A quarter of the deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly supported Yabloko’s amendment to the Russian Constitution
Press Release, 28.02.2020
The Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies have considered four bills on amendments to the Constitution of Russia. Parliamentary representatives from the Yabloko faction Lev Shlosberg and Arthur Gaiduk made a proposal to the Regional Assembly to put forward such legislative initiatives to the State Duma of Russia. The voted of the Regional Assembly resulted in rejecting all four legislative initiatives.
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Posted: February 28th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly.
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About a third of the deputies of the Astrakhan regional parliament supported the amendments of Yabloko to the Constitution or did not vote against
Press Release, 20.02.2020
On 20 February, the Duma of the Astrakhan Region considered constitutional amendments developed by the Public Constitutional Council and introduced by Yabloko’s deputy Dmitry Anufriev.
The amendments were combined into four separate laws for each thematic block: the President, the Federal Assembly, the Government and the judicial system. From eight to 12 deputies voted for each of the laws, and from five to eight parliamentarians out of 58 abstained, despite the fact that Yabloko was represented in the regional parliament by only one deputy.
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Posted: February 28th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights.
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Nemtsov. Five Years After.
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.02.2020
Photo: Nizhny Novgorod. Russia. Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Nemtsov, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod, at the economic session. Photo by ITAR-TASS / Nikolai Moshkov
Five years ago, Boris Nemtsov was killed. A year before that, Crimea was already annexed, the war in Donbass was gaining momentum with might and main. However, the demonstrative killing by the Kremlin’s walls of an opposition politician, an uncompromising critic of authoritarian power and personal opponent of Vladimir Putin became the starting point for subsequent troubles and crimes. Five years after the murder of Nemtsov:
– thousands of civilians died in the civil war in Syria as a result of actions involving the Russian army; over a hundred Russian servicemen returned home in coffins (according to the Russian Ministry of Defense);
– the Kremlin-backed war in eastern Ukraine involving Russian mercenaries claimed thousands of lives; dozens of thousands of people were injured, almost a million turned into refugees (according to the UN);
– the number of political prisoners in Russia has grown almost sevenfold – from 46 in 2015 to 314 political prisoners as of the end of 2019 (according to the Memorial human rights centre).
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Posted: February 27th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations, War in Syria.
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Russian Foreign Ministry in Boris Nemtsov Square
Alexei Melnikov’s blog post, 27.02.2020
Photo: a participant of the Boris Nemtsov Memorial March holding a placard “Boris, this is your spring!”
A solemn naming of the square situated by the Russian Embassy in Prague after [slain Russian opposition politician] Boris Nemtsov will take place in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, soon.
The Ambassador of Russia and diplomats of our country must take part in this ceremony.
The Ambassador is obliged to express his gratitude to the Czech Republic for a gesture of goodwill – naming of the square in Prague after the Russian statesman killed in Moscow five years ago.
In the Ambassador’s speech should announce that the authorities have studied the OSCE report on the Nemtsov murder case and that conclusions will be drawn from it soon.
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Posted: February 27th, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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The Oryol branch of Yabloko obtained a permission for a picket in memory of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 26.02.2020
A picket in memory of Boris Nemtsov will be held in Oryol on 29 February. This was announced by Sergei Zaitsev, the organiser of the action and Chairman of the Orlov branch of Yabloko. The commemorative action will begin at 11.00.
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Posted: February 26th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko held a picket The Constitution of Free People
Press Release, 25.02.2020
On 22 February, a mass picket was held in Chelyabinsk as part of the Constitution of Free People campaign organised by the Chelyabinsk Yabloko. About one hundred people took part in the picket.
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Posted: February 25th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Emilia Slabunova demanded that Public Prosecutor General check the legality of the criminal case against Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev, journalist of the Chernovik newspaper
Press Release, 21.02.2020
Emilia Slabunova, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, asked Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, to check the legality of the criminal case against Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev, journalist of the Chernovik (Rough Notes) newspaper. A criminal case against the journalist was opened in June 2019 on charges of financing terrorism. Since 14 June, 2019, he has been in custody.
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Posted: February 21st, 2020 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko proposes to enshrine in the Constitution that torture is a serious crime
Press Release, 21.02.2020
Photo (from left to right): Ivan Bolshakov, Nikolai Rybakov and Valery Goryachev.
The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party proposes to include into the Constitution a clause running that torture is a serious crime. A complaint of torture should be the basis for the immediate initiation of criminal proceedings. A verdict can not be announced while the investigation into the torture has not been completed. Such rules should be contained in the Basic Law. In addition, Yabloko opposed lifelong immunity for former presidents.
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Posted: February 21st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Governance, Human Rights.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko applied for getting a permission to hold March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov for the third time
Press Release, 19.02.2020
On 17 February, Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko applied for getting a permission to hold March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov for the third time. It is planned that the march will take place in the form of a public event – a procession along Rozhdestvenskaya street, followed by a rally Markin square. Earlier, the administration of Nizhny Novgorod twice refused to give a permission for the commemorative action.
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Posted: February 19th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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The wife of the organiser of the Boris Nemtsov memorial march in Kemerovo is dismissed from her job in a children’s clinic
Press Release, 19.02.2020
Photo: Yevgeny Artemyev.
