depositphotos.com. Smolny Palace in St. Petersburg. Now the building is the residence of the Governor of St. Petersburg.
The government of St. Petersburg does not rule out that Alexander Beglov, Governor of the city, initiates an inspection of 19 out of 22 municipal deputies from the United Russia party, who did not declare their families’ property in their financial statements. This follows from the answer of Alexander Belsky, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg, to the inquiry of Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov.
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Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, St.Petersburg gubernatorial elections 2019, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Goncharenko: the Electoral Commission of the Altai Territory ousted representatives of opposition from territorial electoral commissions
Alexander Goncharenko’s blog post, 12.01.2021
Photo by Balakate /Depositphotos.com
Towards the end of the outgoing 2020 (on 28 December), a meeting of the Electoral Commission of the Altai Territory was held in a covert way, the meeting completed the formation of territorial electoral commissions (TECs) in the Altai Territory. A total of 74 TECs have been formed in the region, that will have to “decide” the fate of elections in the region within five years.
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Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The head of the Zaboryevskoye settlement falsified the decision on the raise of her salary
Yabloko deputy Anatoly Kivva, who exposed the fraud, appealed to the police
Press Release, 12.01.2021
Photo: Anatoly Kivva, deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Zaboryevskoye rural settlement. The Ryazan branch of Yabloko.
Irina Kopylova, head of the Zaboryevskoye rural settlement, falsified the decision of the Council of Deputies to increase her wage supplement. The forged decision was sent to the financial department, and according to this faked decision Kopylova illegally received more than 240,000 roubles at the end of 2020.
The forgery was revealed by Anatoly Kivva, deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Zaboryevskoye rural settlement from the Yabloko party. He turned to the police with a statement in which he demanded to bring those guilty of the fraud to criminal responsibility under of Article 160 Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This provision of the Criminal Code assumes responsibility for the appropriation or embezzlement of property entrusted to a person, committed by this person with the help of his/her official post. The responsibility for this crime envisages up to six years in prison. Irina Kopylova was nominated to her post by the pro-government United Russia party.
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Posted: January 13th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Bellingcat investigates possible poisoning of Yabloko party activist Timur Kuashev and other opposition politicians
Press Release, based on the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty publication, 11.01.2021
Photo: Timur Kuashev. Personal page on Facebook.
Investigative journalist Christo Grozev released the names of the people whom Bellingcat was checking for their possible poisoning of politician Alexei Navalny, as well as their potential involvement in the group of the Federal Security Service (FSB) officers engaged in such poisonings.
The question of whether any other Russian public figures could have become victims of the poisoning arose after Grozev published the data on the recent movements throughout Russia of a group of people who were allegedly involved in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Social media users, in particular, found that the stay of some alleged FSB officers coincided with mysterious deaths of Caucasian activists – Yabloko party member Timur Kuashev and Ruslan Magomedragimov.
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Posted: January 11th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Timur Kuashev's case.
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The Ryazan branch of Yabloko appealed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in connection with the officials’ acceptance of non-implemented landscaping works in Kasimov
Press Release, 11.01.2021
The Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party appealed to regional Public Prosecutor Ivan Panchenko in connection with the fact that on December 7, as follows from the documents posted on the Public Procurement Portal, officials signed an acceptance certificate (signed by Vladimir Lusenkov, an employee of the Kasimov city administration) for the works that had to be performed in the city garden in the city of Kasimov. The contractor was the UK Uyutny Dom company. The act contains a handwritten note stating that “the scope of works has been completed in full in accordance with the costs stated in the pro forma invoice”.
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Posted: January 11th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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After Lev Shlosberg’s appeal Public Prosecutor declared unlawful the transfer of state property to the non-profit organisation Loft
Press Release, 11.01.2021
At the request of Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko MP of the Regional Assembly of the Pskov Region, the Public Prosecutor of the Pskov region checked the legality of the transfer of three buildings in the historical centre of Pskov, which belonged to the Pskov city hospital, to the ANO Youth Development Centre “Loft” for free use. The Public Prosecutor’s Office found that the organisation is not socially oriented, and thus, according to the law, it could not get state property for use bypassing the auction. The Public Prosecutor sent an order to the Committee for Property Management of the region on the need to terminate the rights of ownership and use of the buildings by Loft and return them to the treasury of the Pskov region
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Posted: January 11th, 2021 under The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Goncharenko turns 60!
