The Federal Political Committee of Yabloko: Grigory Yavlinsky’s article “Just Stop!” expresses the official political stance of Yabloko
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March, 2023
Published on 10 April, 2023
The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko states that the article by Grigory Yavlinsky “Just Stop!”, published by the Novaya Rasskaz-Gazeta (No. 2 of February 2023) and arising from the resolution of the Congress of the Yabloko Party No. 435 “On the priority steps to bring to an end the killing of people in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict” dated 16 April, 2022, and the decision of the Federal Political Committee No. 158 of October 20, 2022 “On the critical need for an early ceasefire as soon as possible”, expresses the official political stance of the Yabloko Party and is actively used in the political work of the party and its regional branches.
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Posted: April 11th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov urged Vladimir Putin to find and punish those responsible for the death of journalist Mikhail Beketov
Press Release, 10.04.2023
Photo: Vladimir Putin, then Russian Prime Minister, and Mikhail Beketov, Editor-in-Chief of Khimkinskaya Pravda, at the Russian Government Print Media Awards ceremony, 2011 / Photo by Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a demand to find and punish those responsible for the death of journalist Mikhail Beketov. This year is the statute of limitations for bringing to justice those responsible for the attack on Mikhail Beketov, the Editor-in-Chief of the Khimkinskaya Pravda newspaper, which led to his death. 15 years passed, but those who ordered and performed this crime have not been named.
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Posted: April 10th, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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A ceasefire is the first and inevitable step towards peace
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March, 2023
Published on 10 April, 2023
Photo by RIA Novosti
According to the UN, at least 8,006 civilians were killed, at least 13,287 were injured, and more than 8 million people became refugees during the year of the special military operation. The actual extent of losses on both sides is unknown.
The Yabloko party has repeatedly, consistently and openly warned Russian society about the danger of unleashing a military confrontation with Ukraine, the political dead end of this step and its catastrophic consequences for Russia.
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Posted: April 10th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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On the future of Russia
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March, 2023
Published on 7 April, 2023
Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the reception in the Faceted Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin. 21 March, 2023 / Photo by Pavel Byrkin
War is a great catastrophe for our country and every person living in Russia. The special military operation on the territory of Ukraine has been determining the entire agenda of Russia’s life for more than a year now: the state machine has taken a run up and is rushing along the rails of military aggressive tasks, the economy is actually being transferred to serving military needs, private businesses are being forced to line up in the ranks of “voluntary” sponsors of new spending, and population is made to adapt to partial mobilisation. At the same time, any disagreement with the decisions of the authorities can bring, at a minimum, problems, and, at a maximum, a criminal article for expressing an opinion.
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Posted: April 10th, 2023 under Economy, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Boris Vishnevsky “Towards Democracy and Back”
Press Release, 6.04.2023
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 17 April, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Towards Democracy and Back”. The lecturer is Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party and Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.
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Posted: April 7th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The Moscow City Duma hosted a round table on specially protected nature preservation areas initiated by Yabloko’s Sergei Mitrokhin. Four resolutions have been prepared to protect Moscow nature preservation areas
Press Release, 6.04.2023
Photo: Press Centre of the Moscow City Duma
On 4 April, a round table on specially protected nature preservation areas was held in the Moscow City Duma. The round table was initiated by Sergei Mitrokhin, a Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma and a member of the Moscow State Duma Commission on Urban Planning, State Property and Land Use. The participants were MPs of the Moscow parliament, public and civil activists, they discussed the systemic problem of the destruction of specially protected nature preservation areas. Profile officials ignored the invitation to the discussion.
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Posted: April 7th, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko introduced amendments to the city’s charter retaining the direct election of the mayor and the mixed electoral system for the city elections
Press Release, 6.04.2023
Photo: The Council of Deputies of Novosibirsk / Photo by gorsovetnsk.ru
The Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party submitted its initiatives to the organising committee of the Novosibirsk Council of Deputies within the frameworks of preparation for public hearings on the draft amendments to the city charter. Yabloko’s proposal is to leave unchanged the articles of the charter that provide for the direct election of the mayor.
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Posted: April 7th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg adopted the “Vishnevsky Amendment” to the electoral law envisaging that doppelgangers of candidates must indicate their previous names and surnames if they chanced these a year prior to elections
Press Release, 6.04.2023
Photo: Photo of a poster with information about the candidates for the elections of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg showing Boris Vishnevky (right) and his doppelgangers
On Wednesday, 5 April, the Parliament of St. Petersburg adopted amendments to the city legislation on elections. From now on the “doppelgangers” of candidates must indicate in the ballot their previous names and surnames if they chanced these a year prior to elections.
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Posted: April 7th, 2023 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko opens a school for candidates to the party members
Press Release, 4.04.2023
The curriculum includes lectures on the recent history of Russia and the history of Yabloko, classes on topical issues of modern Russian politics and the solutions offered by Yabloko. Lectures will be given by party leaders, experts in the field of international relations, human rights and environmental activities, social and economic policy. The first session will take place on 8 April.
