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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Andrei Babushkin elected head of the guardian council of the Red Cross
Press Release, August 9, 2013
Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Andrei Babushkin was elected head of the guardian council of the Russian Red Cross. Maria Bolshakova, Head of the Soldiers’ Families Union, was elected his deputy.
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Posted: August 9th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Pro-government activists picketed YABLOKO’s office demanding that Sergei Mitrokhin should remove his candidature from the elections
Press Release, August 6, 2013
Pro-government activists picketed YABLOKO’s office. First they stood in front of the main entrance, but the police asked them to move to the pavement where the picket was authorized. The pavement is very narrow in this place and it’s difficult to dispart even for 2 people. The authorities never allow YABLOKO to conduct pickets in the places which are three times broader than this one.
The beginning of the picket
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Posted: August 6th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Sergei Mitrokhin called not to divide political prisoners into ordinary and privileged, but protect all of them
Press Release, August 4, 2013
YABLOKO’s activists and YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin took part in a rally in support of political prisoners which was conducted at Suvorovskaya Square, Moscow on August 4.
Sergei Mitrokhin and Valeri Borshchyov, member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, human rights advocate
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Posted: August 4th, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech.
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Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin helped to get Nikolai Kavkazsky, a prisoner of the Bolotnaya rally case, from the prison
Press Release, August 2, 2013
Presidium of the Moscow City Court upheld a supervisory complaint of Russia’s Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin and changed under remand detention for Nikolai Kavkazsky, a prisoner of the Blotnaya rally case, to a home arrest.
Nikolai Kavkazsky collects signatures for registration of YABLOKO’s list of candidates for parliamentary elections of 2011
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Posted: August 3rd, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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Gennady Gudkov registered as YABLOKO’s candidate for Governor of the Moscow region
Press release, August 1, 2013
Gennady Gudkov was registered as YABLOKO’s candidate to run for Governor of the Moscow Region. Such statement was made by Irek Vildanov, Chair of the Moscow Electoral Commission. Read more »
Posted: August 1st, 2013 under Gubernatorial Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Alexander Gunko, leader of the Moscow Region YABLOKO, removed from the election of the head of the Klimovsk city
Press Release, August 1, 2013
The Klimovsk City Court has annulled the decision of the electoral commission to register YABLOKO’s candidate for the head of the Klimovsk city, Moscow Region. YABLOKO nominated Alexander Gunko, leader of the Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO, to run in the election. YABLOKO’s nominee’s registration was challenged in court by Gunko’s rival Pavel Laptev representing the Just Cause party. Read more »
Posted: August 1st, 2013 under Regional and Local Elections.
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The Just Cause party tries to remove the leader of the Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO from the election
July 31, 2013
Tomorrow, on August 1, the Klimovsk City Court will examine the plea filed by Pavel Laptev, candidate from the Just Cause party at the election for the post of the head of the Klimovsk city, the Moscow Region. Laptev demands annulment of the decision of the electoral commission on registration of Alexander Gunko, YABLOKO’s candidate for the post of the city head and leader of the Moscow Region branch of Read more »
Posted: July 31st, 2013 under Regional and Local Elections.
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Election debates should be broadcasted live!
Statement by Sergei Mitrokhin, candidate for the Mayor of Moscow
July 30, 2013
I express my categorical protest in view of the decision of [Moscow] television channels to broadcast the debates [conducted within the framework of the Moscow mayoral elections] in recorded transmission. The explanation for this unusual decision looks simply ridiculous. Read more »
Posted: July 30th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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