Vladimir Dorokhov is the new representative of Yabloko in the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, 10.02.2023
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Vladimir Dorokhov, a member of the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, will represent the Yabloko party at the meetings of the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation. This decision was made at the meeting of the Yabloko Bureau on 10 February. Previously, Yabloko’s representative in the Central Electoral Commission was Valery Goryachev, Yabloko Chief of Stuff (Secretary General).
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Posted: February 10th, 2023 under Elections, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Novgorod opposed the change in the city’s charter, which would reduce the number of deputies elected on party lists in the Duma
Press Release, 10.02.2023
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On 9 February, the administration of Novgorod held public hearings on changing the Charter of the city. The ruling United Russia party decided to change, on the threshold of elections, the ratio between deputies that should be elected on party lists and single-mandate deputies. Up to the present, the Novgorod City Duma has been elected on a parity basis, but United Russia decided to reduce the number of deputies on party lists to ten and increase the number deputies elected as single-mandate to 20. The Novgorod Duma Chairman, Alexei Mityunov, elected from United Russia, was the formal initiator of the change.
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Posted: February 10th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Statement by the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko on the inadmissibility of the liquidation of local self-government in the Chelyabinsk region
Press Release, 09.02.2023
Photo: Miass / Photo by Alexei Petrov, Wikimedia Commons
The regional council of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party addressed the Governor of the region and deputies of the Miass city about the inadmissibility of liquidating local self-government in the Chelyabinsk region.
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Posted: February 10th, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University will host the third lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin on why Russia has not become a law-governed state
Press Release, 09.02.2023
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 13 February, Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, am MP of the Moscow City Duma and candidate of political sciences, will deliver the third lecture at the Yabloko Party University “Truth Instead of Law”. Has capitalism come to Russia? What is Russia’s “special path”? Is our country a separate civilisation? Sergei Mitrokhin will answer these and other questions. The lecture will begin at 19:00 (Moscow time).
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Posted: February 10th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russian Economy.
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Alexander Shishlov filed a cassation appeal against his fine for discrediting the Russian army
Press Release, 08.02.2023
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Andrei Chertkov, the lawyer of the head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, filed a complaint with the Third Court of Cassation. He is challenging the decision of the Petrogradsky District Court to find Alexander Shishlov guilty of an administrative offense – “discrediting the use of the Russian army”. The cassation has been registered, and the judge appointed.
In October, Alexander Shishlov was fined 35,000 roubles. The reason for the decision of the Petrogradsky District Court was his posts on the VKontakte social media, where Shishlov reported on his stance that he expressed in the Legislative Assembly – his disagreement with the initiative to introduce criminal punishment for insulting the St. George Ribbon and give it state status, about the inappropriateness of folding the Ribbon into a Latin letter Z, and about the negative attitude to the announcement of a minute of silence in memory of the ex-LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, since Zhirinovsky had been inciting hatred and aggression.
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Posted: February 8th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Federal Party School announces another training course. Yabloko supporters under 30 are invited to enroll
Press Release, 08.02.2023
Soon Yabloko will start training of the third class of Yabloko’s Federal Party School. Lectures for the students will be given by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, and non-Yabloko experts. The names of the tutors will be announced later. In previous semesters, these were Nikolai Rybakov and Yabloko Deputy Chairs Boris Vishnevsky and Ivan Bolshakov, as well as Alexander Gnezdilov, a member of the Yabloko Political Committee. The training will start in March and will last four months. Yabloko asks all the prospective students to send their applications through the project website until February 21.
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Posted: February 8th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Yabloko Youth, Без рубрики.
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“The court serves a handful of persons who leave the people alone with propaganda”
Dmitry Muratov and Nikolai Rybakov on the decision of the Moscow City Court to revoke the license from Novaya Gazeta
Press Release, 07.02.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Moscow City Court, on absurd grounds, deprived Novaya Gazeta and Novaya Rasskaz-Gazeta of media registration certificates. The judge dismissed the editorial board’s complaint against the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, which took away licenses from the media back in September 2022. The decisions came into effect today, two months before the 30th anniversary of the newspaper.
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Posted: February 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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We managed to raise 450,000 roubles to cover the fine to Mikhail Afanasyev. Yabloko expresses gratitude to all donors!
Press Release, 06.02.2023
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev, his wife Yelena and son / Photo from social media
Yabloko closes the collection of donations to cover the fine for Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia, Editor-in-Chief of the Novy Focus media and a Yabloko party member. On 5 February, his wife Yelena Afanasyeva announced the collection of 450,000 roubles closed. We express gratitude to all who helped to raise money.
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Posted: February 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko participated in a picket against the ban on abortion
Press Release, 06.02.2023
On 5 February, a picket (which managed to obtain the permission of the authorities) against the ban on abortion was held in Kolyushchenko Square in Chelyabinsk. Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko, as well as party members and supporters, came to the action to speak out against the ban on abortion in Russia.
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Posted: February 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko demanded from the police to return the illegally seized paintings by Yelena Osipova
Press Release, 06.02.2023
Photo: Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the St. Petersburg Yabloko on 31 January, 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Shishlov, sent inquiries to the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Roman Plugin, and the St.Petersburg Public Prosecutor, Viktor Melnik. Shishlov demands that the police return paintings of the artist and civil activist Yelena Osipova, that were illegally confiscated from the office of the Yabloko party, take under control due consideration of the applications made by Andrei Chertkov, the lawyer representing the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, and initiate a criminal case for a knowingly false report of a bomb in the Yabloko office.
