Press Release, 11.07.2018

The Moscow Mayor’s Officel refused to give a permission to hold a protest rally on 18 July organised by Yabloko together with the Russian Confederation of Labor and a number of political parties against the government’s bill of raising the retirement age. The action was planned to be held in one of the central places in Moscow.

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Emilia Slabunova’s FB post, 11.07.2018

The Telegram channel Yar[oslvl]Politics [a channel in the social media] informs that registration of Yabloko’s candidates list [in Yaroslavl] will be annulled by the decision of the court. [That is], the decision of the court has become known an hour before the court’s session! That is how our judicial and electoral systems function.

Press Release, 12.07.2018

The Yabloko faction in the Karelian parliament voted against the government’s bill on raising the retirement age. However, most of the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia (24 votes against seven)  ​​supported the government’s bill. The Legislative Assembly also rejected Yabloko’s appeal to the State Duma deputies calling them not to support the pension reform at the federal level (21 vote against seven).

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The law on equal rights for men and women is rejected

Statement by Yabloko’s Gender Faction, 11.07.2018

On 11 July, deputies of the lower house of the Russian parliament in the second reading rejected the bill “On the state guarantees of equal rights and freedoms and equal opportunities for men and women in the Russian Federation”. Work on the law began in 1995, in 2003 his second variant of the bill was introduced.

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Press Release, 09.07.2018

On 18 July, the Vologda branch of Yabloko will hold a picket against the government’s bill on raising the retirement age and the increase of VAT.

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Press Release, 11.07.2018

Deputies of the Yabloko faction of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova and Andrei Rogalevich submitted to the Karelian parliament an appeal to the State Duma against raising the retirement age. It will be considered at the final meeting of the Legislative Assembly in this political season tomorrow, on 12 July.

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Based on RIA Omsk-Inform information, 09.07.2018

The Omsk branch of the Yabloko party took part in the rally for the resignation of the Russian government. The rally was held on 8 July. Despite the fact that the Omsk City Hall tried to hinder holding of the rally, all the participants of the action were able to express their attitude to the ongoing reforms in the country.

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The refusal of the Novgorod Region Duma to give the floor to the oppositional party at the plenary meeting was recognised unlawful

Press Release, 09.07.2018

On 6 July, the Novgorod District Court satisfied the claim of the regional branch of Yabloko to the regional Duma and found the refusal of the legislative body to allow the opposition party the right to speak at a plenary meeting unlawful.

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Press Release, 09.07.2018

The Federal Bureaud of Yabloko nominated Igor Yermolenko, leader of the Samara branch of the party, to run in the by-elections to the  State Duma in a single-mandate district No 158 in Samara.

Igor Yermolenko was born in Buguruslan, the Orenburg region, in 1971. He has two higher educations: Samara State University, faculty of history (1994) and Samara State Pedagogical University, management of the social sector (1999).

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Press Release, 09.07.2018

The Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party has nominated Alexei Repnikov as its candidate for by-elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod in a single-mandate electoral district No 17.

“Due to difficult conditions of the campaign, when any competition is suppressed, young politicians have virtually no chance of gaining the experience, and the opposition has been blamed of the lack of such experience. That is why I am going to participate in the by-elections, if I win, I will have two years instead of five to prove to the voters my effectiveness and get the necessary experience,” Alexei Repnikov commented on his nomination.

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The conference of the Altai regional branch of the Yabloko party nominated Viktor Rau, a popular public figure in the region, Yabloko’s candidate for the Governor of the region.

Press Release, 05.07.2018

Photo: Alexander Goncharenko and Viktor Rau

Grigory Valynkin, a young lawyer and entrepreneur, will represent Yabloko in the by-election of a deputy of the Belokurikha City Council of Deputies.

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Activists of the party went into the streets together with thousands of fellow citizens

Press Release, 04.07.2018

Since the end of June, a protest movement against raising the retirement age in the absence of any other measures of social protection of pensioners has been growing in Russia. Yabloko was the first political party that opposed the initiative of the government, and last week activists of the party together with thousands of fellow citizens in many regions of Russia took actions against the pension reform.

The geography of protest actions is from Pskov in the North-West to Kamchatka in the Far East, and the formats of actions vary from mass-scale joint rallies with parliamentary parties and representatives of non-systemic opposition to single-person pickets and flash mobs.

A mass-scale demonstration and a rally are planned in Moscow on 18 July. One of the organisers of these actions is the Moscow branch of Yabloko. The actions will be held jointly with the Russian Confederation of Labour and a number of political parties. In St.Petersburg Yabloko will also protest together with the Confederation of Labour on 18 July 18. In addition, rallies and pickets are planned in Tula, Orel, Novosibirsk, Tambov and other cities. Below is our report on the actions that have already been held.

Pto: A rally in Omsk

One of the most large-scale rallies took place on in Omsk on 1 July. The main co-organiser of the action was the regional branch of Yabloko. According to Tatiana Nagibina, Chair of the Yabloko branch, the rally gathered more than 5,000 people.

