Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Yabloko was not allowed to participate in the parliamentary hearings on the renovation of Moscow housing, as the State Duma was frightened of unenviable uncomfortable questions the deputies had to face. The so-called “renovation” implies that a full 10 per cent of Moscow’s housing is set to be torn down and 1.6 million people moved as the city’s five-storey housing is destroyed. The government’s and the Moscow Mayor’s bill envisages resettlement of people without guaranteeing them their property rights or moving them to the flats of equal value. The government’s plan has already become a scandal, however the government insists on the adoption of the bill, but Moscow residents demonstrate and rally against it.Read more »
On 5 June, activists of the Pskov branch of Yabloko gathered for a rally in support of the legislative initiative (put forward by Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg) to return citizens of Pskov and Velikiye Luky the right to independently elect their own city mayors.Read more »
Deputy of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly from Yabloko’s faction Mikhail Amosov discussed the problems of parks and public garden in the city on air of the Partburo radio programme. Read more »
Natalia Poklonskaya, deputy of the State Duma and ex Public Prosecutor of Crimea, explained the reporters why she did not declare a car in her income tax statement as well as her husband’s property and income. According to Poklonskaya, she is not married and mentioned that she had a husband in mass media “not to hurt” her admirers. It was reported that she did not yet posses the car when she submitted her income declaration. This was the response Poklonskaya gave to Sergei Mitrokhin, head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre, who sent a letter to the Public Prosecutor General demanding to check Poklonskaya’s statements. Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre suspects that Natalia Poklonskaya has not declared a car in her income tax statement, and also conceals her husband’s property and income.
Colleagues and friends of late environmentalist Alexei Yablokov to translate one of his ideas into reality Press release, 05.06.2017
Colleagues and friends of late Alexei Yablokov, leader of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party, an outstanding scientist and politician, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, will translate one of the ideas of the environmentalist into reality. Read more »
Today, Svetlana Chechil, YABLOKO Federal Council member, has been released from penal colony. Yesterday the Supreme Court of Karelia overturned the decision of the court of first instance and replaced the remaining part of punishment for Svetlana Chechil, ex-head of the Prionezhsky district administration, who was serving the sentence in a penal colony in Karelia with “restriction of freedom”. Read more »
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the right to free elections had been violated
Press release, 01.06.2017
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of the complainant who had filed a petition against mass-scale election fraud of election results to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the State Duma in 2011. The complaints are candidates for deputies of the regional parliament, members of electoral commissions and election observers from the opposition parties who worked at different polling stations of St. Petersburg, including Yabloko representatives. Read more »
Our dear friend and a great woman Maria Mokhova, former Director of The Sisters Centre (the centre for psychological and legal support for rape victims)” has died today after an extended illness. Read more »
A draft federal law guaranteeing equal rights to all the participants in elections for placement of their campaign materials in the streets was submitted to the Legislative Assembly of Karelia by Emilia Slabunova, MP and leader of the Yabloko party. The changes will affect placement of campaign materials on billboards, banners, message boards at entrances to buildings, etc. Slabunova also introduced a bill on an administrative liability for violation of these rights. Read more »
The Moscow hurricane of 29 May killed 16 people and about 100 Muscovites are in hospitals.
During the thunderstorm of 29 May many people complained that they had not been warned. Thus, many reported that text messages on the emergency situation did not come to their telephones. A spokesman for the Ministry of Emergency Situations said that “information is being given – all who want it, get it.” Such an approach was considered unacceptable by Sergei Mitrokhin and YABLOKO Anti-Corruption Policy Centre. Read more »
Entering the campaign for the election of municipal deputies of Moscow, we, the undersigned, are declaring the following:
We share the values of democracy, human rights, the rule of law and inviolability of private property.
We support the principles of the division of powers, full-fledged local self-government, transparency of the legislative and the executive authorities and their accountability to citizens. Read more »
Candidates for Moscow municipal deputies wishing to run from the YABLOKO party must sign the Moscow Manifesto 2017 prepared by the party. By signing the document, the candidates confirm their adherence to democratic values and undertake to work for a significant expansion of the powers of local self-government in Moscow. Read more »
Neither the government nor the society want elections, they are not interested in the elections and do not believe in the election. If it goes like this, there really will be no elections. There will be Putin. Forever.
Protest Actions. The Second Wave
Ten months before the presidential election, politics as a process of choosing the path to the future has completely disappeared from the agenda. Everything is done so that to ensure that no one would be interested in the future, because everyone knows that Putin will remain in power, which means that the present archaic system will be preserved and will become even more authoritarian and more corrupt, and that hard economic period is ahead, that armed conflicts and even war is possible. Read more »
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.
Photo by Artyom Korotayev/TASS Read more »
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.
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