The Electoral Commission of the Chelyabinsk Region registered Yabloko’s initiative on a referendum on the return of elections of heads of cities and districts to the region
Press Release, 24.07.2023
Photo: Initiators the referendum Mikhail Popov and Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Chelyabinsk Yabloko
The Electoral Commission of the Chelyabinsk Region registered the initiative of the Yabloko party on a referendum on the return of elections mayors and heads of districts in the Chelyabinsk Region. Direct elections of mayors were abolished in the region in 2010, and elected posts of mayors replaced by appointed city-managers.
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Posted: July 25th, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Ruslan Mutsolgov spoke in court on the “Ingush case” as a public defender of the convicts
Based on the materials from the Memorial Human Rights Centre, 22.07.2023
Photo: The defendants of the “Ingush case” / Photo by Daria Kornilova
On 20 July, the Stavropol Regional Court in Pyatigorsk resumed the debate on the “Ingush case”. Ruslan Mutsolgov, the public defender of the convicts, the Chairman of the Ingush Yabloko, and a member of the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, spoke in the defence of the convicts.
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Posted: July 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A Yabloko supporter from Tatarstan will be tried under a criminal article for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 22.07.2023
Photo: Zulfiya Sitdikova / Photo by the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan
A criminal case was initiated against an activist of the Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party under the article on “discrediting” the army. Yabloko announced a fundraiser to pay for the services of a lawyer, and in less than a day the necessary amount was collected.
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Posted: July 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Valery Denisenko, a Yabloko candidate for municipal deputies in Moscow, arrested
Press Release, 20.07.2023
Photo: Valery Denisenko. Fragment of a campaign leaflet
Early in the morning of 19 July, police broke into the apartment of Valery Denisenko, a candidate for deputy from the Yabloko party in the elections to the Council of Deputies of the Moskovskiy settlement, Moscow. He was detained and on the same day arrested for 13 days on the charges of “disobedience” to police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
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Posted: July 20th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Electoral Commission of Yekaterinburg certified the lists of Yabloko candidates in the elections to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg
Press Release, 20.07.2023
Photo: The meeting of the Leninsky District Territorial Electoral Commission of Yekaterinburg / Photo by the Sverdlovsk region branch of Yabloko
On 19 July, the Leninsky District Territorial Electoral Commission of Yekaterinburg unanimously certified Yabloko’s nomination of candidates for deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma.
Thus, Yabloko’s participation in the elections both in the form a single citywide list of candidates, consisting of 19 supporters and members of the party, and 25 candidates from majoritarian districts, was confirmed.
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Posted: July 20th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“This is not the preservation of values, but the inculcation of hatred.” Nikolai Rybakov about the law banning gender reassignment
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 19.07.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the Federation Council unanimously adopted another anti-human law, for which the Duma had unanimously voted before – a law banning gender reassignment.
Deputies and senators have found the most important problem in the country that requires their intervention – an exceptionally rare problem of “gender mismatch”. Even in conditions of armed conflict, the main enemy for our state are its citizens.
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Posted: July 20th, 2023 under Governance, Human Rights.
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The Pskov Yabloko nominated 55 candidates to run in the local elections in 2023
Press Release, 17.07.2023
Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service
The conference of the Pskov branch of Yabloko nominated 55 candidates for deputies in the elections to representative bodies of local self-government scheduled for 2023, including 41 candidates on party lists and 14 candidates in single-mandate constituencies.
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Posted: July 19th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Members of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policies: “No one should ever blackmail humanity with the threat of the use of nuclear weapons”
Web-site of the Council for Foreign and Defenсe Policies, 17.07.2023
Photo: Alexei Arbatov, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and political scientist Sergei Karaganov, the author of an article about the need for a preventive nuclear strike on Europe / Photo by Vitaly Belousov, RIA Novosti
Members of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policies issued an official statement condemning calls on the possible launching a nuclear war which were published in the media. Three members of the Yabloko party – Academician Alexei Arbatov, member of the Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, Major General Vladimir Dvorkin and military expert Sergei Oznobishchev – are among the signatories of this document.
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Posted: July 17th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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L’oppositore Nikolaj Rybakov: «Non basta sperare nella fine di Putin, il sistema del regime gli sopravviverà»
THE INTERVIEW
July 1, 2023 – 08:45
di Marco Imarisio
DAL NOSTRO INVIATO
MOSCA – Loro l’avevano detto. «Guardi qui, se non ci crede». Sul tavolo ci sono dépliant vecchi di cinque anni, che risalgono alle elezioni del 2018, e altri più recenti. In ogni documento si fa cenno al pericolo che corre lo Stato russo facendo ricorso alle milizie dei mercenari, si invita il governo a imporre «prima che sia troppo tardi» l’obbligo di operare in patria e all’estero solo con l’esercito regolare, alle dipendenze del ministero della Difesa. E non con strutture parallele private, come la Brigata Wagner, espressamente nominata. «Anche perché la presenza di queste organizzazioni comporta forti rischi di instabilità interna», è scritto in una delle tante proposte di legge presentate in questi anni.