Irina Sotnikova, nurse of Kemerovo Children’s Clinic No. 1, was announced that she would be fired in April. Formally, a nurse with forty years of experience was informed that her job would be cut. However, in informal conversations, she was informed that her the dismissal was associated with the activity of her husband Yevgeny Artemyev, member of the Regional Council of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko and organiser of the March of the memory of Boris Nemtsov in Kemerovo.
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Posted: February 19th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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One hundred years of lawlessness: is Putin legitimate?
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook page, 18.02.2020
Konstantin Aranovsky, Judge of the Constitutional Court, called the USSR an illegitimate state, and the Soviet state bodies “illegal party-state power bodies”, which cannot be regarded as “legal predecessors of constitutional state power”.
This is an accurate and true definition.
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Posted: February 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko launched its regional campaign “The Constitution of Free People” at a rally in Magnitogorsk
Press Release, 17.02.2020
On 15 February, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko launched its regional campaign “The Constitution of Free People” at a rally in Magnitogorsk, the Chelyabinsk region. The rally was organised by Kira Belaya, member of Magnitogorsk Yabloko.
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Posted: February 17th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Viktor Sheinis turns 89!
16.02.2020
16 February marks 89 years of Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party. Nikolay Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman, congratulates Viktor Sheinis on behalf of the party:
Dear Viktor Leonidovich! You are an outstanding person, one of the main authors of the Russian Constitution, which enshrines fundamental rights and freedoms for the citizens of our country. But such are Russian historical algorithms that today you, together with the third generation of Yabloko members, have to defend the spirit of the Basic Law.
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Posted: February 17th, 2020 under Greetings, Без рубрики.
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“We did something wrong to the whole country”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 13.02.2020
Everyone knows that the Network [antifascist group] case was fabricated, and confessions were beaten out under torture, including the President of Russia, who was informed about torture at the meeting of the Human Rights Council. As the saying goes, “tell comrade N: a monstrous mistake has occurred”.
Speaking in court with his last statement, Dmitry Pchelintsev, who was sentenced for the longest term, 18 years, in this case, said,
“I have never been particularly interested in politics or justice, or anything like that. In principle, mainly because I was not very interested in it and I did not think that it could ever become.., that I would ever come across this. However, after spending more than two years in solitary confinement, I analysed how I ended up here and what brought me here. And naturally, I could only make one conclusion, which, I think, is obvious to everyone: we really did something wrong with the whole country. And we did not do something [important], although we had to, were even obliged to do.”
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Posted: February 14th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The sentence in the case of the Network [antifascist group] must be canceled
Statement by the Yabloko party, 10.02.2020
The sentence passed in Penza today in the so-called Network case is a monstrous abuse of law and justice.
Young people tortured by the law enforcement and the investigation so that to get “confessions” received from six to 18 years of imprisonment. The defendants made statements about this at the trial and retracted these “confessions”.
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Posted: February 13th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“Teodor Shanin helped our country at a practical level in the most difficult moments, because he knew Russia’s potential well”
Condolences by Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, 4.02.2020
Photo: Teodor Shanin
Today, Teodor Shanin, outstanding social scientist and founder of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (“Shaninka”) passed away in his 90th year.
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party:
Teodor Shanin was an amazing person, with a fate extraordinary even for the 20th century. His strength of mind, intellectual power, independence and ability to practically conduct business are fascinating. “Shaninka”, his brainchild in Moscow, has become one of the best education and research centres. I am sure that it will continue working, despite all the difficulties, and will preserve the traditions laid down by its founder, as well as the atmosphere of free-thinking and intellectual celebration.
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Posted: February 4th, 2020 under Condolences.
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The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko has published an open letter to the Governor with a request to give a permission for the March of Memory of Boris Nemtsov
Press Release, 4.02.2020
The organisers of the march in memory of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in Nizhny Novgorod sent an open letter to Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, with a request to assist in getting a permission for the event.
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Posted: February 4th, 2020 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg and Saria Saburskaya, Ombudsperson of the Republic of Tatarstan, defend arrested activists Yelena Izotova and Anatoly Malov
Press Release 3.02, 2020
Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Yelena Izotova
On 16 January, Lev Shlosberg, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies and member of the Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, addressed Sariya Saburskaya, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Tatarstan, in connection with administrative arrests of Yelena Izotova, leader of the Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in the Republic of Tatarstan and eco-activist, and civil activist Anatoly Malov.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk for the second time submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly a package of bills on the need to government to respect the people
Press Release, 3.02.2020
Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk
Yabloko MPs of the Pskov Regional Assembly Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk for the second time submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly a package of bills on the need to government to respect the people.
Yabloko’s bills represent a direct political and legal response to Federal Law No. 28-FZ “On Amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses” dated March 18, 2019, which introduced citizens’ responsibility for “explicit disrespect” for bodies exercising state power and local self-government in Russia.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko creates a party commission to draft constitutional amendments alternative to Vladimir Putin’s
Press Release, 31.01.2020
Yabloko has created a party commission to draft constitutional amendments alternative to those of President Putin’s. This decision was made today by the Party Bureau. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will head the commission. The Executive Secretary of the commission will be Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman.
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Posted: January 31st, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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