Liberals around the world mark International Human Rights Day
December 10, 2013
Statement on Behalf of Liberal Leaders Commemorating the International Human Rights Day 2013
The International Human Rights Day, which we celebrate today, marks the important progress we have achieved in the struggle for universal human rights worldwide. It is also a day for reflection, as we pause to consider the many difficulties that still remain on the path to achieving social justice and equality for all. Read more »
Posted: December 13th, 2013 under YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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The main thing is not to change the Constitution, but to observe it
Grigory Yavlinsky made a lecture for the students of St.Petersburg school No 77 on Russia’s fundamental law
Press Release, photos, December 12, 2013
At the beginning of the lesson devoted to the Russian Constitution Grigory Yavlinsky said that in the near future the gap between the developed countries and the third world would become permanent and it would be impossible to overcome. Making Russia a competitive developed country is the task of the young generation.
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Posted: December 13th, 2013 under Human Rights, Understanding Russia.
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YABLOKO conducted picket under slogan “Constitution is in danger”
Press Release, December 12, 2013 The Ivanovo branch of YABLOKO and Youth YABLOKO conducted a serious of one-person pickets under the slogan “The Constitution is in danger” on December 12.
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Posted: December 13th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: Vladimir Putin has not proposed any strategy for Russia’s development in his address to the Federal Assembly
Press Release, December 12, 2013
Instead of presenting of a development strategy for Russia to the society, Vladimir Putin acted as an economic manager, Sergei Mitrokhin said. Vladimir Putin “even did not touch on the major problems of the country. Obviously, a very low level of non-resource exports is due … to the fact that our country virtually does not produce anything but for oil and gas,” Mitrokhin noted. Read more »
Posted: December 12th, 2013 under Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demanded openness and transparency from the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, December 10, 2013
The round table at the Central Electoral Commission “Reform of the Party System and New Requirements to Legal Regulations of Elections” was marked by a scandal. The event quite unexpectedly turned out to be closed for the press.
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Posted: December 11th, 2013 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2014.
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Committee for Joint Action against Xenophobia conducted its second meeting
Press Release, December 10, 2013
A second meeting of the Committee for Joint Action against Xenophobia was conducted at Moscow Helsinki Group office on December 9.
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Posted: December 11th, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Pickets against hatred in the regions of Russia
Press Release, December 11, 2013
YABLOKO conducted pickets against xenophobia and nationalism in different regions of Russia. The action is confined to the International Human Rights Day and International Migrants Day celebrated on December 18. The event was aimed to attract the attention of the society and authorities to the problem of cross-ethnic relations, growth of nationalistic moods and tendency to conflict.
Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO
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Posted: December 11th, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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The announced amnesty does not meet the interests of social reconciliation
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 10.12.2013
The YABLOKO party assesses the announced amnesty to be necessary but not sufficient. It will ease the fate of dozens of thousands of people who will come back from prison. This amnesty results from the perseverance of the civil society and human rights organisations. Due to their perseverance a number of political prisoners will be released: part of the defendants on the Bolotnaya Square disturbances, the Arctic Sunrise case and the Pussy Riot. Read more »
Posted: December 11th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO conducted picket against hatred in Moscow
Press Release, December 10, 2013
Committee for Joint Action Against Xenophobia conducted a picket against hatred in Moscow, December 10. Representatives of YABLOKO, Moscow Helsinki Group, trans-regional Uzbek community “Vatandosh”, municipal deputies participated in the action. Read more »
Posted: December 11th, 2013 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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Liberals Around the World Mark International Human Rights Day 2013
LI News, London, 10 December
The International Human Rights Day, which we celebrate today, marks the important progress we have achieved in the struggle for universal human rights worldwide. It is also a day for reflection, as we pause to consider the many difficulties that still remain on the path to achieving social justice and equality for all. Read more »
Posted: December 11th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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The State Duma deprives Russian citizens of the freedom of movement
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 11.12.2013
Today the State Duma is considering the so-called “rubber flats law” law (Ed. The flats where dozens of people may be registered despite their actual place of living) in the second reading. Read more »
Posted: December 11th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO protested against construction of underground station
Press Release, December 9, 2013
YABLOKO participated in the rally against the construction of an underground station in the Sokolniky district, Moscow. The construction will destroy the lime avenue and will create traffic problems for several years. YABLOKO activists participated in the rally.
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Posted: December 9th, 2013 under Protection of Environment.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: All-Russia People’s Front proposal to liquidate local government is anticonstitutional
Press Release, December 6, 2013
Representative of the All-Russia People’s Front Olga Timofeyeva proposed President Putin to liquidate local government in large cities and municipal districts and leave it only in towns and regions of large cities, but divest the local government of nearly all authority allowing them only to “recondition the roads” and “remove the snow”. Read more »
Posted: December 9th, 2013 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Laziness before the future
Alexey Melnikov, YABLOKO Bureau member, on the choice between the “European way” and the “Eurasian project”
Znak, by Alexey Melnikov, 03.12.2013
The “Eurasian project” [promoted by the Kremlin and aiming at taking Russia away from the European values and brining it closer to authoritarian Asian regimes], in various forms and from time to time promoted by the Russian rulers hides their lack of large-scale political idea about the future of the country and is designed to preserve the outdated political system of our state. In general, this field of public policy is a waste of Russia’s historical time, scattering limited resources on trivia and theft of a complicated, but a decent future from generations of Russians. Read more »
Posted: December 9th, 2013 under Russia-Ukraine relations, Understanding Russia.
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YABLOKO protested for fair elections near Moscow Region Duma
Press Release, December 6, 2013
The action “For Fair Elections” was conducted on the threshold of early elections which will take place in the Moscow Region on December 22, 2013. Read more »
Posted: December 8th, 2013 under Regional and Local Elections.
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YABLOKO conducted an action against corruption at Sochi Olympics
Press Relese, December 6, 2013
Activists of the Novosibirsk branch of YABLOKO conducted an action against corruption at the Olympic Games in Sochi. Ten people participated in the action, one of them wore the costume of a white bear with a smoked fish in his paw which symbolized an Olympic Torch.
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Posted: December 7th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Youth YABLOKO protested for freedom of Bolotnaya Square Case prisoners
Press Release, December 6, 2013
Youth YABLOKO activists joined the action in support of the Bolotnaya Square Case prisoners conducted by civil activists near the State Duma.
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Posted: December 6th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Human rights activist Prof. Mikhail Savva was released after a complaint from Russia’s Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin
Press Release, December 5, 2013
Yesterday, on the 4th of December, human rights activist Prof. Mikhail Savva was released from the remand prison, and from now on he will be under home arrest. The Krasnodar Territory Court adopted such a decision after examination of a complaint from Russia’s Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin. Read more »
Posted: December 5th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Universiade 2019 mustn’t repeat mistakes of Sochi 2014
Press Release, December 4, 2013
Head of YABLOKO Green Russia faction in Krasnoyarsk Alexander Kolotov sent an appeal to Governor of Krasnoyarsk Lev Kuznetsov on the necessity of public environmental control during the preparation for students’ Universiade-2019 in Krasnoyarsk.
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Posted: December 5th, 2013 under Protection of Environment.
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An author of the Russian Constitution YABLOKO’s Viktor Sheinis is against introduction of the “state ideology” concept into the fundamental law
Russian News Service, December 4, 2013
YABLOKO’s Viktor Sheinis, an author of the Russian Constitution and YABLOKO Political Committee member, criticized the idea proposed by some young activists from St.Petersburg envisaging amending Article 13 of the Constitution and the introduction of the “state ideology” concept into the Russian fundamental law. Read more »
Posted: December 4th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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