30.08.2018
1. Return the citizens control over the city.
Elect a new mayor via direct and competitive elections.
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Posted: September 2nd, 2018 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Yabloko’s programme for the 9 September 2018 elections to Krasnoyarsk City Council
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova to speak at a rally in Omsk against raising the retirement age
Press Release, 30.08.2018
On Sunday, 2 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova will come to Omsk to address the rally against raising the retirement age. The Omsk branch of Yabloko is a co-organiser of the rally. Yabloko’s Tatyana Nagibina will be the anchor at the rally.
The rally will take place at the address Omsk, Dekabristov 91 (square in front of the Blinov arena) from 12:00 to 14:00.
Posted: August 31st, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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The Buryat Regional Association for Lake Baikal will be headed by Natalia Tumureyeva, environmentalist and Chair of the regional branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 30.08.2018
Natalia Tumureyeva succeeded Sergei Shapkhayev, renowned academic and environmentalist, as head of the Buryat Regional Association on Lake Baikal. Natalia Tumureyeva is a former student of Sergei Shapkhayev, environmentalist and head of the local branch of the Yabloko party.
Posted: August 31st, 2018 under Protection of Environment.
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Emilia Slabunova: If there are Yabloko deputies in the City Duma of Yekaterinburg, it will be a new page in the history of the city
Press Release, 29.08.2018
The leaders of Yabloko went to the Russian regions to support Yabloko candidates in the 9 September elections.
The party Chair Emilia Slabunova visited Yekaterinburg, the Urals, to support party candidates in the city parliament (the City Duma). Yabloko put forward a strong team of united democratic coalition in the elections to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg.
Posted: August 30th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Sanctions and Prospects
The leader of Yabloko about that neither of the sides in the war between the Kremlin and Washington will have mercy on Russian citizens
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.08.2018
Sanctions have already been imposed on Russia: personal sanctions , those against certain companies and products, sectoral sanctions against the military-industrial complex and oil and gas enterprises, and territorial in Crimea. Sanctions have been imposed because of corruption, theft and murder of [lawyer] Sergei Magnitsky, because of the annexation of Crimea and lies about the referendum on the peninsula, because of the war in Donbass, because of interference in the elections in the US… Now here go sanctions because of poisoning [of the Skripals] in Salisbury. Since neither calls nor statements nor demands, neither external nor internal affect the Kremlin, the words were backed up by practical measures – sanctions, so that it was clear that all this was not just rhetoric, that it was necessary to change the politics: to stop the war in Donbass, solve the problem of Crimea on the basis of international law, withdraw from Syria and not cover the crimes of Bashar al Assad, stop false propaganda and engaging in provocations around the world… But since Vladimir Putin’s policy have not changed, and all the persons who are “subject to sanctions” remain in their posts and do the same, then the new sanctions, which come into effect on 27 August, symbolise the beginning of a qualitatively different stage. Now it will be sanctions against everyone.
Posted: August 29th, 2018 under Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will take part in the all-Russian action against the pension reform on 2 September
Press Release, 28.08.2018
On Sunday, 2 September, the Yabloko party will take part in the all-Russian action against the government’s plans to raise the retirement age. Representatives of the Yabloko party are members of the organising committee of the action.
The geography and format of the actions is as follows (more details will be added soon):
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Emilia Slabunova visits Yekaterinburg
Emilia Slabunova’s twitter, 28.08.2018
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YABLOKO Party retwitted Emilia Slabunova:
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova starts her visit in Yekterinburg, the Urals, by laying flowers to the memorial to vicitms of political reprisals. This is a mournful page in Russia’s history. This should never happen again.
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Yabloko Deputy Chair Alexander Gnezdilov: “Democracy is an exam that society is taking every day”
Press Release, 24.08.2018
Archive photo by RIA Novosti/ Yuri Abramochkin
A rally dedicated to the anniversary of the victory over the reactionary forces of the State Emergency Committee was held in the Krasnopresnensky park, Moscow, behind the Russian ‘White House’ on 22 August, on the Day of the Flag of Russia.
The rally was organised by the All-Russian Public Movement “For Human Rights”. The Yabloko party has been taking part in the action year in memory of the events of 1991 and the victory of Russian democrats every year.
Posted: August 28th, 2018 under History, Street Actions, Understanding Russia, Без рубрики.
