Valery Borshchov turns 80! Yabloko leaders congratulate Valery Borshchov on his anniversary
2.12.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, 1 December, marks the 80th birthday of Valery Vasilyevich Borshchov, an outstanding human rights defender, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, Co-Chairman of the Yabloko Human Rights Faction. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky congratulate Valery Borshchov on his anniversary:
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Posted: December 2nd, 2022 under Greetings, Human Rights.
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“You feel that you are not alone in this hardship.” Yabloko regional branches held actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 1.12.2022
Photo: The action in Chelyabinsk / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Actions in support of political prisoners were held in the regional offices of the Yabloko party past week. Hundreds of letters and postcards with words of support so needed by people deprived of their freedom are sent to their recipients across the country.
Many political prisoners write in their response letters that Yabloko and civil activists are doing very important work.
“I had to go through a lot of difficult moments during this time and I don’t know how I would have coped without your support! I received over a hundred letters (postcards, photographs, and drawings) with words of support and good wishes from different cities of Russia, as well as neighbouring countries!” Yabloko activists in Tatarstan cite the words from the response letter of political prisoner Andrey Boyarshinov.
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Posted: December 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A legal case connected with the absence of a decree on the completion of mobilisation emerged in Chita. The Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to the President
Press Release, 1.12.2022
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Anna Cherepanova, head of the Yabloko party faction in the Novgorod City Duma, called on the Russian President to issue a decree on the completion of partial mobilisation. The faction’s appeal, signed by MP Cherepanova, was sent to Vladimir Putin on 30 November.
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Posted: December 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “On the Prospects of the Russian Economy” by economist Igor Nikolayev
Press Release, 1.12.2022
Photo: Igor Nikolayev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 15 December the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “On the Prospects of the Russian Economy” by Igor Nikolayev, Director of the Institute for Strategic Analysis of the company “Financial and Accounting Consultants”, Doctor of Economics, and a member of the Public Constitutional Council. The lecture will start at 18:00 MSK.
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Posted: December 1st, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Russian Economy.
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The City Court of St.Petersburg did not cancel the fine to the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the Pushkinsky district of the city for “discrediting the army”
Press Release 30.11.2022
Photo: Alexander Makhankov / Photo from social media
On 28 November, the St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision of the Pushkinsky District Court against Alexander Makhankov, the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the Pushkinsky district, who had been found guilty of “discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. Makhankov was fined 30,000 roubles.
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Posted: November 30th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Udmurtia proposed to the State Council to reduce the budget expenditure on officials in favour of acquiring housing for orphans and providing palliative care
Press Release 30.11.2022
Photo: Meeting of the State Council of the Udmurt Republic on 29 November, 2022 / Photo by udmgossovet.ru
Iya Boronina, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia, proposed amendments to the regional budget for 2023 and for the planning period of 2024 and 2025. The draft budget was adopted at a meeting of the State Council of the Republic on 29 November. The leader of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia prepared and submitted to the Council the proposals of Yabloko as a legislative initiative proposing redistribution of funds in favour of orphans, palliative care and provision of safety in educational institutions.
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Posted: November 30th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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The construction of a medical centre with a maternity hospital in the Primorsky district of St.Petersburg, which Yabloko sought, will begin in 2023
Press Release, 29.11.2022
Photo from social media
The project of a multifunctional medical centre for 1,250 beds with a maternity hospital in the Primorsky district of St.Petersburg was included in the special investment programme. As of the end of the year, a contract for cadastral works for construction was already signed. This information was given in the response of the administration of the Primorsky district to the inquiry of the Yabloko deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky.
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Posted: November 29th, 2022 under Elections, Healthcare, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Current and former Moscow municipal deputies opened public receptions to help Muscovites
Press Release, 28.11.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 26 November Yabloko launched the Public Reception “Our Moscow” project. Yabloko party deputies of different convocations of the Moscow City Duma and municipal councils of Moscow districts, as well as candidates for deputies from Yabloko and civil activists.
According to the results of the September municipal elections in Moscow, the Yabloko party received an average of 16% of the vote in Moscow, but only four candidates from the party managed to get elected in the conditions of electronic voting – Vasily Dikarev, Anatoly Zakharov, Olga Lapshina and Vladimir Shomin.
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Posted: November 29th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Russian Economy, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the Novgorod City Duma voted against the city budget for 2023
Press Release, 28.11.2022
Photo: A session of the Novgorod City Duma / Photo by duma.nov.ru
On 25 November, the Novgorod City Duma considered in the first reading the draft city budget for 2023 and for the planning period of 2024 and 2025. The total amount of planned budget revenues for 2023 will amount to 6.867 billion roubles, and expenditures for 7.127 billion roubles. The deficit will amount to 260 million roubles. The faction of the Yabloko party voted against the adoption of the draft budget.
Anna Cherepanova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Novgorod City Duma, explained why she did not support the draft budget:
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Posted: November 28th, 2022 under Economy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Police submitted to court the criminal case against the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia
Press Release, 26.11.2022
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 8 December, the Yakutsk City Court will start considering a criminal case against Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, who is accused of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code).
