Sergei Mitrokhin demands from the Chair of the Investigative Committee to file a criminal case against “landscape designers” who worked in the centre of Moscow in Tverskaya Street
Press Release, July 15, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, demanding to file a criminal case under Article 285 of the Criminal Code (“abuse of power”) in respect of the officials who organized “landscape works” of Tverskaya Street in the centre of Moscow. Over 500 million roubles were allotted for the work, while the cost of the materials needed for landscaping was overstated tenfold. Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2013 under YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Views.
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Four years since the murder of Natalya Estemirova. YABLOKO demands that the results of the investigation should be finally released
Statement by YABLOKO Chairman
July 15, 2013
Four years ago, on July 15, 2009, Natalya Estemirova, human rights activist and journalist, member of the Grozny, Chechnya, branch of the Memorial human rights centre and member of the Public Observers Commission on the Republic of Chechnya, was abducted in Chechnya and murdered. Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2013 under Human Rights, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova.
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The Moscow Electoral Commission finds valid 114 out of 115 municipal deputies’ signatures in favour of nomination of Sergei Mitrokhin as candidate to the Moscow Mayor
Press Release, July 12, 2013
On July 12, the Moscow Electoral Commission examined Sergei Mitrokhin’s lists with signatures of municipal deputies required for
nomination as candidate to the Moscow Mayor. Sergei Mitrokhin submitted 115 signatures, and the Moscow Electoral Commission
recognised 114 signatures as valid.One of the signatures was considered invalid, as municipal deputyAlexander Grusha signed in support of two candidates: Ivan Melnikov from the Communist Party and Sergei Mitrokhin from YABLOKO. Ivan Melnikov submitted the signatures to the Moscow Electoral Commission
before Sergei Mitrokhin. Read more »
Posted: July 12th, 2013 under Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.
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Candidates to the City Council from YABLOKO may loose their jobs because of running from the YABLOKO party
Press Release, July 11, 2013
Candidates from YABLOKO to the City Council of the Myski city, the Kemerovo region, are threatened with dismissals because of running from the YABLOKO party. They were asked to stop their membership in YABLOKO and retreat from the election race.
Today three people from the party list, miners from the Sibirginskaya mine – Alexander Nizhatov, Alexei Terendin and Nadezhda Guseva – were summoned to the employer and under the threat of loosing their jobs were told to stop their membership in YABLOKO and retreat from the election race. Read more »
Posted: July 11th, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.
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Stop projects of Rosсosmos with the use of heptyl
Statement by YABLOKO’s Bureau
July 10, 2013
On July 2 the Russian Proton-M rocket with the upper stage Block-DM3 (which contained 600 tons of highly-toxic heptyl) carrying three Glonass satellites crashed down seconds after its launch from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur space centre. A heptyl cloud formed above the space centre. Heptyl is dangerous even in microscopic amounts as it causes mutations, cancer diseases and saves toxicity for years and can store up in living organisms. This has been the third accident in the Russian space industry since the beginning of 2013. Read more »
Posted: July 10th, 2013 under Protection of Environment.
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YABLOKO remembers the victims of the tragedy in Krimsk
Press Release, July 7, 2013
YABLOKO’s activists participated in the action in memory of the victims of the tragedy in Krimsk. The action was conducted at the observation platform of the Sparrow Hills. The participants of the action placed the candles to form the word “KRIMSK” and announced a minute of silence to honour the memory of the victims of the flood.
Sergei Mitrokhin
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Posted: July 7th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO leader picketed the State Duma against the reform of the Academy of Sciences
Press Release, July 5, 2013
On June 5 YABLOKO’s activists conducted a series of one-person pickets by the State Duma against the reform of the Academy of Sciences. YABLOKO leaders Sergei Mitrokhin took part in the action.
Sergei Mitrokhin
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Posted: July 5th, 2013 under Activities.
