“We openly declare our categorical disagreement with Vladimir Putin and refuse him our confidence”
Yabloko deputies in the Pskov region signed a parliamentary appeal against Putin’s lifelong rule
Press Release, 15.06.2020
Photo: The Pskov Yabloko team at a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Yabloko branch in Pskov. November 16, 2019. Photo by Alexander Sidorenko
More than 350 deputies of regional and municipal parliaments from 39 regions of Russia signed an open appeal against Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution, ensuring his lifelong rule: 17 of them are deputies elected from the Pskov branch of Yabloko, and this is the third result in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. The 17 Pskov deputies elected from Yabloko include both the deputies of the Regional Assembly (Arthur Gaiduk and Lev Shlosberg), a deputy of the Pskov City Duma (Dmitry Permyakov) and 14 deputies from 13 district assemblies.
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Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly.
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The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre opposed the classified purchases of the Russian Guard, the Federal Security Service and the Russian Federal Space Agency
The Finance Ministry bill leads to the non-transparency and corruption in public procurement
Press Release, 15.06.2020
The Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre has prepared an independent anti-corruption examination of the bill of the Russian Ministry of Finance on classifying purchases for law enforcement agencies and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). The experts of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre are confident that the closed regime of procurement will increase the risks of corruption and financial irregularities, as well as eliminate the possibility of civili control over procurement.
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Posted: June 15th, 2020 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Boris Vishnevsky called on the Central Electoral Commission and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check on the coercion of state employees to take absentee voting certificates to vote for Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Press Release, 15.06.2020
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent appeals to the Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central electoral Commission, and Sergei Litvinenko, Public Prosecutor of St.Petersburg. Vishnevsky asked them to investigate into the situation of mass-scale coercion of state employees to take absentee voting certificates to vote for Putin’s amendments to the Constitution in the polling stations of the city districts where they should not vote.
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Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Oleg Rodin: Officials are trying to intimidate residents of Kuznechikha who are opposed to the construction of McDonald’s in the green zone
Press Release, 15.06.2020
On 13 June, local residents met in front of House No 19 Rokossovsky street with a correspondent of the Vesti Privolzhye (Vesti Volga Region) newspaper so that to tell about the construction of a McDonald’s restaurant under the windows of their houses. After the correspondent left, police officers began to surround residents and establish their identities. The police considered what was happening was a rally requiring a special permission. As a result, police wrote down the data of two women.
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Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Russia will be free!
Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 12.06.2020
In the photo: A rally for freedom – for the abolition of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR on the leading role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, February 4, 1990.
30 years ago, on June 12, 1990, a declaration on Russia’s sovereignty was adopted. On that day, Russia declared independence. People often ask a question from whom. From the communist-Bolshevik rule. Russia declared itself as a state where power belongs to a free people.
For three decades, this has never happened: Russia has not become truly free or independent. The power turned out to be irremovable in the hands of the corporation of nomenclature and bureaucracy. Now the country is being forced to vote for amendments to the Constitution in order to formally consolidate this neo-Bolshevik authoritarian regime in Russia.
But I believe: Russia will get free from the mafia, corruption and lawlessness! Russia will be free!
Posted: June 15th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko asked pro-government newspapers AIF, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Rossiyskaya Gazeta to publish Yabloko’s amendments to the Constitution, as they published Putin’s
Press Release, 11.06.2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent official letters to the editors-in-chief of pro-government Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Argumenti I Fakti (AIF) newspapers. Rybakov asked the newspapers publish in their print versions and on their websites Yabloko’s publications with alternative opinions regarding amendments to the Constitution.
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Posted: June 11th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko’s billboards against Putin’s constitutional amendments stolen in Sakhalin
The law enforcement do nothing about it
Press Release, 9.06.2020
Theft of Yabloko’s billboards against Putin’s amendments to the Constitution and a “reset” of his presidential terms has been going on in the city of Korsakov in Sakhalin since 30 May. The billboards ran: “We are for the popular election of mayors” and “We are against the zeroing of the presidential terms under the Constitution”. The regional branch of the party three times placed the billboards on absolutely legal grounds, but each time they were removed with the help of a truck crane, and the banners were not returned to the party, the regional branch of Yabloko was forced to order a new billboard for each placement.
