Discussion of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko. The results of the elections in the town of Zelenogradsk, the Kaliningrad region, must be annulled
Press Release, 18.09.2020
A regular meeting of the 12th Floor discussion club was held in the Kaliningrad Yabloko office. Its topic was the discussion of the scandalous elections in the Zelenogradsk town, the Kaliningrad region. According to the official data, Yabloko received there only 3.09% and failed to pass the 5% threashold.
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Posted: September 18th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko defended the city forest. The court overturned the decision of the regional parliament to change the boundaries of the only natural monument in Chelyabinsk
Press Release, 17.09.2020
The Second Court of Appeal in St. Petersburg sided with the defenders of Chelyabinsk forest that the city authorities were planning to cut. The Court overturned not only the decision of the Chelyabinsk Regional Court, but also the decision of the Regional Legislative Assembly to change the boundaries of the city’s only natural monument. Lawyers Andrei Talevlin and Vladimir Kazantsev (the latter is under house arrest now) managed to win the case.
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Posted: September 17th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Stavropol Yabloko activist was attacked with a knife and threatened with murder because of his protest activities
Press Release, 17.09.2020
Ronald Ayrapetyan, Yabloko activist from Kislovodsk, told the media that he was threatened with murder if he continued to take action against Putin and United Russia.
According to Ayrapetyan, on the evening of 12 September, he was returning home after a walk with a friend. An unidentified masked man with a knife was waiting for the activist in the stairway.
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Posted: September 17th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Ivan Bolshakov: The duty of the Central Electoral Commission is to ensure fair vote count, rather than evaluate observers
Press Release, 15.09.2020
Ivan Bolshakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, commented on the statement of Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission about the party’s observers:
Yesterday at a meeting of the Central Electoral Commission, Ella Pamfilova publicly criticised Yabloko saying that our party sent the least number of observers to the elections and cited the figure “128 people”: “This is already a pattern from the Yabloko party: the fewer observers they have, the louder their denunciatory statements are,” the head of the Central Electoral Commission said.
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Posted: September 15th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Falsifications did not work: Yabloko has 48 deputies in regional parliaments
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 15.09.2020
We know very well now the events called “elections” are held in Russia: how they arbitrarily do not register in the elections the strongest and dissenting candidates, and how they falsify the results of the vote. Nevertheless, 48 candidates from the Yabloko party overcoming huge obstacles and despite actions of the authorities became deputies in 12 Russia’s regions during the so-called “single voting day” (lasting three days). Yabloko candidates managed to get support of their voters so that neither filters, nor fraud worked.
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Posted: September 15th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Their freedom is our freedom
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 14.09.2020
Danil Beglets, Kirill Zhukov, Yevgeny Kovalenko, Konstantin Kotov, Yegor Lesnykh, Eduard Malyshevsky, Maxim Martintsov, Ivan Podkopayev and Sergei Surovtsev. All of these people were sent to jail because they dared to speak out against the authorities’ criminal election fraud and because they were courageous enough to protest openly in the streets.
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Posted: September 15th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party calls for the Return of direct elections for the head of Ingushetia
Kavkazsky Uzel, 14.09.2020
The events in Ingushetia over the past two years have exposed and demonstrated the failure of the concept of the vertical of power and the entire system of government in the Republic. The procedure for “election” of the head of the Republic of Ingushetia has actually been turned into a system for appointing a representative loyal to the Kremlin. Candidates who are strong and respected by the people, who have the support of potential voters, are not allowed to the election of the head of the Republic by means of various kinds of manipulations and procedures. A person, who is deliberately focused on satisfying the will of the country’s leadership, rather than solving problems in the region, is brought to power. The authorities do not hear and do not respect people’s opinions. Political deafness, unwillingness to take into account the requests and just indignation of citizens increase the gap between society and the government, lead to the alienation of people from the state.
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Posted: September 15th, 2020 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko results in the regional elections in Russia: 48 deputies elected in 12 regions
Press Release, 14.09.2020
During regional and local elections in Russia of 13 September, 48 deputies from the Yabloko party were elected in 12 regions. The deputies of the Yabloko party will work in the Kostroma Regional Duma, as well as in the city councils of Tomsk, Kaluga and Kostroma. Party representatives were also elected to the municipal councils of Bashkiria, Dagestan, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Moscow, Novgorod, Omsk, Samara and Pskov regions.
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Posted: September 14th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko observers record large-scale manipulations with early voting
Press Release, 13.09.2020
On 13 September, a single voting day in Russia, the Yabloko party launched a hotline for calls on violations at polling stations.
The most widespread violation, which Yabloko observers record as of 15:00 (Moscow time) is manipulation of the results of early voting. Calls about this came from more than half of the regions where candidates from the party participate in elections.
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Posted: September 14th, 2020 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2020, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko preliminary results in the regional elections of 13 September
FB page of Igor Yakovlev, Press Secretary of Yabloko, 14.09.2020
In the morning after the [regional] elections the picture is approximately like this:
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Posted: September 14th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Без рубрики.
