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: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 10 October, an investigator of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) appointed a forensic psychiatric examination for Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko. Now Nogovitsyn is under investigation 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”). Relatives of the civil activist are sure that the psychiatric examination was ordered without any grounds, and they are afraid of its consequences.
Photo: the page of Ruslan Zinatullin on the VKontakte social media with the inscription “This material is blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation in accordance with the demand of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office No 27-31-2022/ ID14027-22 of 05.10.2022“
The personal page of another Yabloko member, Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan, has been blocked on the Vkontakte social media. Access to the page is limited at the request of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office on 5 October, it can only be accessed via a VPN.
Photo: lawyer Leonid Krikun and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by Konstantin Lenkov, Zaks.ru
“I regard today’s decision as legally unfounded, unlawful and politically motivated.” This is how Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, assessed the decision of the Petrogradsky District Court, which found him guilty of an administrative offense under Article 20.3.3 (Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces) and fined him 35,000 roubles.
Photo: Ilya Kostyukov / Photo from the personal archive
On 5 October, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Belgorod held a hearing in the case on the administrative offence of Ilya Kostyukov, a member of the Yabloko party. The civil activist was accused of calling for participation in a rally without permission of the authorities. Kostyukov denies his guilt.
Photo: Svetlana Sannikova / Photo from social media
On 6 October, a court in Novosibirsk found Svetlana Sannikova, a civil activist and supporter of the Yabloko party, guilty of violating public order due to the “mass simultaneous stay of citizens”. The fine under Article 20.2.2 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses amounted to 12,000 roubles. Svetlana as an employee of the Siberian State University of Communications was also called in for a “conversation” at work.
For the second year in a row, the Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize to our compatriots – this is an unprecedented event in history. This is not only a recognition of the merits of the Memorial [human rights organization], but also an indication of the difficult situation in which civil society finds itself in our country.
This is a support award for all those who find the strength to show their inner freedom, resist the dictates and inhumanity of the authorities, who fight for historical memory and peace!
Photo: Svetlana Gannushkina / Photo from the personal archive
Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender and a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, has become a winner of the Anna Politkovskaya Prize awarded by the international organisation Reach All Women in WAR (RAW in WAR).
The prize is awarded to women defenders of human rights in wars and conflicts. Together with the Gannushkina, the Prize was awarded to Tatyana Sokolova, a midwife from Mariupol, Ukraine.
On 5 October, the launch of the second volume of the book “The Place of Memory Sandarmokh” by imprisoned historian and human rights defender Yuri Dmitriev took place at the office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. The second volume of Yuri Dmitriev’s book “The Place of Memory Sandarmokh” includes essays and memories of victims of Stalin’s repressions of 1937 – 1938 who were shot and buried in mass graves in Sandarmokh, Karelia, documents on executions, photos of memorials, as well as the names of Sandarmokh victims. Sandarmokh is one of the largest places with mass graves of Stalin’s victims in Russia. Yuri Dmitriev has been imprisoned since 2016. In 2020, he was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison. In December 2021, the period of his imprisonment was extended to 15 years. Russian historians, human rights activists, lawyers and other independent observers consider the Dmitriev case to be politically motivated.
Photo: The cover of the film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent” by imprisoned journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza
On 11 October, the Yabloko party will host a screening of a Vladimir Kara-Murza film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent” about priest Georgy Edelstein. The screening will be held at the Yabloko office in Moscow starting at 18:30.
“If we stay silent, we participate in the evil that is happening in our world. I must say what I think.” Georgy Edelstein always adhered to this principle: both in his former, secular life, and during the years of his church service. A man of amazing fate, as complex as the century in which he had to live. A non-Soviet person in Soviet society. A defender of freedom who rejects the title of dissident; a village priest in Russia who was restored to his parish by President Reagan and whose son would become an Israeli statesman. A man who has been always telling the truth – about the state persecuting for the faith, and about the church hierarchs who participated in this. “My duty is not to stay silent. Silence, I am convinced of it, betrays God.”
The Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg parliament on the plans of the authorities to regulate performances of street musicians
Press Release, 5.10.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press service
The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg considered the initiative of Governor Alexander Beglov on the regulation of performances by street musicians. The Governor proposed that street performers must submit a notice to the executive authorities and receive approval from officials to hold their street concerts.
This morning, searches were carried out at the homes of Yabloko members Nikolai Kuzmin and Ekaterina Novikova. Their phones, laptops, hard drives and flash drives were confiscated.
Photo: Igor Nikolayev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 11 October, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “On the Prospects of the Russian Economy”. Lecturer is 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 begin at 18:00.
Photo: The action by the Yabloko branch in Ivanovo
Actions in support of Russian political prisoners took place in the regional offices of the Yabloko party last week. Yabloko members and supporters, and civil activists signed postcards and wrote letters to those who were unfairly imprisoned.
Photo: The cover of the book “The Place of Memory Sandarmokh” picturing a memorial stone with an inscription “People, Don’t Kill Each Other” at the place of mass executions in Sandarmokh, Karelia
The second volume of Yuri Dmitriev’s book “The Place of Memory Sandarmokh”, which includes essays and memories of victims of Stalin’s repressions of 1937 – 1938 who were shot and buried in mass graves in Sandarmokh, Karelia, documents on executions, photos of memorials, as well as the names of Sandarmokh victims, will be launched in the Moscow office of Yabloko on 5 October at 18.30.
Sandarmokh is one of the largest places with mass graves of Stalin’s victims in Russia.
Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service
Artur Gaiduk, a Yabloko deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies, proposes to the Governor, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Border Guard Department of the Federal Security Service to provide people who are trying to cross the border with warm tents for the night, dry closets, hot meals, warm clothes, personal hygiene products and medicines.
There are children and elderly people among the hundreds of people waiting in a multi-day queue at the border. People wait up to seven days to cross the border with Russia at checkpoints in the Pechora, Sebezh and Pytalovsky regions in the open air. The absolute majority of them are citizens of Ukraine.
Photo: Alexander Grigoriev / Photo from social media
In Lipetsk, a criminal case was opened against Alexander Grigoriev, a member of the Yabloko party, under of Article 207.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation”). Alexander Grigoriev, a well-known civil activist in Lipetsk, is under investigation now, no preventive measure has been chosen for him yet.
Photo: Dmitry Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Supreme Court of Karelia upheld the decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court, which found Dmitry Rybakov, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council from the Yabloko party and an environmental activist, guilty of “discrediting the army”. Dmitry Rybakov must pay a fine of 30,000 roubles by 28 November.
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, 29.09.2022
Photo: Mobilisation. / Photo by Viktor Korotayev, Kommersant
The “referendums” held on 23-27 September on the inclusion of the territories of the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, the “Luhansk People’s Republic”, parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the Russian Federation, their predictable results, the well-known intentions of the Russian authorities to take advantage of this, and the announcement and the course towards the “partial mobilisation” confirm the stance of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko regarding the obvious and inevitable consequences of such actions:
The Pskov city court found Ivan Prishchepa, Yabloko candidate at the recent elections to the Pskov Regional Assembly, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The decision was made on 15 July. On 5 September, the Pskov Regional Court dismissed the complaint of Ivan Prishchepa. A fine amounting to 32,000 roubles must be paid by 5 November.