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Posted: April 5th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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“Your letters warm the heart and give hope for a brighter future.” Yabloko sent more than a thousand letters to Russian political prisoners
Press Release, 4.04.2023
In March, the traditional actions of writing letters to political prisoners were held at the central office of the Yabloko party and Yabloko’s regional branches. Members and supporters of the party, as well as civil activists, have prepared more than a thousand letters and postcards that will be sent to those unjustly convicted or awaiting trial. Musical evenings were also held during the actions in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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Posted: April 4th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches a fundraising campaign to cover the services of a lawyer for the leader of the Kamchatka Yabloko, who became a defendant in a criminal case on military censorship
Press Release, 4.04.2023
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Past week, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court found Vladimir Yefimov, journalist and Chairman of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court imposed a fine of 200,000 roubles on the journalist and also banned him accessing the Internet for two years. The decision has not yet entered into force. Now Vladimir Yefimov needs help to cover the services of a lawyer. Yabloko launches a fundraising campaign to collect of 80,000 roubles.
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Posted: April 4th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko held another charity event for refugees from Ukraine, including children
Press Release, 4.04.2023
The Rostov-on-Don branch of the Yabloko party, together with the Rostov Pomogayet Foundation (Rostov Helps) and the Shamaika restaurant, held another charity event called Yabloko’s Pie (“yabloko” means “apple” in Russian). On Sunday, 2 April, little cooks and their parents, refugees from Ukraine, baked pies together with Yabloko activists. They have prepared more than 20 pies under the guidance of the restaurant chefs, some of the pie will go to their families. Another part of the pies will be given to the other families of refugees who came to the Rostov region from Ukraine.
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Posted: April 4th, 2023 under Charity, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A launch of new collections of women’s prose and a meeting with writers to take place in Yabloko
Press Release, 3.04.2023
Photo: Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Svetlana Vasilenko
A launch of new collections of women’s prose and a meeting with writers, critics and publishers will take place at the Yabloko office in Moscow on 18 April. The new collections of prose are “News of the Feminine”, “Girl on the Ball, or Dreams of Childhood” (the Russian Writers’ Union) and Nadezhda Azhgikhina’s book “Dreams” (AIRO-XXI). The anchors will be Svetlana Vasilenko, the First Secretary of the Russian Writers’ Union, and Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Director of PEN Moscow.
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Posted: April 4th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Yabloko demanded that the State Duma reject a bill expediting elimination of specially protected nature preservation areas
Press Release, 3.04.2023
Photo by Sergei Kiselyov / Kommersant
The corresponding appeal was adopted at a meeting of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and sent to the deputies of the State Duma of Russia on Friday, 31 March, the last day for submitting comments to the relevant committee, which should examine the bill before the first reading.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Happy Anniversary to Novaya Gazeta! The bravest Russian newspaper turns 30 years old
Press Release, 1.04.2023
Photo: A sign at the entrance to the editorial office of the Novaya Gazeta Publishing House and a memorial plaque (left) for Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of Novaya Gazeta, killed in Moscow in 2006 / Photo by Emin Jafarov, Kommersant
Today, Novaya Gazeta is not only an example of high professionalism, fortitude and resilience, but also an example of patriotism in the best sense of the word. The key principle of the newspaper staff has always been the desire to tell the truth with the ultimate goal to make life in our country better.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Human Rights.
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“The mind refuses to believe that all this is really happening.” A letter from journalist Mikhail Afanasyev from the pre-trial detention centre about the battle between common sense and abnormality
Press Release, 31.03.2023
Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of Yabloko and a journalist, has been in jail for a year already on the charges of spreading fake news about the army “using his official position”. On 29 March, new court hearings on the case of Mikhail Afanasyev began in Abakan, Khakassia. The investigators consider Afanasyev’s article 11 fighters of the Khakassian riot police refused to go to the special operation zone a year ago as spreading fake news.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, found guilty of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 31.03.2023
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The journalist was sentenced to a fine of 200,000 roubles and a ban on publishing his materials on the Internet for two years. The decision will be appealed.
Today, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court ruled out in a criminal case against Vladimir Yefimov, a journalist and the leader of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, that he was guilty of “discrediting the armed forces” under Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: March 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, found guilty of “discrediting the army” for publishing a UN report on victims in Ukraine
Press Release, 30.03.2023
Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo from the Yabloko Press Service
Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, was found guilty of “discrediting the army” for publishing a UN report on victims in Ukraine on the VKontakte social media and fined 30,000 roubles. Alexander is going to appeal the decision.
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Posted: March 30th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Social Democratic Faction of Yabloko held a round table “How do we see the future of Russia?”
Press Release, 29.03.2023
The Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko party held a round table “How do we see the future of Russia?”. Three main scenarios for the development of events were discussed at the round table: peace; neither peace nor war; and the third world war.
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Posted: March 29th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Democratic faction, Social Policies.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko recruits observers for the upcoming elections
Press Release, 29.03.2023
Photo: Training of citizens who are going to work at polling stations as observers / Photo by the Saratov branch of Yabloko
This year, a large number of municipal election campaigns will be held in the Saratov region. Local self-government is the most important mechanism for the implementation of democracy, which unfortunately does not work for us in Russia, but still we should not give up even in such a situation, there are many examples when, against all odds, worthy people became deputies and tried to change something.
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Posted: March 29th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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