Bill on National Guard must be voted down
Statement by the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, 07.04.2016
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has introduced the draft law “On the Russian National Guard Troops” to the State Duma.
If the bill is passed, only one person in the country (even if he is the President) will use his own discretion to decide where and how to use force both domestically and internationally: Article 2 item 2 of the draft states that “bringing the National Guard Troops to accomplishment of the objectives with the use of weapons… is implemented on the decision of the President of the Russian Federation”. In keeping with Russian legal norms of course but the risk of making a wrong decision raises when it depends on one person. Read more »
Posted: April 8th, 2016 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Youth YABLOKO offered President of Russia to resign due to the scandal with offshore companies
Press release, 07.04.2016
On 6 April Andrei Sklyarov, leader of Youth YABLOKO in Rostov conducted a picket where he asked Vladimir Putin to follow the example of Prime Minister of Iceland and resign.
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Posted: April 8th, 2016 under Street Actions, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Youth Policies.
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Tula YABLOKO Youth protested against conscription
Press release, 05.04.2016
YABLOKO Youth activists in Tula joined the federal action of protest conducted by the youth faction of YABLOKO against the conscription system in Russia. The action was timed to the beginning of the spring draft.
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Posted: April 6th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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Sverdlovsk YABLOKO Youth conducted pickets agaisnt conscription
Press release, 06.04.2016
On 5 April, the Sverdlovsk region YABLOKO Youth conducted one-person pickets against the draft system in Russia. The street action of protest took place by the military registration and enlistment office in Yekaterinburg.
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Posted: April 6th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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Krasnodar YABLOKO Youth protested against conscription
Press release, 04.04.2016
The Krasnodar branch of YABLOKO Youth conducted one-person pickets against the conscription system. The picket took place in the city of Yeysk, the Krasnodar Territory. Alexander Korovayny, leader of local YABLOKO Youth participated in the street action of protest.
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Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army.
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Novosibirsk YABLOKO Youth conducted picketing against conscription
Press release, 04.04.2016
The Novosibirsk YABLOKO Youth conducted a picket against the conscription system in Russia. The activits claim that Russia must move to a professional army based on contract principles. The protest action took place in the city centre. The local party activits also participated in the event. 
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Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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North Ossetia YABLOKO Youth supports army based on contract principles
Press release, 04.04.2016
Alan Alikov, an activist of North Ossetia YABLOKO Youth, conducted a one-person picket is support of the army based on contract principles. The picket took place in Vladikavkaz. 
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Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army.
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Stavropol YABLOKO Youth protests against conscription
Press release, 04.04.2016
On 3 April, the Stavropol branch of YABLOKO Youth conducted a one-person picket against the conscription system in Russia.
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Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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Moscow YABLOKO Youth conducted picketing against conscription
Press release, 04.04.2016
On 3 April, Moscow YABLOKO Youth activists conducted picketing against the conscription system in Russia and against the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy. The action was timed to the beginning of the spring draft.
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Posted: April 5th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions, The Russian Army, Youth Policies.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “They are trying to draw Russia into another war”
Grigory Yavlinsky web-site, 03.04.2016
Alarming news come from the Caucasus. In Karabakh there are active military actions with already a lot of victims from both the Azerbaijani and the Armenian side. Perhaps it is Turkey that has been tacitly pushing Baku to a military conflict with Yerevan. Russia has obligations before Armenia under the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO), and therefore, can not stay away. Thus, Turkey may try to draw Russia into another war and distract it from the zone of its interests in Syria. Read more »
Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Foreign policy.
