Yabloko calls for the release of all those convicted under “anti-war” articles!
Resolution by the Federal Council of Yabloko, adopted by the Federal Council on 30.11.2024, published on 11.12.2024
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at the Yabloko Congress in 2023 /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, there are about a thousand prisoners in Russian prisons, persecuted by the state for their political views and positions. The use of new articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation has become widespread: the dissemination of so-called fakes about the army (Article 207.3), as well as words or actions that, in the opinion of investigative bodies, discredit the Russian army (Article 280.3). Practice has shown that almost any statement by a citizen that does not correspond to the official line of state power in relation to the special military operation, which has been ongoing for three years, can fall under these articles.
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Posted: December 12th, 2024 under Congresses, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights represented a response to the horrors and crimes committed during World War II
Nikolai Rybakov’s blog post, 10.12.2024
Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt with the English version of the Declaration of Human Rights
Today is International Human Rights Day: 76 years ago, on 10 December, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Declaration represented a response to the horrors and crimes committed during World War II. The global conflict killed 70 million people, and was marked by the deliberate extermination of entire nations, the widespread use of concentration camps, violence against prisoners and civilians, deportations, famine, the destruction of cities, and cold-blooded ruthlessness, hatred and unbearable pain. Observing all this suffering, humanity made an attempt to prevent it in the future. It was for this purpose that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. It was the first document of global scale that guaranteed every inhabitant of the planet, regardless of nationality, race, religion, gender, and age, the most fundamental rights and freedoms and called on all states to observe them.
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Posted: December 11th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in the Moscow City Duma: we need a real, not a sham, dialogue between the authorities and citizens
Press Release, 11.12.2024
Today, Kirill Goncharov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, voiced in the Moscow City Duma the need for authorities to conduct a dialogue with Muscovites on the merits instead of formally complying with the requirements of the law. Kirill Goncharov spoke in the Moscow parliament within the annual Moscow City Duma meeting with participation of non-parliamentary parties.
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Posted: December 11th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Ivan Bolshakov: In times of turbulence we need not only to maintain our basis, but be flexible
Press Release, 10.12.2024
Photo: Ivan Bolshakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Speaking at the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30 November 2024, Ivan Bolshakov, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, noted that Yabloko was facing a dilemma “either we act “here and now” or work for the future”. However, the position “here and now” cannot give a positive result. “Here and now” one can only go to prison, or become a “foreign agent”. According to Bolshakov, “it is unlikely that you will be able to win the elections or achieve a change of regime “here and now”.
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Posted: December 11th, 2024 under Congresses, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The leader of Yabloko demanded that the State Duma withdraw the bill banning the admission of migrant children to schools without a Russian language test
Press Release, 10.12.2024
Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant
The corresponding appeal was sent by the Сhairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov to the Сhairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. Rybakov stated in the letter that implementation of this initiative would significantly limit the opportunities for citizens of neighbouring states to integrate into Russian society, contradicts the Constitution of the Russian Federation, current legislation, and would also lead to significant and long-term negative cultural, economic and geopolitical consequences.
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Posted: December 10th, 2024 under Education and Science, Human Rights, Social Policies, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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We invite you to the chess tournament in memory of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Sergei Ivanenko
Press Release, 9.12.2024
On 14 December, Yabloko will hold a chess competition dedicated to the memory of Sergei Ivanenko our friend and colleague, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, head of the Moscow organization, and USSR Master of Sports in chess. We invite you to join the tournament regardless of your level. Both professional players and amateurs can sign up as participants – all you need is basic knowledge.
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Posted: December 10th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars.
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A Ceasefire is the Only Path to Peace and Security
Resolution by the Federal Council of Yabloko, adopted by the Federal Council on 30.11.2024, published on 6.12.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The bloodiest and most dangerous armed conflict in central Europe since the end of World War II has been going on for over 1,000 days. During this time, the Yabloko Party’s demand to stop the bloodshed has been clear and persistent. We note with bitterness that our assessments and forecasts have proven correct, while numerous warnings about the danger of a major war have gone unheard.
In March 2014, the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party proposed convening an international conference on the normalisation of Russian-Ukrainian relations. At that time, both the countries and the international community still had opportunities to prevent escalation, create conditions for dialogue, and slow down the degradation of international relations that we are witnessing today. After the outbreak of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, we went out into the streets on Peace Marches demanding an end to the propaganda of hatred and enmity.
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Posted: December 9th, 2024 under Congresses, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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On the substantive work of the Yabloko Party in the new conditions
Resolution by the Federal Council of Yabloko, adopted by the Federal Council on 30.11.2024, published on 6.12.2024
Photo: Meeting of the Federal Council on 30 November, 2024 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Federal Council of the party supports Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No. 189, dated 21 November, 2024, and believes that the political mission and the practical goal of the Yabloko Party has always been the desire to form a modern, socially-oriented vector of development in Russia based on human rights and freedoms, and on democratic institutions. The Party has always been distinguished by serious scientifically based analysis and strategic understanding of the situation, both in Russia and in the world.
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Posted: December 9th, 2024 under Congresses, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko will take part in the annual charity action to help the homeless in Moscow and St.Petersburg
Press Release, 4.12.2024
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Yabloko is once again joining the annual campaign from the Nochlezhka charity organisation helping homeless people, which, on New Year’s Eve, collects the most essential food-stuffs and necessities for homeless living in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The campaign will last from 4 December through to 20 December.
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Posted: December 5th, 2024 under Charity, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “The head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has discredited his post and must resign”
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 3.12.2024
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The head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has made an error once again. He gave the idea to remove the Solovetsky Stone [erected in memory of victims of Soviet political repression] from Lubyanka Square so as not to embarrass the people who work in the building on Lubyanka Square.
