St. Petersburg Yabloko elected new leadership of the branch
Press Release, 29.09.2024
Photo: Olga Tsepilova at the Conference of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the regional branch of the party
On 28 September, the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party elected the governing bodies of the branch for the next two years. Olga Tsepilova, who previously held the position of a Deputy Chairperson, became the Chairperson of the regional branch (in 2022-2024, the branch was headed by Alexander Shishlov, who proposed to elect Olga Tsepilova to this post). Dmitry Anisimov, Yegor Karpenkov, Alexander Kobrinsky, and Ilya Kiselyov were elected as Deputy Chairs. This time the leaders of the St. Petersburg branch are noticeably younger. The average age of the previous composition was 70 years old, and now it is 44.
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Posted: September 30th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg: On Politics and Violence
Lev Shlosberg’s Telegram channel, 30.09.2024
Illustration: The Stoning of St. Stephen, a biblical story from The Acts of the Apostles.
18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА
18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG OR CONCERNS THE ACTIVITIES OF THE FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVICH SHLOSBERG [This capitalised section is a text Lev Shlosberg is obliged to add under the ‘foreign agent’ law to any publication he makes; we include it here solely to give readers an idea of the pressures under which civil society actors operate in Russia]
Hopes for internal change in Russia, whether related to Prigozhin’s rebellion, Ukraine’s invasion, or outright bets on a revolution, all concern the same fundamental issue: the permissibility of violence in politics. Attitudes toward the use of violence in politics are a crucial dividing line when it comes to collaboration, alliances, and coalitions.
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Posted: September 30th, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko to host a meeting with former political prisoner Dmitry Skurikhin
Press Release, 25.09.2024
Photo: Dmitry Skurikhin by his store / Photo from social media
An action of writing letters to Russian political prisoners will be held in Novgorod Yabloko on 27 September with the participation of Dmitry Skurikhin, an entrepreneur from the Leningrad Region who served an imprisonment term of 1.5 years for “discrediting the army.” Yabloko invites all to take part.
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Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko raised 1.7 million roubles at an auction in support of political prisoners and continues to accept donations
Press Release, 25.09.2024
Photo: Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky introducing his lot / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The auction featured 28 lots: works of art and personal belongings of politicians, political prisoners, writers, publicists and journalists, musicians, artists, etc. The most expensive lots of the auction were a drawing by Alexandra Skochilenko, ex-political prisoner who has been recently exchanged, a painting by the famous artist Alexei Rychkov – a gift to Grigory Yavlinsky, a bottle of 100-year-old cognac, a gift from the Yabloko politician Sergei Ivanenko to Sergei Mitrokhin, a statuette of musician Yuri Shevchuk and a disc with the new album of the DDT group, and manuscripts by Ekaterina Shulman. The total amount raised was 1.712 million rubles.
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Posted: September 25th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district in the Pskov region to challenge the voting results in court
Press Release, 23.09.2024
Photo: Yevgeny Vasiliyev / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko
Yevgeny Vasiliyev, a Yabloko candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district of the Pskov region, filed a lawsuit challenging the voting results at 17 polling stations out of 20 and demanded that video recordings be provided to him.
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Posted: September 24th, 2024 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We just wait for any news every day.” Yabloko invites all to a charity auction and its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 20.09.2024
Photo by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Yabloko continues to support Russian political prisoners. On 24 September, a charity auction will be held in the central office of Yabloko in Moscow. In the coming weeks, actions of writing letters to political prisoners will be held in the Moscow branch and regional branches of the party.
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Posted: September 21st, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosted a book launch about Nikita Khrushchev
Press Release, 18.09.2024
“Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System” is a new biography of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1953-1964), written by his great-granddaughter, a world-famous political scientist, professor at the New School in New York. On 17 September, Nina Khrushcheva spoke about the book at the Yabloko party office.
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Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The first court hearing on the merits of the case of Vasily Neustroyev from the St. Petersburg Yabloko has been scheduled on 25 September
Press Release, 18.09.2024
Photo: Vasily Neustroyev/ Photo from social media
The hearing on the merits of the case against Vasily Neustroyev will take place in the St. Petersburg City Court on 25 September, after 15 months of his imprisonment. The case will be heard by a judge only, since all the defendants in the case refused to have the case heard by a jury.
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Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Sleepwalkers and the World
Abstracts from Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to RTVi, 17.09.2024
It is obvious to everyone that Russia and Ukraine are currently unable to conduct any meaningful peace talks, that the situation on the battlefield is at a dead end, and the number of victims of the military confrontation has been growing every day. Therefore, the only thing that can and should be done now is to conclude a ceasefire agreement and stop killing people. But to take this vital step, it is necessary to understand the irreversible tragedy and strategic futility of what is happening, the will and diplomatic wisdom of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, the USA, Great Britain, the European Union, and perhaps also China, India and Brazil are required.
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Posted: September 19th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Academician Alexei Arbatov: “You have every reason to be scared, because a nuclear war is the end of our civilisation, when the survivors will envy the dead”
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 14.09.2024
Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Academician Alexei Arbatov is the head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee. He is one of the best experts arms control in Russia. Who better than him can answer our questions about the risks of World War III?