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Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age on 2 September
Press Release, 20.08.2018
On Friday, 17 August, Oleg Rodin, Yabloko’s candidate to the deputy of the State Duma in the forthcoming by-election to the Russian parliament, applied for a permission for a rally against raising the retirement age in Nizhny Novgorod on 2 September. The rally is planed on 2 September. Co-organisers of the action will be the independent trade union Uchitel (Teacher) and the Social Action movement. A number of the other political forces of the Nizhny Novgorod region are going to support the action.
Posted: August 27th, 2018 under Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2018, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Congratulations to Anna Cherepanova, head of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, on the anniversary!
Birthday greetings from Emilia Slabunova
25.08.2018
Today marks the anniversary of Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko. Emilia Slabunova, the Yabloko party’s Chair, sends Anna greetings on her 45th birthday:
Posted: August 26th, 2018 under Greetings, Без рубрики.
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Yavlinsky called Prosecutor General Chaika to stop the practice of provocations of crimes
Press Release, 24.08.2018
Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, in which he called to investigate the illegal provocation of crimes by law enforcement agencies. The reason for the appeal was the so-called case of “The New Greatness” organisaiton.
Anna Pavlikova. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / “Novaya Gazeta”
In the appeal, Grigory Yavlinsky recalls that the unlawful intentions of the defendants of the case of the “New Greatness”, if they existed, were totally provoked by an unknown person who was being held as a secret witness in the case, as well as by two other witnesses officially included in the state of law enforcement bodies.
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Human Rights.
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The state represented by the Ministry of Education decided to fight against people who seek to create human conditions for orphans – their foster parents
Emilia Slabunova’s Facebook page, 20.08.2018
Instead of providing housing to almost 160,000 Russian orphans who do not have it, saving children from family violence (according to unofficial data in 2016, more than 2,500 children aged 2 weeks to 14 years became victims of domestic violence), creating conditions for upbringingadolescents, so that they do not set priceless temples on fire [like was the recent case in Karelia], and solutions to many other problems related to the not-so-beautiful situation of children in the country, the state represented by the Ministry of Education decided to fight against people who seek to create human conditions for orphans – their foster parents [proposing to introduce a law envisaging a ban on having more than three adopted children in a foster family] .
There is neither explanation nor justification for this. Cannibal laws for some reason always come to us much faster and easier than laws that should stand for the protection of children’s rights and their happy childhood.
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Education and Science, Healthcare, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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The Krasnoyarsk branch of Yabloko is against replacing trees with cars
Press Release, 23.08.2018
The Krasnoyarsk branch of the Yabloko party opposed the plans of the local administration to cut the green zones in the city of Krasnoyarsk for the sake of opening of vehicles service facilities there.
On 22-23 August, the city administration is holding public hearings aiming to get a formal residents’ consent so that to give permissions to entrepreneurs from different districts of Krasnoyarsk for the use of land plots located in the green zone for the launch of automobile transport facilities there.
Posted: August 24th, 2018 under Protection of Environment.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko proposed to the Human Rights Council to reform the procedure for getting permissions for rallies
Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human Rights Council, believes that the problem of transparency in getting permission to hold rallies can be resolved in court
Press Release, 17.08.2018
The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko formulated its demands as to the protection of freedom of rallies in its written appeal to Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation.
Members of the Yabloko party made a proposal to make the procedure for getting permission for the date, time and venue of the rallies more open and transparent. Yabloko activists say that one of the solutions to the problem maybe creation of an online schedule of events and their venues which should be published on the official website of the Mayor’s Office, or a handwritten magazine with a similar demonstration of the timetable open to all those interested to organise a public event or action.
Photo: Visiting session of the Human rights Council in Novosibirsk
On August 15, Svetlana Kaverzina, Chair of the Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko, voiced a demand at the visiting session of the Human rights Council in Novosibirsk to ensure equal rights for all political forces in organising rallies and other public events.
Posted: August 23rd, 2018 under Freedom of Assembly.
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At the request of Yabloko, the Accounts Chamber and the Federal Antimonopoly Service will check the legality of the spending on the restoration of the Capitol dome in Havana, Cuba
Press Release, 17.08.2018
Yabloko party Chairperson Emilia Slabunova sent an appeal to Alexei Kudrin, Chairman of the Russian Accounts Chamber, demanding to check the effectiveness of spending Russia’s budget funds for the restoration of the Capitol’s dome in Havana, the capital of Cuba. At the same time, Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service with a request to check the feasibility study of the project.
