Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview to Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 6.08.2024
We should not judge superficially about deep and contradictory political meanings of the prisoner exchange. Let us note the most important thing: this exchange literally saved several lives at once. And one more thing: if such a difficult and ambiguous process is possible, during which Moscow and Washington negotiated directly, then it means that with the slightest understanding of the essence of today and the hopelessness of what is happening, it is possible to negotiate on saving the lives of many thousands of people, that is, on a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
Photo: Pavel Kharitonenko / Photo from social media
Yabloko candidate for Irkutsk City Duma, Pavel Kharitonenko, will seek his registration in the elections in court. Earlier, District Electoral Commission No. 28 invalidated eight signatures out of 67 provided by the Yabloko candidate in support of his nomination, with six acceptable defective signatures. The candidate is confident that five of the eight “invalid” signatures should have been accepted by the electoral commission. Kharitonenko’s lawsuit against the district electoral commission will be considered by the Sverdlovsk District Court of Irkutsk on 8 August. Kharitonenko is campaigning under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom”.
Photo: Vitaly Isakov and Boris Vishnevsky at a meeting of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of the party
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, is challenging the status of “foreign agent” unlawfully assigned to him by the Ministry of Justice. The hearings take place in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Peterburg. At the last meeting, the politician submitted a petition for the district court to appeal with a request to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the constitutionality of a number of provisions of the Federal Law “On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence”.
The Tula Region Electoral Commission is going to refuse registration of the Yabloko list of candidates for the elections to the Tula City Duma. The working group of the electoral commission, based on the results of checking 2,316 signatures in support of the nomination of the list, considers 256 signatures invalid, i.e. more than 11% which allows it to reject the list. Tula Yabloko insists that it provided the commission a sufficient number of valid and reliable signatures, and the decision to remove Yabloko from the elections is political in nature. The evidence that the commission adjusted the percentage of defects to the desired result is in the photographs above.
Photo: Chairman of the Pskov Yabloko Artur Gaiduk at the conference on nominating candidates / Photo by the regional branch of the party
Registration certificates were handed to Yevgeny Vasiliye, Yablooko’s candidate for the post of head of the Gdovsky district, captain of the first rank in the reserve, head of the construction, architecture and utilities department of the Gdovsky district administration, and entrepreneur and design engineer Alexei Kanishchev, Yabloko’s candidate for the by-election of the deputy of the Pskov City Duma in electoral district No. 5.
Yabloko party lists and candidates in single-mandate constituencies for the elections of assemblies of deputies of the Bezhanitsky, Dnovsky, Plyussky, Porkhovsky and Usvyatsky municipal districts, as well as candidates for deputies of the Karamyshevskaya and Seredkinskaya volosts of the Pskov district, the Shelkovskaya volost of the Velikoluksky district and the rural settlement Sebezhskoye of the Sebezhsky district were registered.
Photo: Anatoly Razumov, head of the Centre for Returned Names at the Russian National Library, and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov
A delegation of the Yabloko party, led by party leader Nikolai Rybakov and head of the party faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova, visited the Sandarmokh – the site of mass executions during the Great Terror of 1937-1938 in the Joseph Stalin’s period.
The Conference of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party decided to nominate seven Yabloko candidates for the snap elections of municipal deputies in the Kurkino district of Moscow. Each of the candidates will have to collect 14 signatures of district residents in support of their nomination by 10 August. The candidates will conduct a campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
Photo: Delegates of the Moscow Regional Yabloko Conference / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko
On 2 August, the Territorial Electoral Commission of Sergiyev Posad will decide to refuse to register the Yabloko list of six people and two candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the elections of deputies of the District Council. Three more single-mandate candidates have already been refused registration. Court hearings are also taking place in the Leninsky urban district, where they are trying to remove three already registered Yabloko candidates from the elections. Yabloko fears that the Moscow Region authorities have decided to remove all 23 Yabloko candidates from the elections.
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 2.08.2024
Photo by Andrei Zhdanov, Kommersant
The State Duma has adopted amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, which will increase the amount of state fees for court cases for both individuals and organisations. For example, the fee for challenging a decision or action of a government agency will increase tenfold for individuals – up to 3,000 roubles, for filing an appeal – by twenty times, also up to 3,000 roubles, and for filing a complaint to the Supreme Court – by 47 (!) times – from 150 to 7,000 roubles.
