Sergei Mitrokhin participated in a rally and visited the Sadovniki district
Press Release, August 24, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin supported a rally organised by the residents of the Kurkino district who demand from the authorities to make improvements in the district and stop building shopping centres that no one wants.
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Posted: August 26th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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An attempt on the life of the leader of the Ust-Labinsk branch of YABLOKO
Press Release, August 25, 2013
At night of August 23, Natalya Romanuk, leader of the Ust-Labinsk branch of YABLOKO, Krasnodar Territory, had suffered an attempt against her life. Her car was severely hit on a highway by a black car. By a lucky chance the woman managed to avoid a collision with a car ahead and wasn’t badly injured. Ambulance doctors registered that Natalya Romanuk had knee-joint injuries. Read more »
Posted: August 26th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Mitrokhin demands from the Investigative Committee to investigate an unlawful merger of the two Moscow’s schools
Press Release, August 22, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee demanding to make an inspection and bring a criminal case against the forcible merger of schools No 363 and No 1294 in the Bogorodskoye district. Mitrokhin held a public inspection of these educational institutions together with the teachers and parents today.
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Posted: August 24th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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YABLOKO’s candidate Emiliya Slabunova withdrawn from mayoral elections in Petrozavodsk
Press Release, August 23, 2013
At Thursday, August 22, Petrozavodsk City Court annulled the decision of the Electoral Commission on registration of Emiliya Slabunova, YABLOKO’s candidate for the Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the Republic of Karelia. Emiliya Slabunova is also member of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee. She was considered to be one of the strongest candidates at the mayoral election. Read more »
Posted: August 23rd, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Mitrokhin: I will return Moscow to small business which suffered from Sobyanin in the first place
Press Release, August 21, 2013
A round table on the problems of the small business and its development perspectives after the election of a new Moscow Mayor “Small business goes to the Moscow Mayoral elections” was conducted at International University, Moscow, on August 21.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Teachers are locked in school and not allowed to meet Sergei Mitrokhin
Press Release, August 22, 2013
The teachers, who protest against the merging of the schools No 363 and No 1294, aren’t allowed to meet Sergei Mitrokhin. The school principal Ludmila Salonina locked them in the school building. Read more »
Posted: August 22nd, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Lydia Grafova: This is something that can blow up the whole Russia
Lydia Grafova for the Ekho Moskvi, August 21, 2013
Lydia Grafova, journalist and Chair of the Executive Committee of Forum of Migrants’ Organizations [expressed her attitude to the attacks on migrant workers in the Moscow mayoral election campaign]: “This persecution that is observed in the life of migrant workers and mass media in general should concern everyone. Read more »
Posted: August 21st, 2013 under Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Lydia Grafova: Only Sergei Mitrokhin out of all the mayoral candidates does not participate in the anti-migrant hysteria
Press Release, August 21, 2013
Human rights activists have appealed to the Russian intelligentsia calling that latter to intervene with all available means and pacify the anti-migrant hysteria associated with the Moscow mayoral elections. Lydia Grafova, journalist and one of the authors of the appeal, in her interview at the Echo Moskvi radio station noted that there was only one candidate for the Mayor of Moscow – Sergei Mitrokhin – who did not say that migrants represented a big danger or a curse. Human rights activists and YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin say that illegal migration has been rooted in the impunity of corrupt officials. Read more »
Posted: August 21st, 2013 under Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Tula authorities put up obstacles for YABLOKO’s regional election campaign
Press Release, August 20, 2013
Candidates for municipal deputies from the YABLOKO party in the city of Novomoskovsk are facing obstruction in their campaigning: illegal propaganda leaflets against YABLOKO are spread, YABLOKO’s activists and distributors of party newspapers encounter presser from the police, mailboxes in the blocks of flats are cleaned off YABLOKO’s leaflets and papers, however, the ruling United Russia’s handovers are left on their places, provocateurs come to the meetings of YABLOKO’s candidates with voters, etc. Read more »
Posted: August 21st, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Sergei Mitrokhin inspected the construction of a tube station in Bitsevsky forest
Press Release, August 19, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor inspected the construction of a tube station near Bitsevsky forest in the south of Moscow on August 18. The apprehensions about the breach of the environmental protection legislation during the construction were confirmed.
