Statement of the Yabloko party in connection with the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko

29.05.2018

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko has been murdered in Kiev. A courageous, honest and tough man.

Arkady Babchenko saw the goal of his life in the search for truth and delivery of this truth to each of us. As always in such cases, the shot was sneaky and treacherous – in the back.

On behalf of the Yabloko party, I would like to express my condolences to all those who knew and respected Arkady Babchenko.

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Participants of the event will discuss the role of digital technologies in the development of the state and business

Press Release, 28.05.2018

On Wednesday, 30 May, politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky will speak at the opening of TAdviser SummIT.

The elite of the Russian IT market will gather at the event to discuss the role of digital technologies in the development of the state and business.

An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky on stage will be the opening event of the summit. The leader of Yabloko will answer the questions of Alexander Levashov, Editor-in-Chief of TAdviser, about the prospects of the development of the digital economy in Russia.

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The voting will end on 29 May at 9 p.m.

Press Release, 28.05.2018

Voting in Yabloko’s primaries so that to determine a party the candidate for the post of the Mayor of Moscow from will end on Tuesday, 29 May, at 21:00. The Counting Commission will open the ballot box and begin counting the votes cast for the primaries. The results of voting will be announced immediately after the completion of the count.

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Press Release, 26.05.2018

The final of the debates of participants in Yabloko’s primaries for the party candidate on the post of Mayor of Moscow will take place in the Yabloko party. The final debate was preceded by qualifying rounds, the winners of which were determined by the voting of viewers on the Internet. For the first time in the Russian political history, the technology of blockchain was used in voting. It allowed to guarantee full transparency of the process and absolute honesty of the voting results.

Photo: The results of the evening round of the vote of the third day of the debate. From top to bottom: Andrei Morev, Yakov Yakubovich, Alexei Krapukhin, Yana Sokolova.

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Grigory Yavlinsky on what we can expect from the “new” Russian government  

Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 21.05.2018

What does the composition of the “new” government tell us? That the situation won’t get any better. Outwardly everything will look just as it did, but to all intents and purposes things will be much worse. Objectively this is because the economy is in decline. Subjectively, this is due to the fact that neither Dmitry Medvedev nor his deputies don’t know what to do in the current circumstances. And they don’t want to. They don’t care. Read more »

Your activity in Yabloko in defending the rights of citizens, and Muscovites, in particular,  is uncompromising

Greetings from Emilia Slabunova and Grigory Yavlinsky, 20.05.2018

Today, Sergei Mitrokhin, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, turns 55. Emilia Slabunova, Yabloko Chair, and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, send Sergei Mitrokhin their greetings:

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Press Release, 18.05.2018

Mikhail Amosov, Yabloko MP in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, considers the response from the Leningrad region Public Prosecutor’s Office on his appeal on the issue of possible violations of the rights of convicts held in the Penal Colony Settlement  No 8 to be formal and unsatisfactory.

According to the parliamentarian, it is absolutely unacceptable that the penal colony-settlement was moved to the centre of St. Petersburg from Borisov Griva settlement which actually resulted in a change of the penal regime for the convicts. Instead of a settlement colony, the convicts found themselves in a very real prison.

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Press Release, 18.05.2018

Two unidentified persons whose faces were hidden by hoods attacked David Kankia, Coordinator of the election observers movement Golos in the Krasnodar Territory, on May 18 at about 1 p.m.

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Grigory Yavlinsky web-site
20.05.2018

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Press Release, 18.05.2018

Yabloko’s organizational committee for holding the primaries within the party so that to determine its candidate in the Moscow mayoral election, received signatures of the first potential candidates: Sergei Mitrokhin,  the leader of the Moscow branch of the party, economist Igor Nikolayev and Andrei Morev, head of the Yakimanka Municipal Council.

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Press Release, 16.05.2018

As of May 16, Yabloko’s organizational committee for conducting primaries that should determine the candidate for post of the Mayor of Moscow from the Yabloko party, received applications from 37 potential candidates; 22 of them have already begun collecting signatures in favour of their participation in the preliminary voting. This was announced at the briefing for journalists conducted by Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and head of the organizational committee.

Among those who submitted applications are Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, Elena Rusakova, head of the Gagarinsky district of Moscow,  Igor Nikolayev, Professor of the Higher School of Economics and economist, Igor Glek, chess grandmaster and Yabloko municipal deputy of the Troparyovo-Nikulino district of Moscow, Viktor Dulin, coordinator of the volunteer movement Lisa Alert and municipal deputy from the Arbat district of Moscow, and others.