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Posted: September 17th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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The Pskov branch Yabloko gets new deputies in Plyussky, Dnovsky, Usvyatsky and Porkhov municipal districts
Press Release, 16.09.2024
At the September elections in the Pskov region, four lists of candidates from the Yabloko party managed to overcome the threshold, receiving from 5.46% to 13.63% of voters’ support. The interests of citizens in the deputies’ assemblies of municipal districts will be represented by seven new deputies from Yabloko. The elected candidates of the Pskov regional branch of the party are as follows:
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Posted: September 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Justice has added Vladimir Dorokhov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”
Press Release, 13.09.2024
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Ministry of Justice has added Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, to the register of “foreign agents”. Dorokhov became the eighth member of Yabloko and the third Deputy Chairman of the party to receive this status.
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Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko called on the Red Cross to organise humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from the combat zone in the Kursk region
Press Release, 13.09.2024
Photo: Evacuation from the Kursk region / Photo by Ilya Pitalev, RIA Novosti
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Rybakov called on the Red Cross to become an international mediator in organising negotiations on a ceasefire and creating humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians of the Kursk region from the combat zone.
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Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the St. Petersburg Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Electoral Commission investigate the attack on a Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission
Press Release, 12.09.2024
Photo: The moment of the attack on the Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission /screenshot video by Fontanka.ru
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the St. Petersburg Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Electoral Commission investigate the attack on Yabloko member of a territorial electoral commission Alexander Klyukov, who had boiling water thrown in his face. The victim was hospitalised.
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Posted: September 13th, 2024 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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WHY A CEASEFIRE IS NECESSARY TODAY
Grigory Yavlinsky for Novaya Gazeta, 12.09.2024
Photo by Valery Melnikov, Kommersant
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
The Russian army is advancing in the Donbass. Ukraine’s armed forces are continuing their operations in Kursk Region. Russia is carrying out missile strikes on Kharkiv, Poltava and Lviv … Ukraine is shelling Donetsk and Belgorod … The Russian missiles are destroying energy infrastructure in Ukraine. Ukraine’s drones are attacking Russian oil refineries. People are dying every day – soldiers and civilians, men and women, the elderly and children.
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Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites all to an auction in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 12.09.2024
We invite all to take part in a charity auction, all proceeds from which will be sent to the families of seven political prisoners. This will be the fifth event in support of those unjustly deprived of their freedom. The previous four auctions in support of political prisoners raised over 4.6 million roubles. This time, Yabloko and the participants of the auction will support Igor Baryshnikov, Nadezhda Buyanova, Vladimir Yefimov, Grigory Melkonyants, Sergei Mikhailov, Ivan Safronov and Alexei Sokolov.
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Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to honour the memory of the repressed executed in Butovo and Kommunarka, Moscow, during Stalin’s period. We invite all to join the trip
Press Release, 12.09.2024
On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions will hold events designed to preservation of the memory of the terrible events of the Stalin period of our state and the victims of political tyranny. The Yabloko delegation in Moscow will visit the Butovo and Kommunarka execution sites. In addition to laying flowers, there will be a tour where participants will be told about the burial sites. We invite all to join our trip.
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Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Olga Tuzhikova’s candidacy for the post of Human Rights Commissioner in Karelia was supported by five public organisations, a head of municipality and a political party
Press Release, 12.09.2024
Photo: Olga Tuzhikova / Photo from social media
The deadline for accepting documents from candidates for the post of Human Rights Commissioner in the Republic of Karelia has been closed. The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a member of Yabloko, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council, lawyer and environmentalist, for the post. The Yabloko member’s candidacy was supported by the head of the Loukhsky municipal district Olga Kvyatkevich, the environmental organisation SPOK, the Veterans of Karelia organisation, the public organisations for the protection of citizens’ rights Soglasie and Zaonezhye, as well as the Green Alternative party and the Dobrospas search and rescue squad. The media noted that no other candidate for the post of Human Rights Commissioner in Karelia had such broad support in the entire existence of this post.
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Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Historians and politicians from Yabloko discussed the causes and consequences of World War I and drew parallels with the present
Press Release, 12.09.2024
A round table dedicated to the anniversary of the beginning of World War I was held in Yabloko with the participation of Russian historians Vladimir Buldakov, Vladislav Aksyonov, Boris Kolonitsky, Konstantin Morozov and Alexander Shubin, as well as politicians from the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Mitrokhin. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Galina Mikhaleva, professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Historians and politicians talked about the causes and inevitability of the beginning of the war, its tragic consequences for Russia, and also drew obvious parallels with today’s developments in the country and the world.
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Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko invites to the launch of the book by political scientist Nina Khrushcheva “Nikita Khrushchev: a Leader Outside the System”
Press Release, 11.09.2024
The new biography of Nikita Khrushchev was written by his great-granddaughter, a world-famous political scientist, professor at The New School in New York City.
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Posted: September 12th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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