YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin released after interference of human rights defender Andrei Babushkin
Press release,07.11.2015
On October 7, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally arrested during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917. Mitrokhin was released after several hours of arrest only after interference of Andrei Babushkin, famous human rights defender in Russia and member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.
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Posted: November 7th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Historical choice of police officers on anniversary of October coup?
hro.org, 07.11.2015
Leader of the Russian democratic YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally detained in Moscow on October 7, 2015. He was arrested during the action in memory of the officers and military cadets (junkers) who were killed when defending the democratic Russia in 1917. Read more »
Posted: November 7th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin brutally arrested
Press release, 07.11.2015
Brutal arrest of YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917.
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Posted: November 7th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Mitrokhin: Sentence to Evgenia Sukhorukova is Khudilainen’s revenge
Press release, 02.10.2015
Today, on November 2, the Pretrozavodsk city court of the Republic of Karelia gave Evgenia Sukhorukova, deputy mayor of Petrozavodsk, member of YABLOKO regional branch team, a three years suspended sentence with one year probation period for abuse of official authority causing heavy consequences as deputy head of the Prionezhsky district, Petrozavodsk.
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Posted: November 5th, 2015 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: The act of the law enforcement against Ukrainian library director represents a blatant violation of human rights
Press Release, 02.11.2015
Sergei Mitrokhin demands an official investigation on the detention of Natalia Sharina, Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, on the justification of conducting investigation against her at night time, pressure on her and abandoning her without medical care. YABLOKO leader urges that those guilty of such abuse of power should be brought to responsibility. Read more »
Posted: November 3rd, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Sergei Mitrokhin greets the Kurdish party on another success in parliamentary elections in Turkey
Press Release, 02.11.2015
YABLKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin has sent a message of greetings on another victory in passing to Turkey’s parliament to Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş and Ms. Figen Yüksekdağ, co-Chairs of the People’s Democratic Party protecting the rights of Kurds. Read more »
Posted: November 3rd, 2015 under Foreign policy.
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YABLOKO commemorated victims of the Great Terror
Press Release, 29.10.2015
YABLOKO leaders and activists participated in the annual memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. The action was organised on the threshold of October 30, the Day of Political Prisoners, established in 1974 by Soviet political prisoners who conducted hunger strikes and lit candles in memory of the victims on that day. The action took place near the FSB (former KGB) building at Lubyanka square by the Solovetsky stone which had been brought from the Solovetsky Islands, the location of the Solovki prison camp which was part of the Soviet Gulag system.
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Posted: November 2nd, 2015 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Russia has no future if the state does not acknowledge the crimes of Bolshevism and Stalinism
Press Release, 30.10.2015
Today, on the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, YABLOKO founder Grigory Yavlinsky, laid flowers to the Solovetsky Stone in Lubyanka Square in Moscow. Yavlinsky said that the political terror that took the lives of millions of people was “the most terrible crime against Russia, against the future of our country.”
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Posted: November 2nd, 2015 under Без рубрики.
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YABLOKO picketed State Duma against sadists’ law adoption
Press release, 21.10.2015
YABLOKO conducted a series of one-person picketing outside the State Duma against the adoption of the bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners. Human rights defenses call the bill the sadists’ law. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin and ex political prisoner charged with Bolotnaya Square rally case Nikolai Kavkazsky participated in the action.
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Posted: October 21st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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The right to torture prisoners is a true GULAG system return
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 20.10.2015
The bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners, which the State Duma is planning to pass in the first reading, is nothing but the revival of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs methods in the Russian system of execution of punishment. Read more »
Posted: October 21st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Federal Penitentiary Service supports release on parole for Vitishko
Press release, 16.10.2015
Enviromnmentalist Evgeny Vitishko submitted another application on release on parole to the Kirsanovsky district court of the Tambov region. The Federal Penitentiary Service supported Vitishko’s motion for the first time. Read more »
Posted: October 19th, 2015 under Environmental Policies, Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Deputies of Karelia Legislative Assembly demand that cancellation of Petrozavodsk mayoral elections must be acknowledged unconstitutional
Press release, 14.10.2015
A group of deputies of the Karelia Legislative Assembly appealed to the Constituional Court demanding to aknowledge that the law on cancelling mayoral elections in Petrozavodsk, capital of the Republic, and the Kostomushka city is unconstitutional.
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Posted: October 15th, 2015 under Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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YABLOKO commemorated Boris Nemtsov’s memory
Press release, 09.10.2015
Today, on October 9th, the politician and public person Boris Nemtsov would have turned 56. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin, the party founder Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO Political Committee member Sergei Ivanenko and Secretary of the Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva laid flowers to the place where Boris Nemtsov had been murdered on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge.
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Posted: October 12th, 2015 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Condolences on the terrorist attack in Turkey
11.10.2015
On behalf of the YABLOKO party let me express our deep condolences to the families and next of kin of those killed in the brutal attack during a peaceful demonstration in Ankara. Read more »
Posted: October 12th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO demands that Communist Party explain the use of quotation marks when mentioning political repressions victims
Press release, 09.10.2015
Chair of the Penza branch of YABLOKO Sergei Oleynik demanded that the head of the Communist Party regional branch Georgy Kamnev should apologise for mentioning the political repressions victims where the word “victims” was intentionally put into quotation marks. Read more »
Posted: October 11th, 2015 under Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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A superior court satisfied Vitishko’s appeals
Press release, 08.10. 2015
Today, October 8, the Tambov regional court annulled the decision of the inferior Kirsanovsky district court (court of the first instance) on the refusal to release on parole Evgeny Vitishko, environmentalist from the Sochi region and YABLOKO member, and the refusal to amnesty him in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany in the World War 2. The Tambov regional court ruled out to send the case for reconsideration to the same Kirsanovsky district court. Read more »
Posted: October 9th, 2015 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Federal Security Service proposals on closing property registers are unacceptable
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 07.10.2015
The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) proposed an initiative of closing public access to public registers of property rights, including real estate, aviation and water transport. At present register information is available to all, but tomorrow it will be available only to the “competent authorities”. YABLOKO considers this initiative corruption prone and destructive for a transparent modern state and urges to abandon it. Read more »
Posted: October 7th, 2015 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demands to investigate detention of an architect at the event organized to commemorate 120th birthday of great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin
Press Release, 03.10.2015
On 3 October, on the day of celebration of the 120th anniversary of great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin in his hometown Konstantinovo, police detained Valentin Gavrilov, 77, honorable architect of Russia and a person who survived the siege of Leningrad in 1941 – 1944. Gavrilov was charged with resisting the police and organising an unsanctioned rally.
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Posted: October 6th, 2015 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO to commemorate victims of the Great Terror
Announcement, 01.10.2015
On October 29 YABLOKO leaders and activists will participate in the memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. 30,000 people were executed in Moscow in 1937-1938. Read more »
Posted: October 1st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO congratulated Ludmila Alexeyeva, Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, with receiving Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
30.09.2015
Dear Ludmila Mikhailovna,
Please receive our greetings on receiving Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize. We believe that it is you like no one else worthy of this award. Read more »
Posted: September 30th, 2015 under Без рубрики.
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