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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Lev Shlosberg appealed in court against depriving him of mandate in Pskov Regional Assembly
Press release, 28.09.2015
On September 28 Lev Shlosberg appealed in court against the decision of the Pskov Regional Assembly deputies to deprive him of the mandate on September 24, 2015. Read more »
Posted: September 30th, 2015 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections.
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Evgenia Sukhorukova, Karelian YABLOKO team member, faces imprisonment
Press Release, 29.09.2015
Evgenia Sukhorukova is Vice Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, and member of the Karelian YABLOKO team.
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Posted: September 30th, 2015 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Yavlinsky on Shlosberg’s case: “Political violence will sooner or later lead to total violence”
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, 25.09.2015
The deprivation of Lev Shlosberg’s deputy status in the Pskov Regional Assembly on the invented and by far politically motivated grounds is the political mopping up with the person who has been fighting for the prosperity of his region, for the honour and dignity of the Russian military men both alive and fallen, for the right of the citizens to have a dignified life in Russia with all his activities, every step, every statement and every newspaper article. Read more »
Posted: September 26th, 2015 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Lev Shlosberg deprived of mandate in Pskov Regional Assembly
Press release, 24.09.2015
The Pskov Regional Assembly illegally deprived Lev Shlosberg, leader of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO, of his mandate. Shlosberg is going to appeal against the decision in court.
41 deputies voted in favour of the proposal to deprive Shlosberg of his mandate, 3 voted against it. Read more »
Posted: September 24th, 2015 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections, Human Rights.
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Governor Turchak must be dismissed, not Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 17.09.2016
On 24 of September the Pskov Regional Assembly will attempt to illegally deprive Lev Shlosberg*, leader of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO, of his mandate. Deputy Governor Maxim Zhavoronkov has already made a statement that there were grounds for depriving Shlosberg of the mandate. Read more »
Posted: September 17th, 2015 under Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on YABLOKO election results
Blog post by Grigory Yavlinsky, 14.09.2015
The YABLOKO party lists won elections to four city parliaments: in Tomsk (5.54 per cent), most likely in Kostroma (6.55 per cent, as over 50 per cent of ballots have been counted). In Kaluga, Alexei Kolesnikov, Chair of local YABLOKO branch, passes to the city parliament in a single-mandate constituency. Vladimir Mikhailov who obtained 37 per cent of the vote in his district passes to the Kostroma Regional Duma. Read more »
Posted: September 15th, 2015 under Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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Results of the voting day 13 September: YABLOKO passed to the city parliaments in four large cities
Press Release, 14.09.2015
According to the results of yesterday’s single voting day in Russia, the YABLOKO party has overcome the five percent barrier in three capitals of Russian regions: Kostroma (6.55 per cent), Tomsk (5.54 per cent) and Vladimir (5.50 per cent). In Kaluga YABLOKO representative passes top the city parliament in a single-mandate constituency. Read more »
Posted: September 14th, 2015 under Elections, Regional elections 2015.
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YABLOKO candidate Nikolai Kavkazsky beaten in Moscow
Press release, 10.09.2015
Nikolai Kavkazsky, YABLOKO candidate to the North Medevedkovo Municipal Council in Moscow, human rights activist, lawyer and ex-prisoner of the Bolotnaya Rally Case, has just been severely beaten by the three unknown men during campaigning in his district.
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Posted: September 11th, 2015 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional elections 2015.
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