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Posted: June 11th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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On the principled unacceptability of voting on Putin’s amendments to the Constitution
Decision No 132 of 5.06.2020 by the Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 8.06.2020
The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko thinks that amendments to the Constitution of Russia, initiated by President Putin, represent demolishing of the foundations of the constitutional system of our country, the Russian legal system as a whole.
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Posted: June 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Political Committee Decisions.
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On the 70th anniversary of murdered Yabloko MP and journalist Yury Shchekochikhin Yabloko will conduct a Zoom-marathon: we will read his texts live on-line
Press Release, 8.06.2020
On June 9, 2020, journalist and politician Yury Shchekochikhin would have turned 70. Yury Shchekochikhin was an MP of the Yabloko faction in the State Duma. He was also renowned in Russia as a pillar of Russian investigative journalism. He died on July 3, 2003, due to poisoning. Those who committed and ordered this crime have never been found. On his birthday, the Yabloko party, of which Yury Shchekochikhin was a member, organises a Zoom marathon: everyone who knew and loved Shchekochikhin will read excerpts from his texts.
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Posted: June 9th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko in Kalmykia held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina
Press Release, 8.06.2020
Colleagues of Larissa Yudina, members of the Kalmyk branch of Yabloko held a traditional memorial dinner on the anniversary of the murder of Larissa Yudina, opposition journalist, human rights activist, politician and Co-Chair of the Yabloko branch in Kalmykia.
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Posted: June 9th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, Без рубрики.
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“Freedom of expression is inviolable!” Yabloko deputies demand from the head of the Moscow police to give explanations on the arrests of protesters
Press Release, 5.06.2020
Photo: Arrest of Maxim Kruglov
The Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma demands immediate admission of Yabloko deputies from the head of the Moscow police chief Oleg Baranov. An official letter of this was signed by Maxim Kruglov, Chairman of the faction, and was sent to the police department in Moscow today, June 5. The deputies intend to get explanations from the general on the unlawful detentions of city residents during single pickets (that do not require any permission from the authorities and are not a mass action so do not violate the quarantine measures) outside the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which took place on May 28.
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Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Yabloko demanded resignation of the heads of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, as well as the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory for the accident in Norilsk
Press Release, 4.06.2020
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov called on the Russian authorities to dismiss all those responsible for concealing information about the accident in Norilsk, as well as make systemic changes in the field of environmental protection.
“We consider it necessary to dismiss Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss, head of the Federal Service for the Use of Natural Resources Svetlana Radionova and Minister of Natural Resources Dmitry Kobylkin,” the statement by the Yabloko Chairman ran.
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Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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The disaster in Norilsk; the unlearned lessons of Chernobyl
We demand resignation of those responsible for concealing information and introduce systemic changes in the field of environmental protection
Statement by the Yabloko party, 4.06.2020
The large-scale disaster which happened with the spill of oil products at Thermal Power Plant No 3 of the city of Norilsk on May 29 demonstrates the fragility and inefficiency of the state system of environmental protection and insecurity of people and nature.
The tragedy that happened is the largest accident in the history of the Russian Arctic. At the same time, they tried to hide it and thereby exacerbated the consequences. These developments are reminiscent of the Chernobyl’s unlearned lessons – when concealing the real scale of the catastrophe only increased the consequences of the accident.
Many words were said at the meetings of different levels, including the presidential, that the accident was predetermined by inaction and the lack of real security control. The reaction to the accident aroused serious criticism: the attempts to conceal the accident, reduce its scale; belated reaction; unpreparedness of government agencies for an operational response. Inspectors of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Usage (Rosprirodnadzor) were not allowed to the scene of the accident, and information about the accident was not transmitted on time to the Ministry of Emergencies and other structures responsible for solving the problem.