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Odious pro-government NGO collects signatures to denationalise and deport Sergei Mitrokhin
Press Release, July 5, 2013
On June 17 a public relief fund Social Justice in support of the poor in Krasnodar conducted a statutory conference where they announced the collection of signatures for denationalisation and deportation of those who in their opinion are enemies of Russia’s state-building. Chair of YABLOKO Sergei Mitrokhin, blogger Alexei Navalny and other leaders of the protest movement are on the list.
“Hands off from Putin”
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Posted: July 5th, 2013 under Activities.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on the reform of the Academy of Sciences
Statement by member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee
July 4, 2013
Grigory Yavlinsky
The attempt to force the reform of the Academy of Sciences is another striking example of the government’s complete disrespect for the citizens and an insurmountable rift between the state and society. Read more »
Posted: July 4th, 2013 under Topics of the day, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Views.
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Alexander Korbinsky: “German scientists still feel the damage Hitler did to scientific schools”
Press Release, July 2, 2013
Members of Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences held a meeting against the reform of the Academy of Sciences proposed by the government. The meeting was held outside Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Universitetskaya Embankment. Deputy of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly (the YABLOKO faction), Professor Alexander Korbinsky addressed the meeting.
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Posted: July 2nd, 2013 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Claim against YABLOKO’s deputy
Izvestia, Press Release, July 2, 2013
Member of Opposition Coordination Council Nicolay Bondarik filed a claim against deputy of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly from the YABLOKO faction Boris Vishnevsky for protection of honour, dignity and business reputation. Bondarik was outraged by the fact that Vishnevsky called him a fascist in his blog. Read more »
Posted: July 2nd, 2013 under YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Actions against reform of the Academy of Sciences took place in St. Petersburg and Moscow
Vedomosti, July 2, 2013
An action against the reform of the Academy of Sciences started in St. Petersburg. Interfax called it “a special meeting in the open air” and according to the news agency, several hundred people took part in it. According to Fontanka.ru, about 200 hundred people participated in the rally which took place outside Saint Petersburg Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Universitetskaya Embankment. Read more »
Posted: July 2nd, 2013 under Education and Science, Social Policies.
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St. Petersburg police unable to protect citizens from attackers
Press Release, July 1, 2013
On June 29 civil activists organised a lawful rally in support of LGBT-rights in St. Petersburg which was disturbed by the so-called “orthodox” activists who attacked the participants of the rally. Read more »
Posted: July 1st, 2013 under Freedom of Assembly.
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Bureaucratic reform of the Russian Academies is inadmissible
Statement by the YABLOKO party
June 28, 2013
The government has submitted [to the State Duma] a law on the reform of the Academy of Sciences without consultation with the academic community and on the eve of summer vacation of the State Duma. Read more »
Posted: June 29th, 2013 under Yabloko's Views.
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Mitrokhin demands that the judge who blocked the web-sites of large media in Ulyanovsk must be punished
Press release, June 28, 2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin sent an appeal to the Judges’ Qualification Board of the Ulyanovsk Region demanding to start
disciplinary proceedings against Judge Petrova who had adopted a decision on blocking of the websites of nation-wide famous media as gazeta.ru, kp.ru and other media in Ulyanovsk. Read more »
Posted: June 28th, 2013 under Freedom of Speech.
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On Lithuania’s chairing the EU
Statement by the YABLOKO party, June 27, 2013
Lithuania’s chairing the European Union is a significant political and historical event. We hope that it will be fruitful. Read more »
Posted: June 27th, 2013 under Russia-Eu relations.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: “Mikhail Khodorkovsky has won over this deceitful, burglarious and corrupt system”
Press Release, June 26, 2013
Activists and leaders of the YABLOKO party participated in a rally to mark the 50th anniversary of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The action took place in the centre of Moscow in the evening of June 26.
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Posted: June 26th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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Mitrokhin demands from the Moscow Police head to give back his iPad seized by police during the attack on the human rights defenders office.
Press Release, June 26, 2013
Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO leader and candidate to the Moscow Mayor, applied to Anatoly Yakunin, head of the Moscow Police, with a request to establish the identity of the persons who seized his iPad during the attack on the office of the “For the Human Rights” movement and return to him his tablet PC. Read more »
Posted: June 26th, 2013 under Human Rights.
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