Cast your vote at elections on 8 September for peace and freedom!
On the position of the Yabloko party in the 2024 elections
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 4.09.2024
Photo: Wait for Peace / Photo from social media
The Yabloko party appeals to the citizens of Russia with a call to support candidates the elections at all levels on September 8, 2024, who advocate concluding a ceasefire agreement and who defend peace and freedom in the current conditions. It is with this position that all candidates nominated and supported by our party in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Leningrad region, the Moscow region, the Murmansk region, the Novgorod region, the Pskov region, the Rostov region, and the Ryazan and the Irkutsk regions are running in the elections.
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Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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20 years since the tragedy in the Beslan school. Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in the Belsan school
Telegram channel by Nikolai Rybakov, 3.09.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
It is 20 years since the Beslan tragedy. Together with the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko party, Kirill Goncharov, I came to the Moscow memorial to the victims of the Beslan [school attack].
On 1 September, 2004, terrorists took more than 1,000 hostages in a school in Beslan, [North Ossetia]. On 3 September, 2004, the storming of the school by security forces began.
As a result of the tragedy, 334 people died, most of them children.
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Posted: September 4th, 2024 under Condolences, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko is going to hold a rally in Moscow in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 3.09.2024
Yabloko is going to hold a rally in Moscow in support of political prisoners. An application of holding a mass event was submitted to the Moscow Mayor’s Office today, on 3 September. The planned date for the event is 14 September.
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Posted: September 3rd, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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There will be no candidates for peace and freedom during elections in Moscow. The Moscow City Court approves withdrawal of six Yabloko candidates from municipal elections in the Kurkino district of Moscow
Press Release, 2.09.2024
Photo: Municipal candidate Maria Chuprina during the campaign. / Photo from social media
Today, judges of the Moscow City Court rejected the appeals of all six Yabloko candidates against the decision of the Tushinsky District Court to remove them from the snap municipal elections in the Kurkino district of Moscow that are due on 8 September. During the hearings in the court, the Yabloko candidates continued to campaign under the general party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. However, they will not be able to work with voters in the district now, despite their plans to appeal the decision in the cassation court.
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Posted: September 2nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov appealed to the Minister of Defence in connection with information about the participation of conscripts in military operations in the Kursk region
Press Release, 30.08.2024
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Alexander Shishlov, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to the Minister of Defence Andrei Belousov, asking to organise an investigation into the information about the participation of conscripts in military operations in the Kursk region and take measures to prevent their further presence on the contact line in the region.
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Posted: August 30th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Estate Museum of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in Udmurtia will be renovated. The leader of the Udmurtian branch of Yabloko, Iya Boronina, has been seeking this since September 2023
Press Release, 28.08.2024
Photo: The Estate Museum of Pyotr Thaikovsky / Photo by Wikimedia Commons
The funds for the renovation of the cultural site of federal significance were allocated by the Government of the Russian Federation: orders on the allocation of funds to Udmurtia and other regions were signed on 13 August, 2024. This happened after the Chairperson of the Udmurtian branch of Yabloko, Iya Boronina, spoke about the dire situation of the museum at a meeting of the parliament of Udmurtia, and the public prosecutor’s office started investigation into the regional Ministry of Culture, which ignored the request of the museum’s management.
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Posted: August 28th, 2024 under Governance, History, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg refused to recognise unlawful the decision to include Boris Vishnevsky in “foreign agents” register
Press Release, 28.08.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St.Petersburg / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
On 27 August, the trial on the suit of Boris Vishnevsky, a Yabloko deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, against the Ministry of Justice, whose officials unlawfully included him in the register of “foreign agents,” ended.
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Posted: August 28th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to host a roundtable discussion dedicated to the anniversary of the outbreak of World War I
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo from open sources
On 10 September, the Yabloko party office in Moscow will host a roundtable discussion dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Historians, experts, and the Yabloko party leaders will take part in the discussion. Everyone is invited. The event will be streamlined on YouTube.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Karelian branch of Yabloko nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council, for the post of regional Ombudsperson for human rights
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo: Olga Tuzhikova. Photo: regional branch of the party
The term of office of the current Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights in Karelia expires on 12 September. The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia nominated Olga Tuzhikova, a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council from Yabloko, an ecologist and human rights defender, for the post of ombudsperson.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Mikhail Afanasyev, imprisoned journalist and a member of Yabloko, wins the Free Media Awards press prize
Press Release, 27.08.2024
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev makes his final statement in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia and a member of the Yabloko party, became a prize winner of the Free Media Awards, a prestigious award for independent journalists who refuse to give in to threats.
For many years Mikhail Afanasyev has been covering corruption in his home region, the activities of criminal gangs, and human rights violations.
In April 2022, he was arrested and sentenced by the court to 5.5 years in prison in a penal colony for “disseminating fakes about the army”.
Mikhail was accused of publishing an article in the online publication Novy Fokus about the refusal of riot police from Khakassia to go to Ukraine six weeks after the start of the “special military operation”.
