On the work of Yabloko’s election headquarters during the elections on 8-10 September
Press Release, 6.09.2023
The Yabloko party is taking part in 26 election campaigns in 13 regions of the country: Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Karelia, the Krasnoyarsk and the Perm Territories, the Sverdlovsk region, the Novgorod region, the Pskov region, the Moscow region, the Saratov region, the Tula region, the Rostov region, the Ryazan region, as well as Moscow (the Troitsky District). All Yabloko candidates campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!”.
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Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Fundraising for an independent examination for the leader of the Vologda Yabloko is closed. We thank everyone who did not remain indifferent and helped!
Press Release, 6.09.2023
Photo: Nikolai Yegorov / Photo from Nikolai Yegorov’s personal archive
We have closed the collection of donations for the Chairman of the Vologda branch of Yabloko Nikolai Yegorov, as a criminal case on “discrediting the army” was filed against him (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and a pre-investigation check has been underway under the article on the dissemination of “fakes about the army” (Article 207.3, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). We managed to collect 90,000 roubles for an extra-judicial psychological and linguistic examination. The funds have already been transferred to the family of Nikolai Yegorov.
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Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Russia developed a poverty management system instead of overcoming poverty. Yabloko held expert hearings on the situation with poverty in Russia
Press Release, 5.09.2023
On 4 September, a meeting of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party took place in Novgorod. The Bureau held expert hearings on the problem of overcoming poverty in Russia. The participants of the event discussed the problem and the Yabloko plan for overcoming poverty. A corresponding statement on the Bureau meeting will be issued soon.
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Posted: September 5th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russian Economy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the election of the Governor of the Novosibirsk Region in 2023
Decision of the Bureau of the Novosibirsk Regional Branch of Yabloko
Statement by the Novosibirsk Regional Branch of the Yabloko party, 5.09.2023
Photo: Novosibirsk / Photo by Alexander Polezhaev, Wikimedia Commons
The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko considers the election of the governor of the region in the current Russian situation unfree and unfair. There has been set a surrogate task to imitate democratic procedures, create the illusion of a legitimate change of power. The very essence of the election lost its meaning with a complex and developed electoral system.
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Posted: September 5th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the pressure on the Yabloko party candidates
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau, 4.09.2023
Photo: Yabloko poster: Yabloko. Your vote for peace and freedom!
On the threashold of the single voting day on 10 September, we have to once again state the growing pressure on the candidates of the Yabloko party. A campaign of defamation and bans has been waged against our candidates. The authorities are fighting against the only anti-war party that calls a spade a spade and presents an alternative policy.
Yabloko is denied the printing of newspapers and holding pickets, campaign materials are confiscated and posters are torn down.
Police conducted searches at the home of Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate for the Novgorod City Duma. Tatyana Zobnina, a candidate for the Yekaterinburg City Duma, was attacked. Another candidate, Elizaveta Kazantseva, received death threats. Two Yabloko candidates for the Novgorod City Duma, Valery Kochnev and Oksana Sergeyeva, were unreasonably accused of displaying extremist symbols.
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Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Bashkiria commemorating victims of the World War II: No more wars!
Press Release, 4.09.2023
Photo by the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria
On 3 September, the anniversary of the end of World War II, activists of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Bashkiria, according to their long-term tradition, laid flowers at the monument to the victims of the battles in August-September 1945.
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Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to launch a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 4.09.2023
Photo: The book cover
On 12 September the central office of the Yabloko party will host a launch of a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University “Russia: History and the Modern Period” delivered in 2020-2022 within the framework of the Yabloko Party University by well-known politicians and academics.
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Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov visited Krasnoyarsk to support Yabloko candidates in the upcoming elections
Press Release, 31.08.2023
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the Krasnoyarsk Territory to support the party’s candidates in the upcoming elections to the Krasnoyarsk City Council and the by-elections to the State Duma and to speak on local media with an appeal to the residents of the region to vote for peace and freedom, as Yabloko candidates participate in the elections under this slogan and Yabloko is the only Russian political party calling for peace.
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Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An administrative protocol on the demonstration of extremist symbols drawn up against another Yabloko candidate in Novgorod. Both the candidates can be deprived of the opportunity to be elected
Press Release, 1.09.2023
Photo: Oksana Sergeyeva / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
Police drew up an administrative protocol on the “demonstration of extremist symbols” – a photo with a flag with two white and one blue stripes – against Oksana Sergeyeva, a Yabloko candidate for the Novgorod City Duma.
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Posted: September 1st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A charity poetry event will be held in Chelyabinsk. Registration of participants is open
Press Release, 31.08.2023
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko and the public project TyNeOdin74 (YouAreNotAlone74) will hold a charity poetry party.
We will reсite the poems of people who were repressed – in memory of them and in support of those who have been and are being subjected to political persecution now.
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Posted: September 1st, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An administrative protocol on the demonstration of extremist symbols was drawn up against a Yabloko candidate in Novgorod. Three more candidates were summoned to the police
Press Release, 31.08.2023
Photo: Valery Kochnev /Photo from social networks
On 29 August, an administrative report on the demonstration of extremist symbols was drawn up against surgeon Valery Kochnev, who is a Yabloko candidate for the City Duma of Novgorod. A day earlier, Kochnev learned from a summon to the police that a swastika had been found on his Vkontakte page.
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Posted: September 1st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A press conference “The Ingush Case. The Results” will take place in Moscow
Press Release, 31.08.2023
On Tuesday, 5 September, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party will host a press conference by lawyers and public defenders of the leaders of the Ingush protest, dedicated to the appeal against the verdict of the Kislovodsk City Court and consideration of the appeal by the Stavropol Regional Court.
