Yabloko proposed to create the Sandormokh Coalition to continue the work of imprisoned historian Yury Dmitriyev
Press Release, 30.10.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov made a proposal to create a public coalition Sandarmokh, which would continue the work of imprisoned historian Yury Dmitriyev. Rybakov stated this during his visit to the site of Stalin’s mass executions in Sandarmokh, Karelia. A large delegation of Yabloko leaders has specially arrived in Karelia to visit one of the largest burial places of the Great Terror on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals. The place of mass executions and burials was discovered in Sandarmokh in 1997 by the Karelian historian Yury Dmitriyev. It was for preserving the memory of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals, exposing the names of the executioners and creating a memorial in the place of mass burial, that the authorities staged a fraudulent and dirty criminal case against Yury Dmitriyev and sentenced him this year to 13 years in prison.
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Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky about honouring the memory of the victims of Stalin’s political reprisals
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 29.10.2020
Photo: Honouring the memory of the victims of political reprisals, the Solovetsky stone – the memorial to the victims of political reprisals, Lubyanka Square, Moscow.
“The truth about our country, the real truth, will be told only to those and by those who love it with all their heart… How can one love one’s country and turn away from millions of victims in the 20th century? Who turns away certainly does not love it.” (More)
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Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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Stop the creeping Stalinisation in Russia. Yabloko leaders laid flowers to the memorial to the victims of political reprisals in Moscow
Press Release, 29.10.2020
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Party
On the morning of October 29, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid flowers to the Solovetsky stone – the memorial to the victims of political reprisals – in Lubyanka Square in Moscow, honouring the memory of the victims of political reprisals.
On October 29, this is the place where the Returning the Names action is traditionally held – Muscovites recite the names of those executed during Stalin’s Great Terror. This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the action has been taking place on the Internet.
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Posted: October 30th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko leaders to visit the place of mass burial of Stalin’s victims in Karelia on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Reprisals on 30 October
Press Release, 29.10.2020
On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Reprisals in Russia, a delegation of the Yabloko Party will come to Karelia to visit the Sandarmokh memorial cemetery in the Medvezhyegorsk region of the Republic.
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Posted: October 29th, 2020 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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A third of the Moscow City Duma supported the Yabloko bill on the responsibility of the President and the Government to Parliament
Press Release, 28.10.2020
Photo: The results of voting on the bill submitted by Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma
More than a third of the Moscow City Duma deputies supported the Yabloko bill on responsibility and accountability of the President and the Government of Russia to Parliament.
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Posted: October 28th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Chairman called on the Russian President and Chairpersons of both the chambers of the Russian parliament to submit Yabloko’s bill envisaging abolishing the laws on foreign agents and undesirable organisations
Press Release, 28.10.2020
Photo: Action in memory of journalist Irina Slavina who committed self-immolation.
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov called on Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the upper and lower chambers of parliament Valentina Matviyenko and Vyacheslav Volodin to introduce the bill developed by the Yabloko party and envisaging abolishing of the laws on foreign agents and undesirable organisations.
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Posted: October 28th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre revealed signs of a cartel between municipalities and prisons in construction contracts worth 500 million roubles
Press Release, 27.10.2020
The Chelyabinsk branch of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party revealed signs of cartel collusion between municipalities and prisons in construction contracts worth 500 million roubels. Yaroslav Shcherbakov, head of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Centre and Chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko, applied to the Antimonopoly Service with a statement to initiate a case on violation of antimonopoly legislation.
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Posted: October 28th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Lazutin turns 60!
Greetings, 27.10.2020
On 27 October, Alexander Lazutin, Chairman of the Kostroma branch of Yabloko and renowned farmer, turns 60. Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov sends him greetings on the anniversary.
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Posted: October 27th, 2020 under Greetings, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will host an online discussion on expanding the influence of party members and supporters on the decision-making process in the party
Press Release, 27.10.2020
On October 29, Yabloko will hold an online discussion “On expanding the influence of party members and supporters on the decision-making process in the party” organised by the Social Democratic and the Gender Factions of the party. The discussion will start at 19:00.
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Posted: October 27th, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Grigory Grishin penalised under administrative law for a single picket against three-day voting
Press Release, 27.10.2020
Grigory Grishin, a member of the Yabloko Party Bureau, was brought to administrative responsibility for picketing the Electoral Commission of the Saratov Region against the introduction of three-day voting in the by-elections held on September 13, 2020.
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Posted: October 27th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Lev Shlosberg believes that the director of the Sebezhsky National Park unlawfully demands permission from local residents to visit the park
Press Release, 27.10.2020
Photo: View of Lake Sebezhskoye and the territory of the Sebezhsky National Park from the Castle Hill in Sebezh / Photo by Lev Shlosberg
Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region from the Yabloko party, asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia and Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Pskov Region to check whether , Nadezhda Podoplekina, Director of the Sebezhsky National Park, complies with the legislation, obliging residents living within the boundaries of the park territory to obtain permissions to visit the territory.
