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Activists of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko conducted a series of one-person pickets, that do not require a permission from the authorities, in support of defendants in politically motivated criminal cases instituted as part of the so-called the “Moscow riots” case when people protested against non-registration of opposition candidates in the Moscow parliamentary election. The action was held in the centre of Kazan. During a series of pickets, party members and supporters demanded the release of those deprived of their liberty and accused in participation in the “mass riots” on 27 July, 2019, as well as drop charges against them and close criminal cases.
On Monday, 23 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, will arrive in St. Petersburg to meet with the party’s municipal deputies who won the election.
Following the results of the elections of 8 September, Yabloko received representation in 31 municipal districts of St. Petersburg, 81 candidates nominated or supported by Yabloko got their mandates.
In two districts – Liteyny and Vladimirsky – Yabloko has a majority: 11 municipal deputies out of 20 and 12 deputies out of 20 deputies, respectively. The party formed large fractions in the Smolninskoye municipal district (seven deputies) and Malaya Okhta (eight deputies).
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin, Daria Besedina, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Maxim Kruglov.
Yevgeny Bunimovich, Deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party and Honored Teacher of Russia, will head the Commission on Education in the Moscow parliament.
Photo: Boris Misnik, Jan Raczynski and Emilia Slabunova
Today, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow decided not to consider the claim of the Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Karelian Public Prosecutor’s Office on checking the legality of the excavations of the graves of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals by the Russian Military Historical Society in Sandarmokh, due to the fact that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office had not submitted its objections. Slabunova file a lawsuit on 3 July.
Statement by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, 18.09.2019
The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko does not recognise the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg as having taken place. It was nothing more than an act of appointing [acting Governor] Alexander Beglov, sent to our city by President Vladimir Putin, [as Governor]. The procedure when the strongest competitors of a candidate from the party in power are removed from participation by different ways and means cannot be called elections, and the declared winner is not an elected Governor. We consider Alexander Beglov to be the same appointee as he was before.
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, left the conference hall of the St. Petersburg parliament before the start of the ceremony of inauguration of Alexander Beglov as Governor of St. Petersburg.
Yelena Vakhtina, deputy from the Yabloko party, formed a faction in the Council of Deputies of the Central Region. The goal of the faction is to implement the Healthy Changes programme for the Chelyabinsk.
Maxim Kruglov, deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party, addressed Valentin Gorbunov, head of the Moscow Electoral Commission, during taking the oath. Kruglov blamed Gorbunov on the reprisals against those protesting in the streets for fair elections and said that the Yabloko faction would seek his resignation.
Olga Pokrovskaya indicated in her dissenting opinion, that the elections were held with numerous violations of the law.
Press Release, 17.09.2019
Olga Pokrovskaya, member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission with a casting vote from Yabloko, expressed her dissenting opinion, noting that she disagreed with the decision of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission to approve the results of the St. Petersburg gubernatorial elections.
The brochure contains investigations, analytics, and an account of the centre activities.
Press Release, 17.09.2019
Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre party launched a report on its work in 2018. The brochure presents investigations, examinations and analytics prepared by the Centre.
Lawyers of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko will challenge the results of municipal elections in the city in 12 electoral districts where they were rigged. At least 24 mandates were stolen from Yabloko only through direct substitution of reals bulletins by fakes and subsequent recounting of ballots.
The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow will consider the lawsuit of Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Karelia for their refusal to examine on merit the excavations of the graves of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals by the Russian Military Historical Society in Sandarmokh.
However, at least 24 mandates were stolen from Yabloko
Press Release, 16.09.2019
The St. Petersburg municipal campaign was successful for Yabloko: 95 candidates who were nominated or supported by the party were elected municipal deputies. The party received a majority in two districts (Liteiny and Vladimirsky), as well as the largest factions in the Smolninskoye and Malaya Okhta municipalities. In addition, the Yabloko team received 13 seats out of 20 in the Murino municipal district (50.000 residents), which is located on the border of the Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg.
Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found out that the fund that rendered support to Valeria Kasamara, candidate to the Moscow City Duma, received a grant from the Mayor of Moscow.
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Peterburg, with elected deputies of the Vladimirsky municipal district of St.Petersburg
The electoral commissions of the municipalities of the Vladimirsky district and the Liteiny district confirmed the victory of Yabloko. The voting results of the electoral commissions could not be drawn up for several days. In the Vladimirsky region, the victory of Yabloko was confirmed only after a voters gathering, the party received 12 mandates out of 20, the following candidates were elected deputies: Yelena Andrusenko, Yevgeny Toporov, Alexander Koretsky, Valery Shaposhnikov, Denis Tikhonenko, Dmitry Prytkov, Vitaly Bovar, Elizaveta Silayeva, Ilya Stadnik , Irina Gaysina, Denis Smirnykh and Denis Lugovsky.
The electoral commission of the municipality of Smolninskoye approved the election results. The victory in the municipality, on the territory of which the building of the government of St. Petersburg is located, was won by candidates from Yabloko. The party got seven mandates there, activists of the movement “The Central District for a Comfortable Living Environment” obtained six mandates and the activists from the headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny got three mandates. The election results were announced only on 12 September; almost four days after the voting. Before that candidates were trying to make the electoral commission enter the data on voting into the GAS Vybory system for more than a day.
Termination of judicial and criminal prosecution of citizens for political reasons. Muscovites, who actively express their protest against systematic fraud of elections be authorities, have every reason to protest, including in the form of peaceful demonstrations and rallies. Political reprisals must be stopped immediately, sentences canceled. A decision obliging the Moscow authorities to ensure safety of residents of Moscow must be adopted, beatings of peaceful protesters must be completely ruled out.
A press conference of the Moscow City Duma deputies from the Yabloko party will be held at the Press Centre of the Interfax news agency on Monday, September 16, at 14:00. The topic of the press-conference is “Election results and work plan of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma”.
On the night of September 11-12, the electoral commission of the municipality Ostrov Dekabristov (Vasileostrovsky District) drew up the election results. The electoral commission manually recounted all ballots in one of the two constituencies (constituency No 22) because of a “typographical error”: there was a small black dot in the forms opposite the name of Natalya Ivanova, candidate from the ruling United Russia party, which was allegedly counted as votes by ballot paper processing machines. However, after the recount, it turned out that Ivanova, another United Russia candidate Olga Poghosyan and LDPR candidate Anastasia Davydova, got the majority, ousting Yabloko representatives, instead of getting a lower number of votes.
