Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
The working group of the territorial electoral commission of the city of Karabulak rejected 14 of the 84 signatures of citizens that the regional branch of the Yabloko party submitted to the electoral commission to take part in the elections to the City Council. After verification, the party candidates had less than 76 signatures, the minimum required for registration.
Yelena Rusakova, unregistered Yabloko candidate to the Moscow City Duma in the electoral district No. 37, submitted an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for a rally on 10 August.
Rusakova asks for permission to march from Strastnoy Boulevard to Academician Sakharov Prospect or conduct a rally Sakharov Prspect, or Volkhonka street or Free Russia Square.
She indicated in the application that the estimated number of participants of the action is 10,000 people.
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, 29.07.2019
Open lawlessness and insolent violation of the rights and freedoms of citizens in Moscow have become more widespread in recent days and weeks: beatings of people by police and military, arrests, searches in the middle of the night, and deliberate falsification by the authorities of the procedure of verification of voters’ signatures the candidates had to collect to be registered in the election. It is obvious that the authorities are unable to organise a normal electoral process. Given all this, the political demands of the opposition should be as follows:
Statement by the Saratov branch of Yabloko, 29.07.2019
Photo: Alexander Yermishin and Vera Afanasyeva
On 28 July, 2019, the Kirovsky District Court of the City of Saratov dismissed the claim of Vera Afanasyeva, candidate from the Yabloko party, to district electoral commission No. 10 for the refusal to register her as a candidate for the by-election to the Saratov City Duma of the fifth convocation.
Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich, Grigory Yavlinsky and Valery Borschyov
Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow and registered candidate for the election to the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party, appealed to Oleg Baranov, head of the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, and Oleg Manakov, acting Public Prosecutor of Moscow, demanding to check the lawfulness of the detention of minors at the protest action of 27 July. The protest action support of unregistered opposition candidates did not get a permission from the authorities and was held on Saturday 27 July, 47 minors were detained during the action. The Ombudsman condemned the use of violence against the protesters by the law enforcement.
Yevgeny Bunimovich took part in the action along with other members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee – Grigory Yavlinsky, Valery Borschyo, Boris Misnik and Sergei Mitrokhin.
Candidates for deputies to the City Council of Karabulak, nominated by the Ingush regional branch of the Yabloko party, submitted to the electoral commission the documents and voters’ signatures collected in support of their nomination and required for registration. The territorial electoral commission of Karabulak will have to check all the submitted documents and signatures, and then make a decision on registration until 3 August.
Members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky, Valery Borschyov, Boris Misnik, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Sergei Mitrokhin participate in the a meeting of candidates to the Moscow City Duma with voters by the Moscow Mayor’s Office.
On Saturday 27 June, after the mass arrest of participants of the action in support of unregistered candidates for the elections to the Moscow City Duma, Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, published a petition on the change.org platform.
Yesterday they beat and detained Russian citizens in Moscow, those who dared to defend their rights, speak out against humiliation and disrespect, express their outrage and protest against the perversion of the meaning of the elections in a peaceful and completely civil manner.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr. was a very good person and journalist – serious and deep. The best of his creative years fell on the time of our common hopes for change. He in many ways personified the true freedom of speech.
Candidates nominated by the Yabloko party are in the process of receiving registration for election campaigns at different levels throughout the country.
Alexander Sorokin, Chairman of the regional branch of the party in the Tver region and environmentalist, will take part in the by-election to the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region in constituency No. 19. Sergei Trapeznikov, former head of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Tomsk Region, will run in the election of deputies of the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk Region in district No. 5.
Over 3,000 people came out to protest against criminal arbitrariness of the authorities in banning opposition to run in the municipal and gubernatorial elections in St. Petersburg. The rally was organised with the support of the regional branch of the Yabloko party. Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg, and Maxim Katz, head of the Yabloko election headquarters in the municipal elections in St. Petersburg, addressed the rally.
Statement by Yabloko candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma, 25.07.2019
We are outraged by the transformation of the elections to the Moscow City Duma into a kind of special forces raid. The launch of a repressive machine demonstrates the inadequacy of the authorities, their fear of free and independent people.
To the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation
OPEN LETTER
According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 18), the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen determine the meaning, content and application of laws, as well as the meaning of the activities of state and municipal bodies, including electoral commissions, which are endowed by law with certain powers of all the three branches of power, including implementation of the function of justice in the consideration of complaints of violation of constitutional electoral rights.
The police refused to initiate a criminal case on threats to Nikita Antonenko, activist of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko and candidate for deputy in the Nizhny Novgorod Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 24. According to law enforcement officers, they did not identify any real threat to Yabloko’s candidate.
Representatives of the Yabloko party will take part in 14 election campaigns of different levels in 13 regions of the Russian Federation. In many regions, registration of candidates has not ended yet. Many Yabloko candidates have not been registered in the elections or are facing difficulties with being registered in the race.
Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko’s candidate to the Moscow City Duma for electoral district No 43 and member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, participated in the meeting of unregistered candidates to the Moscow parliament with Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission. Mitrokhin stated that the procedure of verification of signatures by electoral commissions was completely “discredited and delegitimised,” therefore the only way out of this situation is registration of all candidates who have collected the required number of voters’ signatures.
Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and head of its election headquarters, sent five complaints to the Moscow Electoral Commission on the refusal of district electoral commissions to register Yabloko candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections. Yesterday, district electoral commissions refused to register Andrei Babushkin (district No. 11), Anastasia Bryukhanova (district No. 42), Kirill Goncharov (district No. 32), Sergei Mitrokhin (district No. 43) and Yelena Rusakova (district No. 37).
The St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party will take part in a rally against arbitrariness in the elections, which will be held in Lenin Square by the Finlandskiy Railway Station on 24 July at 19:00. Representatives of about 30 political parties, public movements and organisations of St. Petersburg plan to attend the rally.
The conference of the Ingush regional branch of the Yabloko party nominated a list of candidates for deputies of the Karabulak City Council. On July 22, the Territorial Electoral Commission of the city of Karabulak certified the list of candidates for deputies of the City Council nominated by Yabloko.
