Member of the Pskov Regional Electoral Commission from Yabloko, Yelena Mayatnikova, submitted a dissenting opinion when summing up the voting results in the region for the presidential election
Press Release, 17.03.2024
Photo: Yelena Mayatnikova / Photo by the Pskov regional branch of the party
Yelena Mayatnikova, a member of the Pskov Regional Electoral Commission from Yabloko, announced at the final meeting of the Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region, that extra ballots were printed and, thus, it was impossible to reliably determine the results of the expression of the will of citizens in the region.
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Posted: March 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chairman of the Tatarstan Yabloko Ruslan Zinatullin and party supporters were detained and taken to the police station in Kazan
Press Release, 17.03.2024
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan Yabloko and a member of the Federal Bureau of the party, as well as party supporters Zulfiya Sitdikova and Vera Otreshko were detained on leaving their homes in Kazan and taken to the police station.
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Posted: March 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod Yabloko page on Vkontakte blocked by the decision of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office
Press Release, 16.03.2024
Photo: a screenshot of the Novgorod Yabloko page in Vkontakte running that “the given material is blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation on the basis of the demand of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office No 27-31-2024/Treb263-24 of 15.03.2024
On 15 March, the social media Vkontakte blocked the public page of the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party with over 2,000 subscribers by the decision of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office. The last post of the Novgorod Yabloko in the community was published on 14 March, it was an article by Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the party, “We are ready to participate in elections, but not as stooges”.
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Posted: March 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Court upheld Yabloko’s claim and obliged Territorial Electoral Commission No 37 in St. Petersburg to appoint the party representative member of a precinct electoral commission instead of sending him to the army
Press Release, 15.03.2024
Photo by Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
On 14 March, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg upheld the claim of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Yabloko party to invalidate the decision of Territorial Electoral Commission No. 37. On 12 March, the commission refused to appoint Yabloko representative Alexander Kirsanov as a member of Precinct Electoral Commission No. 571. The court ordered the Territorial Electoral Commission to reconsider the issue of appointing members of the precinct electoral commission. On 15 March, Territorial Electoral Commission No. 37 appointed Yabloko representative Alexander Kirsanov as a member of the precinct electoral commission with voting rights.
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Posted: March 15th, 2024 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024.
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Yabloko has launched a telephone hotline on election violations
Press Release, 15.03.2024
The party is not participating in the elections on 15-17 March, but it is still important for us to continue supporting Yabloko members in electoral commissions and voters, and provide them assistance. For this purpose, Yabloko has launched a telephone hotline on voting days, tel: 8 800 777 8725.
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Posted: March 15th, 2024 under Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024.
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Yabloko representatives in the electoral commissions of St. Petersburg were handed summonses to the military commissariats
Deputy Boris Vishnevsky addressed head of the Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova.
Press Release, 13.03.2024
Photo: head of Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova / Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant
On 11 March, Andrei Yegorov, a member of St.Petersburg Territorial Electoral Commission No. 29 from the Yabloko party, received a call from the electoral commission secretary who said that the military commissar wanted to meet with him. On 12 March, Yegorov received a call from a representative of the district military commissariat. On the same day, Yabloko representatives in Territorial electoral Commission No. 37, Pavel Khodunov and Alexander Kirsanov, were handed summonses by a representative of the military commissariat at the commission meeting during consideration of the issue of forming precinct electoral commissions. The date that Khodunov and Kirsanov must come to the commissariat is the first day of voting at presidential election, 15 March. In addition, the Territorial Electoral commission refused to appoint Kirsanov to the precinct electoral commission without legal grounds.
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Posted: March 13th, 2024 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Без рубрики.
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On the position of the Yabloko party regarding 2024 Russian presidential election
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 11.03.2024, published on 12.03.2024
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant
The situation in the country during the current election campaign is radically different from all previous elections.
Restrictions on the rights of citizens characteristic of a martial law have been virtually introduced. Political censorship in the media, shutdown of international TV channels, blocking of web-sites, administrative and criminal prosecution of dissent based on laws envisaging punishment for “discrediting”, “fakes”, “extremism”, and “justification of terrorism”, laws on “foreign agents” and “undesirable organisations” – all this makes it impossible to have an open and broad public discussion about the choice of the future for our country. But this is precisely the essence of the campaign for the election of the head of state.