«Noi avevamo avvertito in ogni modo del pericolo. Naturalmente, non ci hanno ascoltato». Nikolaj Rybakov, presidente di Yabloko, l’unico partito russo di opposizione ancora legale e a piede libero, sembra avere una maschera di disillusione sulla faccia. Siamo nella sede nazionale, in una via del centro di Mosca. Alle pareti della sala d’attesa ci sono poster che riproducono frasi celebri sulla pace di pericolosi sovversivi come Albert Einstein, John Lennon, il Mahatma Gandhi. Questo è il posto giusto per capire se davvero dopo i fatti del 23 giugno si apre una fase nuova, anche per chi dissente. «Certamente», dice con ironia questo economista, ex deputato, di formazione liberale. «Nel senso che potrebbero metterci su un treno e spedirci in Siberia».
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Posted: July 17th, 2023 under Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg challenges his “foreign agent” status in court
He filed a lawsuit with the Pskov City Court
Press Release, 6.07.2023
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo from social media
“Today, on 6 July, I personally filed a legal administrative claim with the Pskov City Court against the Russian Ministry of Justice so that to recognise unlawful their including me in the register of “foreign agents,” Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, wrote on his Telegram channel.
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Posted: July 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko urged Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin to initiate a criminal investigation into the attack on journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 5.07.2023
Photo: Yelena Milashina after the attack / Photo by Sergei Babinets, the Committee Against Torture
The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party called on the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin to initiate a criminal investigation into the attack on journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya. Here goes the text of the appeal:
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Posted: July 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Police again carried out the “inspection of the premises” with seizure of all the equipment in the office of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, this time the police took away not only Yabloko’s equipment, but also personal gadgets
Press Release, 5.07.2023
Photo: Entrance to the Pskov Yabloko office / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 5 July, police came to the office of the Yabloko branch in Pskov. Policemen presented a decision to initiate administrative proceedings under Article 13.15 Part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation “Abuse of freedom of the mass media”.
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Posted: July 17th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will have 79 representatives of the party working in the electoral commissions of the Kirov region for the next five years
Press Release, 11.07.2023
Photo: A polling station in Kirov / Photo by the Kirov regional branch of Yabloko
Representatives of Yabloko will count the turnout, ballots and control the voting process in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov region and deputies of the Kirov City Duma.
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Posted: July 11th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko submitted documents for registration of a referendum on direct elections of heads of cities and districts in the Chelyabinsk region
Press Release, 10.07.2023
Photo: Representatives of the referendum initiative group / Photo by the Chelyabinsk Yabloko
On 10 July, the Electoral Commission of the Chelyabinsk Region received documents for registration of a referendum on direct elections of heads of cities and districts in the region. A package of documents was submitted to the commission by representatives of the initiative group of the referendum, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko Yaroslav Shcherbakov, civil activist Mikhail Popov and Chair of the Gender faction of the Chelyabinsk Yabloko Maria Chikulayeva.
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Posted: July 10th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will take part in the elections of deputies of the Duma of Novgorod and the Council of Staraya Russa
Press Release, 10.07.2023
Photo by the Novgorod Yabloko
On 8 July, the Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated three lists of candidates for elections in the region: for the Duma of Novgorod in a single electoral district and in single-member districts, as well as for the Council of Deputies of Staraya Russa.
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Posted: July 10th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko supports Boris Titov’s statement on the need for a ceasefire
Press Release, 27.06.2023
Photo: Boris Titov / Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant
Yabloko supports the statement of Boris Titov, the leader of the Party of Growth, on the need for a ceasefire and is ready to join forces to achieve this, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov wrote on his Telegram channel.
“We regard this statement in the current conditions in the country as a manifestation of courage and wisdom. Yabloko is ready to join forces in order to achieve an early conclusion of a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
An immediate ceasefire is the only solution that will immediately save lives and stop the bloodshed. This will be the first step towards hope for a normal future,” Nikolai Rybakov noted.
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Posted: June 28th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Yabloko deputy of the Novgorod City Duma Anna Cherepanova: I have called on the members of the Territorial Electoral Commission of Novgorod to conduct voting within one day
Anna Cherepanova’s blog post, 27.06.2023
I spoke at the meeting of the Territorial Electoral Commission of Novgorod proposing to conduct voting at the election of deputies of the Novgorod City Duma within one day, 10 September [rather than three envisaged by the recent laws].
The multi-day voting system does not have a single “pro”, only “cons”.
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Posted: June 27th, 2023 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“A great citizen and thinker, co-author of the chapter on human rights of the Russian Constitution of 1993, the man who invented the Yabloko party”
Condolences of Yabloko party leaders on the death of Viktor Sheinis, 25.06.2023
Photo: Viktor Sheinis at the Yabloko Congress, 2021
On 25 June, one of the founders of the Yabloko party, an outstanding academic and statesman Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis, passed away. Yabloko party leaders expressed their condolences on his death.
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Posted: June 26th, 2023 under Condolences.
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Viktor Sheinis, a Yabloko Federal Political member and one of the authors of the Russian Constitution of 1993, passes away at the age of 92
Press Release, 25.06.2023
Photo: Viktor Sheinis / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 25 June, Viktor Sheinis, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, a deputy of the State Duma of the first two convocations, co-founder of Yabloko, and one of the authors of the Russian Constitution of 1993, died at the age of 92.
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Posted: June 26th, 2023 under Condolences.
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Nikolai Rybakov on the present situation
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 24.06.2023
Since 2018, we have been stating our stance appealing to Vladimir Putin that the activities of private military organisations (such as PMC Wagner) are illegal and should be banned and have been warning of the danger of a military conflict.
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Posted: June 24th, 2023 under Без рубрики.
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