YABLOKO demands to investigate murder of 16-year-old girl
Press release, 01.02.2016
The Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO participated in a rally demanding to investigate the murder of Karina Zalesova, a 16-year-old girl, and bring her murderer to responsibility. According to the investigators, the murder was commited by the sun of a prominent businessman. However, he is trying to escape from punishment. Stanislav Zakharkin, Chair of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO Youth, was among the organisers of the rally.
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Posted: January 30th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, Youth Policies.
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Yabloko Youth showed Wakolda movie
Press release, 29.01.2016
On 28 January, the Moscow branch of Yabloko Youth showed a movie called Wakolda (The German Doctor) in YABLOKO’s main office.
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Posted: January 29th, 2016 under YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Youth Policies.
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Committee against Xenophobia conducted a meeting in Moscow Helsinki Group office
Press release, 28.01.2016
On 27 January, the Committee against Xenophobia and Nationalism conducted its first meeting this year in the office of Moscow Helsinki Group. Galina Mikhaleva, coordinator of the Committee and First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, moderated the meeting. The meeting was also attended by other coordinaors Usman Baratov (the Uzbek community) and Vadim Karastelyev (Moscow Helsinki Group), representatives of the Moscow Antifascist Committee, Moscow committee of Civil diplomacy and civil activits.
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Posted: January 28th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Russia should change its foreign policy in such a way so that economic sanctions against it are cancelled
Interview by Emilia Slabunova, Expert magazine, 29.01.2016
The magazine Expert asked YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova a number of questions about the key economic and political priorities for 2016. The election campaign and the elections to the State Duma in the Fall will be the most important events of the year.
Expert: Should the law on the Central Bank be amended so that it would envisage Bank’s responsibility for economic? Read more »
Posted: January 27th, 2016 under Economy, Elections.
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YABLOKO Youth in Stavropol conducted picketing against head of Chechnya
Press release, 26.01.2016
Today, on 26 January, the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO Youth conducted a one-person picket demanding to dismiss head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Kirill Bobro and Ivan Tansky participated in the action.
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Posted: January 27th, 2016 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Street Actions, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Youth Policies.
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YABLOKO commemorated the victims of the siege of Leningrad
Press Release, 27.01.2016
On 27 January, the anniversary of the siege of Leningrad, leaders and activists of the YABLOKO party laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The action was attended by YABLOKO Chair Emilia Slabunova, Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov and members of the Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Mitrokhin.
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Posted: January 27th, 2016 under History.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: such persons as [head of Chechnya] Karyrov are in great demand with the regime today
Press Release, 26.01.2016
Today, approximately at 12:00, Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee, and two YABLOKO activists Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko and Stanislav Belyansky were detained by the President’s Administration during the action for the resignation of head of Administration of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Posted: January 27th, 2016 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO supported the action for dismissal of Ramzan Kadyrov
Press release, 26.01.2016
On 26 January, the activists of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO conducted picketing for dismissal of head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Similar actions took place in Moscow and Stavropol.
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Posted: January 26th, 2016 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights, Street Actions, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Sergei Mitrokhin detained by the Presidential Administration
Press Release, 26.01.2016
UPD. 14:50. Sergei Mitrokhin released. Antonov-Ovseyenko and Belyansky still remain in the police. Mitrokhin accused of violation of the order of organisation of public actions (article 20.2 of the Administrative Violation Code of Russia).
UPD. 14:40. The lawyer is not allowed to enter the police department.
UPD. 12:40. Journalists are not allowed to enter the Kitai-Gorod police department under a pretext that it is a “high security facility”.
UPD. 12:30. Sergei Mitrokhin, Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko and Stanislav Belyansky brought to the Kitai-Gorod police department, the police took away their mobile telephones.
Today, approximately at 12:00, Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s Federal Political Committee, was detained by the President’s Administration before the action for the resignation of head of Administration of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. He was taken to the police station Kitai-Gorod. Read more »
Posted: January 26th, 2016 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Moscow branch of YABLOKO supported rally against political reprisals
Press release, 25.01.2016
On 23 January, the activists of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO participated in a rally against political reprisals and in support of Ildar Dadin and other political prisoners. About 700 people came to take part in the action.
