Yabloko candidate for Irkutsk City Duma Pavel Kharitonenko defends in court voters’ signatures in support of his nomination
Press Release, 6.08.2024
Photo: Pavel Kharitonenko / Photo from social media
Yabloko candidate for Irkutsk City Duma, Pavel Kharitonenko, will seek his registration in the elections in court. Earlier, District Electoral Commission No. 28 invalidated eight signatures out of 67 provided by the Yabloko candidate in support of his nomination, with six acceptable defective signatures. The candidate is confident that five of the eight “invalid” signatures should have been accepted by the electoral commission. Kharitonenko’s lawsuit against the district electoral commission will be considered by the Sverdlovsk District Court of Irkutsk on 8 August. Kharitonenko is campaigning under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom”.
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Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky asked the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg to send a request to the Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the law on “foreign influence”
Press Release, 6.08.2024
Photo: Vitaly Isakov and Boris Vishnevsky at a meeting of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of the party
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, is challenging the status of “foreign agent” unlawfully assigned to him by the Ministry of Justice. The hearings take place in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Peterburg. At the last meeting, the politician submitted a petition for the district court to appeal with a request to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the constitutionality of a number of provisions of the Federal Law “On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence”.
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Posted: August 7th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Tula Region Electoral Commission rejected signatures for the nomination of Yabloko’s candidates, having made up the data of voters. The party is going to appeal this decision
Press Release, 6.08.2024
The Tula Region Electoral Commission is going to refuse registration of the Yabloko list of candidates for the elections to the Tula City Duma. The working group of the electoral commission, based on the results of checking 2,316 signatures in support of the nomination of the list, considers 256 signatures invalid, i.e. more than 11% which allows it to reject the list. Tula Yabloko insists that it provided the commission a sufficient number of valid and reliable signatures, and the decision to remove Yabloko from the elections is political in nature. The evidence that the commission adjusted the percentage of defects to the desired result is in the photographs above.
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Posted: August 6th, 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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Electoral commissions registered 32 candidates from Pskov Yabloko to participate in 11 election campaigns
Press Release, 6.08.2024
Photo: Chairman of the Pskov Yabloko Artur Gaiduk at the conference on nominating candidates / Photo by the regional branch of the party
Registration certificates were handed to Yevgeny Vasiliye, Yablooko’s candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district, captain of the first rank in the reserve, head of the construction, architecture and utilities department of the Gdovsky district administration, and entrepreneur and design engineer Alexei Kanishchev, Yabloko’s candidate for the by-election of the deputy of the Pskov City Duma in electoral district No. 5.
Yabloko party lists and candidates in single-mandate constituencies for the elections of assemblies of deputies of the Bezhanitsky, Dnovsky, Plyussky, Porkhovsky and Usvyatsky municipal districts, as well as candidates for deputies of the Karamyshevskaya and Seredkinskaya volosts of the Pskov district, the Shelkovskaya volost of the Velikoluksky district and the rural settlement Sebezhskoye of the Sebezhsky district were registered.
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Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We are guarding the memory of the place where almost 7,000 people found their last refuge.” Yabloko delegation visited Sandarmokh, the place of mass executions and burials during the Soviet period
Press Release, 5.08.2024
Photo: Anatoly Razumov, head of the Centre for Returned Names at the Russian National Library, and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov
A delegation of the Yabloko party, led by party leader Nikolai Rybakov and head of the party faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova, visited the Sandarmokh – the site of mass executions during the Great Terror of 1937-1938 in the Joseph Stalin’s period.
