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 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 »
Yabloko Deputy Chairman on the French presidential elections results
16.05.2017
The new president of France Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated at the Élysée Palace on 14 May. The youngest president in the history of the Fifth Republic will turn 40 at the end of the year. Macron, with his evident social liberal and pro-European programme, won even a more decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in the second round than the pollsters had predicted gaining over 66 per cent of votes with the final turnout estimated at about 75 per cent
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Yabloko is determined to nominate Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman for governor of the
Sverdlovsk Region, the Urals. The party is carrying on negotiations with him at the moment.
Yevgeny Roizman and Grigory Yavlinsky during Yavlinsky’s visit to Yekaterinburg ahead of the parliamentary elections of 2016
On 16 May, Chair of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin and State Duma deputy Pyotr Tolstoy will participated in debates on the housing demolition programme announced by Moscow City Hall. Read more »
The Yabloko is announcing the start of the municipal election campaign in Moscow and is inviting civil activists, who want to participate in the elections, to become Yabloko’s candidates. Read more »
On May 14, thousands of people participated in a rally against the plans of the City Hall to demolish about 8,000 multistory apartment buildings in Moscow and resettle 1,6 million residents. Yabloko’s representative Yelena Rusakova became a member of the organising committee of the protest action. Yabloko leaders Emilia Slabunova, Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Mitrokhin also came to the rally. In general, about 20,000 people participated in the protest action. Read more »
Head of Yabloko’s faction in St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky criticized the annual report of St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko to the deputies of the city parliament. Read more »
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