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Posted: January 26th, 2016 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO to commemorate the victims of the siege of Leningrad
Press Release, 25.01.2016
On 27 January, on the anniversary of the siege of Leningrad, leaders and activists of the YABLOKO party will lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Read more »
Posted: January 26th, 2016 under History, Street Actions.
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Yabloko Youth to show Wakolda movie
Press Release, 25.01.2016
On 28 January, the Moscow branch of Yabloko Youth will show a movie called Wakolda (The German Doctor) in YABLOKO main office. The historic drama directed by Lucía Puenzo tells about the life of the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, infamous for performing human experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp, after his escape to Latin America. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Read more »
Posted: January 25th, 2016 under Youth Policies.
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The Federal Political Committee of YABLOKO adopted a decision on the principles of the electoral programme and the coalition policies
Press Release, 24.01.2016
On 23 January YABLOKO held this year’s first meeting of its Federal Political Committee (FPC). The meeting was devoted to the upcoming second phase of the party Congress that has to take place in February. The FPC considered the electoral programme and the coalition policies. Read more »
Posted: January 25th, 2016 under Elections, Parliamentary Elections 2016, Political Committee Decisions, Presidential elections 2018, Regional and Local Elections 2016.
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The Court confirmed dismissal of Galina Shirshina from the post of Petrozavodsk Mayor
The decision can be appealed against in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia through the Petrozavodsk City Court
TASS, 21.01.2016
The Petrozavodsk City Court confirmed the dismissal of Galina Shirshina from the post of Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, [initiated by deputies of the Petrozavodsk City Council]. This was reported by the correspondent of the TASS information agency from the court room. “The court has decided to dismiss the suit [of Galina Shirshina to the city councilors]. The decision can be appealed against in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia through the Petrozavodsk City Court,” Judge Elena Lazareva announced.
Photo: Igor Podgorny/TASS
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Posted: January 22nd, 2016 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Moscow branch of YABLOKO will demand resignation of head of Chechnya Kadyrov by the Presidential Administration
Press Release, 22.01.2016
On 26 January, the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party will hold one-person pickets for the dismissal of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the administration of Chechnya. The action will take place by the Presidential Administration. The authorities of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to give a permission to YABLOKO to hold a mass picket by the office of Representation of the Republic of Chechnya. Read more »
Posted: January 22nd, 2016 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO activists to conduct a picket for the dismissal of the head of Chechnya
Press Release, 20.01.2016
On January 26, the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party will conduct a picket for the dismissal of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of administration of Chechnya. The picket will be held by the office of representation of the Republic of Chechnya in Moscow. Read more »
Posted: January 21st, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Residents of Petrozavodsk intend to deprive of mandates those city councilors who voted for the dismissal of the ex-Mayor
Novaya Gazeta, 18.01.2016
Photo: Galina Shirshina, ex-Mayor of Petrozavodsk. Photo by RIA Novosti
Residents of Petrozavodsk intend to deprive of mandates those city councilors who voted for the dismissal of the ex-Mayor Galina Shirshina. The TASS agency informs that the motion on registration of the initiative group for conducting a local referendum has been submitted to the territorial electoral commission.
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Posted: January 20th, 2016 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO honoured the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed by neonazist
Press Release, 19.01.2016
On 19 January, YABLOKO leaders and activists laid flowers to the place where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were killed by neonazists – at 1 Prechistinka street. Markelov and Baburova were murdered in the centre of Moscow in plain daylight on 19 January 19, 2009, shot in the head by a gunman.
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Posted: January 20th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions.
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[President of Chechnya] Ramzan Kadyrov – to Dismissal!
YABLOKO expresses solidarity with the statement by the Congress of Intelligencia
18.01.2016
The YABLOKO party expresses solidarity with the statement by the Congress of Intelligencia. Valery Borschyov, one of the initiators of the statement ad member of YABLOKO’s Federal Council, signed the statement on behalf of YABLOKO’s leadership.
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Posted: January 19th, 2016 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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