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Posted: August 6th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
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The Moscow branch of Yabloko nominated candidates for snap elections of the Kurkino district council of Deputies in Moscow
Press Release, 2.08.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Conference of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party decided to nominate seven Yabloko candidates for the snap elections of municipal deputies in the Kurkino district of Moscow. Each of the candidates will have to collect 14 signatures of district residents in support of their nomination by 10 August. The candidates will conduct a campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: August 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In the Moscow Region the authorities are trying to remove Yabloko candidates from the elections with the help of other political parties
Press Release, 2.08.2024
Photo: Delegates of the Moscow Regional Yabloko Conference / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko
On 2 August, the Territorial Electoral Commission of Sergiyev Posad will decide to refuse to register the Yabloko list of six people and two candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the elections of deputies of the District Council. Three more single-mandate candidates have already been refused registration. Court hearings are also taking place in the Leninsky urban district, where they are trying to remove three already registered Yabloko candidates from the elections. Yabloko fears that the Moscow Region authorities have decided to remove all 23 Yabloko candidates from the elections.
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Posted: August 5th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Multiple increases in court fees will deprive millions of citizens of access to justice
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 2.08.2024
Photo by Andrei Zhdanov, Kommersant
The State Duma has adopted amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, which will increase the amount of state fees for court cases for both individuals and organisations. For example, the fee for challenging a decision or action of a government agency will increase tenfold for individuals – up to 3,000 roubles, for filing an appeal – by twenty times, also up to 3,000 roubles, and for filing a complaint to the Supreme Court – by 47 (!) times – from 150 to 7,000 roubles.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod Regional Court refuses to remove the “foreign agent” label from Ksenia Cherepanova, Yabloko’s candidate to the Regional Duma
Press Release, 2.08.2024
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Yabloko considers the court’s decision unlawful and unfounded, it will be appealed. At the same time, Ksenia Cherepanova filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation demanding to exclude her from the register of persons “affiliated with a foreign agent”. The case will be considered by the Novgorod District Court. The first hearing will be held on 13 August.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We can only welcome freedom for people who have not committed any crimes.” Yabloko leaders on the prisoner exchange
Press Release, 1.08.2024
Photo: Footage from the airport in Ankara with planes from countries participating in the prisoner exchange / Photo: a screenshot of the broadcast of the Turkish TV channel NTV
The main event of today is the prisoner exchange between Russia, the USA, Germany, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Belarus. Those to whom we wrote letters to pre-trial detention centres and penal colonies, and about whom we worried all these months and recent years, are finally free. Among them are Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Oleg Orlov, Andrei Pivovarov, Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeyeva, Sasha Skochilenko, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Kevin Lik.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Nikolai Rybakov: There should be no political prisoners in Russia and they should all be released
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram blog post, 1.08.2024
Freedom for people who have not committed any crimes, those who have advocated for a better future for the country can only be welcomed.
But in principle, there should be no political prisoners in Russia and they should all be released.
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Posted: August 1st, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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110 years since Russia entered World War I. Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims
Press Release, 1.08.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
110 years ago, on 1 August, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and our country entered World War I. More than 10 million servicemen from all sides fell victim to it, over 22 million were wounded. Russia’s losses in the war amounted to over three million people, including two million who died at the front and over one million civilians.
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Posted: August 1st, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The court upheld the decision of the electoral commission to deny registration in the Moscow City Duma elections for Maxim Kruglov
Press Release, 31.07.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov with his group of support outside the Moscow City Court on 31 July, 2024 / Photo from Maxim Kruglov’s social media
The Moscow City Court refused to register Yabloko candidate and current City Duma deputy Maxim Kruglov for the elections at its hearing on 31 July. Maxim Kruglov’s team is considering appealing the Moscow City Court’s decision.
“The decision is absolutely political – in the opinion of the authorities, there can be no real competition and real representation in these elections,” Kruglov commented.
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Posted: July 31st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Tula Yabloko submitted voters’ signatures to register the list of Yabloko candidates for the elections to the Tula City Duma
Press Release, 30.07.2024
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov at the Tula Regional Electoral Commission / Photo from social media
In two weeks, the Yabloko branch in Tula collected 2,316 voters’ signatures in support of the nomination of Yabloko candidates for Peace and Freedom for the elections to the city parliament. Within ten days, the electoral commission must make a decision on registration of the candidates.