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Posted: August 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Basmanny Court in Moscow extended the arrest for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev for another three months
Press Release, 31.08.2023
Photo: Vasily Neustroyev
Today the Basmanny Court in Moscow extended the arrest for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev for another three months. The court hearing was conducted in camera at the request of the investigator, who stated that there were state secrets in the case file. According to the Telegram channel “Freedom to Vasily Neustroyev!”, Vasily’s lawyer Daniil Berman objected to the judge when choosing the measure of restraint in June which was open to public, the case materials had already been announced and could not become a secret. Despite this, the judge closed the process from the audience and from the press and extended the arrest of the defendants in the case until 6 December.
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Posted: August 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Mikhail Gorbachev: the past, the present and … the future
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.08.2023
Photo: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev with his spouse Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva during an official visit to France. Paris, 5 July 1989 // Laurent Rebours/AP
A year ago, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev passed away – the man who gave freedom to hundreds of millions of people in Russia, in the neighbouring countries and throughout Eastern Europe, the man who stopped the Cold War.
Gorbachev made it possible for Soviet citizens, who had been afraid to open their mouths freely, publicly and loudly for decades – on television and in the print media – to say what they think, without fear of execution, prison, dismissal from work, and even expulsion from the party. And this phenomenon was much bigger and broader than freedom of speech, one of the democratic freedoms. It was freedom from fear! Unprecedented for the USSR and an extremely important historical step, which, in fact, changed everything.
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Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Без рубрики.
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The court will decide on the extension of the measure of restraint for Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev. He is charged under six articles of the Criminal Code
Press Release, 30.08.2023
Photo: Vasily Neustroyev / Photo by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko
On 31 August, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow will conduct a hearing on extending the measure of restraint for the Chairman of the Frunzensky local branch of Yabloko in St. Petersburg, Vasily Neustroyev. The hearing will begin at 11:30. The address of the Basmanny Court: Kalanchevskaya 11, Moscow. The hearing is likely to be closed, however, those wishing to support Vasil Neustroyev may be allowed to the start of the hearing and the announcement of the decision.
It should be noted that the Chairman of the Frunzensky local branch of the St. Petersburg Yabloko, Vasily Neustroyev, is charged under six criminal articles at once:
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Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov Yabloko to appeal in cassation all the unlawful decisions of the courts
Press Release, 29.08.2023
Photo: The team of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko
The Pskov Regional Court upheld the decisions of the district courts, which canceled the legal decisions of the territorial electoral commissions on the registration of unified lists of Yabloko candidates at the elections of assemblies of deputies of the Krasnogorodsky, Loknyansky, Novorzhevsky, Opochetsky, Pechorsky, Pytalovsky, and Strugo-Krasnensky municipal districts.
The Pskov Yabloko considers the courts’ decisions that were on the removal of Yabloko candidates lists unlawful and reflecting extra-procedural interference in the activities of the courts by some unidentified persons. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded from the Chairman of the Higher Judges’ Qualifications Board of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Timoshin, to establish these persons.
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Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko campaigns for peace and life in the elections
Press Release, 29.08.2023
The Novgorod branch of Yabloko published its programme for the elections of deputies of the City Duma of Novgorod. The key slogan of the Yabloko election camapaign is “I Vote for Peace!”.
“The 24th of February shocked everyone. A disaster happened. For many years, and especially for the past eight years, we have warned about the danger of such a development of events. But we were not heard… People are dying, and thousands of Russians have paid the price for anti-war statements, hundreds of thousands left the country, millions are hiding from mobilization,” runs the election programme of Yabloko. The regional branch of the party calls on citizens: “Vote for Yabloko – Choose Peace!”.
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Posted: August 30th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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It was an honour for me to listen in court the final statement of Mikhail Afanasyev, a Khakassian journalist and my colleague at Yabloko
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook page, 29.08.2023
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the trial of Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of Yabloko and a journalist, in Abakan, Khakassia, so that to support Afanasyev who made his final statement in court today. The public prosecutor asked for six years in prison for Mikhail Afanasyev.
Afanasyev had been kept in a pre-trial detention centre for the second year already on the charges of spreading “fake news” about the army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He is accused of publishing an article in the Novy Focus online media about the refusal of riot police from Khakassia to go to Ukraine a month and a half after the start of the special military operation. Read more »
Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko continues to collect signatures for peace and freedom
Telegram Channel of the Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko, 26.08.2023
The Yekaterinburg branch of Yabloko announced, within a framework of its election campaign to the Yekaterinburg City Duma, a collection of signatures for declaring 2024 the Year of Peace and Freedom: this will mean calling for a ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations.
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Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“They Chose Freedom”. Yabloko hosted a screening of a film by Vladimir Kara-Murza about Soviet dissidents
Press Release, 28.08.2023
On 25 August, a screening of Vladimir Kara-Murza’s documentary film “They Chose Freedom” took place in the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. The film is dedicated to the history of the dissident movement in the USSR from its emergence in the 1950s to the fall of communist power in 1991. The event was timed to the 55th anniversary of the demonstration of dissidents on Red Square on 25 August, 1968, when eight young people opposed the invasion of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. Representatives of the dissident movement took part in the discussion of the film: Yan Rachinsky, Chairman of the Board of the International Society Memorial; human rights activist and journalist Oleksandr Podrabinek; Svetlana Gannushkina, Chairman of the charitable organisation Civic Assistance Committee and a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party; Valery Borshchev, Co-Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group and a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko; as well as Yabloko leaders Grigory Yavlinsky, Nikolai Rybakov, Ivan Bolshakov, Sergei Mitrokhin, Lev Shlosberg, Kirill Goncharov, and Alexander Gnezdilov. Yevgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of the author of the film Vladimir Kara-Murza who is currently imprisoned for 25 years, spoke to the audience via videoconference.
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Posted: August 29th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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