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Posted: November 28th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko MP in the Pskov regional parliament Artur Gaiduk sent an appeal to the President of Russia with a proposal to issue a decree on the completion of partial mobilisation
Press Release, 25.11.2022
Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko
Artur Gaiduk believes that such a decree will give people, including military personnel, legal guarantees of security and reduce tension in society.
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Posted: November 25th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Dmitry Kushpita, the of the Yabloko branch in the Vladimir region, spoke out against bringing back the course of the elementary military training to schools and advocated the return of direct elections of the Mayor of Vladimir
Based on Zebra-TV Internet media, 25.11.2022
Photo: Dmitry Kushpita / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Dmitry Kushpita, Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Vladimir region and director of School No. 40 in Vladimir, spoke to the deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly and called them not to introduce a course of elementary military training to schools, and also advocated the need to return direct mayoral elections in the region.
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Posted: November 25th, 2022 under Education and Science, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies.
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Statement by the Yabloko party in connection with the dismissal of Yabloko’s Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky district in the Pskov region
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.11.2022
Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Grazhdanin newspaper
On 24 November, deputies of the Assembly of Deputies of the Pustoshkinsky District of the Pskov Region, by a majority of votes, prematurely terminated the powers of Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky District and a member of the Yabloko party.
The decision of the Assembly of Deputies was adopted by the votes of deputies from the [pro-government] United Russia and the LDPR parties.
Svetlana Vasilkova became the head of the district in 2019 in direct elections, through a difficult struggle, having received an absolute majority of votes. The decision of the deputies is a direct disrespect for the will of voters and the whole society. The United Russia party has once again shown that it is ready to trample on any expression of the will of the people which does not suit the ruling regime.
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Posted: November 25th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Do not harbor malice”. Yabloko hosted a screening of the film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” about the prisoners of one of the largest concentration camps during the Stalin’s period
Press Release, 24.11.2022
On 22 November 22, Yabloko held in its Moscow office a screening and discussion of Marina Goldovskaya’s 1988 documentary film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” devoted to the prisoners of the Solovki concentration camp, the archipelago where political prisoners – “enemies of the people” – were exiled to forced labour camps and a prison during Stalin’s Great Terror period in 1920-1930s. Yuri Brodsky, a Russian photographer and writer, author of the book “Solovki. The Labyrinth of Transformations, spoke about the creation of the film. The moderator of the discussion was Nadezhda Azhgikhina, journalist, writer, and director of PEN Moscow.
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Posted: November 25th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in the Moscow City Duma proposed to other deputies to sign an appeal to the President of Russia to issue a decree on the official end of mobilisation
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko party faction in the Moscow City Duma, following the example of the Yabloko deputies in the Karelian parliament, was one of the initiators of the appeal of the Moscow City Duma deputies to President Vladimir Putin with a call to back up his words about the end of the mobilisation by a corresponding decree. The draft appeal was submitted for consideration to the Duma.
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Posted: November 24th, 2022 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Civic activist Maria Volokh arrested for 20 days for an action against escalation of nuclear conflict
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: Maria Volokh/ Photo from social media
The Presnensky District Court of Moscow found Maria Volokh, a former candidate for municipal deputies of Moscow from the Yabloko party, guilty of a repeated violation of the established procedure for organising or holding a public event and appointed her 20 days of administrative arrest under Article 20.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
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Posted: November 24th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko demands from the regional Legislative Assembly to return the possibility of holding a discussion when approving the budget
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party, sent a proposal to each deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region to amend the Regulations of the Legislative Assembly so that to eliminate violations that prevent public participation in the meetings of the Assembly. On 24 November, the Legislative Assembly will consider the budget of the Chelyabinsk region for 2023, which will take place without public hearings and “outsiders”.
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Posted: November 24th, 2022 under Economy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A lecture by Boris Kolonitsky on the history of the February 1917 revolution will be held at the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 23.11.2022
On 6 December, the Yabloko Party University will hold a lecture by Boris Kolonitsky “February? Bourgeois? Democratic? Revolution?” about the history of the revolution in Russia in February 1917, which preceded the October 1917 coup. The lecture will begin at 18:00 (Moscow time). The lecturer is Boris Kolonitsky, professor at the European University at St. Petersburg and leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, History.
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The Budget of St. Petersburg: expenses on the key problems of citizens are reduced, but new expenses on the special military operation emerged
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg / Photo by the Yaboko Press Service
The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg adopted in the third reading the draft law of St. Petersburg “On the budget of St. Petersburg for 2023 and the planning period of 2024 and 2025”.
The Yabloko faction voted against the budget, and, like the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko om St.Petersburg, considers the draft budget unsatisfactory for many reasons.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2022 under Economy, Education and Science, Healthcare, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An action of writing letters to women political prisoners will be held at the Yabloko office in Novgorod
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: Drawings by artist Ad’u
On 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, an action of writing letters to women political prisoners will be held at the Yabloko office in Novgorod.
In Russia, violence on behalf of the state has taken on a monstrous scale: women are beaten at rallies, humiliated during interrogations, arrested and kept under torture, subjected to punitive psychiatric methods for their beliefs, political activities, and having the courage to disagree with the state policies.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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