Police conducted an “inspection” in the office of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia. The confiscated equipment has already been returned, but not Anatoly Nogovitsyn’s clothes
Press Release, 28.10.2022
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 24 October, police conducted an “additional inspection of the scene” at the office of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Yakutia, as part of a criminal case filed under of Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation”). The case was filed against Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the regional branch of Yabloko in Yakutia. During the “inspection”, police officers confiscated a computer system unit, memory drives, as well as Nogovitsyn’s clothes – a white shirt and cardigan which he kept in the office for formal events. The police have already returned the equipment and flash drives, but decided to keep Nagovitsin’s clothes for now.
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Posted: October 28th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Fear of The Endless War
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 25.10.2022
In October 2022 Yabloko party’s leader Grigory Yavlinsky answered the questions of BBC News about the perspectives of Russia’s special military operation against Ukraine, the West’s role in the current situation and the threat of nuclear weapon use.
— In this month we`ve seen an escalation in Ukraine, we`ve seen the wave of Russian missile attacks, devastating attacks. What does this tell us about president Putin and about his objectives in Ukraine now?— I think it is clear that this escalation is the continuation of what he started on February 24th. I think that he has three goals. One of them is territories, annexation of some territories in Ukraine. The second one is the capitulation of Kiev, I mean the current government, and “de-ukrainization”. And the third one is a kind of destabilization in the West, I mean in Europe, in the UK, maybe in the United States, as a result of the economic problems’ growth along with the changes in gas and oil policies. The aim of this is to enhance the instability in the West and to replace the ruling elites in “unfriendly countries”.
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Posted: October 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Savva Karpov, a former Yabloko candidate for Moscow municipal elections, prosecuted for “spreading extremist symbols”
Press Release, 27.10.2022
Photo: Savva Karpov / Photo from social media
Savva Karpov, a former Yabloko candidate for Moscow municipal elections in September 2022, is being charged today under Article 20.3 for “distributing extremist symbols” of the Code of Administrative Offences. Yesterday, the police detained him and took him to the Basmanny police station in Moscow.
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Posted: October 28th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The 6th Alexei Yablokov Readings took place in St.Petersburg
Press Release, 27.10.2022
Photo: The participants of the 6th Alexei Yablokov Readings, members of the Yabloko party /Photo by the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party
On 26 October, the 6th Alexei Yablokov Readings dedicated to the memory of Alexei Yablokov, environmental scientist and politician who headed the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party, were held in St. Petersburg. The event was held for the sixth time by the joint efforts of leading environmental non-governmental organisations, the academic community and the Yabloko party. Yabloko members Olga Tsepilova, Chair of the Green Russia faction, Alexander Kolotov, an environmental activist from Krasnoyarsk, Lina Zernova, an environmental journalist from St. Petersburg, and others participated in the readings.
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Posted: October 28th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to hold an all-Russian online marathon dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions
Press Release, 27.10.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 30 October, the Yabloko party will hold an online marathon “People, Do Not Kill Each Other!”, dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the State Terror. Members of the Yabloko party from over 50 regions of Russia will take part in the action and read out the names of the victims of Stalinist repressions online. Anyone interested can connect to the online broadcast through the link on YouTube.
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Posted: October 27th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A district court in Kazan for the third time will consider the legality of the search at Ruslan Zinatullin’s home
Press Release, 26.10.2022
Photo Ruslan Zinalullin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the Sixth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Samara overturned the decision of the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan, which declared the search at the home of Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, unlawful. The Sovetsky District Court, for the third time, will consider the motion of the investigation to conduct a search seven months ago.
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Posted: October 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko will hold actions in memory of victims of Stalinist political repressions over Russia
Press Release, 26.10.2022
Photo by Ivan Kovalenko / Kommersant
Actions in memory of victims of Stalinist political repressions will be held by the regional branches of the Yabloko party during the week that ends with the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repressions.
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Posted: October 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The majority in the Moscow City Duma will be able to deprive Moscow MPs of their deputy mandates in violation of the Constitution
Press Release, 26.10.2022
Today, the Moscow City Duma amended the law “On the status of a deputy of the Moscow City Duma” by a majority vote of pro-government MPs. According to the amendments, a deputy can be deprived of his/her mandate for violations of anti-corruption legislation by a decision of the majority in the Moscow City Duma. The bill was adopted by the Moscow City Duma within the framework of the draft law “On the General Principles of Organising Public Authority in the Subjects of the Russian Federation”, prepared by Senator Andrei Klishas and State Duma Deputy Pavel Krasheninnikov and destroying local self-government. The Yabloko faction voted against the bill.
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Posted: October 27th, 2022 under Political Parties, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky: taxpayers’ money should be used for solution of the city problems, rather than financing the costs caused by the special military operation launched on 24 February
Press Release, 26.10.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, spoke from the parliamentary rostrum when St.Petersburg MPs were considering the draft budget of St. Petersburg for 2023.