At the same time, the introduction of multi-day, mobile and remote electronic voting and persecution of the community of independent election observers make the vote counting completely opaque.
Four candidates, who are united on all the key issues, including in relation to the special military operation, are registered for the elections. Three of them represent political parties unanimously voting in the State Duma for repressive and militaristic laws, and the fourth candidate is Vladimir Putin. There is no alternative on the ballot to the government’s policy of continuing hostilities and killing people.
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Posted: March 12th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Presidential Elections, Presidential Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will host a lecture by Vladimir Buldakov on the new economic policy of 1921 – 1926 as a path to dictatorship
Press Release, 11.03.2024
On 25 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture on the New Economic Policy (NEP) in the USSR in 1921 – 1926 as a path to dictatorship. The lecturer is Vladimir Buldakov, Doctor of Historical Sciences and chief researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Posted: March 11th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights.
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The Presidential Administration responded to Boris Vishnevsky’s appeal about the end of mobilisation
Press Release, 05.03.2024
Photo by Alexander Koryakov, Kommersant
Dismissal from service of those mobilised “is possible in accordance with the current legislation, as well as after the cessation of the circumstances that served as the basis for the conscription of citizens for military service”.
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Posted: March 11th, 2024 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko and the ChelovekPrav group call on deputies and senators to disclose their income declarations. The collection of signatures for the petition is open
Press Release, 05.03.2024
Photo by zebra.tv
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, Director of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre Alexei Karnaukhov and the initiative group ChelovekPrav call on deputies of the State Duma, members of the Federation Council, as well as regional and municipal deputies to disclose their income and property declarations for 2023 and make them public. A web-site has been created where Russian citizens can sign the relevant petition.
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Posted: March 11th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
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Anna Cherepanova asks the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Commissioner for Human Rights to check reports on violations in women’s colonies
Press Release 7.03.2024
Photo: Prisoners in Women’s Penal Colony No. 6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Altai Territory / Photo by Andrei Lukovsky, Kommersant
Anna Cherepanova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko party and deputy of the Novgorod City Duma, sent complaints to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office, the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Commissioner for Human Rights about violations of the rights of women-prisoners in women’s penal colonies in the Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories. Political prisoner Maria Ponomarenko reported flagrant violations of the law in her letters to civil activists. Maria Ponomarenko is in Pre-Trial Detention Centre No. 1 in Barnaul now, as the investigation into her new criminal case is ongoing. Before that, she served her sentence in Penal Colony No 6 in the Altai Territory and Penal Colony No 22 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. It was there that Maria Ponomarenko encountered violations of the rights of prisoners.
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Posted: March 7th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko is organising an online auction of paintings by St. Petersburg artist Yelena Osipova
Press Release, 6.03.2024
Photo: Detention of Yelena Osipova at one of the protests in St. Petersburg / Photo by Yelena Lukyanova, Novaya Gazeta
An online auction of paintings by the famous St. Petersburg artist Yelena Osipova will be held in central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. All proceeds from the sale will go to the author of the works.
Yelena Osipova is of advanced age and does not feel well; in May 2023 she suffered a stroke after persecution for her actions for peace. The auction will be held to support the artist, as well as to help preserve her creative legacy (part of the funds raised will be used for these purposes).
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Posted: March 7th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko to host the “Live Forever” theatre piece by the Moscow independent theatre Baggage
Press Release 5.03.2024
On 11 March, the Yabloko party Moscow office will host the “Live Forever” theatre piece. The key idea of the play is as follows: one must remain human always and in any conditions and trials.
The play is staged by the Moscow independent theatre Baggage.