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Posted: August 20th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013, Protection of Environment.
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Ludmila Alexeyeva, head of Moscow Helsinki Group: why I will vote for Mitrokhin
Ludmila Alekseyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, August 19, 2013
Sergei Mitrokhin is known for his protection of the rights of Muscovites. Each time he learns that someone’s rights are breached, he rushes to help. One can be surprised at his energy, fearlessness and the ability not to be helpless in the present conditions.
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Posted: August 19th, 2013 under Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sergei Mitrokhin examined two illegal constructions
Press Release, August 18, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin examined two illegal constructions in Strogino and Fili-Davidkovo districts at the request of the residents on August 17.
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Posted: August 19th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sergei Mitrokhin enjoys the highest support among the opposition candidates
Press Release, August 14, 2013
According to the opinion poll published on August 5 by gazeta.ru, 31 per cent of the polled would cast their votes for Sergei Mitrokhin at the Moscow mayoral elections. The respondents answered the question: “Do you admit that you will vote for this candidate?”. Read more »
Posted: August 18th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Hundreds of outraged citizens of Petrozavodsk participate in the picket “For Fair Elections”
Guberniya Daily, 16.08.2013
Picket “For Fair Elections” was held in Petrozavodsk today. Petrozavodsk residents came to defend their right to have a choice which they may be deprived of. In our previous publications we wrote that Vera Parfyonova, candidate from the YABLOKO party, was withdrawn from the elections of the head of Prionezhsky District on formal grounds. Another verdict on Emiliya Slabunova running for Petrozavodsk Mayor will come soon.
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Posted: August 16th, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Spoilers removed YABLOKO’s candidates from elections for the posts of city heads in Vladivostok, Tuapse and Klimovsk
Press release, August 14, 2013
Courts removed YABLOKO’s candidates for the posts of city heads in three cities: Vladivostok, Tuapse and Klimovsk. The law suits were initiated by YABLOKO’s competitors from spoiler parties. Read more »
Posted: August 15th, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Residents complain to Mitrokhin
Press Release, August 14, 2013
Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin had a meeting with the residents of the Kotlovky district.
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Posted: August 15th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013, Protection of Environment.
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Campaign picket in support of Sergei Mitrokhin
Press Release, August 13, 2013
A campaign picket in support of Sergei Mitrokhin was conducted outside a tube station on August 13. Candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin was present. He talked to the citizens and answered their questions. YABLOKO’s activists gave out Mitrokhin’s electoral programme and the report “Ten Years at the Service of Muscovites
”. Campaigning for Sergei Mitrokhin takes place daily.
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Posted: August 15th, 2013 under Elections, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sergei Mitrokhin visited the tent camp for illegal immigrants
Press Release, August 11, 2013
On August 11, candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin visited the tent camp for illegal immigrants in Moscow’s Golyanovo district. As a result of the inspection he considered the conditions at the camp satisfactory. Mitrokhin is determined to find out the names of the illegal immigrants’ employers and achieve the institution of the criminal proceeding against them.
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Posted: August 12th, 2013 under Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demands to stop privatisation of Moscow United Energy Company
Statement by the candidate for Moscow Mayor Sergei Mitrokhin
August 12, 2013
On August 13, 89. 94 per cent stoke of the Moscow United Energy Company, or MOEK, will be sold by the auction. Gazprom and Sberbank (Russia’s largest state-controlled bank) bid to buy MOEK. Read more »
Posted: August 12th, 2013 under Housing and Utilities Reform, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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The Supreme Court refused to reverse the sentence for political prisoner Maxim Petlin
Press Release, August 9, 2013
Sergei Kolosovsky, lawyer of the Sverdlovsk Region YABLOKO leader Maxim Petlin, intends to appeal today’s decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the verdict for Maxim Petlin on the so-called “bribe case” launched against Petlin in the cause of his anti-corruption activities in the region. The Supreme Court has partially changed the verdict against Petlin’s assistant Andrei Panteleyev who has received a suspended sentence and will be released soon. Read more »
Posted: August 9th, 2013 under Human Rights, Maxim Petlin case, Topics of the day.
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