Alexander Shishlov appealed to the Minister of Defence in connection with information about the participation of conscripts in military operations in the Kursk region
Press Release, 30.08.2024
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Alexander Shishlov, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov, asking to organise an investigation into the information about the participation of conscripts in military operations in the Kursk region and take measures to prevent their further presence on the contact line in the region.
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Posted: August 30th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Estate Museum of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in Udmurtia will be renovated. The leader of the Udmurtian branch of Yabloko, Iya Boronina, has been seeking this since September 2023
Press Release, 28.08.2024
Photo: The Estate Museum of Pyotr Thaikovsky / Photo by Wikimedia Commons
The funds for the renovation of the cultural site of federal significance were allocated by the Government of the Russian Federation: orders on the allocation of funds to Udmurtia and other regions were signed on 13 August, 2024. This happened after the Chairperson of the Udmurtian branch of Yabloko, Iya Boronina, spoke about the dire situation of the museum at a meeting of the parliament of Udmurtia, and the public prosecutor’s office started investigation into the regional Ministry of Culture, which ignored the request of the museum’s management.
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Posted: August 28th, 2024 under Governance, History, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg refused to recognise unlawful the decision to include Boris Vishnevsky in “foreign agents” register
Press Release, 28.08.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
On 27 August, the trial on the suit of Boris Vishnevsky, a Yabloko deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, against the Ministry of Justice, whose officials unlawfully included him in the register of “foreign agents,” ended.
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Posted: August 28th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to host a roundtable discussion dedicated to the anniversary of the outbreak of World War I
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo from open sources
On 10 September, the Yabloko party office in Moscow will host a roundtable discussion dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Historians, experts, and the Yabloko party leaders will take part in the discussion. Everyone is invited. The event will be streamlined on YouTube.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Karelian branch of Yabloko nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council, for the post of regional Ombudsperson for human rights
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo: Olga Tuzhikova. Photo: regional branch of the party
The term of office of the current Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights in Karelia expires on 12 September. The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council from Yabloko, an ecologist and human rights defender, for the post of ombudsperson.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, imprisoned journalist and a member of Yabloko, wins the Free Media Awards press prize
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev makes his final statement in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia and a member of the Yabloko party, became a prize winner of the Free Media Awards, a prestigious award for independent journalists who refuse to give in to threats.
For many years Mikhail Afanasyev has been covering corruption in his home region, the activities of criminal gangs, and human rights violations.
In April 2022, he was arrested and sentenced by the court to 5.5 years in prison in a penal colony for “disseminating fakes about the army”.
Mikhail was accused of publishing an article in the online publication Novy Fokus about the refusal of riot police from Khakassia to go to Ukraine six weeks after the start of the “special military operation”.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the situation around the detention of Pavel Durov
Statement by the Chairman of Yabloko, 26.08.2024
Photo: Pavel Durov / Photo by Alexei Zotov, Kommersant
Yabloko considers the recent situation around with the detention of Pavel Durov [the founder of the Telegram messenger] to be alarming and landmark event.
The situation is reminiscent of what happened to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organisation that published US government confidential information obtained from anonymous sources.
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Posted: August 26th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko held a meeting with party supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites
Press Release, 26.08.2024
Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Past week, a meeting of Yabloko members and supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites took place in Kaliningrad. The meeting was timed to coincide with the opening of the new office of the regional branch. The office became a place for active discussion, lively debate and discussion of proposals for the development of the branch and its activities. The day was also dedicated to supporting political prisoners; the participants of the meeting prepared wrote 45 letters and postcards to Russian political prisoners.
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Posted: August 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Courts in Moscow and the Moscow Region removed from the elections nine Yabloko candidates campaigning for peace and freedom
Press Release, 23.08.2024
Photo: Yabloko candidates to municipal deputies of the Kurkino district, Moscow/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow removed six previously registered Yabloko candidates from the snap election to the municipal council of the Kurkino district in Moscow. Earlier, the Moscow Regional Court deregistered three candidates for the Council of the Leninsky Urban District. All candidates will challenge the courts decisions, and are currently continuing their election campaigns under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A second criminal case filed against Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of the Kamchatka Yabloko and journalist, under an article on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 23.08.2024
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court ruled to remand Yefimov in custody until 21 October. A lawyer is working with the journalist. Details of the case are being clarified.
It should be noted that in March 2023, Vladimir Yefimov was fined 200,000 roubles under Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with a ban on writing in the social media.
Vladimir Yefimov is the organiser of the first non-governmental independent television company in the USSR – TVK, and was its editor-in-chief for 18 years. In January 2021, he received the highest award of the regional branch of the Union of Journalists of Russia – the Journalistic Glory of Kamchatka.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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We are going on so that people get a choice!