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On the mobbing of Mikhail Kasyanov
Grigory Yavlisky’s Facebook page, 03.04.2016
A hate campaign has been unleashed against Mikhail Kasyanov. The state has set an entire pack on him: the Federal Security Service with its wiretapping, peeping and informers, the Ministry of Interior with provocatively inactive and posing police, unbridled paid “public activists” who look like criminals, and, certainly, the state television in the form of the NTV channel which has been specially coached for political trash… All against one! Soho! Soho! Boris Nemtsov was killed, and we will bait and trample this one! Read more »
Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Condolences of the death of Hans-Dietrich Genscher, ex Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany
Condolences by Grigory Yavlinsky, 02.04.2016
Hans-Dietrich Genscher was the politician who for many decades have been defining the level and content of international relations in Europe. His scope of thinking, vision of the future, the ability to find a compromise without concessions in the main thing made his tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany very important, especially in the most important moment in history of German reunification. Read more »
Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Без рубрики.
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Kalmykia branch of YABLOKO conducted a street action in support of Constitution
Press release, 31.03.2016
Today, on 31 March, the Kalmykia branch of YABLOKO has conducted a street action demanding to observe the Constitution of the Russian Federation and provide the observance of the rights and freedoms of the citizens in accordance with the fundamental law of the state.
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Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Human Rights, Street Actions.
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YABLOKO succeeded in recalling the bill on prohibition of street actions in main pedestrian street of Nizhny Novgorod
Press release, 31.03.2016
Today, on 31 March, the Lagislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region made a decision to cancel consideration of the bill on prohibition of public events at Bolshaya Pokroskaya Ulitsa (the main street of the city) from the agenda.
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Posted: April 4th, 2016 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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Moscow YABLOKO opposes to the appointment of Tatyana Moskalkova to the post of Ombudsperson
Press release, 31.03.2016
On 30 March, the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO addressed the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation with an appeal to reject the candidacy of Tatyana Moskalkova, police Major General, to the post of Ombudsperson. Read more »
Posted: April 2nd, 2016 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO asks Prime Minister Medvedev to return state subsidies to socially-oriented non-profit organisations
Press Release, 31.03.2016
YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabunova asks Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to save the country’s sole Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind and review the conditions for granting subsidies to socially-oriented non-profit organisations. Read more »
Posted: April 1st, 2016 under Social Policies.
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As elections loom, Kremlin applies ‘ethical standards’ to muzzle critics
The Christian Science Monitor, by Fred Weir, 29.03.2016
… Russia’s oldest liberal party, Yabloko, has seen several of its local lawmakers censured or deprived of deputy status for breaking such rules over the past few months. Nevertheless, Alexander Gnezdilov, the party’s deputy chairman, insists that Yabloko will attempt to participate in both local and national elections this September, and make use of every opportunity that is available. Read more »
Posted: April 1st, 2016 under Elections, Parliamentary Elections 2016, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016.
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YABLOKO demands that General Prosecutor’s Office must prevent demolition of small shopping stores
Press release, 30.03.2016
YABLOKO Chairperson Emilia Slabunova forwarded a request to the General Presecutor’s Office demanding to launch an anti-corruption investigation of the Civil Code provision which allowed the city officials to demolish the sales premises in Moscow. YABLOKO claims that demolition of sales pavilions may continue to take place in other regions of Russia as well. Read more »
Posted: March 31st, 2016 under Support of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
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Krasnoyarsk branch of YABLOKO opposes creation of parking lot for officials in historic city centre
Press release, 30.03.2016
The Krasnoyarsk branch of YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction and the local residents oppose the creation of a hundred additional parking lots for the officials’ cars in the historic centre of Krasnoyarsk. Read more »
Posted: March 30th, 2016 under Environmental Policies.
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Ex Commissioner for Human Rights Ella Pamfilova regards stripping of powers of YABLOKO regional MP Lev Shlosberg and Petorzavodsk Mayor Galina Shirshina as an attempt of the authorities to get rid of the competitors
Press Release, 29.03.2016
Ella Pamfilova in her final report on the post of the Commissioner for Human Rights addressing the State Duma of the Russian Federation called deprivation of YABLOKO’s Lev Shlosberg of his deputy’s mandate by the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov Region and removal of Galina Shirshina from the post of Mayor of Petrozavodsk an attempt of the authorities to get rid of the competitors. Read more »
Posted: March 30th, 2016 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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