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FB post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 03.07.2018

https://www.facebook.com/yavlinsky.yabloko/videos/1899807736779041/?t=20

15 years have passed since the death of Yuri Shchekochikhin, journalist and Yabloko’s MP. One of the most honest and courageous journalists in the history of modern Russia was brutally murdered. There was virtually no investigation – the case of Shchekochikhin’s death was closed several times without giving any result. But those who knew Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin, who worked with him, know what was there behind his death. Throughout his life Yuri Shchekochikhin fought for the truth, wrote about corruption in the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Public Prosecutor General’s Office, and investigated explosions of blocks of flats in Moscow and Volgodonsk. Shchekochikhin was incompatible with this deceitful and criminal system, and it killed him. Read more »

It is 2018, Russia is hosting the World Cup, Trump is flying to Putin and Oleg Sentsov is dying in a penal colony

Grigory Yavlinsky’s FB page, 03.07.2018

It is the 51st day, that [Ukrainian film director] Oleg Sentsov is starving in the Labytnangi city [by the North pole], Yamal. Whatever the army of state bureaucrats invented, Sentsov is on the verge of life and death. If you he continues [his hunger strike] in the same way, a 41-year-old film director, whose fault is not proven at all, can die. Keeping Oleg Sentsov in custody is legally unjustified, poltically disgusting, and morally immoral and inhuman.

About 4,000 people die each year in Russian prisons. Every tenth death is suicide. The death rate among prisoners in Russia is about 60 cases per 10,000 people. This is two times higher than the average in Europe. Russia is leading as of the number of prisoners: there are 440 prisoners for every 100,000 people in Russia. In European countries, the percentage of those in prison is almost four times lower.

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Emilia Slabunova’s FB page, 01.07.2018

https://www.facebook.com/EmiliaSlabunova/videos/1896788383952904/?t=10

It is a big question whether there will be a digital economy in Russia. But it is a fact that since 1 July we will have a digital police state: the “Yarovaya package” [of laws envisaging a six-month storage of all the digital data] has come into force, which virtually crosses out Article 23 articles of the Constitution. It guarantees privacy of correspondence, telephone conversations and personal life.

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Press Release, 29.06.2018

The Regional Council of the Sverdlovsk branch of Yabloko nominated a list of candidates of a united democratic coalition to run in the elections to the Yekaterinburg city parliament (City Duma). The list contains 57 candidates, this is the maximum possible number of people in the list. The meeting of the Regional Council was attended by Ilya Zakharov, head of the city electoral commission. According to Maxim Petlin, member of the Bureau of Yabloko, there should not be any problems with registration of the list of candidates.

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Yabloko’s Bureau Decision No 2083,  25.06.2018

The rise in fuel prices after the end of Vladimir Putin’s presidential campaign is a natural result of his governing.  In most regions of the Russian Federation, prices for various types of fuel rose by 10 – 15 per cent, and in some regions by 20 per cent or more.

Such a rise in fuel prices will hit not only drivers, but also all consumers, since most goods are transported by trucks and cars. Expenses for transportation will grow, so prices will also rise.

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The World Cup in Russia began with a defeat: 5:0! The authorities scored five unanswered goals to the people.

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 16.06.2018

Even before the starting whistle, the account was opened by Russia’s Investigation Committee with a final arrest of long-resisting leader of the Serpukhov district [of the Moscow region] Alexander Shestun. At the first minute of the match, thanks to the passing move of the government Dmitry Medvedev raised his retirement age. And virtually in the next attack, Dmitry Medvedev made a brace and raised the VAT. In the second half, the Supreme Court of Karelia from a penalty brought the score to the devastating blow cancelling the acquittal to human rights defender Yury Dmitriyev – 4:0. The point in the opening match was delivered the next day by Putin’s Press Secretary: Dmitry Peskov struck the people with a blow from the penalty spot, explaining that Putin’s promises not to raise the retirement age until he is president meant nothing because “it was a long time ago”.

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Yabloko demands to return state accreditation to the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences

Statement by Yabloko’s Bureau

Press Release, 25.06.2018

On 20 June, Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency (Rosoboradzor) denied the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences [which is considered to be the best private university in Russia] of state accreditation. Now graduates of the university will not be able to receive state-recognised diplomas, which testify that the graduate has the qualifications corresponding to state standards.

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Statement by Yabloko’s Bureau

Press Release, 21.06.2018

The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party adopted a statement on the government’s initiative to raise the retirement age. The statement runs that President Putin is really responsible for the consequences of the reform. As an alternative, Yabloko proposes to implement the proposals outlined in the presidential programme of Grigory Yavlinsky, in particular, to replenish the Pension Fund through contributions of corporations with state participation engaged in the extraction and sale of natural resources. The statement runs that under the present situation Yabloko supports the protest actions against the government’s reform, and recommends its regional and local branches to organise such actions and support independent trade unions. Yabloko became the first political party that held street actions against raising the retirement age, despite the current ban on pickets and rallies.

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