Statement by the Chelyabinsk Regional Council of the Yabloko Party, 23.08.2024
Photo by the regional branch of the party
On 8 September, 2024, there will be no candidates from the Yabloko Party on the ballots for the elections of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region and deputies of the Chelyabinsk City Duma.
The electoral commissions refused to register all of our candidates who campaigned in these elections with two main demands:
– conclusion of a ceasefire agreement;
– release of all political prisoners.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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Don’t deprive citizens of elections in Kurkino!
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 23.08.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 20 August, 2024, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow received lawsuits demanding the cancellation of the decisions of the Territorial Electoral Commission on the registration of six candidates nominated by the Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party in the city of Moscow for the snap elections of deputies of the Council of Deputies of the Kurkino District.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Vladimir Dorokhov may be made a “foreign agent” through provocations. Dorokhov applied to the police and the FSB
Press Release, 22.08.2024
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 19 August, Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, received two money transfers to his accounts from an Armenian citizen whom Dorokhov does not know. Each transfer amounted to 2,000 roubles. Vladimir Dorokhov is certain that this is a planned action to assign him the status of a “foreign agent” receiving money from abroad. Earlier, Dorokhov, who was a Yabloko candidate in the elections to the Tula City Duma, was marked as a “foreign agent” in the GAS Vybory system (a special federal automated system for counting votes at elections) despite the fact that he had never had such a status. The politician contacted the police and submitted statements to banks with a request to return these payments. In addition, Dorokhov applied to the Central Bank and the Federal Security Service (FSB).
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Moscow Yabloko candidates in municipal elections to the Kurkino district municipal council may be removed from the race
Press Release, 21.08.2024
Photo: Yabloko candidates in snap elections in the Kurkino district, Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In Moscow all six Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies in the Kurkino district may be removed from the race. Two self-nominated candidates filed lawsuits in the Tushinsky District Court in Moscow against the electoral commission that registered Yabloko’s candidates.
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Posted: August 21st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Let’s support those who are still in captivity. Yabloko invites all to the actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 21.08.2024
Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions is holding another action of writing letters to political prisoners. After a historic prisoners exchange between several countries, as a result of which those to whom we wrote letters to pretrial detention centre and penal colonies where they were kept, and about whom we worried all these months and recent years, were released. Among them are Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Oleg Orlov, Andrei Pivovarov, Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeyeva, Sasha Skochilenko, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Kevin Lik.
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Posted: August 21st, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We are eternally indebted to them”. Yabloko honoured the memory of the defenders of democracy in 1991
Press Release, 21.08.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov, Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva, and other party members laid flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia” at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring in Moscow. Here, 33 years ago, during the August coup d’etat, three young people – defenders of democracy – died: Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov and Ilya Krichevsky.
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Posted: August 21st, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Moscow to honour the memory of the victims of the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 20.08.2024
Photo from open sources
Members and supporters of Yabloko will meet at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring on August 21 at 11:45 so that to lay flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia”.
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Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Nikolai Kavkazsky, a Moscow Yabloko member, fined for the second time for “displaying extremist symbols”
Press Release, 20.08.2024
Photo: Nikolai Kavkazsky outside the Basmanny Court, 2022 / Photo from Nikolai Kavkazsky’s personal archive
The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced Nikolai Kavkazsky to a fine of 2,000 roubles under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“propaganda or public demonstration of Nazis’ symbols or the symbols of other extremist organisations”). The case was filed because of Kavkazsky mentioning Smart Voting on his personal page on VKontakte social media. Kavkazsky links the case opened against him with the Moscow City Duma elections, in which he did not plan to participate. In 2022, Kavkazsky served a ten-day arrest under the same article, which further led to a prohibition for him to run in the municipal elections.
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Posted: August 20th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Summing up the results of registration of Yabloko candidates in 2024 elections
Press Release, 17.08.2024
The campaign of registration of Yabloko candidates in elections at various levels has been completed in all regions of Russia and in Moscow. As of today, 73 Yabloko candidates are participating in 31 election campaigns in nine regions of the country under a single party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. In total, Yabloko nominated 300 candidates in 19 regions in this election cycle. In 13 regions of the country, 139 candidates needed to collect voters’ signatures in favour of their registration. The list of registered candidates is available at the link.
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Posted: August 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko party demands an end to repression against politicians and citizens fighting for fair elections in Russia
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 15.08.2024
Photo: Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, and Grigory Melkonyants, Co-Chair of the Golos independent observers movement, at a round table devoted to organization of election observation as part of the All-Russian Civil Forum, 25 November, 2017 / Photo by Golos
On 14 August, the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg fined Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, for alleged participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation, expressed in an interview on the YouTube channel of the movement for the protection of voters’ rights Golos. A similar prosecution is being carried out against a member of the Federal Bureau of the party, Alexander Yefimov.
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Posted: August 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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