Greetings to the Chairman of the Altai branch of Yabloko, 10.01.2021
Photo: Alexander Goncharenko
Today, Alexander Goncharenko, doctor and Candidate of Medical Sciences, member of the Federal Bureau of the party, Chairman of the Altai regional branch of Yabloko and human rights activist, turs 60. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sends him greetings on behalf of the party:
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Posted: January 11th, 2021 under Greetings.
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Lev Shlosberg about the Pskov region budget: We observe chronic budget deficiency
Press Release, 29.12.2020
Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, member of the conciliatory commission on the draft regional budget from the Yabloko faction, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Local Self-Government of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies
Deputies of the regional parliament adopted the budget of the Pskov region for 2021 in three readings. In the third and final reading, the bill was supported by a pro-government majority of 33 deputies (the United Russia, and A Just Russia factions). The leaders of the regional branches of Yabloko, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and LDPR condemned the colonial budgetary policy of the federal centre and refused to support the bill.
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Posted: December 30th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: We get an electoral system that looks like a black cat in a dark room
Press Release, 29.12.2020
Photo: Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko
Pskov parliamentarians adopted amendments to the Electoral Code of the Pskov Region. All parties, except for the ruling United Russia party, opposed multi-day voting in the elections, as well as voting in the yards and other similar changes, as they make elections non-transparent and expand the scope for mass-scale fraud.
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Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We consider the activities of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region destructive and leading to the elimination of the principles of the political balance in the region
Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 29.12.2020
A year ago, at the end of 2019, there was a change in the leadership of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region. The electoral system of the region during this time fully demonstrated extremely negative consequences of personnel changes, blatant incompetence of the new leaders and their reckless political engagement. The Regional Council of the Saratov regional branch of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko considers the current activity of the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region destructive and leading to the elimination of the principles of the political balance in the region.
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Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Konstantin Smirnov: the votes of United Russia, A Just Russia and the Pensioners’ Party helped to allocate 20 million roubles to the wage increase for the aids of regional Duma deputies
Konstantin Smirnov’s blog post, 29.12.2020
On 24 December, the Ryazan Regional Duma, adopted by 32 votes out of 40 a decision to increase the wages for assistants of Duma deputies by more than two times – up to 60,000 roubles. This increase will require an additional 20 million roubles per year.
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Posted: December 29th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Yabloko has introduced amendments to the law “On Police”: all the police stations should be equipped with video cameras
Press Release, 28.12.2020
The Yabloko party has developed and submitted to the executive and the legislative authorities amendments to the Law on Police, which envisage equipping all police stations where legally significant procedures are carried out with video cameras and audio recorders.
On 8 December, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading other, repressive, amendments to the law “On Police”. The Yabloko Centre for Legislative Initiatives prepared an examination of the constitutionality of these amendments. Party lawyers believe that these changes are aimed at establishing a police state and suppressing disturbances and discontent of citizens, which are, apparently, expected by the authorities .
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Posted: December 28th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights.
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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? INSTITUTIONALISATION OF VALUES
Political Entropy. Digital Technologies and the Globalisation of Disorder. (Chapter 6)
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 28.12.2020
New manifestations of sociological, psychological and economic laws in global socio-political life have acquired absolutely unprecedented scales. Reality is determined more and more by the spread of the fourth industrial revolution to the socio-political sector. This concerns new generation information and communications technologies related to expansion of the Internet and also the collection and processing of large arrays of different data in a digital format, the use of elements of artificial intelligence. These technologies adapted for use in mass communications have rendered it possible to dilute the fundamentals of the “classical” model of the political organisation of society.
It goes without saying that the crisis of party systems and related state institutions, the contradictions in the relations of the authorities and society in leading democratic countries have been in the making for many years. New technologies changing the realities of life expedited crisis phenomena and the ongoing destruction of institutions, and as a result fringe ideas and politicians with authoritarian views have started assumed far more significant positions in their countries (See «On the political systems of the New Age»).
The “networking” of society so typical of today, accompanied by a wide distribution of forms of influence, and accordingly, a decrease in individual responsibility, has resulted in an abrupt increase in the number of random outcomes unrelated to the actual ratio of interests of publicly significant groups. Significant opportunities have appeared for strange political decisions that unexpectedly receive support and a chance for implementation. Presented by enthusiasts as a tool democratising governance, in reality, “networking” generates chaos and irrationality.
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Posted: December 28th, 2020 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy.
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