Vishnevsky noted that the present draft budget of St.Petersburg could not be called the budget for the fulfillment of social obligations, but the budget for their reduction and “freezing”. “It is a budget that expands the possibilities for the executive branch to spend money uncontrollably, and, first of all, on what is connected with the special military operation and its consequences” Vishnevsky said. He emphasized in his speech, that taxpayers’ money should have been used for solution of the city problems, rather than financing the costs caused by the special military operation launched on 24 February.
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Posted: October 26th, 2022 under Economy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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The family of Mikhail Afanasyev, a political prisoner and a Yabloko member, needs help
Press Release, 25.10.2022
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yelena Afansyeva, the wife of imprisoned Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party, editor-in-chief of the “Novy Focus” media in Khakassia, is asking for help. Since the arrest of the breadwinner of the family, she and her five minor children have been in a difficult financial situation.
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Posted: October 26th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The results of a psychiatric examination of Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, released
Press Release, 25.10.2022
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The conclusion of the judicial psychiatric commission of experts on the state of health of Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, dated 14 October, 2022, has been released. Forensic experts from the Yakutia Psychoneurological Dispensary confirm that the politician is healthy and does not need compulsory treatment, however, the experts distorted his words about the goals of the Yabloko’s work, writing that Yabloko aimed at seizing power in the state.
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Posted: October 25th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko announces collection of humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees. Clothes and foodstuffs are received at the Yabloko office
Press Release, 25.10.2022
Photo by Sergei Venyavsky / Kommersant
The central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow announces collection of humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees who are under the care of the Grazhdanskoye Sodeistviye (Civic Assistance) Committee. The action will last for two weeks. Our task is to collect and donate warm clothes and other things to those in need before the start of winter. If necessary, the period of collection will be extended.
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Posted: October 25th, 2022 under Charity, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko invites Russian citizens to participate in the action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 21.10.2022
Photo by the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko
The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko invites Russian citizens to participate in the action of writing letters to political prisoners, which will be held at the party office at the address Rostov-on-Don, Lermontovskaya 38, on Sunday, 23 October, at 15:00.
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Posted: October 21st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Emilia Slabunova found out which posts caused blocking of her page in the Vkontakte social media
Press Release, 21.10.2022
Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Emilia Slabunova, a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia from the Yabloko party, was able to find out which posts on her personal page on the VKontakte social media caused blocking of her page by the decision of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office. The first post was the official data on the death in Ukraine of the first serviceman from Karelia with a quote from President Putin. The second was a repost of an interview with Valentina Melnikova, Executive Secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers.
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Posted: October 21st, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko party Press Secretary fined on charges of participating in an anti-war action during which he and his wife were at a performance in the theatre
Press Release, 20.10.2022
Photo: Igor Yakovlev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow fined Igor Yakovlev, head of the Press Service of the Yabloko party, 15,000 roubles on charges of participating in an anti-war action, during which Yakovlev and his wife were at a performance in the theater.
On the evening of 28 February, the police detained Igor Yakovlev and his wife Tatyana Talankina at the Tverskaya metro station in Moscow when they were returning from a performance at the Pushkin Theatre.
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Posted: October 21st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The court returned the case against the Moscow municipal deputy Vasily Dikaryev to the police
Press Release, 18.10.2022
Photo: Vasily Dikaryev and Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Vasily Dikaryev is accused of reposting, in 2014, a person whose avatar featured one of the protagonists of Schindler’s List. Judge of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow returned to the police an administrative case against Vasily Dikaryev, a Moscow municipal deputy from the Yabloko party.
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Posted: October 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University to host a lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin “Truth Instead of Law”
Press Release, 17.10.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On October 25, the Yabloko Party University to host a lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin “Truth Instead of Law”. The lecture will start at 18:00 MSK. Has capitalism come to Russia? What is Russia’s “special path”? Is our country a separate civilisation? These and other questions will be answered by the lecturer – Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, MP of the Moscow City Duma, and candidate of political sciences.
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Posted: October 17th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Psychiatric examination of Anatoly Nogovitsyn, leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, repeated the questions of the investigation
Press Release, 15.10.2022
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 October, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, underwent a forensic psychiatric examination, which an investigator of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), appointed him as part of a criminal case under Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation”). The results have not yet been released. During the examination, they tried to provoke Anatoly Nogovitsyn to statements that could be used against him. Nogovitsyn fears that punitive psychiatric measures will be used against him.
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Posted: October 17th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosted a screening of Vladimir Kara-Murza’s film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent”. Unidentified young men attempted to disrupt the event.
Press Release, 12.10.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow hosted a screening of the film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent” by imprisoned journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza. The film is about priest Georgy Edelstein. Before the screening, Kara-Murza’s lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky spoke to the participants of the event. Unidentified masked and hooded young men attempted to disrupt the screening of the film: they burst into the hall shouting “Kara-Murza is a traitor to the motherland!”. The hooligans were driven out of the hall.
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Posted: October 13th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An action of writing letters to political prisoners held in Kirov
Press Release, 10.10.2022
Photo: An action of writing letters to political prisoners in Kirov / Photo by the Kirov branch of Yabloko
An action writing letters to political prisoners was held at the Yabloko office in Kirov past week. Yabloko members and supporters prepared letters and postcards, which the regional branch sent to the recipients.
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Posted: October 11th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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