The democratic opposition supported the nomination of Yabloko’s Alexander Lazutin as a candidate for Governor of the Kostroma region
Press Release, 17.06.2020
The Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko, the environmental movement For Life, and the public organisation People’s Power decided to support the nomination of Alexander Lazutin, Chairman of the Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko and Director General of Shunga agricultural enterprise, as a candidate for the gubernatorial elections that will be held in the Kostroma region on September 13.
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Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Deputy from Yabloko actress Alexandra Yakovleva gets the title of an honorary citizen of Kaliningrad
Press Release, 17.06.2020
Alexander Yakovleva, deputy from the Yabloko party in the City Council of Kaliningrad and an actress, was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Kaliningrad.
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Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Bashkiria calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the WW2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa during the epidemic
Press Release, 17.06.2020
Albert Khusainov, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria, sent an appeal to the head of the region Radiy Khabirov. The leader of the regional branch of Yabloko calls the regional authorities to abolish a parade commemorating victory in the World War 2 and a procession of the Immortal Regiment in Ufa in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.
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Posted: June 18th, 2020 under Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Condolences on the death of Academician Andrei Vorobyov
17.06.2020
We deeply grieve over the death of Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov, a wonderful person and a great doctor, who was close to us.
Sincerely,
the Yabloko party
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Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov (November 1, 1928 – June 15, 2020) – Soviet and Russian hematologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, doctor of medical sciences, Director of the Research Institute of Hematology and Intensive Care, head of the Department of Hematology and Intensive Care of the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education. First Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation.
In 2019, after the high-profile case of Ivan Golunov [when a journalist exposing corruption was arrested in connection with drugs that were planted to him by police], Academician Vorobyov turned to the President of the Russian Federation with a proposal to review all sentences under articles on drugs, “Who else could have been illegally arrested, was innocently convicted, received incomparable punishment under these articles? The case of Ivan Golunov again raised the question of repressive drug policies in the Russian Federation. The answer should be a radical reform of the criminal prosecution system for drug-related crimes”. Dozens of academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences spoke in support of Andrei Vorobyov’s appeal.
Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Condolences, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yelena Dubrovina: The new law on the population register violates basic constitutional rights of citizens
Special for the web-site of Yabloko, 17.06.2020
Photo: Yelena Dubrovina
The Centre for Legislative Initiatives of the Yabloko party prepared an expert opinion on the federal law “On the Unified Federal Information Register Containing Information on the Population of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as the Law “On the Register”), which has recently entered into force. Dr. Yelena Dubrovina, head of the Centre, told about the main conclusions of a multi-page study:
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Posted: June 17th, 2020 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The European Court for Human Rights awarded EUR 19.500 to the head of Yabloko’s environmental faction beaten by police during a demonstration in 2007
Press Release, 16.06.2020
Photo: bruised Olga Tsepilova
On 16 June, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued a decision on the case of the participants of the March of Dissent who were beaten by the police forces during the March in St.Petersburg on April 15, 2007. Riot policemen roughly dispersed about 60 people, including passers-by who did not participate in the March. Olga Tsepilova, Chair of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party, as well as passers-by Alexander Kazantsev and Natalia Kazantseva, were injured.
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Posted: June 16th, 2020 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko party nominated candidates for elections of deputies of the Ryazan Regional Duma
Press Release, 16.06.2020
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov
On 15 June, the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Ryazan Region was the first among political parties to nominate its candidates for deputies of the Ryazan Regional Duma. The list of candidates is topped by Konstantin Smirnov, journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the online magazine Vid Sboku (Side View).
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Posted: June 16th, 2020 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2020, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“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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