These are elections without choice! On the position of the Chelyabinsk Yabloko in the elections of the governor and deputies of the Chelyabinsk City Duma
Statement by the Chelyabinsk Regional Council of Yabloko, 6.09.2024
Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
The Chelyabinsk Yabloko calls on the residents of the South Urals not to support any of the registered candidates for Governor of the Chelyabinsk region and candidates for deputies of the Chelyabinsk City Duma on the voting days of 7-8 September.
All these candidates are united on all key issues, including in relation to the special military operation. They all represent political parties that unanimously vote for repressive and militaristic laws.
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Posted: September 6th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections 2024, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the work of the Yabloko headquarters in the elections
Press Release, 5.09.2024
In these elections, 59 candidates from the Yabloko party are participating in the race under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!” in eight regions of Russia: the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Leningrad region, the Moscow region, the Murmansk region, the Novgorod region, the Pskov region, the Ryazan region, and the Rostov region. Yabloko also supported self-nominated candidate Sergei Uglyanitsa in the municipal elections in the Irkutsk region, since he publicly advocates for concluding a ceasefire agreement and shares our principles and values.
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Posted: September 6th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The mourning ceremony for Sergei Ivanenko will take place at Troekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow
Press Release, 5.09.2024
The mourning ceremony for Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party Sergei Ivanenko will take place at Troekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow (in the mourning hall) on Saturday, 7 September, at 12:00. The burial will follow.
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Posted: September 5th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Nikolai Kavkazsky’s arrest after a protest against the special military operation was unlawful
Press Release, 5.09.2024
Photo: Nikolai Kavkazsky at the protest action against the start of the “special operation” / Photo from Nikolai Kavkazsky’s archive
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the rights of Moscow Yabloko member Nikolai Kavkazsky were violated by the Russian state. The politician was detained at a protest action against the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine on 24 February, 2024, and arrested for six days. The European Court of Human Rights awarded Kavkazsky 5,000 Euros in compensation, which he will not receive because Russia refuses to comply with the ECHR’s decisions.
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Posted: September 5th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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Today the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision to deny Maxim Kruglov registration in the Moscow City Duma elections
Press Release, 5.09.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov with his supporters in the Supreme Court, September 5, 2024 / Photo provided by Maxim Kruglov
Today the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision to deny incumbent Yabloko deputy Maxim Kruglov registration in the Moscow City Duma elections.
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Posted: September 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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St. Petersburg Yabloko calls not to vote for the current Governor Alexander Beglov and his sparring partners in the gubernatorial elections in September
Press Release, 5.09.2024
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The Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch Yabloko calls not to vote for the current Governor Alexander Beglov and his sparring partners in the gubernatorial elections in September.
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Posted: September 5th, 2024 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Social Policies, St.Petersburg Gubernatorial Elections 2014, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the position of Yabloko in the September elections in St. Petersburg
Statement by the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko, 5.09.2024
Photo from Wikimedia Commons
The current election campaign in Russia’s regions of Russia is taking place in the context of continuous toughening of restrictions on citizens’ rights, political censorship in the media, blocking of information on the Internet, persecution of those who disagree with the actions of the authorities using laws on punishment for “discrediting”, “fakes” and “extremism”, laws on “foreign agents” and “undesirable organisations” adopted in recent years.
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Posted: September 5th, 2024 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Ivanenko passed away
Press Release, 4.09.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, on 4 September, 2024, Sergei Ivanenko, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party and Chairman of the Moscow branch of the party, passed away at the age of 65.
Sergei Ivanenko was an MP of the State Duma of the first three convocations (1993 – 2003), author and co-author of more than 80 bills aimed at protection of the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens. Participated in the development of alternative economic programmes, including the 500 Days Programme, the alternative programme for transition to democracy and free market.
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Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Condolences.
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Cast your vote at elections on 8 September for peace and freedom!
On the position of the Yabloko party in the 2024 elections
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 4.09.2024
Photo: Wait for Peace / Photo from social media
The Yabloko party appeals to the citizens of Russia with a call to support candidates the elections at all levels on September 8, 2024, who advocate concluding a ceasefire agreement and who defend peace and freedom in the current conditions. It is with this position that all candidates nominated and supported by our party in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Leningrad region, the Moscow region, the Murmansk region, the Novgorod region, the Pskov region, the Rostov region, and the Ryazan and the Irkutsk regions are running in the elections.
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Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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20 years since the tragedy in the Beslan school. Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in the Belsan school
Telegram channel by Nikolai Rybakov, 3.09.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
It is 20 years since the Beslan tragedy. Together with the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko party, Kirill Goncharov, I came to the Moscow memorial to the victims of the Beslan [school attack].