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Posted: October 27th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demanded to enshrine in the law the right of citizens to compensation for damage from corruption
To do this, the President of Russia must sign a special international convention The Civil Law Convention on Corruption
Press Release, 26.10.2020
The Yabloko Party Bureau demanded that President Vladimir Putin sign a convention on civil liability for corruption and submit it for ratification to the Federal Assembly. Earlier, Transparency International – Russia launched a petition demanding the State Duma, the Federation Council and the Ministry of Justice to develop a bill on compensation for damage from corruption.
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Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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Everyone should have the right to compensation for damage from corruption
Statement of the Yabloko Party, 26.10.2020
DECISION # 2488
Moscow, October 16, 2020
Having discussed the information on the state of affairs with ensuring in Russia the right of citizens to compensation for harm from corruption, presented by Alexei Karnaukhov, head of the Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the YABLOKO Party, and Anton Pominov, Director General of ANO Centre for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiatives of Transparency International – Russia,
the Bureau of the YABLOKO Party decided the following:
- Adopt a statement “Everyone should have the right to compensation for damage from corruption” on the need for Russia to join the Council of Europe’s civil liability convention on corruption.
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Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Politics, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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With the support of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko, the residents of Birsk managed to cancel the construction of an incineration plant
Press Release, 26.10.2020
Ministry for Natural Resources and the Environment of the Republic of Bashkortostan gave its conclusion on the impossibility of building a waste incineration plant in the region and decided to abandon the construction of this facility in the city of Birsk. This information is contained in the response from the Ministry to the appeal of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko.
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Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov Region branch of Yabloko will hold party primaries to nominate candidates for the regional parliament
Press Release, 23.10.2020
Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov reiognal branch of Yabloko and deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly, commented on the situation around the upcoming elections to the Pskov Regional Assembly and the State Duma of Russia to the Pskov branch of the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
In particular, Lev Shlosberg said that in the spring of 2021, the regional branch of the party, just like five years ago, would announce open primaries among party members for the top candidates of the list to the regional parliament: “This is our principled position: all Yabloko members in the Pskov region will vote. All interested party members who are ready to be nominated will be able to vote, submit their proposals and programmes, and thus a consensus decision will be made, which, most likely, will be approved by the conference of our regional branch, although any primaries are deliberative.
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Posted: October 26th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Combatting corruption in public procurement: instructions for the candidate.” Online lecture by Alexei Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre
Press Release, 23.10.2020
Yabloko is running a Candidate School for those wishing to participate in the elections from the party. On Saturday, October 24, Yabloko will host an online lecture for the School. The lecture will be delivered by Alexey Karnaukhov, Director of the Yabloko Party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre. The lecture will begin at 15:00.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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The winners and the undefeated. The Pskov branch of Yabloko sums up the results of the 2020 elections and the prospects for the next elections
Based on the publication in Grazhdanin, 23.10.2020
Photo: The Pskov Yabloko team at the traditional autumn meeting in Pushkinogorie, October 10, 2020.
The regional and local elections of September 2020, when deputies to councils of districts, urban and rural settlements, as well as the head of the Sebezhsky district were elected in the Pskov region have already become history. The candidates from the Pskov branch of Yabloko managed to get (more precisely, to win) 21 deputy mandates in the representative bodies of local self-government in nine districts. The elections in the new conditions with a three-day voting became a test of strength for the Pskov Yabloko, which was passed with honour both by those who won and those who failed to get enough votes to secure victory.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host an online lecture by Nikolai Petrov “Transformation of the Russian Regime and the Decision-Making Mechanism”
Press Release, 23.10.2020
On 30 October, Yabloko to host an online lecture by Nikolai Petrov, a well-known political scientist and Professor at the Higher School of Economics: “Transformation of the Russian Regime and the Decision-Making Mechanism”. The lecture will be held via Zoom and will start at 19:00.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2020 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “The State Duma, which is unable to utter a word against the President and the security forces, must be driven away in the 2021 elections”
Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page, 22.10.2020
A couple of years ago, it seemed that Russia simply did not have a more helpless, incompetent and antipopular parliament than the State Duma of the past, the sixth convocation, which was justly nicknamed “the mad printer” [for the speed of stamping laws]. But looks like the current parliamentary corps will compete with it for a place in history: these ladies and gentlemen have had the honor to synchronise the Russian legislation with Putin’s version of the Constitution and with the “1 July” political reality in general [which emerged on the day of “voting” for Putin’s Constitutional amendments on 1 July] .
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Posted: October 22nd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Protection of Environment, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko demands to declare the competition for the post of Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod void
Press Release, 22.10.2020
On 21 October, Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, sent an appeal to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod with a demand to declare the competition for the post of Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod void.
The competition commission made a decision to conduct interviews with candidates via video-conferencing, as reported on the website of the City Duma.
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Posted: October 22nd, 2020 under Elections, Governance, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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