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Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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After Lockdown
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 29.05.2020
CONTEXT. OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO
The problems facing the world after the COVID-19 pandemic will have two key aspects: medical and political-economic. In the case of the first issue, everything is more or less comprehensible. No mass vaccination, and no mass use of truly effective medicines is anticipated in the near future (if respective medicines are developed, their widespread application will be blocked by a number of specialists and organisations, and also simply ambitious sceptics interested in slowing down any specific project). That is why all the commotion over the pandemic will continue until society is overwhelmed by psychological exhaustion or until an effective and affordable vaccine becomes available. Subsequently COVID-19 will simply takes its place among a number of unpleasant, but at the same time not necessarily fatal diseases. People are used to everything, inter alia, to far more menacing and dangerous things. Our lifestyles, habits, consumption – it goes without saying that everything is changing, but slowly, and more often for other reasons.
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Posted: June 4th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin
Press Release, 3.06.2020
In Kazan, police detained Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan Ruslan Zinatullin. They want to bring him to administrative responsibility for a series of single pickets against mandatory army conscription, which he held by two regional military registration and enlistment offices on 15 May, the International Day of Conscientious Military Objectors.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Russian Army, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the International Children’s Day the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko held a picket for the adoption of the law on the prevention of domestic violence
Press Release, 1.06.2020
On 1 June, Marcel Akhmadullin, activist of the Yabloko party, held an action in Kazan demanding that Russia adopt a law on the prevention of domestic violence.
Marcel Akhmadullin held a series of single pickets in the centre of Kazan, near the shopping centre Koltso. He stood with placards: “No to domestic violence!” and “We demand adoption of a law on the prevention of domestic violence!”.
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Posted: June 2nd, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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“It is necessary to protest against the Constitutional amendments on Putin’s irremovability by all available legal means”
Press Release, 1.06.2020
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at a picket by the State Duma against the adoption of the law on amendments to the Constitution. March 10, 2020
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov commented on the party’s position in connection with the appointment of a date for a nationwide vote on Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments:
– In the Yabloko party we have full consensus on the amendments. The amendments both in content and the procedure of their introduction and consideration are unlawful, unconstitutional and reactionary.
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Posted: June 1st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance.
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Boris Vishnevsky: The lessons of symmetry. Why the Russian Foreign Ministry does not allow member of the PACE delegation to Russia
Novaya Gazeta, 28.05.2020
Photo by Vladimir Klopovsky, Obzor: Emanuelis Zingeris and Boris Nemtsov
Two years ago, in the summer of 2018, the deputy of the Sejm of the Republic of Lithuania and one of the most famous Lithuanian politicians Emanuelis Zingeris was banned from entering Russia for five years. Meanwhile, he was not going to come for sightseeing, but as a PACE special rapporteur to investigate the murder of Boris Nemtsov – to prepare materials for the report and interview Russian officials.
Russia is a member of the Council of Europe and is obliged to contribute to the preparation of the report. And then Zingeris was “notified” by the Russian Foreign Ministry about the ban, without explanation.
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Posted: June 1st, 2020 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Eu relations.
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“If you are with us, then we are on the right way.” Engelina Tareyeva turns 95!
30.05.2020
On May 30, Engelina Borisovna Tareyeva, a member of the Yabloko party, turns 95. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulates her on the anniversary on behalf of the party:
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Posted: June 1st, 2020 under Greetings.
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Yabloko Chairman demanded that the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg police release the participants detained during one-person picketing
Press Release, 29.05.2020
Detention of Kirill Gontcharov. Photo by Novaya Gazeta
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an official appeal to the heads of the Moscow and the St. Petersburg departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to release the detained participants of one-person picketing and stop the detentions.
“Exiting the isolation regime, accompanied by the resumption of construction projects and permission of walks, clearly indicates that a one-person picket does not threaten the health of citizens,” Rybakov noted in his statement.
The party Chairman also demands that police heads “ensure the constitutional right to freedom of expression”. According to the Supreme Court, a one-person picket does not represent a mass event that are prohibited during quarantine.
One-person pickets in support of the Novaya Gazeta journalist Ilya Azar, arrested for 15 days, continued in Moscow and St. Petersburg today.
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Posted: May 29th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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