Stop persecution of activists opposing lawlessness with garbage deposits on Shies!
Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 4.12.2019
The Bureau of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko considers the situation in the area of the Shies railway station (the Arkhangelsk region) unacceptable due to dangerous plans for allocation of landfills for the Moscow municipal waste. This situation is a vivid example of the lack of a clear state policy in the field of municipal waste management and the adoption of this by society.
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Posted: December 9th, 2019 under Environmental Policies, Political Committee Decisions, Protection of Environment.
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The Moscow office of Yabloko has become a collection point for New Year’s gifts for homeless people
Press Release, 4.12.2019
From December 2 to 22, the Nochlezhka charity organisation engaged in provision of aid to homeless people collects gifts for homeless as part of the annual campaign. The gifts from homeless will include food-stuffs and things that will help a person in daily survival. The Moscow office of the Yabloko party (Pyatnitskaya, 31) has become one of the collection points for such gifts.
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Posted: December 6th, 2019 under Charity, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party demands to stop pressure on society
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 4.12.2019
The campaign of political reprisals has been intensifying in Russia.
Vladimir Putin’s regime uses both state institutions and the law for prosecution of political opponents, as well as intimidation and defamation of people through specially created as well as existing criminal structures.
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Posted: December 6th, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions.
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On the dangers of eliminating the international nuclear arms control system
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019
The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses its deep concern over the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the US intention to withdraw from the Open Sky Treaty, and the uncertain prospects for extending the existing or concluding a new strategic offensive arms reduction (START) treaty.
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Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-US Relations, The Russian Army.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko will open a local party branch and a branch of the Deputy’s School in Miass
Press Release, 4.12.2019
On Saturday, December 7, the first after a long pause meeting of the Miass local branch of the Yabloko party will take place in Miass, the Chelyabinsk region. The meeting will elect the Chairperson of this Yabloko branch, deputy chairs and members of the local Council. Also a meeting-lecture for those wishing to become candidates for deputies, interviews for those wishing to join the party, as well as registration of supporters will take place during the event.
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Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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The conference of St. Petersburg Yabloko re-elected the governing bodies of the Yabloko branch and sent delegates to the congress
Press Release, 3.12.2019
On Sunday, December 1, the 19th Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko was held. The conference elected Chairperson of the St. Petersburg branch of the party, the Regional Council and the Control and Review Commission of the branch.
The conference also elected delegates to the party Congress, which will be held in Moscow in the second week of December.
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Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko opened a local party branch in Magnitogorsk
Press Release, 3.12.2019
On 30 November, Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of Yabloko, opened the local branch of the party in Magnitogorsk, the Chelyabinsk region.
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Posted: December 4th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing.
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On Russia’s polices in the Middle East and Africa
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 3.12.2019
The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko notes the dangerous counterproductiveness of Russia’s policies in the Middle East: the country did not gain allies there but got bogged down in a strange, endless civil war that claimed thousands of lives.
In 2015, the Russian leadership promised that the operation in Syria would last less than a year, then it was announced several times that the operation had been completed and the troops had been withdrawn, and now Vladimir Putin has announced that the Russian army will remain in Syria until the Syrian leadership asks it to leave, that is, to infinity.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2019 under Foreign policy, Political Committee Decisions, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko demanded from public prosecutors from 43 regions to amend the regional laws on rallies
Press Release, 3.12.2019
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, appealed to public prosecutors of 43 regions of Russia with a request to control the changes in regional laws on rallies in order to bring them in line with the Russian Constitution. Earlier this year, the Constitutional Court passed a ruling that effectively prohibits regional authorities from refusing to hold public rallies because of the proximity of rallies to government buildings, obstruction of transport, or difficulty in accessing social institutions.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Stop torturing Alexander Shestun!
Statement by the Yabloko party, 2.12.2019
Photo by Kommersant/Dmitry Lebedev
The Yabloko party is closely following the case of Alexander Shestun, former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region.
During the investigation and trial, the investigators committed numerous violations, such as inappropriate conditions of detention, use of physical force, and failure to provide medical assistance to a defendant with diabetes. The measures applied to Shestun, in particular, bringing him unconscious to court, do not at all correspond to the gravity of a possible crime. In response to such tratment, Shestun began a hunger strike on 26 November, 2019.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2019 under Human Rights.
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Sergei Ivanenko elected new Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 30.11.2019
The Conference of the Moscow branch of Yabloko elected Sergei Ivanenko, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, new Chairman of the party’s regional branch in Moscow for a two-year term.
Sergei Ivanenko is a Russian economist, candidate of economic sciences, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko. In 1993-2003 he was Yabloko MP of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: December 2nd, 2019 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Без рубрики.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko went on a picket for the abolition of unconstitutional restrictions on pickets and rallies
Press Release, 29.11.2019
A picket was held by the entrance to the Kaliningrad Regional Duma, which in 2012 imposed restrictions on the holding of peaceful meetings. Its organiser was the regional branch of the Yabloko party and Yabloko managed to get a permission from the authorities for this picket. Earlier Yabloko had submitted relevant appeals to the regional parliament and the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Kaliningrad region.