On 1 September, 2004, terrorists took more than 1,000 hostages in a school in Beslan, [North Ossetia]. On 3 September, 2004, the storming of the school by security forces began.
As a result of the tragedy, 334 people died, most of them children.
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Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Condolences, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko is going to hold a rally in Moscow in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 3.09.2024
Yabloko is going to hold a rally in Moscow in support of political prisoners. An application of holding a mass event was submitted to the Moscow Mayor’s Office today, on 3 September. The planned date for the event is 14 September.
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Posted: September 3rd, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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There will be no candidates for peace and freedom during elections in Moscow. The Moscow City Court approves withdrawal of six Yabloko candidates from municipal elections in the Kurkino district of Moscow
Press Release, 2.09.2024
Photo: Municipal candidate Maria Chuprina during the campaign. / Photo from social media
Today, judges of the Moscow City Court rejected the appeals of all six Yabloko candidates against the decision of the Tushinsky District Court to remove them from the snap municipal elections in the Kurkino district of Moscow that are due on 8 September. During the hearings in the court, the Yabloko candidates continued to campaign under the general party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. However, they will not be able to work with voters in the district now, despite their plans to appeal the decision in the cassation court.
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Posted: September 2nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov appealed to the Minister of Defence in connection with information about the participation of conscripts in military operations in the Kursk region
Press Release, 30.08.2024
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Alexander Shishlov, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov, asking to organise an investigation into the information about the participation of conscripts in military operations in the Kursk region and take measures to prevent their further presence on the contact line in the region.
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Posted: August 30th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Estate Museum of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in Udmurtia will be renovated. The leader of the Udmurtian branch of Yabloko, Iya Boronina, has been seeking this since September 2023
Press Release, 28.08.2024
Photo: The Estate Museum of Pyotr Thaikovsky / Photo by Wikimedia Commons
The funds for the renovation of the cultural site of federal significance were allocated by the Government of the Russian Federation: orders on the allocation of funds to Udmurtia and other regions were signed on 13 August, 2024. This happened after the Chairperson of the Udmurtian branch of Yabloko, Iya Boronina, spoke about the dire situation of the museum at a meeting of the parliament of Udmurtia, and the public prosecutor’s office started investigation into the regional Ministry of Culture, which ignored the request of the museum’s management.
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Posted: August 28th, 2024 under Governance, History, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg refused to recognise unlawful the decision to include Boris Vishnevsky in “foreign agents” register
Press Release, 28.08.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
On 27 August, the trial on the suit of Boris Vishnevsky, a Yabloko deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, against the Ministry of Justice, whose officials unlawfully included him in the register of “foreign agents,” ended.
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Posted: August 28th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to host a roundtable discussion dedicated to the anniversary of the outbreak of World War I
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo from open sources
On 10 September, the Yabloko party office in Moscow will host a roundtable discussion dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Historians, experts, and the Yabloko party leaders will take part in the discussion. Everyone is invited. The event will be streamlined on YouTube.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Karelian branch of Yabloko nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council, for the post of regional Ombudsperson for human rights
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo: Olga Tuzhikova. Photo: regional branch of the party
The term of office of the current Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights in Karelia expires on 12 September. The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council from Yabloko, an ecologist and human rights defender, for the post of ombudsperson.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, imprisoned journalist and a member of Yabloko, wins the Free Media Awards press prize
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev makes his final statement in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia and a member of the Yabloko party, became a prize winner of the Free Media Awards, a prestigious award for independent journalists who refuse to give in to threats.
For many years Mikhail Afanasyev has been covering corruption in his home region, the activities of criminal gangs, and human rights violations.
In April 2022, he was arrested and sentenced by the court to 5.5 years in prison in a penal colony for “disseminating fakes about the army”.
Mikhail was accused of publishing an article in the online publication Novy Fokus about the refusal of riot police from Khakassia to go to Ukraine six weeks after the start of the “special military operation”.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the situation around the detention of Pavel Durov
Statement by the Chairman of Yabloko, 26.08.2024
Photo: Pavel Durov / Photo by Alexei Zotov, Kommersant
Yabloko considers the recent situation around with the detention of Pavel Durov [the founder of the Telegram messenger] to be alarming and landmark event.
The situation is reminiscent of what happened to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organisation that published US government confidential information obtained from anonymous sources.
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Posted: August 26th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko held a meeting with party supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites
Press Release, 26.08.2024
Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Past week, a meeting of Yabloko members and supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites took place in Kaliningrad. The meeting was timed to coincide with the opening of the new office of the regional branch. The office became a place for active discussion, lively debate and discussion of proposals for the development of the branch and its activities. The day was also dedicated to supporting political prisoners; the participants of the meeting prepared wrote 45 letters and postcards to Russian political prisoners.
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Posted: August 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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