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Yabloko considers the court’s decision unlawful and unfounded, it will be appealed. At the same time, Ksenia Cherepanova filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation demanding to exclude her from the register of persons “affiliated with a foreign agent”. The case will be considered by the Novgorod District Court. The first hearing will be held on 13 August.
Photo: Footage from the airport in Ankara with planes from countries participating in the prisoner exchange / Photo: a screenshot of the broadcast of the Turkish TV channel NTV
The main event of today is the prisoner exchange between Russia, the USA, Germany, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Belarus. Those to whom we wrote letters to pre-trial detention centres and penal colonies, and about whom we worried all these months and recent years, are finally free. Among them are Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Oleg Orlov, Andrei Pivovarov, Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeyeva, Sasha Skochilenko, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Kevin Lik.
110 years ago, on 1 August, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and our country entered World War I. More than 10 million servicemen from all sides fell victim to it, over 22 million were wounded. Russia’s losses in the war amounted to over three million people, including two million who died at the front and over one million civilians.
Photo: Maxim Kruglov with his group of support outside the Moscow City Court on 31 July, 2024 / Photo from Maxim Kruglov’s social media
The Moscow City Court refused to register Yabloko candidate and current City Duma deputy Maxim Kruglov for the elections at its hearing on 31 July. Maxim Kruglov’s team is considering appealing the Moscow City Court’s decision.
“The decision is absolutely political – in the opinion of the authorities, there can be no real competition and real representation in these elections,” Kruglov commented.
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov at the Tula Regional Electoral Commission / Photo from social media
In two weeks, the Yabloko branch in Tula collected 2,316 voters’ signatures in support of the nomination of Yabloko candidates for Peace and Freedom for the elections to the city parliament. Within ten days, the electoral commission must make a decision on registration of the candidates.
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Electoral Commission has decided label once again Yabloko’s Ksenia Cherepanova as a candidate “affiliated with a foreign agent”. The Ministry of Justice provided such information to the electoral commission in connection with the Ksenia’s participation in the unregistered movement of independent election observation Golos. The politician appealed to court.
Photo: Yabloko’s placard “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire agreement!”
The Kirovsky District Court of St.Petersburg considered the complaint of Yabloko candidates for the Narva District Municipal Council against the decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No 41 (candidates Ivan Zlobin, Eduard Nikolayev, Marina Peslyak, Pavel Samsonov, Elizaveta Balakina, Alexei Bogdanov, Anna Karulicheva, and Alexei Rzyankin), and the Petrogradsky District Court of St.Petersburg considered the complaint of candidates for the Posadsky District Municipal Council against the decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No 18 (candidates Anna Zalevina and Andrei Stepanenko). Judging by the decisions, that have already been received in full, the courts fully reproduced the positions of the Territorial Electoral Commissions and ignored all of Yabloko’s arguments and objections.
Photo: Olga Yurkevich / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
According to the draft decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No. 6 of St.Petersburg, the reason for refusing to register Olga Yurkevich, a pediatric anesthesiologist and Yabloko candidate in electoral district No. 18, was that Yabloko allegedly failed to notify the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission of its intentions to hold an event at which Yurkevich was nominated. According to Yabloko lawyers, this draft decision does not comply with either the federal or the city legislation. According to the law on political parties, only Territorial Electoral Commission No. 6 had to be notified of the meeting of the Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, at which the decision to nominate Yurkevich was made, and this was done. The party will seek the registration of Olga Yurkevich in court.
Photo: The Vyborg Castle / Photo from Wikimedia Commons
The electoral commissions of the Vyborg and Boksitogorsk districts of Leningrad region have registered five candidates from the Yabloko party for municipal elections. The Yabloko candidates are campaigning under the general party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. Public figures from the Vyborg District Anastasia, Diana and Dmitry Solovyovs, and Maxim Evarestov are fighting for mandates in municipal councils. The current deputy of Boksitogorsk urban settlement Vladimir Shibayev is running for a new term.
The Territorial Electoral Commission of the Gdov District registered Yevgeny Vasiliyev as a candidate for the post of head of the Gdov District from the Yabloko party. Yevgeny Vasiliyev was presented with a registration resolution and a candidate certificate.
