We need such meetings no less than those who are behind the bars. We invite all to our action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 23.07.2024
Photos by the Yabloko Press Service
In the coming weeks, action of writing letters to political prisoners will be held at Yabloko offices all over Russia. Traditionally, everyone is invited to attend.
“Over the past month, we have seen and heard a lot – the verdict to Yevgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk, the denial of parole to Pavel Krisevich, the tightening of conditions of detention for Natalya Filonova, threats of violence against 18-year-old Kevin Leek, Mikhail Afanasyev’s birthday in the penal colony… We should not get used to repression, cruelty, and such kind of news as the background of our lives. We must remain human. We need such meetings no less than those who are behind the bars,” the announcement of the meeting in the Moscow Yabloko runs.
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Posted: July 23rd, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Yefimov registered as a candidate for by-elections to the State Duma
Press Release, 22.07.2024
Photo: Alexander Yefimov at the electoral commission of the Rostov region / Photo from the regional electoral commission’s Telegram channel
Today, the electoral commission of the Rostov region registered a member of the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, entrepreneur Alexander Yefimov, as a candidate in the by-elections to the State Duma. The Southern single-mandate electoral district No. 152, in which Yefimov is running, includes the Aksai district and the city of Novocherkassk. Yefimov is leading an election campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: July 22nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate for Governor of the Kaliningrad region Roman Morozov failed to overcome the municipal filter
Press Release, 22.07.2024
Photo: Roman Morozov / Photo by the regional party branch
Roman Morozov, a human rights defender and a candidate for Governor of the Kaliningrad region from Yabloko, failed to pass the municipal filter to register for the elections. Last Friday, he submitted documents to the regional electoral commission without the mandatory signatures of municipal deputies in favour of his nomination. On 22 July, the electoral commission decided to refuse his registration. Roman Morozov led an all-party campaign for peace and freedom.
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Posted: July 22nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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All candidates for municipal deputies from the St. Petersburg Yabloko were denied registration in the elections. Yabloko will challenge unlawful denials in registration in court
Press Release, 22.07.2024
Photo: Another stage of the St. Petersburg Yabloko Conference, at which some candidates for municipal deputies were nominated / Photo by the regional party branch
Territorial electoral commissions of St. Petersburg refused to register 84 Yabloko candidates for municipal elections. Candidates were not registered territorial electoral commissions refused to recognise the Conference of the regional branch of Yabloko at which the nomination took place. The claims, all written identically, as a copy-paste, assert that the Conference allegedly did not take place at all, because it was convened two years ago.
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Posted: July 22nd, 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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Four candidates from Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko submitted signatures in support of their nomination
Press Release, 22.07.2024
The required number of signatures for participation in the elections of deputies of the Chelyabinsk City Duma were submitted by the Chairman of the Chelyabinsk Yabloko and lawyer Yaroslav Shcherbakov (district No. 2, Kalininsky district), teacher of Russian language and literature Olga Sazonova (district No. 4, Kalininsky district), Chair of the Gender faction of the regional branch of Yabloko, student Maria Chikulayeva (district No. 19, Sovetsky district) and human rights activist Anna Ilyina (district No. 21, Traktorozavodsky district). The period for collecting signatures in support of the nomination of candidates for deputies of the Chelyabinsk City Duma has ended, and the verification of signatures by the electoral commission will commence soon. All Yabloko candidates are running in the elections demanding the immediate conclusion of a ceasefire agreement and the release of all political prisoners.
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Posted: July 22nd, 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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Alexander Zagainov is registered as a candidate from Yabloko for municipal deputies in Krasnoyarsk
Press Release, 22.07.2024
The electoral commission of the Berezovsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory decided to register Alexander Zagainov, a candidate from the Yabloko party for the district council in single-mandate electoral district No. 10 of Krasnoyarsk. The current deputy of the Esaul Village Council is running in the villages of Ermolaevo, Esaulovka, Terentyevo, the village of Ermolaevsky Zaton and in 20 dacha non-profit partnerships. The candidate campaigns under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom”.
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Posted: July 22nd, 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 is a registered candidate for deputy of the Novgorod Regional Duma from Yabloko
Press Release, 19.07.2024
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova
Members of the Soletsk District Electoral Commission unanimously decided to register Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate from the Yabloko party in the by-elections of deputies of the Novgorod Regional Duma in the Soletsk single-mandate electoral district. Ksenia Cherepanova, the Chair of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Veliky Novgorod, the head of the regional anti-corruption centre and economist, is participating in the elections with the programme “For Peace and Freedom”. The Soletsky municipal district includes Batetsky, Volotovsky, Soletsky and Shimsky districts and constituencies of the Novgorod region.
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Posted: July 19th, 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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The Tula regional branch of Yabloko is collecting signatures to participate in the elections of deputies to the regional and the city parliament
Press Release, 19.07.2024
The Tula regional branch of Yabloko nominated two lists of candidates for the regional and city Dumas (parliaments). The Yabloko team is running in the elections under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!” and asks for the help of all residents of the region who share the party’s positions and want Yabloko to take part in the elections.
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Posted: July 19th, 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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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko is running for the Chelyabinsk City Duma and asks its voters and supporters to help with collection of signatures
Press Release, 19.07.2024
The Chelyabinsk regional branch of Yabloko nominated candidates for elections to the Chelyabinsk City Duma as a party list and in single-mandate constituencies. Yabloko candidates are campaigning under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!” To be registered in the elections, candidates must collect 5,000 signatures from residents from all over the city to register the party list and 200 signatures for each candidate in the city’s single-mandate constituencies.