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Posted: July 31st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate for deputy of the Novgorod Regional Duma from Yabloko, will appeal in court the status of a candidate “affiliated with a foreign agent”
Press Release, 30.07.2024
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Electoral Commission has decided label once again Yabloko’s Ksenia Cherepanova as a candidate “affiliated with a foreign agent”. The Ministry of Justice provided such information to the electoral commission in connection with the Ksenia’s participation in the unregistered movement of independent election observation Golos. The politician appealed to court.
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Posted: July 31st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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District courts in St.Petersburg rejected Yabloko candidates’ appeals against electoral commissions’ denials of their registration in municipal elections
Press Release, 29.07.2024
Photo: Yabloko’s placard “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire agreement!”
The Kirovsky District Court of St.Petersburg considered the complaint of Yabloko candidates for the Narva District Municipal Council against the decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No 41 (candidates Ivan Zlobin, Eduard Nikolayev, Marina Peslyak, Pavel Samsonov, Elizaveta Balakina, Alexei Bogdanov, Anna Karulicheva, and Alexei Rzyankin), and the Petrogradsky District Court of St.Petersburg considered the complaint of candidates for the Posadsky District Municipal Council against the decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No 18 (candidates Anna Zalevina and Andrei Stepanenko). Judging by the decisions, that have already been received in full, the courts fully reproduced the positions of the Territorial Electoral Commissions and ignored all of Yabloko’s arguments and objections.
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Posted: July 31st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko candidate for the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Olga Yurkevich is denied registration. Yabloko will appeal in court the decision of the electoral commission
Press Release, 30.07.2024
Photo: Olga Yurkevich / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
According to the draft decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No. 6 of St.Petersburg, the reason for refusing to register Olga Yurkevich, a pediatric anesthesiologist and Yabloko candidate in electoral district No. 18, was that Yabloko allegedly failed to notify the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission of its intentions to hold an event at which Yurkevich was nominated. According to Yabloko lawyers, this draft decision does not comply with either the federal or the city legislation. According to the law on political parties, only Territorial Electoral Commission No. 6 had to be notified of the meeting of the Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, at which the decision to nominate Yurkevich was made, and this was done. The party will seek the registration of Olga Yurkevich in court.
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Posted: July 31st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Five Yabloko candidates registered for municipal elections in Leningrad region
Press Release, 29.07.2024
Photo: The Vyborg Castle / Photo from Wikimedia Commons
The electoral commissions of the Vyborg and Boksitogorsk districts of Leningrad region have registered five candidates from the Yabloko party for municipal elections. The Yabloko candidates are campaigning under the general party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. Public figures from the Vyborg District Anastasia, Diana and Dmitry Solovyovs, and Maxim Evarestov are fighting for mandates in municipal councils. The current deputy of Boksitogorsk urban settlement Vladimir Shibayev is running for a new term.
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Posted: July 30th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko candidate Yevgeny Vasiliyev registered in the elections of the head of the Gdov District in the Pskov region
Press Release, 29.07.2024
The Territorial Electoral Commission of the Gdov District registered Yevgeny Vasiliyev as a candidate for the post of head of the Gdov District from the Yabloko party. Yevgeny Vasiliyev was presented with a registration resolution and a candidate certificate.
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Posted: July 29th, 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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Maxim Kruglov filed a lawsuit demanding that he must be registered as a candidate in the Moscow City Duma elections
Press Release, 26.07.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov outside the Moscow City Court on 26 July, 2024 / Photo from Maxim Kruglov’s personal archive
Maxim Kruglov is challenging in court the refusal of the electoral commission to register him in the Moscow City Duma elections. Today, the Yabloko candidate in electoral district No. 13 filed a lawsuit with the Moscow City Court demanding that the district electoral commission’s decision to deny Kruglov access to the elections be declared unlawful. The court must consider the application within five days.
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Posted: July 29th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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