Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Photo: Alexandra Skochilenko / Photo from open sources
The Qualification Commission of Judges of St. Petersburg conducted an audit of the actions of Judge Oksana Demyasheva during the trial of the criminal case of Alexandra Skochilenko. No violations were found. Earlier, in October, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Boris Vishnevsky demanded the Commission to check the Judge for compliance with the rules of judicial ethics.
Photo: the Moscow City Duma / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 21 November, three pro-government factions in the Moscow parliament (United Russia, A Just Russia and My Moscow) made a proposal to the Moscow City Duma to adopt the Moscow budget for 2024 and the planning period for 2025-2026 at a meeting on 22 November – during just one sitting of the Moscow parliament, in one day, and without amendments. The Yabloko party faction released a statement on this:
Photo: Monument to Joseph Stalin in Velikiye Luki / Photo from open sources
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Pskov region once again found no grounds for taking measures of prosecutorial response in connection with the unauthorised installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Velikiye Luki, the Pskov region, and reported that documents for the approval of the monument were being prepared to be submitted to the City Duma. The monument was opened on 15 August, 2023.
On the day of the 25th anniversary of the murder of State Duma MP and politician Galina Starovoytova, Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko Alexander Shishlov, and Yury Shein, member of the Registrar Council of the Moscow Yabloko and General Director of the Regional Public Fund for Support of Science, Education and Culture named after Galina Starovoytova, laid flowers at the grave of Galina Starovoytova at the Nikolskoye cemetery in St.Petersburg. The service was performed by the Archbishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church, Father Grigory (Mikhnov-Voitenko).
On 23 November, the Counting Commission of the Yabloko party will sum up the results of its consideration of individual proposals from party members and regional conferences (general meetings) of Yabloko branches on candidates for the post of Chairman of Yabloko.
On 6 December Yabloko will host a round table “Traditional Values and Women’s Rights”. The ideology of traditional values (of the patriarchal structure) promoted by the state is inextricably linked with the restriction of women’s rights, which contradicts modernisation, human rights and freedoms, as well as the principles of gender equality enshrined in the Constitution.
On 22 November – 6 December Yabloko will hold its regular actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners. The actions will be conducted by the Yabloko branches in different Russian regions.
nyone can take part in the actions of writing to political prisoners. Yabloko has developed an instruction (https://www.yabloko.ru/pisma-politzekam ) for writing and sending letters, so that people can get in touch with political prisoners even if they do not have the opportunity to come to one of the Yabloko offices for the action.
Photo: Alexei Duplyakov / Photo from Alexei Duplyakov’s personal archive
Civil activist Alexei Duplyakov received a fine for participating in a peaceful rally against the start of the so-called “special military operation”. The rally took place in Moscow on 27 February, 2022. Duplyakov had to leave Russia fearing persecution for his active political position. While waiting for a decision on being granted political asylum, the activist cannot work and asks for help with paying a fine. Alexei Duplyakov fears that bailiffs will seize things in the apartment where he is registered with his relatives. Yabloko announced a fundraiser to pay the fine for Duplyakov.
On 16 November, the Yabloko Party University hosted a lecture “Ecology of Russian Regions: Trends of the 2020s” by Nikolai Rybakov, an environmentalist, human rights activist, and Chairman of the Yabloko party.
Artist Sasha Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years in prison. Not because she is a criminal and has caused immeasurable harm to someone. Such people, as you know, are now being pardoned. Sasha received such a ridiculous sentence for replacing several price tags in a supermarket with peacekeeping pictures, for her pacifist position, for her convictions and the courage to defend them.
Photo: A five-storey house in St. Petersburg that will be pulled down due to renovation / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg is preparing an inquiry on behalf of the city parliament to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation so that to verify the provisions of the City Planning Code and the Housing Code regarding the integrated development of territories (renovation). This was stated by Boris Vishnevsky, deputy head of the Yabloko faction, at a plenary meeting of the city parliament on Wednesday, 15 November.
Photo: Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Republic of Udmurtia / Photo by Iya Boronina
I sent an inquiry to the Ministry of Culture of Udmurtia, as part of the preparation of amendments to the draft law “On the Budget of Udmurtia for 2024,” about the amount of funds allocated by the regional budget and spent on the creation of performances for 2020-2023, in particular to the Tchaikovsky State Opera and Ballet Theatre. For some reason, the ministry refused to provide the data. I received a letter that did not contain a response referring to the substance of the appeal.
On 13 November, a conference and public forum The Alexei Yablokov Day were held at the Darwin Museum in Moscow as part of the events dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Acad.Alexei Yablokov (1933-2017), a renowned Russian ecologist and founder of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party. In 2006, Alexei Yablokov, together with a large group of like-minded people, joined the Yabloko party and until his last day headed the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party, while remaining a recognised leader of the environmental movement in Russia.
On 16 November, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Ecology of Russian Regions: Trends of the 2020s.” The lecturer is Nikolai Rybakov, an environmentalist, human rights activist, and Chairman of the Yabloko party.
Photo: Olga Tuzhikova / Photo from Olga Tuzhikova’s personal archive
On the morning of 10 November, a search was carried out in the apartment of Olga Tuzhikova, a Yabloko deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council. Tuzhikova is a witness in the case initiated under the article on calls for activities directed against the security of the state (Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). During the search, the politician’s phone and computer were confiscated. Tuzhikova was summoned for questioning by the Federal Security Service and the Investigative Committee. According to her relatives, she has been under interrogation by the Federal Security Service since 14:00 (Moscow time).
On December 9-10, the Yabloko party will hold its 22nd Congress. Delegates of the Congress will elect the party’s executive bodies.
According to the Yabloko By-Laws, congresses at which the executive bodies of the party are elected should be held every four years. The previous congress was held in December 2019.
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Our party receives questions from citizens from different regions of Russia about collecting signatures for the nomination of Grigory Yavlinsky as a candidate in the forthcoming presidential election. In September, Grigory Yavlinsky said that he was ready to consider the possibility of participating in the election campaign if at least 10 million citizens’ signatures were collected in support of his nomination.
Photo: Yabloko candidates Pyotr Kopylov and Maxim Novikov
The territorial electoral commissions of the Central and Oktyabrsky districts on Novosibirsk refused to register Maxim Novikov and Pyotr Kopylov, candidates for deputies for by-elections to the Novosibirsk City Council, previously nominated by the Novosibirsk branch of the Yabloko party.
On 1 November, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party hosted a launch of the first volume of Engelina y memoirs, “How I Lived in the Soviet Union”.
Engelina Borisovna Tareyeva is one of the oldest members of the Yabloko party; she was born in 1925 in Ukraine into a family of professional revolutionaries. The book is a collection of memoirs about life in the Soviet Union, published in Engelina Tareyeva’s LiveJournal in 2009–2021. Tareyeva writes about different generations of her family, recollects Kyiv before the Second World War, life in evacuation in Kazakhstan, Moscow during her years of study at Moscow State University and further. A separate chapter contains memories of Stalin’s death and the events that followed.
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the St.Petersburg Yabloko Press Service
Each member with a casting vote of the St.Petersburg Electoral Commission should be able to work on a permanent basis as a staff member. The Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly submitted such a bill in the city Legislative Assembly at a plenary session on Wednesday, 8 November.