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The Tomsk City Duma will have three deputies from Yabloko
Press Release, 13.09.2020
According to preliminary data, the list of the Yabloko party in the elections to the Tomsk City Duma is gaining more than 8% of the votes. This result suggests that there will be one deputy mandate – it will go to the leader of the list, Vasily Yeremin.
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Posted: September 13th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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The Court of Appeal did not satisfy the complaint of Oleg Mandrykin against the refusal of the electoral commission to register him as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region
Press Release, 11.09.2020
The Second Court of Appeal of St.Petersburg did not satisfy the complaint of Yabloko candidate Oleg Mandrykin against the refusal of the electoral commission to register him as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.
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Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2020, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov called on the President to allocate budget funds for the preservation of architectural monuments in Tomsk
Press Release, 11.09.2020
Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin in connection with the critical situation with the protection of the cultural and architectural heritage – the wooden architecture of Tomsk.
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Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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Eleven regional Yabloko deputies and the party Chairman call on the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia to open a criminal case on Alexei Navalny’s poisoning
Press Release, 11.09.2020
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and eleven Yabloko deputies from six regional legislative assemblies forwarded to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, a statement on investigation of a crime.
Yabloko deputies urge Bastrykin to initiate a criminal case under Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Encroachment on the life of a statesman or public figure, committed in order to terminate his public or other political activities, or out of revenge for such activities”) into the fact of poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a chemical warfare agent.
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Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Regional and Local Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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We ask the Governor to take the investigation of the attack on Yabloko’s Nadezhda Zhuravleva under his personal control
Open appeal of the Sverdlovsk branch of Yabloko, 10.09.2020
Photo:Nadezhda Zhuravleva, candidate for to the Nizhny Tagil City Duma from the Yabloko party
To the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev
To the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region
The Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party demands that the law enforcement of the Sverdlovsk region conduct a thorough investigation of the incident related to the attack on Nadezhda Zhuravleva, candidate for to the Nizhny Tagil City Duma from the Yabloko party.
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Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to challenge in the Supreme Court the resolution of the Central Electoral Commission on the three-day voting in the elections
Press Release, 9.09.2020
The Yabloko party is challenging in the Supreme Court the resolution of the Central Electoral Commission to hold a three-day voting. The plaintiffs are Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and candidates for municipal deputies of two cities near Moscow – Elektrostal and Shatura – Alexander Gunko and Svetlana Smirnova, respectively.
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Posted: September 11th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020.
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THE DAY AFTER
On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future
by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020
Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square
WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT
The introduction of President Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at the end of the 1980s – start of the 1990s. This failure can be attributed primarily to the following factors:
- The refusal to conduct a state and legal assessment of Stalinism and the crimes of the Soviet period;
- Gross miscalculations in the logic and substance of the reforms of the 1990s: hyperinflation, the loans-for-shares auctions, the merger of the state, property and business, and the emergence of an oligarchy.
These factors underpinned the creation of an autocratic, unlawful, quasi-mafia and anti-social political regime in Russia, marked by chronic economic stagnation and an impoverished population. This also led to a political system dictated by an imperial mindset, adherence to the principle of the “limited sovereignty” of former Soviet republics, attempts at flagrant interference in the affairs of neighbouring countries, the annexation of Crimea and war in the Donbass, contract killings of political opponents and journalists, senseless bloody participation in the war in Syria, and the adoption of countless repressive and backward-looking laws.
The goal of the opposition in the new environment is to engineer the regeneration of the Russian state: convene a Constituent Assembly; adopt a legitimate Constitution which actually exists to serve the people; and build a modern country on its basis. To succeed, we must achieve the following objectives:
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Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
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The police tried to disrupt the lecture of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko for observers of the elections to the City Duma
Press Release, 10.09.2020
On September 9, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko” was holding a seminar for those who signed up to be observers at the upcoming elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. After the lecture began, police officers suddenly stormed in. They said that on they were acting on basis of a statement they had received from “a certain person”, so they stopped the lecture and began to put down the personal data of all those present.
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Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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For every investigative action there is a reaction of electoral opposition!
Statement by the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko, 9.09.2020
A search was conducted in the apartment of Irina Maltseva, candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma from the Yabloko party, on 9 September at 6 a.m. The investigative actions were carried out on the basis of the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on the so-called 2003 YUKOS case. Similar measures were taken against Andrei Sergeyev, deputy of the Council of the Bogorodsky rural settlement of the Ivanovo district, and Nikolai Dyachkov, regional coordinator of the United Democrats project in the Ivanovo region.
It is obvious that the YUKOS case, to which the Ivanovo opposition, even theoretically, was in no way involved, is nothing more than a screen for covering up unprecedented pressure on strong candidates in the elections of representative bodies of local self-government. The only goal of the criminal regime is to demoralise our candidates four days before the main vote, as well as to create difficulties in their election campaigns.
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Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Searches in the apartments of candidates for deputies from Yabloko conducted in Tatarstan, Ivanovo and Novgorod regions
Press Release, 9.09.2020
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin’s apartment after a search
Searches were conducted in the apartments of Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and candidate to the Council of the Osinovsky rural settlement, and Irina Maltseva, ethnographer and candidate to the Ivanovo City Duma.
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Posted: September 9th, 2020 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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