The production is based on one of the most striking passages from the novel “Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman, an epic novel about the Second World War. Many compare this work to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
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Posted: March 7th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko supporter Svetlana Marina was found guilty of repeated discrediting of the army and sentenced to forced labour
Press Release, 1.03.2024
Based on the publications in the Telegram channel of the Kirov branch of Yabloko
Photo: Svetlana Marina / Photo by the Kirov branch of Yabloko
Today, on 1 March, the Pervomaysky District Court of Kirov found Yabloko supporter Svetlana Marina guilty under the article of repeated discrediting of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and sentenced her to 1.5 years of forced labour.
It should be noted that at the previous hearing, on 28 February, the public prosecutor requested two years in a penal colony for Svetlana Marina and insisted on issuing her a three-year ban on administration of web-sites.
Svetlana, 56, has lived all her life in Kirov and has been working as a software engineer. She came to activism in 2014, started by participating in street actions against political repression, in defence of human rights and political prisoners, and then came to organisation of many events. “At first I was an ordinary participant in street actions, but then I began to organise them myself. When the authorities refused to give permission for the actions, I filed lawsuits challenging the refusals,” Svetlana says.
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Posted: March 4th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A court in Tatarstan fined Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan Yabloko, 25,000 roubles for a single picket demanding that the body of Alexei Navalny be given to his relatives
Press Release, 26.02.2024
Based on the publications in the Telegram channel of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / A screenshot from the video made by the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan
The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan fined Ruslan Zinatullin 25,000 roubles under Article 20.2 part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“organisation of mass simultaneous stay and (or) movement of citizens in public places, resulting in a violation of public order”).
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Posted: March 4th, 2024 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to host a launch of a new collection of women’s prose “Memory. The Feminine Gender”
Press Release, 3.03. 2024
On 5 March, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party will launch a new collection of women’s prose “Memory. The Feminine Gender”. The book includes the best short stories submitted to the competition of the Union of Russian Writers “New Amazons – 2023”. The Presenters will be the First Secretary of the Union of Russian Writers Svetlana Vasilenko, and journalist and writer Nadezhda Azhgikhina.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Без рубрики.
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A manifestation of a lulling policy and collective escapism from reality for the entire country.” Yabloko leaders comment on the President Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly.
Press Release, 29.02.2024
Photo by Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant
Yabloko leaders comment on the President Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov notes that all the main things form Vladimir Putin’s address, have been already promised to some extent, however, “the things are still there”. “We will protect nature reserves, – but, in fact, the protection is getting weaker. We will protect Baikal – and they are preparing a law on clear cuttings of woods on Lake Baikal. In six years, we will sort all solid waste – and they carry out a waste management reform destroying the nascent separate waste collection system. And not a word about the main thing – about peace.”
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Posted: February 29th, 2024 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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Emilia Slabunova: “I am categorically against the abolishing of the social studies course in the secondary school”
Press Release, 28.02.2024
Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
“I categorically object to the plans of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation to abolish the social studies course for grades 6-8 at the level of basic general education and leave only one hour for its study in grade 9!” Emilia Slabunova, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia and honoured teacher of Russia, wrote in her blog post.
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Posted: February 28th, 2024 under Education and Science, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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Nine years since the murder of Boris Nemtsov
Grigory Yavlinsky’s Facebook post, 27.02.2024
Boris Nemtsov believed that Russia should be a peaceful country. He was a sincere person and a Russian patriot. This determined his political views. Exactly nine years ago, on 27 February, 2015, Nemtsov was shot. In the back. Right next to the Kremlin walls.
The authorities bear political responsibility for his murder.
Let his memory last forever!
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The photo shows Boris’s grave. Today several police squads were on duty near Nemtsov’s grave on Troekurovsky cemetery…
Posted: February 27th, 2024 under Condolences, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The sentence to human rights defender Oleg Orlov is repressive and must be overturned
Statement by the Yabloko party, 27.02.2024
Photo: Human rights defender Oleg Orlov at the hearings of the Golovinsky Court in Moscow, 27 Febraury, 2024 / Photo by Pavel Bednyakov, RIA Novosti
The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko expresses protest against the conviction and imprisonment of human rights defender and one of the founders of the Memorial human rights society, Oleg Petrovich Orlov.
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Posted: February 27th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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