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The politician visits Novgorod to support party candidates
Press Release, 4.09.2019
Photo: Maxim Petrov, Emilia Slabunova and Anna Cherepanova
Yabloko Chairperson Emilia Slabunova is on visit in Novgorod, north-west Russia, to support 76 party candidates in elections at different levels that are taking place in the region.
Nikolai Rybakov, head of the Yabloko election headquarters, forwarded appeals to Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Interior, and Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, demanding that they take under personal control the checks on Yabloko’s complaints about unprecedented violations during the Moscow City Duma’s election in electoral district No. 6 of Moscow (Khovrino, Golovinsky, Levoberezhniy and Western Degunino).
The Investigative Committee has stopped the criminal prosecution of Yabloko activist Valery Kostenok and four other defendants accused of participation in the “riots” in Moscow on 27 July.
As follows from the message on the website of the Investigative Committee, “the decision was made by the investigators based on the results of an objective legal assessment of all the materials studied, including video recordings of surveillance cameras”.
Alexander Kolotov, leader of the Green Russia faction of the Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko, reflects on the government decision to abandon the economic forum in Krasnoyarsk:
Photo: Vladislav Barabanov, photo by Vlad Dokshin, Novaya Gazeta
The Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko collects personal guarantees to change the measure of restraint to Vladislav Barabanov charged under the “Moscow riots” case.
The Moscow Regional Court overturned the decision of the City Court of Sergiev Posad and withdrew Nikita Smirnov and Boris Fadeyev, Yabloko candidates, from the City Council elections. The court also dismissed the appeal of another candidate Igor Bolshakov, who had previously been removed from the election by the city court.
Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and environmentalist, visited Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, on 1 September. Together with Vera Kerpel, registered candidate for the State Council of Tatarstan, who is running in Volzhsky District No. 31 (the city of Zelenodolsk and part of the territory of Zelenodolsky District), the politician met with residents of the village of Osinovo who disagree with officials’ plans to build an incineration plant near their homes.
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova arrived in Vladikavkaz, capital of North Ossetia-Alania, on a two-day visit so that to support Yabloko candidates in the election to the Assembly of City Representatives.
The stand of the Yabloko party (R-6) will function at the Moscow International Book Fair which will be held in Pavilion No. 75 of VDNKh exhibition (Exhibition of Economic Achievements) from September 4 through to September 8.
On 3 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will visit Novgorod, north-west Russia, to support party candidates in elections of different levels that will be held in the region.
On Saturday, August 31, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, met with Yabloko candidates for deputies to the Council of Chelyabinsk Districts and local residents. The politician visited the socio-political exhibition, which annually takes place in the park named after Yuri Gagarin. A meeting of voters with candidates for deputies and Yaroslav Shcherbakov, head of the regional branch of the Yabloko party, was held by the party’s stand. Rybakov took part in the distribution of leaflets, brochures and newspapers of the Yabloko party and presented Yabloko programme to Chelyabinsk residents.
On 15 August, activists of the Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party held an action “I Want Changes” in the centrer of Kazan. Yabloko members and supporters conducted a series of one-person pickets that do not require a permission from the authorities. The action was timed to the day of memory of Soviet singer and songwriter Viktor Tsoi (who died on 15 August, 1990), who became in icon of the Russian rock during perestroika years. Many of his songs are about freedom and lines from his verse are often quoted in today’s Russia.
Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, stood with a banner “Our hearts demand changes”. Activist Gulnaz Ravilova held a poster with a quote from Viktor Tsoi’s song “I was waiting for this time, and now this time has come. Those who were silent ceased to be silent”. Yelena Izotova stood with a placard, “If there is a herd, there is a shepherd, if there is a body, there must be a spirit”. In addition, activists handed out leaflets to the citizens of Kazan with the words “Our hearts demand changes”.
After violent beatings of peaceful protesters in Moscow by masked police officers, Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, proposed to “deanonimise” law enforcement officers by placing their individual numbers on uniforms and helmets of police and the Russian Guard officers during public events that allows to identify them.
The Moscow City Court will consider an appeal against the preventive measure for Valery Kostenok, activist of the Yabloko party, on Wednesday, 21 August, at 12:30. The hearing will take place in the room No. 225.
Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Party’s Federal Political Committee, came to the Presnensky District Court of Moscow to personally vouch for the civil activist Konstantin Kotov, who is accused of “repeated violations of the order of holding public events” under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code envisaging up to five years of imprisonment.
Twelve people have already been arrested on the so-called “mass-scale riots case”. They want to ruin the lives of these young people for general intimidation. I was at all the rallies and processions of recent weeks, including 27 July. I did not see any “mass-scale riots” in the streets of Moscow. But what I saw there was the brutal dispersal by the security forces of civilians who took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the lies of the authorities. And all of Russia saw this
Regional branches of the Yabloko party took part in the All-Russian Campaign for Fair Elections and Against Arbitrariness of the Authorities held on 10 August. Party members attended rallies and pickets in Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Irkutsk and other cities.
Emilia Slabunova, Chair of the Yabloko party, asked Public Prosecutor General to check the lawfulness of the criminal case on the mass riots and the use of violence against representatives of the authorities after the protests in Moscow, as well as the lawfulness of the detention of the persons involved in the case. Slabunova sent a similar appeal to the Moscow Public Prosecutor’s office. Slabunova also asked the Commissioners for Human Rights of Russia and Moscow to send same inquiries to the Public Prosecutor General.
20-year-old Valery Kostenok is a third-year student at Kosygin’s Russian State University, Faculty of Standardization and Metrology. He came to Yablopko in 2017. Valery participated in municipal elections, worked in the presidential campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky in 2018, and was a volunteer in the election headquarters of Kirill Goncharov, Yabloko candidate for deputies of the Moscow City Duma, in the summer of 2019.
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin at the mass rally for fair elections in Sakharov Prospect, August 10, 2019.
“The Moscow City Court made a decision that upheld Mitrokhin’s administrative claim, overruled the decision of the district electoral commission not to register him as a candidate, and ordered the district electoral commission for elections to the Moscow City Duma of the 7th convocation to register Mitrokhin as candidate for deputy in single-mandate constituency No. 43,” Ulyana Solopova, Press Secretary of the court told Interfax. According to her, “the court’s decision is to be executed immediately”.
