Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
As a result of the special operation carried out by the authorities to destroy Russian statehood, the Constitution, with amendments of 2020 and “resetting” the presidential terms personally for Vladimir Putin, was removed from the legal framework. The process of destruction of law throughout the country has been launched.
Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko, expressed his opinion that journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva did not end up with the six years in the colony, as the Public Prosector had been asking, thanks to the wide publicity, which did not allow lawlessness to be committed behind closed doors. But the only fair decision would be to declare the Pskov journalist innocent and release her from criminal liability, Shlosberg said.
Appeal by the Bureau of the Yabloko Party, 9.07.2020
The Yabloko party has always supported and will continue to support the struggle of residents of the Chelyabinsk region against the unlawful construction by AO The Russian Copper Company, which is fully controlled by offshore companies, of the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant, a first-class hazard enterprise in the immediate vicinity of the city of Chelyabinsk.
A dissenting opinion of the Yabloko member of the St.Petersbrug Electoral Commission
Press Release, 9.07.2020
Olga Pokrovskaya, member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission with a casting vote from the Yabloko party and Chair of the Party Arbitration, refused to vote for approving the protocol of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission on the results of voting in St. Petersburg at the All-Russian vote on the approval of Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. Following the vote on amendements in St. Petersburg, Pokrovskaya as member of the City Electoral Commission attached her dissenting opinion to the protocol.
Members and supporters of the Tomsk regional branch of the Yabloko party are summoned to the police, where they have to give explanations about a group photo in which activists are pictured with leaflets “I am for the Constitution without nullification and amendments”.
Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Stavropol Territory, received threats from unidentified persons. The activist found a note with threats in his postbox on 8 July. The note ran that if Ronald Ayrapetyan came out again to protest against Putin, he would go to jail.
Ivan Bolshakov on the new law on the inadmissibility of violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation
Ivan Bolshakov’s Facebook post, 8.07.2020
They introduced the first bill for implementation of the new Constitution – [targeted at] declaring those who allegedly call for a violation of the territorial integrity of the country as extremists.
Ivan Safronov, former correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, was detained on suspicion of treason. The apartment of Taisiya Bekbulatova, Editor-in-Chief of Kholod.Media, was searched. Journalists’ colleagues were detained during [solidarity] single pickets [that do not require any permissions from the authorities] near the Federal Security Service building in Moscow.
On June 21, the conference of the Arkhangelsk regional branch of Yabloko nominated Oleg Mandrykin, representative of the STOP-SHIES coalition, as a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk region in the forthcoming election.
Vitaly Ilyin elected Chairman of the Yabloko regional branch
Press Release, 6.07.2020
On July 5, the Kemerovo regional branch of the Yabloko party held a conference on the election of its governing bodies. The conference was attended by 11 delegates from Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk.
On July 4, the Conference of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party was held. The Conference nominated candidates for the coming municipal elections in the Nizhny Novgorod region, as well as the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod.
The Bureau of the Yabloko party considers the conviction of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva not only the result of a fabricated “case”, but also the actual destruction of the right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by Article 29 of the Constitution of Russia. Despite the fact that the sentence is not related to deprivation of freedom, we regard it as unlawful and unfair and certainly subject to cancellation.
The main result of the caricatured “nationwide vote” is directly opposite to what the Kremlin intended.
The indicators of the allegedly unanimous support of the “amendments to the Constitution” that are joyfully broadcasted by the Central electoral Commission do not matter. The fact that it would be announced that there would be, roughly, 75 per cent “for” and 25 per cent “against”, was clear back in March. Without any “voting”.
However, they wanted to get a “holiday of nullification”, a triumphal plebiscite, demonstration of popular support for Putin — but they got an obvious disgrace.
On June 29, Arina Gerasimova, a member of the Yabloko party, came to the polling station of the precinct electoral commission No. 53 of Saratov. The members of the commission refused to give her a ballot due to the fact that her signature was in the voters book and she had allegedly voted already.
Ivan Bolshakov on the results of the “All-Russia vote” on Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments
Facebook post by Ivan Bolshakov, 2.07.2020
A miracle has not happened and could not happen. Certainly, the results announced by the Central Electoral Commission have nothing to do with reality. The “All-Russian voting” was reduced to an absurd post-modern show humiliating voters. Persistent campaigning calling voters to come to polling stations in the situation of COVID epidemic became a marker of cynicism and moral “nullification” of the government in the eyes of millions of Russian citizens.
Yabloko does not recognise Vladimir Putin’s “plebescite” on consitutional amendments and its results. Such a statment was made by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov:
Today, on 1 July, 2020, the false and unlawful special operation Constitution 2020 will be completed ingloriously.
Its purpose and meaning is to put President Vladimir Putin beyond the limits of presidential terms, out of voting rules, out of reach of court and above the law; to consolidate in the Basic Law of Russia the lawlessness and arbitrariness that have developed in our country over the past decades.
The Yabloko party Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found unexpectedly expensive elite real estate (worth almost 0.5 billion roubles) from Talia Khabriyeva, one of the key authors of Putin’s amendments to the Constitution. The investigation is published here.
The deputy of the regional Duma, who was taking the leaflets to the Yabloko office, is facing administrative responsibility
Press Release, 29.06.2020
The police seized leaflets against the reset of Vladimir Putin’s presidential terms from Dmitry Anufriyev, Chairman of the Astrakhan branch of Yabloko and MP of the Astrakhan Regional Duma.
Anufriyev’s car was stopped when he left the printing house with Yabloko leaflets against Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments. The leaflets set out the main points of the alternative amendments prepared by the Yabloko party – the Constitution of Free People.
Vitaly Zubenko, Chairman of the Stavropol branch of Yabloko, filed an application with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Stavropol Territory about abuse of power by police officers. The leader of the regional branch of the party asks the Public Prosecutor to verify the legality of the detention of Ronald Ayrapetyan, member of the Yabloko party who, on June 26, went on a single picket (such pickets do not require any permissions from the authorities) to the Kislovodsk Mayor’s office with a placard against changing the Constitution and “resetting” the presidential terms. After a “conversation” with threats in the police office he was released without a protocol being drawn up. The police tried to exert pressure on the activist.
A “popular vote” to amend the Constitution is like a rape. That is, it resembles coercing into something that you initially did not want and what should not have happened, and the longer and more persistently they persuade you, the more disgusting it becomes. Now people, even if they vote, do not understand at all why they need it, and, certainly, they feel cheating.
