Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Statement by the Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko Party, 5.10.2020
We support the All-Russian campaign of medical workers “Pay for COVID!”, who demand full and timely payment of incentive and insurance premiums to healthcare workers for their labour in the conditions of the coronavirus infection.
Dozenss of thousands of medical and support personnel have been unfairly deprived of these payments, and payments for dozens of thousands medical workers have been significantly and unduly reduced.
On 6 October, a Zoom-lecture by Konstantin Kiselyov will be held at the Yabloko Party University. The topic of the lectures is “A politician in the opposition: how is it possible in Russia at the local level”. The lecture begins at 19:00.
Konstantin Kiselyov has PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma from the Yabloko party of the 6th and 7th convocations
On 16 January, 1969, Jan Palach, a 20-year-old student of the Faculty of Philosophy, set himself on fire in the very center of Prague, in Wenceslas Square. He took this step in protest against the indifference of society, which resigned itself to the end of democratic reforms, known as the Prague Spring, abandoned the struggle for freedom, independence, a new economy and submitted to the political regime established after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops. Letters were found in Palach’s briefcase explaining his act.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee initiate a criminal case under the article “incitement to suicide” over the tragic death of Irina Slavina, Editor-in-Chief of Koza Press, who set herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod. Rybakov personally knew Irina Slavina.
On September 30 – October 1, Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov visited Oryol and Bryansk, where he delivered lectures for participants in the All-Russian Environmental Lawyer Competition and students studying environmental law at universities in three Russian cities.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction / PLN
Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction and member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, regards the visit of the Pskov Region delegation headed by the Governor to Belarus on 28 September as a manifestation of support to the Lukashenko regime.
The Moscow Region Court removed eight registered candidates from Yabloko, as well as two independent candidates, from early elections to the Council of Deputies of Shatura.
Lawsuits against opposition candidates were sent to court by candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, LDPR, and A Just Russia. It should be noted that candidates from these parties had a common representative in court. The pretext from removing opposition from elections was the allegedly incomplete package of documents submitted by Yabloko, as well as the alleged corrections in the lists of voters’ signatures submitted in favour of independent candidates. At the same time, independent candidates have copies of signature lists certified by the territorial electoral commission, where there are no corrections or amendments, as well as an inventory of the documents adopted, on the basis of which they were initially successfully registered.
Yelena Plotnikova, a member of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party and an expert on environmental safety, submitted documents to participate in the competition for the post of the head of the Yemanzhelinsky urban settlement. The nomination of Yelena Plotnikova to the post of the head of Yemanzhelinsk was supported by the Regional Council of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko.
The Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the lower court’s decision not to consider Yabloko’s claim challenging the decision of the Central Electoral Commission on three-day early voting.
“The Supreme Court confirmed the reluctance of the judiciary to delve into the violations of the Central Electoral Commission of the federal law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights,” says Yabloko lawyer Grigory Makarov.
An on-line lecture by Yuri Korgunyuk, leading researcher of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of department of Political Science of the Informatics for Democracy Foundation (INDEM), was held at the Yabloko Party University on 30 September. The topic of the lecture was “Parties and party systems: trends and development prospects”.
In connection with the formation of new lists of territorial electoral commissions members in the Ivanovo region, the regional branch of the Yabloko party is starting to select members of the commissions with the right of a casting vote.
On 1 October, a search was carried out in the apartment of Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. Early in the morning the police burst into the apartment, began to beat Sadomovsky on the floor, dislocated his arm, despite the fact that the Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko immediately said that he was not resisting. Laptops were confiscated during the search (including those of Sadomovsky’s brother and his girlfriend), three flash drives and a smartphone.
On October 1, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will consider the complaint of Yabloko about the refusal of the Supreme Court to consider the party’s claim against the Central Electoral Commission which had issued a resolution on a three-day voting in elections.
The Regional Council of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko issued a statement on non-recognition of the results of elections of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region, stating that the elections of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region held in the Chelyabinsk Region for three days (in accordance to the recent resolution of the Central Electoral Commission) on September 11, 12 and 13, “were a fake, and their result cannot be recognised as legitimate”.
The sentence to Yuri Dmitriyev means the beginning of the government’s war against the society
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2020
Photo: Yuri Dmitriyev. Photo by AFP PHOTO /Scanpix/LETA
The present Russian regime does not always need chemical warfare agents. Old proven tools also work well. If you need to get rid of undesired persons, shut the mouth of truth-seekers, then there are investigative bodies, courts and prisons for this. To be more precise, there are no longer real investigative bodies and courts in Russia. The Investigative Committee, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Public Prosecutor General’s Office, the courts – all these are just tools of the punitive system inherited from the Bolsheviks.
Yuri Dmitriyev, a 64-year-old historian and human rights activist, was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony. Everyone knows very well, including judges and public prosecutors, that his case has been rigged from the beginning to the end. However, one can easily read the personal hatred and revenge to the Russian people of modern Stalinists – high-ranking officials – in the filthy and vile slander against an innocent and honest person. They saw how many people of different professions and views supported and defended Dmitriyev, and, looking with horror at Belarus, proactively declared a hybrid war on society. The decision of the Supreme Court of Karelia [sentencing Dmitriyev to 13 years in prison instead of releasing him] is a deliberate and coordinated blow to the entire Russian society.
There is a war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia and Azerbaijan report hundreds of deaths. [Russia’s Foreign Minister] Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin over the phone “express concern” and urge “to prevent further escalation”.
For 28 years, Russian diplomacy have been trying to produce an impression of Moscow’s mediation in the peace process, but, judging by what is happening, could not achieve anything. Certainly, France and the United States also took part in the peace settlement. But Karabakh is very far from them, but only some 300 km to our border.
Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov will deliver lectures for participants in the All-Russian Environmental Lawyer Competition and students studying environmental law at universities in three Russian cities. The topic of the lecture is “The main environmental problems of Russia and public participation in the protection of the environmental rights of citizens: initiative groups, the media, and the Internet.”
Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, received an answer to his appeal to the Central Electoral Commission about non-recognition of the results of the elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. It follows from the answer the Central Electoral Commission that the appeal was forwarded for consideration to the Electoral Commission of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. The Central Electoral Commission indicated that it intends to keep under control the consideration of this issue in the regional electoral commission.
Yury Orlov was a real hero. His whole life has been evidence of this: he participated in the war, was an outstanding physicist and, like the best people of his time, advocated human rights, gradually making it his main task in life. The Moscow Helsinki Group, of which Yury Orlov was one of the founders, not only spoke out in defence of political prisoners in the Soviet Union, but also educated people, fearlessly spoke about the sense of human dignity and freedom.
A concert in support of political prisoners was held at the Interior Theater of St. Petersburg. Musicians Maksim Leonidov, Maksim Ermachkov, Pyotr Olesov, Dmitry Podosenov, Mikhail Novitsky and others participated in the concert. The idea to hold such a concert belongs to Oleg Maksakov, Chairman of the Primorsky local branch of Yabloko in St.Petersburg and assistant to the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky. Oleg Maksakov was also the organizer of the event.