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Posted: July 19th, 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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Anatoly Kivva, a candidate for deputy from Yabloko, has been registered in the Zaborevsky rural settlement of the Ryazan region
Press Release, 19.07.2024
Photo: Anatoly Kivva / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
The Territorial Electoral Commission of the Ryazan District has registered a candidate for deputy of the Zaborevsky rural settlement from the Yabloko party, Anatoly Kivva. The elections will take place on 6-8 September.
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Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Ten candidates from Yabloko are registered for elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 19.07.2024
The Territorial Electoral Commission in the Novgorod region registered ten candidates from Yabloko. In total, the regional branch of the party nominated 13 candidates. Registration was denied to Valery Kochnev, and Oksana Sergeyeva will soon be denied registration as well, they were found guilty last year of “demonstrating extremist symbols”. Registration of a candidate for the by-elections to the regional Duma, Ksenia Cherepanova, will take place on 19 July.
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Posted: July 19th, 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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Sergei Mitrokhin: The Moscow City Duma is not a place for deputies
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog post, 19.07.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov and Sergei Mitrokhin at their meeting with Muscovites / Photo from social media
The refusal [of the electoral commission] to register Maxim Kruglov for elections to the Moscow City Duma was expected. The barrier of [mandatory] collection of voters’ signatures [in favour of a candidate’s nomination] was created against Yabloko from the very beginning. For this reason, the Moscow law does not exempt a party that has a faction in the city parliament from collecting signatures. This norm is provided for in all regions of the Russian Federation, except Moscow, precisely because of Yabloko, which is strong in the capital, but does not have a faction in the State Duma.
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Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections 2024, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Justice failed to explain on why it recognised Boris Vishnevsky as a “foreign agent”
Press Release, 19.07.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky by the court with his defence attorneys / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
The Vasileostrovsky District Court in St.Petersburg held the first hearing on the merits in the lawsuit filed by Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and MP of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, against the Ministry of Justice. Vishnevsky challenges the decision by the Ministry of Justice to include him in the “foreign agents” register.
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Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov denied registration as a candidate for elections
Press Release, 17.07.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov after a meeting of the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters
This decision was made today by the electoral commission for electoral district No. 13, despite objections filed by Maxim Kruglov’s headquarters to the protocol of verifying signatures. Yabloko is preparing a legal complaint.
According to the candidate’s legal team, only 166 signatures out of 5,664 signatures could be considered invalid, that is, 2.9% of the total; whereas the law allows to register candidates with 5% of defective signatures. Meanwhile, the electoral commission said on Monday evening that it considered 1,037 signatures – 18.3% – as “invalid”. However, it should be noted that not a single signature was recognised by the commission as unreliable (falsified).
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Posted: July 18th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Yefimov fined again for “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”
Press Release, 17.07.2024
Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Volzhsky City Court, in a retrial, once again fined Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, 15,000 roubles under the charges of “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) because of his interview to the Golos project. The decision was made on 17 July. Yefimov intends to appeal it.
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Posted: July 17th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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The electoral commission is going to invalidate about a thousand signatures in support of the nomination of Maxim Kruglov in the elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 16.07.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov’s team before submitting signatures to the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters
Maxim Kruglov, a Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma and the current deputy of the Moscow City Duma, told about the decision of the electoral commission to invalidate about a thousand signatures out total 5,660 signatures required for his registration in the Moscow City Duma elections. Lawyers from Maxim Kruglov’s team are preparing objections to the commission’s decision and will defend the signatures in court if necessary.
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Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office due to poor quality works on a military memorial in Staraya Russa dedicated to the victims of the World War II
Press Release, 16.07.2024
Photo: Plastic signs at the Simonovskoye cemetery in Staraya Russa / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the failure of the authorities to complete works to create a memorial in Staraya Russa to soldiers who died in the World War II. The memorial at the Simonovskoye cemetery, where about 30,000 Soviet soldiers are buried, was opened in October 2023. An inspection in July 2025, which was carried out by the Novgorod Yabloko, showed that in the process of creating the memorial, the administration of Staraya Russa arbitrarily refused to carry out critically important works provided for by the design project and replaced materials with cheaper analogues.
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Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Electoral commissions are carrying out a political order to prevent Yabloko candidates from participating in municipal elections in St. Petersburg
Statement by the Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, 15.07.2024
Candidates for municipal deputies from the Yabloko party are being denied registration en masse. In the Admiralteysky, Central, Petrogradsky, Kirovsky and other districts of St. Petersburg, candidates are rejected registration on the same far-fetched grounds that do not correspond either to the law or to the actual circumstances, and the texts of the claims coincide almost word for word, including obvious typos. At the same time, electoral commissions neither accept any objections from candidates, nor provide arguments in favour of their speculations.
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Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko nominated 36 candidates to participate in 11 election campaigns
Press Release, 15.07.2024
Photo: Yabloko candidates Yevgeny Vasiliev and Alexei Kanishchev
On 14 July, the conference of the Pskov branch of Yabloko nominated candidates for the by-elections of a deputy of the Pskov City Duma in electoral district No. 5, elections for the head of the Gdovsky district, deputies of the assemblies of the Bezhanitsky, Dnovsky, Plyussky, Porkhovsky and Usvyatsky municipal districts. The regional branch nominated unified party lists and candidates for single-mandate constituencies.
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Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Ministry of Justice hurried to add a candidate from the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko to the register of foreign agents in order to disrupt her registration
Press release, 13.07.2024
Photo: Anna Karulicheva with her team / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko
On 12 July, three hours before the meeting of the electoral commission, which was supposed to consider the issue of registering Anna Karulicheva, a Yabloko candidate and former deputy of the Narva Okrug municipality in St.Petersburg, the Ministry of Justice urgently included her in the list of foreign agents. According to the Ministry of Justice, she “disseminated false information about the electoral system of the Russian Federation”.
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Posted: July 15th, 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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