It is not the Solovetsky Stone that have to be moved from Lubyanka, but the office of the special services must be removed from the building on the square – to another building that does not carry a dark history. The GULAG museum should be moved to this building on the square. Moreover, it was reported that there were some problems with fire safety in the current building [of the museum]. This would be fair and would truly mean the state’s position on assessing the Great Terror as a crime against its people.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Boris Vishnevsky: Our task is to try to bring the dawn closer during the gathering darkness
Boris Vishnevsky’s speech at the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30.11.2024, published on 1.12.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Dear colleagues,
The conditions in which we work today are like swimming against the current in sulfuric acid. This is exactly how the party of peace and humanism has to work now.
We are working in a situation where the nature of political struggle has fundamentally changed. Dissent has been criminalised, and disputes with opponents of the government, discussions, programme development, and election competition have been replaced by criminal or administrative cases, searches, arrests, putting [the government’s] opponents on discriminatory lists, and depriving them of their voting rights.
Nevertheless, it is necessary to engage in politics even in such conditions.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Congresses, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg: Preserving humanism in politics is our main objective today
Lev Shlosberg’s speech at the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30.11.2024, published on 1.12.2024
Photo: Lev Shlosberg at a meeting of the Federal Council of Yabloko on 30 November, 2024 / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov Yabloko
The basis of the political position of the Yabloko party since its foundation has been humanism, that is, an ideology focused around the idea of the individual is the highest value.
We have already gone through more than thirty years as a political force, with humanism in our minds and hearts. Humanism is an essential alternative to populism, ochlocracy, nationalism, cynicism, and hatred. Humanism represents an essential alternative to war.
How to combine humanism with political practices? How to introduce humanism into the foundations of the state system? How to make humanism an understandable and recognised basis for politics in Russia? How to make humanism the basis of public life? We seek answers to these questions every day.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Congresses, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is Yabloko’s main objective
Press Release, 30.11.2024
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky speaking to the Yabloko Federal Council on 30 November, 2024 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
At the opening of the Yabloko Federal Council meeting, attended by more than 100 representatives of 68 regional branches of the party, Grigory Yavlinsky stressed that reaching an agreement on a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine as the party’s main objective in the current conditions.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Congresses, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Nikolai Rybakov on the work of Yabloko: “The country needs us, the future needs us”
Press Release, 30.11.2024
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov made a report at the Federal Council of Yabloko, where he spoke about the state of affairs in the party and the main objectives and areas of work in the recent years.
The party leader noted that even in the situation of pressure, threats and danger in which Yabloko operates, new people come to the party every day, send applications to become candidate members and then members of the party. Recently, the party crossed a significant milestone, considerably increasing the number of its supporters in the electronic party, who expressed their readiness to work with Yabloko and receive information from the party – 1,700,267 people.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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Representatives of regional branches of Yabloko will gather for the Federal Council in Moscow
Press Release, 29.11.2024
On Saturday, 30 November, a meeting of the Federal Council of Yabloko, the largest representative body of the party, will be held in Moscow. 162 party members from 68 regions of Russia were elected as members of the Federal Council.
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Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Congresses, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the substantive work of the Yabloko Party in the new conditions
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024
Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant
The political mission and the objective of the Yabloko Party has always been the intention to form a modern, socially-oriented vector of development in Russia, based on human rights and freedoms, and democratic institutions. The party has always been notable for serious scientifically based analysis and strategic understanding of the situation both in Russia and in the world.
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Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The Political Committee of Yabloko: The first step towards peace could be to conclude an agreement to stop strikes deep into the territories of Russia and Ukraine
Press Release, 28.11.2024
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
The Yabloko Federal Political Committee once again called on the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine to conclude a ceasefire agreement, and the heads of the world’s leading countries to support this initiative. Yabloko also specified its proposals for implementation of the agreement:
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Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko Federal Political Committee: on the global crisis, nuclear threats and the policies of the future
Press Release, 28.11.2024
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Party Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, and Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the eve of the Federal Council of Yabloko, which will convene in Moscow on 30 November, a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party was held at the central office of Yabloko on 21 November.
The key report was delivered by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee. Alexei Arbatov, a Political Committee member and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, focused in his report on the danger of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalating into a world war with the use of nuclear weapons. The Political Committee discussed the situation in Russia and the world and adopted a number of decisions on the political position of the party in present situation.
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Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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On the Yabloko Party’s fundamental political position in the current conditions
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024
Photo: Yabloko’s poster “Changes Will Come!”, September 2021 elections / Photo by Vitaly Ankov, RIA Novosti
The Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party considers it necessary to reiterate the most pressing key positions of the Party:
– Ceasefire. Exchange of prisoners and wounded according to “all for all” principle. Beginning of diplomatic negotiations.
– Release of all (about 800 people) political prisoners.
– Abrogation of repressive laws.
– Broad international negotiations to end the new Cold War and arms race. Renewal of nuclear deterrence treaties.
– Political reforms: regular change of power and fair elections.
– End of militarisation, development of a modern market economy, and inviolability of private property.
– Healthcare and education reform, equal opportunities for all.
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Posted: November 29th, 2024 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Federalism, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Без рубрики.
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On the situation in the world and Russia and the position of the Yabloko Party
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024
Photo by Ivan Vodopyanov, Kommersant
The world is changing irreversibly and qualitatively. A large-scale institutional crisis is beginning, it is manifested in the systematic inoperability of many international institutions, as well as the crisis of political systems in the leading countries of the world, which for decades supported the world order that emerged after World War II and largely determined the development of the world.
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Posted: November 28th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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