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Posted: February 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Victor Kogan-Yasny: Decades and a year
Special for the Yabloko web-site, 04.02.2023
After Belovezh Accords of 1991 [when the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus secretly gathered in Belarus and declared that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist and established the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place as a successor entity], an authoritarian regime began to take shape in the Russian Federation, the power in this regime consisted of three intertwined branches: “systemic liberals”[people in power who called themselves “liberals” and allegedly competed with the adherents of a “strong hand”, but conducted reforms which brought oligarchs into power], who did not inspire confidence in the majority of citizens, but enjoyed support in the bureaucracies in the West; “strong business executives” – former Soviet directors of factories and plants and chairs of boards; and security officials. By the mid-1990s, the regime was formed, and only “proportions” [of its constituent parts] began to change within it then…
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Posted: February 6th, 2023 under Economy, Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Без рубрики.
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No one has fallen ill with plague or cholera in St. Petersburg, despite the Russian consumer safety watchdog justifying the ban on rallies by the danger of contamination with these diseases
Press Release, 03.02.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Russian consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor demanded a ban on public events in St. Petersburg due to the threat of the spread of not only COVID-19, but also cholera and plague. To date, however, not a single case of such contamination has been identified. This follows from the response of Natalia Bashketova, head of the St. Petersburg department of Rospotrebnadzor, to the inquiry of Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the St.Peterburg Legislative Assembly.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“The main unlearned lesson of the WWII is that war should never happen again.” Yabloko honoured the memory of the heroes and victims of the Battle of Stalingrad of the WWII
Press Release, 02.02.2023
Photo: Alexander Yefimov and Yabloko activists in Volgograd / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the 80th anniversary of the victory over the Hitler’s army in the Battle of the Volga, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party paid tribute to the memory of the heroes and victims of the Second World War and laid flowers at the eternal flame and memorial stele on Fallen Fighters Square in Volgograd and at the stele in Alexander Garden in Moscow. The ceremonies were attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov, members of the Federal Bureau Galina Boldyreva, Kirill Goncharov and Alexander Yefimov.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko MP of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova fined 30,000 roubles for “discrediting the army”. The court decision will be appealed
Press Release, 02.02.2023
Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today the Petrozavodsk City Court was examining, for four and a half hours, the case of an administrative offense by Emilia Slabunova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko and Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation. Slabunova was accused of “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), because at a meeting of the Karelian Legislative Assembly she called for spending money on the education of children, and not on military operations. The Judge denied all eight defence motions and set a fine of 30,000 roubles as punishment for the work of Emilia Slabunova in the Parliament of Karelia in the interests of voters.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Sergei Balabayev, a member of the Bureau of the Yaroslavl Yabloko, is recommended for the post of Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yaroslavl region
Press Release, 02.02.2023
Photo: Sergei Balabayev / Photo from social media
In April of this year, the term of service of the current Commissioner for Human Rights for the Yaroslavl region expires. Sergei Balabayev, a member of the Yaroslavl Yabloko Bureau, has been listed among the three contenders for the post of Ombudsman for Yaroslavl. Balabayev’s candidacy was proposed by a group of deputies of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma. Till 13 February, the regional Duma will accept recommendations on candidates from public organisations.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova, a deputy of the Novgorod City Duma, demanded that the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ombudsperson respect the rights of political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov
Press Release, 01.02.2022
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Anna Cherepanova, a deputy of the Duma of Novgorod from Yabloko, sent inquiries to the Public Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Arkady Gostev and the Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova in defence of political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The state to compensate moral damage for unlawful persecution to Viktor Shalyakin, the leader of the local branch of Yabloko in Novgorod
Press Release, 01.02.2023
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 30 January, the Novgorod District Court satisfied the claims Viktor Shalyakin, head of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Finance of Russia for compensation of his expenses connected with the trial and moral damage.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“I beg you to write to me! It helps me a lot…” Actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners were held at Yabloko
Press Release, 01.02.2022
Photo: Cheboksary / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners were held at the central and regional offices of the Yabloko party past week and at the beginning of this week. Several hundred postcards and envelopes will go to penal colonies and pre-trial detention centres to Mikhail Afanasyev, Alexei Gorinov, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Alexei Navalny, Alexander Skochilenko, Andrei Boyarshinov, Lilia Chanysheva, Mikhail Krieger, Olga Smirnova, Viktoria Petrova, Natalia Filonova, Sergei Mikhailov and many other politicians, journalists and civic activists who are unjustly deprived of their freedom and are waiting for news and words of support “from the outside”.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The police seized 19 Yelena Osipova’s paintings about peace from the office of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 01.02.2023
Photo: The Exhibition / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The police seized 19 paintings about peace by artist and activist Yelena Osipova. The paintings were exhibited at the office of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko at Spalernaya 13.
On Wednesday, 1 February, police officers came to the Yabloko office, cordoned off the premises and said that they had received a call about an alleged bomb threat. Then they took all Yabloko activists out into the street and did not let them in for several hours. The work of the party office was paralysed, and the candidates nominated by Yabloko for the by-elections of municipal deputies in the Krasnoselsky and Yuzhno-Primorsky municipal districts were unable to complete the preparation of documents for submission to the electoral commissions.
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Posted: February 1st, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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