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 State Duma passed Putin’s amendments to Putin’s initiative on raising the regiment age.
The federal TV channels will no go out of their way to prise the President’s kindness.
In reality this “kindness” is worth nothing.
The retirement age for women will be raised from the current age of 55 to 60, not 63 as originally planned.
Member of Yabloko’s Political Committee Sergei Mitrokhin protesting agsint the pension reform by the State Duma on 26 September/ photo by Anton Novoderezhkin, TASS
Russian Federal Treasury admitted the infringement of the initial (maximum) price assessment for the procurement of Christmas tress and decorations for Russia’s Defence Ministry. An unscheduled check-out took place upon Yabloko’s application. Yabloko’s Centre for Anti-Corruption Policies discovered that the Defence Ministry will buy 268 Christmas trees at the cost ranging from 14.000 to 2.99 million roubles per tree. According to Yabloko, the initial price for some trees was overpriced ninefold.
Gubernatorial runoff elections took place in Khabarovsk Krai and the Vladimir Region on Sunday. The winners are candidates from LDPR Sergei Furgal and Vladimir Sipyagin who are considered to be “approved” candidates who did not really have an election campaign and did not seriously compete with United Russia’s candidates. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova summed up the election results on her Facebook page: Read more »
I did not plan to write another post about the elections because it seems that everything has already been said (Including the latest elections: see ‘Gubernatorial non-elections‘). However, the victory of candidates from LDPR in Khabarovsk Krai and the Vladimir Region produced some inadequate impression on journalists and bloggers: the got excited and agitated claiming that “finally” [something happened]. As a matter of fact, there is nothing to be excited about. What happened last Sunday is another step down the ladder.
Photo by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Vladimir Region, Press Service
On 22-23 September, rallies against the the government’s plan to raise the retirement age took place across Russia. Yabloko activists participated in protest actions in Sochi, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Barnaul, Murmansk, Chita, Penza, Bryansk, Lipetsk, Smolensk, Oryel and Stavropol.Read more »
“On Tuesday, 25 September, Yabloko will participate in a one-person picket in support of Oleg Sentsov. The action will take place by the Presidential Administration from 12.00 to 19.00. We invite you to join us because political prisoners do need our support!” Chair of Yabloko’s Gender faction wrote on her Facebook page.
Yabloko’s Gender Faction has held a meeting with feminists from the USA today. Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova and Chair of Yabloko’s Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva participated in the meeting.Read more »
An on-line seminar for deputies of local self-government bodies and civil activists will be held in Yabloko’s Moscow office on Wednesday, September 26, at 19:00 (Moscow time). The organiser is the Centre for New Municipal Policies. Read more »
Many people discussed Pamfilova’s tears and annulling election results in Primorsky Krai yesterday. What has happened? What was it that upset the head of the Central Electoral Commission so much?
It turned out that is was not the breach of legislation, deception of voters or mockery of people who came to express their will that upset Ella Alexandrovna. According to Pamfilova, the main problem is that the work if the Central Electoral Commission was “derailed”!Read more »
The Centre for Anti-Corruption Policy of the Yabloko party appealed to the Tatarstan Public Prosecutor’s Office demanding that officials of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan be inspected for corruption. Officials are suspected of exceeding their official authority in organising tenders. Information about the illegal actions of officials became known during the trial on the cartel case.Read more »
After the scandal [with tremendous fraud by the candidate from the ruling United Russia party] in the election of the governor of the Maritime Territory, the Maritime Territorial Electoral Commission canceled the results of the second round. Two candidates ran in the second round: Andrei Tarasenko (the United Russia party), Interim Governor of the region, and Andrei Ischenko, candidate from the Communist Party, who leading during the voting. However, after counting 99 per cent of the ballots, it turned out that Tarasenko [from United Russia] was ahead, which provoked a protest from the region’s residents and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which announced massive falsifications. Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chair of Yabloko, commented on the situation in the elections in Maritime Territory during live broadcast in his YouTube channel: Read more »
According to the official results, only one person voted for Yabloko at the polling station No 1170 in the Volgograd Region. However, seven people have already appealed to Yabloko claiming that they voted for the party at this polling station. Chair of the regional party branch Galina Boldyreva appealed to court demanding that it should annul the election results and recount votes.Read more »
Anton Gordyuk, Yabloko’s candidate in the elections to the Koltushsky city council, the Leningrad Region, demanded that the Central Electoral Commission annul the voting results. The grounds for this measure is vote-buying and fraud at a large scale. Read more »
On September 16, the Kostroma branch of Yabloko and a number of environmental groups conducted a picket against a landfill site in the region. The participants of the action expressed disagreement with the fact that waste from Moscow is brought to the Kostroma Region causing damage to the environment. Read more »
Deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly and Chair of the Pskov Region branch of Yabloko Lev Shlosberg made a speech at the 6th Franz Fafka and George Orwell intellectual forum. It is an All-Russia discussion platform where all individuals may take part in the discussion of most topical events and communicate with experts. The event took place in the Kaliningrad Region on 14-16 September. Read more »
Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin demanding that he dismiss head of Russia’s National Guard Viktor Zolotov. On Tuesday the official challenged opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a duel promising to make a ‘juicy steak’ of him. The statement was published on Russia’s National Guard official website.
While the whole country is enthusiastically discussing the video appeal of the deputy minister of the Russian government with strange threats of physical violence against a citizen who accused him of corruption and [the deputy minister’s] fantasies about the “duel code.”Read more »
The St. Petersburg city administration is trying to disrupt a legitimate rally of the united opposition against raising the retirement age scheduled on 16 September, 2018.Read more »
Grigory Yavlinsky on what poisoning in Salisbury means for Russia
Grigory Yavlinsky website, 12.09.2018
The main aim of the government of any country is to preserve its reputation, contribute to its reputation and make the country respectable and trustworthy. After Crimea, Donbass, the Boeing that was shot down, Syria and endless lies Russia ended up as a country with bad reputation. No one trusts us. This is a blow to Russia’s diplomacy and foreign policy. We poisoned ourselves with lies.
