Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Based on the articles in Novaya Gazeta by Vera Yurcenko
According to RIA Novosti, Tatyana Moskalkova, Russian Human Rights Commissioner, supported YABLOKO’s idea of establishing a post of Women’s Ombudsperson.
According to Moskalkova, this could enhance and balance the institution of the Commissioner in general. She also added she advocated establishing the posts of special ombudsmen if people considered this necessary.Read more »
The government’s amendments to the state budget introduced past week to the State Duma for the first time lacked the data on total expenditures for defence or security. Thus it will be even more difficult to monitor where the secret expenditure are allotted to. Yabloko believes that the structure of the current budget and the number of the concealed items of expenditure indicate the desire of the federal government to guarantee its own irremovability, as well as the possible allocation of resources in favour of a large businesses close to it.
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On 5 June, Vice-President of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) Nadezhda Azhgikhina will give a lecture on “Gender gaps in mass media and in consciousness of the audience”. Read more »
On 27 May, The National Libraries Day, the activists of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko handed out books, which they had been collecting in the party office. Read more »
On 28 May, over five thousand people participated in a demonstration against the plans of the City Hall to demolish about 8,000 five-story apartment buildings in Moscow and resettle 1,6 million residents. Yabloko strongly criticizes the the government’s “housing renovation programme”, which gives the city authorities the exclusive rights to demolish five-story buildings. The Moscow branch of Yabloko and Moscow Rescue Committee were among the organizers of the protest action. Chair of Moscow Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin and Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova also took part in the action.
The most breaking news this week was the searches, which took place in Moscow’s Gogol Centre and in the flat of its art director Kirill Serebrennikov. According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, the searches were connected with a criminal case on the embezzlement of budget funds that were allocated for Sedmaya Studia (The Seventh Studio) non-profit organisation founded by Kirill Serebrennikov. It was reported that Sedmaya Studia’s accounting manager had pleaded guilty.Read more »
On 25 May, the Supreme Court of the RF refused to satisfy Yabloko’s appeal against the decision of the Novgorod Regional Court, which had refused to acknowledge the violations in the election to the Novgorod City Duma of 18 September, 2016.Read more »
Yabloko founder and presidential candiate Grigory Yavlinsky was elected LI Vice-President of Honour at Liberal International’s 70th-anniversary Congress in Andorra. Read more »
On 28 May, Yabloko, Parnas, the 5th of December Party, the For Human Rights Movement and the Moscow Rescue Committee will hold a demonstration against the city-planning arbitrariness of the Moscow City Hall and the government’s “housing renovation programme”, which gives the city authorities the exclusive rights to demolish five-story buildings. Read more »
Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre suspects that Natalia Poklonskaya, deputy of the State Duma, has not declared a car in her income tax statement, and also conceals her husband’s property and income. Sergei Mitrokhin, head of the Centre sent a letter to the Public Prosecutor General demanding to check the Poklonskaya’s statements. Read more »
The government arrogantly believes that the current situation in Russia will remain unchanged for a long time. Therefore they adopt The Economic Security Strategy until 2030. But Russia is facing quite serious and painful changes that will take place much earlier [than in 2030]. Read more »
Chair of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, deputy of Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg address the residents of the Pskov Region with a call to participate in the forthcoming municipal elections as Yabloko’s candidates.
On 25 May, the Supreme Court will consider the appeal of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, which demands to overturn the election results to the Novgorod City Duma.Read more »
On 17 May, representatives of initiatives groups from 44 districts of Moscow founded the Moscow Rescue Committee. Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko was elected head of the committee. Read more »
On 19 May, Yabloko will show a documentary film about Boris Nemtsov by Vladimir V. Kara-Murza.
“Nemtsov” is a portrait film. People, who have different political stance and different attitude to the developments of 1990s and the current government, were interviewed – those, who were close to him, when he was doing scientific research and was making his first steps in politics, when he was appointed to high positions and was considered Boris Yeltsin’s successor, when he became one of the opposition leaders. Read more »
The Yabloko party has announced an open selection of nominees for the negative award Golden Toilet Brush 2017. The prize is made in the form of golden toilet brush and will be awarded to the officials who make the most absurd and wasteful purchase for the state budget money.Read more »
The Pskov branch of Yabloko conducted an action called “It is time to return home” aimed at stopping Russia’s interference into the Syrian civil war. The activists gathered signatures for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. They managed to collect about 400 signatures.Read more »
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