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Posted: December 2nd, 2019 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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The Tatarstan branch of Yabloko will hold a round table on domestic violence
Press Release, 29.11.2019
The regional branch of the Yabloko party will hold a round table on prevention of domestic violence in Russia in Kazan on 30 November.
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Posted: November 29th, 2019 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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An academic conference on political reprisals in Russia was held at the Samara branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 29.11.2019
On 24 November, an academic conference on political reprisals in Russia was organised by the Samara regional branch of the Yabloko party.
The reports were made by candidate of historical sciences Stanislav Repinetsky, members of the Yabloko party, candidates of historical sciences Igor Nefedov and Sergey Tselikov. At the end of the event, Nikita Mikhalenko, member of the board of the Samara branch of Yabloko, also made a report.
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Posted: November 29th, 2019 under History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in Moscow City Duma: Stop repressions against the Anti-Corruption Fund!
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, 29.11.2019
Searches have been going on throughout the country at the offices of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) for several months already. The equipment and property of the organisation are seized, employees are summoned for endless interrogations. It is clear that such actions by the authorities are politically motivated and aim to paralyse the activities of the organisation that they do not like. Harassment of FBK employees and supporters, confusing charges of laundering funds with extremely vague wordings, adding the organisation to the list of “foreign agents” on the basis of two transfers of two private individuals, endless searches and detention of everyone associated with the activities of this organisation – all this represent recognisable actions, the familiar handwriting of frightened and disoriented security officials. All this is a continuation of reprisals, the path of which the authorities took this summer.
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Posted: November 29th, 2019 under The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “The authorities behave like a skilful cheater”
Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, came to discuss Yabloko’s further development strategy in the Kamchatka Territory and communicate with supporters, party members and civic activists of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
AiF at Kamchatka, 28.11.2019
Real politics emerges on the [Kamchatka] peninsula
– Where our party comes, there real politics emerges. Because it is a real alternative. We can say that this is a marker of a healthy political life in the region. The party always leads a political discussion and struggle for power taking into account our values. The party’s election success this year is a sign that there is a request for real political forces in the country.
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Posted: November 29th, 2019 under Elections.
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The administration of the Russian Social Sciences University canceled the meeting of Yabloko’s Moscow MP Maxim Kruglov with students. The rector of the university lost the election to Kruglov
Press Release, 28.11.2019
The administration of the Russian State Social Sciences University canceled the meeting of Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, with students. Kruglov wrote about this on his Facebook page.
The meeting was to be held this afternoon in the main building of the Russian State State Social Sciences University at the initiative of the student scientific society of the university. The organisers got a permission for the meeting at the dean’s office.
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Posted: November 29th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma.
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Emilia Slabunova on the voting of for Yabloko’s amendments for draft budget of Karelia in the Karelian parliament: the ruling United Russia party manages the budget not in the interests of voters
Press Release, 28.11.2019
Today, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia did not support amendments of the Yabloko faction to the draft budget of the Republic of Karelia for 2020. The bill was examined in the second reading.
“The behaviour of the deputies clearly demonstrates that they understand the importance and necessity of our amendments, but at the same time they bring up inconsistent arguments, they dodge as best they can in order to block the amendments. They constantly turn to the government with a request to express the position of the executive branch, that is, they demonstrate their helplessness. They say that local authorities did not apply to them on this issue. At the same time, according to other amendments based on requests from the local authorities, they also vote “against” if they have made such a political decision,” that is how Emilia Slabunova, the author of the amendments and Chair of Yabloko, assesses the actions of Karelian parliamentarians.
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Posted: November 29th, 2019 under Economy, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko will open a local party branch and a branch of the Deputy’s School in Magnitogorsk
Press Release, 28.11.2019
On Saturday, November 30, the first meeting of the Magnitogorsk local branch of the Yabloko party will take place in Magnitogorsk. The meeting will elect the Chairperson of the Magnitogorsk branch of the party, deputy chairs and members of the local Council. A meeting-lecture for those wishing to become candidates for deputies, interviews for those wishing to join the party, as well as registration of supporters will take place during the event.
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Posted: November 29th, 2019 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Без рубрики.
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The Executive Committee of Liberal International adopted a resolution on “Free political prisoners in Russia and ensure free and fair elections”
Press Release, 28.11.2019
The 203rd Executive Committee meeting of Liberal International (LI) in Fès, Morocco, on November 22-24, 2019, adopted a resolution “Free political prisoners in Russia and ensure free and fair elections”. The Executive Committee joined together 80 delegates and guests from 32 LI member parties.
The resolution was submitted by the Liberal International full member party Yabloko. Yabloko has been member of Liberal International – the association of world liberals – since 1998.
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Posted: November 28th, 2019 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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