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Posted: August 27th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the situation around the detention of Pavel Durov
Statement by the Chairman of Yabloko, 26.08.2024
Photo: Pavel Durov / Photo by Alexei Zotov, Kommersant
Yabloko considers the recent situation around with the detention of Pavel Durov [the founder of the Telegram messenger] to be alarming and landmark event.
The situation is reminiscent of what happened to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organisation that published US government confidential information obtained from anonymous sources.
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Posted: August 26th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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The Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko held a meeting with party supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites
Press Release, 26.08.2024
Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Past week, a meeting of Yabloko members and supporters, entrepreneurs, representatives of public organisations and editors of news web-sites took place in Kaliningrad. The meeting was timed to coincide with the opening of the new office of the regional branch. The office became a place for active discussion, lively debate and discussion of proposals for the development of the branch and its activities. The day was also dedicated to supporting political prisoners; the participants of the meeting prepared wrote 45 letters and postcards to Russian political prisoners.
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Posted: August 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Courts in Moscow and the Moscow Region removed from the elections nine Yabloko candidates campaigning for peace and freedom
Press Release, 23.08.2024
Photo: Yabloko candidates to municipal deputies of the Kurkino district, Moscow/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow removed six previously registered Yabloko candidates from the snap election to the municipal council of the Kurkino district in Moscow. Earlier, the Moscow Regional Court deregistered three candidates for the Council of the Leninsky Urban District. All candidates will challenge the courts decisions, and are currently continuing their election campaigns under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A second criminal case filed against Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of the Kamchatka Yabloko and journalist, under an article on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 23.08.2024
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court ruled to remand Yefimov in custody until 21 October. A lawyer is working with the journalist. Details of the case are being clarified.
It should be noted that in March 2023, Vladimir Yefimov was fined 200,000 roubles under Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with a ban on writing in the social media.
Vladimir Yefimov is the organiser of the first non-governmental independent television company in the USSR – TVK, and was its editor-in-chief for 18 years. In January 2021, he received the highest award of the regional branch of the Union of Journalists of Russia – the Journalistic Glory of Kamchatka.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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We are going on so that people get a choice!
Statement by the Chelyabinsk Regional Council of the Yabloko Party, 23.08.2024
Photo by the regional branch of the party
On 8 September, 2024, there will be no candidates from the Yabloko Party on the ballots for the elections of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region and deputies of the Chelyabinsk City Duma.
The electoral commissions refused to register all of our candidates who campaigned in these elections with two main demands:
– conclusion of a ceasefire agreement;
– release of all political prisoners.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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Don’t deprive citizens of elections in Kurkino!
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, 23.08.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 20 August, 2024, the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow received lawsuits demanding the cancellation of the decisions of the Territorial Electoral Commission on the registration of six candidates nominated by the Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party in the city of Moscow for the snap elections of deputies of the Council of Deputies of the Kurkino District.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Vladimir Dorokhov may be made a “foreign agent” through provocations. Dorokhov applied to the police and the FSB
Press Release, 22.08.2024
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 19 August, Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, received two money transfers to his accounts from an Armenian citizen whom Dorokhov does not know. Each transfer amounted to 2,000 roubles. Vladimir Dorokhov is certain that this is a planned action to assign him the status of a “foreign agent” receiving money from abroad. Earlier, Dorokhov, who was a Yabloko candidate in the elections to the Tula City Duma, was marked as a “foreign agent” in the GAS Vybory system (a special federal automated system for counting votes at elections) despite the fact that he had never had such a status. The politician contacted the police and submitted statements to banks with a request to return these payments. In addition, Dorokhov applied to the Central Bank and the Federal Security Service (FSB).
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Posted: August 23rd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Moscow Yabloko candidates in municipal elections to the Kurkino district municipal council may be removed from the race
Press Release, 21.08.2024
Photo: Yabloko candidates in snap elections in the Kurkino district, Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In Moscow all six Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies in the Kurkino district may be removed from the race. Two self-nominated candidates filed lawsuits in the Tushinsky District Court in Moscow against the electoral commission that registered Yabloko’s candidates.
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Posted: August 21st, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow Municipal Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Let’s support those who are still in captivity. Yabloko invites all to the actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 21.08.2024
Yabloko in Moscow and the Russian regions is holding another action of writing letters to political prisoners. After a historic prisoners exchange between several countries, as a result of which those to whom we wrote letters to pretrial detention centre and penal colonies where they were kept, and about whom we worried all these months and recent years, were released. Among them are Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, Oleg Orlov, Andrei Pivovarov, Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeyeva, Sasha Skochilenko, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Kevin Lik.
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Posted: August 21st, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We are eternally indebted to them”. Yabloko honoured the memory of the defenders of democracy in 1991
Press Release, 21.08.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov, Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva, and other party members laid flowers at the monument to “Defenders of Democracy in Russia” at the intersection of Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring in Moscow. Here, 33 years ago, during the August coup d’etat, three young people – defenders of democracy – died: Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov and Ilya Krichevsky.
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Posted: August 21st, 2024 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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