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Press Release, 05.05.2018

A headquarters for provision of legal assistance to citizens detained at the protest rallies held in different cities of Russia on 5 May opened in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow.

Yabloko’s Russian web-site gives telephones of its public reception office and party’s lawyers who provide legal assistance to the detained and their relatives.

Headquarters for providing assistance to the detained was also deployed in St. Petersburg. Here Yabloko conducts this work jointly with the Office of Alexander Shishlov, Ombudsman for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, and the Detainees Assistance Group.

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Press Release, 04.05.2018

On 4 May, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid wreaths and flowers to the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden by the Kremlin wall and honoured the memory of those killed in the Second World War by a minute of silence.

Yabloko leaders Grigory Yavlinsky, Alexei Arbatov, Sergei Ivanenko, Nikolai Rybakov, Sergei Mitrokhin, Elena Dubrovina and other participated in the action.

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Memorable actions will be held on the 4^th and 9^th of May

Press Release, 27.04.2017

On 4 May, the leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will lay wreaths and flowers to the Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden by the Kremlin wall.

The participants will gather by the Historical Museum (metro station “Revolution Square”) at 14:40.

On 9 May, the Yabloko party will take part in mourning events at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, where thousands of Muscovites, soldiers and officers who were killed during the Second World War, were buried.

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Press Release, 27.04.2018

On the threashold of the start of the primaries in Yabloko, that have to determine Yabloko’s  candidate for the Mayor of Moscow in the forthcoming mayoral elections, the party held a round table devoted to the programme of transformations of the political system in Moscow. The round table was held in the party’s office on 26 April. The main conclusion of the discussion was as follows: a candidate from Yabloko would seek to liberalise the system of the city governing and transfer of the powers to local self-government.

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Greetings from Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chair

27.04.2017

Today, Natalia Yevdokimova, member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and Executive Secretary of the St. Petersburg Human Rights Council, celebrates an anniversary. Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Deputy Chair and member of the St. Petersburg Human Rights Council, sends her greetings on behalf of Yabloko and himself.

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Press Release, 24.04.2018

Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova has forwarded an appeal to Anna Popva, chief sanitary doctor of Russia, and head of the Federal Supervision Agency for Customer Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor), Artyom Sidorov, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, and Olga Zubrilova, First Deputy Chairman of the government of Moscow region, asking them to solve the problem with garbage landfills in the region.

Slabunova demands, that the Russian environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor (the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage) checks the operation of the following suburban solid waste landfills: Yadrovo, Shatura, Tsarevo, Khrabrovo, Torbeyevo, Timokhovo, Taldomsky, Saburovo, Pavlovsky, Nepeino, Malaya Dubna, Lesnaya, Kargashino, Yegorievsky, Dolgoprudny, Volovichi, Astapovo, and Aleksinskiy Quary.

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Press Release, 23.04.2018

Svetlana Vasilkova, Yabloko’s deputy of the Pustoshkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov region, was attacked for the third time. This happened on the threathold of the report of the dstrict head before the deputies.

Unidentified persons smashed two bricks through the bedroom window of Svetlana Vasilkova’s private house in the Pustoshka town where she lives. This happened on 21 April 208 at about 23:00.

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 Transparency International found their illegal businesses

Press Release, 25.04.2018

Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova on the request of Transparency International – Russia demanded that the State Duma conduct an investigation into illegal businesses of five of Duma deputies. The five deputies are suspected of owning business in Russia and France. Four out of five deputies are from the United Russia faction. According to Transparency International – Russia, the four deputies of the State Duma of the 7th convocation who own businesses in spite of the fact that MPs are prohibited to participate in business activities are Vladimir Bortko, Natalia Kostenko, Abdulmazhid Magramov and Svetlana Maksimova. Investigators suspect that these deputies are engaged in businesses, participate in the management or run the firms. According to information from open registries, another deputy – Andrei Golushko – owns a share in the French company. Such participation in business is prohibited by law.

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Press Release, 17.04.2018

Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova appealed to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin with a demand to stop the construction of a huge observation wheel in the Ostankino district, Moscow. Similar letters were sent to the Public Prosecutor of Moscow, top officials of the Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow and the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor). Earlier, residents of the district applied to Yabloko with a request to help them to protect their district and residential housing from the construction of an expensive observation wheel 140 meters high in the immediate proximity of residential buildings and on the territory of the cultural heritage object – the Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh).

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