On 16 August, 2018, the Russian President’s Property Management placed a tender for performance of work for restoration of the gold coating on the dome of the National Capitol in Havana, Cuba. The cost of restoration totals 642.4 million roubles. The President’s Property Management classified the substantiation of the price. Spending the federal budget funds on the needs of another state was not substantiated either.
Posted: August 23rd, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Emilia Slabunova: Russia’s Flag Day should be a holiday of honour and pride for the people
The Yabloko party took part in the march and rally on the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over the attempted coup d’etat in 1991
Press Release, 22.08.2018
Today, on Russia’s Flag Day, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party took part in the action dedicated to the anniversary of the democrats’ victory over attempted coup d’etat organised in 1991 by the so-called State Emergency Committee that attempted to put an end to perestroika and return Russia back to the Soviet past. The participants of the action demonstrated from the Gorbaty Bridge by the Russian Government’s building to the monument to the defenders of democracy located at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring, where the meeting was held.
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova recalled that 100 years ago the Bolsheviks banned the use of the Russian tricolor flag as a national flag.
“It was returned to us 27 years ago as a symbol of the victory of democracy over the heirs of the Bolsheviks,” the party Chair noted. “But, unfortunately, the victory was not final: [we are witnessing now the government’s] reprisals against political opponents, eviction of the St. Petersburg branch of the Memorial human rights society from its office, prolongation of the arrest for Yury Dmitriyev [head the Karelian branch of the Memorial society] until October, Oyub Titiev [head of the Chechen branch of Memorial] is kept behind the bars, they are firing people from jobs and arresting them for their putting ‘likes’ in the social media, they fabricate criminal cases like the [recent] case of the New Greatness Group [of young people discussing politics but accused in extremism], [Ukrainian film director Oleg] Sentsov has been on hunger strike over a hundred days already [demanding from the Russian authorities to release Ukrainian political prisoners kept in Russian prisons].”
Posted: August 22nd, 2018 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Understanding Russia.
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Yabloko picketed the State Duma during the parliamentary hearings on the pension reform
Press Release, 21.08.2018
On 21 August, a series of single-person pickets against raising the retirement age were held by the State Duma. The picketing was timed to parliamentary hearings on the pension reform.
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin
Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko and Chairman of the Moscow Rescue Committee, participated in the picketing. Mitrokhin recalled that the Moscow branch of Yabloko was the first to protest by the State Duma, when the bill on raising the retirement age was introduced to the Russian parliament.
Mitrokhin called on the parliamentary parties, who consider themselves to be opposition, to demand resignation of Vyacheslav Volodin, State Duma Speaker, in order to prove their opposition in practice. Volodin questioned the need to pay state pensions in Russia.
Posted: August 22nd, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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It is unacceptable to impede the activities of the Memorial [human rights society]
The [authorities] are evicting the St. Petersburg branch of the organisation from its office
Statement by the Yabloko party, 17.08.2018
The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko is outraged by the attempts of the St. Petersburg Administration to evict the Memorial charitable historical and educational human rights organisation from its office in Razezhey Street, 9, in St. Petersburg, which [Memorial] has been occupying since 1997.
In April 2018, the City Commission for Disposal of Property refused to Memorial in concluding the [regular] rent contract for a new period without explaining the reasons. In July 2018, the St. Petersburg authorities announced termination of the contract and offered Memorial to vacate the premises [of its office] within three months.
Posted: August 21st, 2018 under Human Rights.
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Yabloko picketed against the government’s pension reform by Prime Minister Medvedev’s office in Novosibirsk
Press Release, 03.08.2018
On 3 August, the Novosibirsk branch of the Yabloko party, together with the representatives of the libertarian movement, held a picket at the public reception of the ruling United Russia party. Deputies of this party voted for adoption in the first reading of the law on raising the retirement age.
Posted: August 10th, 2018 under Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform.
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Yabloko revealed a cartel on purchase of medicines in the Mari El Republic
The republican department of the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service in Mari El filed a case against the participants of the collusion
Press Release, 03.08.2018
The republican department of the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service in Mari El filed a case on the violation of the antimonopoly legislation in the procurement of medicines for public healthcare institutions in the republic. The case was initiated on the application of the Yabloko party. The companies are accused of violating Clause 2 Part 1 of Article 11 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”. The participants in the collusion obtained 5.97 million roubles on the deal.
Posted: August 10th, 2018 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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