Grigory Yavlinsky: “Elections for peace and freedom”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 11.09.2023
Photo: Yabloko campaign posters “Yabloko. Your vote For Peace and Freedom!” in Yekaterinburg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 10 September, Russia held regular election. Everyone understands what kind of “elections” there can be in such a system, especially during the “special military operation”. Since 1996, voting in Russia has taken place with mass-scale fraud and in completely unequal conditions of struggle. Then why participate in this? In order to convey to people a position that is fundamentally different from that of the authorities and their servants – a position based on values. To give people a chance to hear another point of view and support it if they wish to. Participation in such elections is not a struggle for power (as it should be under other circumstances). In our conditions, this is a direct form of conversation with people about the most important things that determine not only today, but also the future. This is a way to attract people’s attention to politics, an attempt to form a society that does not exist yet. It is impossible to achieve a ceasefire without this, it is impossible to begin any transformations in the country without this. Elections, whatever they may be, still provide an opportunity to appeal to people. There are no other ways left in Russia except the Internet, with all its specifics.
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Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko gets mandates in four city parliaments, including the city dumas of Yekaterinburg and Novgorod
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov summed up the preliminary results of the elections of 8 – 10 September
Press Release, 10.09.2023
According to preliminary data, candidates from Yabloko were elected to the city dumas of Yekaterinburg, Novgorod, Krasnokamsk (the Perm Territory) and Yasnogorsk (the Tula Region). This was stated by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov during a night briefing at the Yabloko election headquarters:
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Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Olga Kolokolova, the leader of the Yabloko branch in the Perm region, passes to the Krasnokamsk City Duma
Press Release, 10.09.2023
Photo: Olga Kolokolova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The counting of votes at the polling stations of constituency No. 6 has not yet been completed, but according to preliminary data, Olga Kolokolova, Yabloko’s candidate and the leader of the Yabloko branch in the Perm region, passes to the Krasnokamsk City Duma gaining the majority of votes, even taking into account the results of the electronic vote which is easy to fraud.
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Posted: September 11th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Novgorod, three Yabloko candidates for deputies of the City Duma have been detained. They can be arrested for 15 days
Press Release, 10.09.2023
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin (centre), Anna Cherepanova and Ksenia Cherepanova at the police station / Photo from social media
On the night of September 9 – 10, the Novgorod police drew up protocols of violation under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“disobedience to the police”) in relation to the current deputy of the Novgorod City Duma Anna Cherepanova, as well as Ksenia Cherepanova and Viktor Shalyakin. All the three Yabloko members are registered candidates for deputies to the City Duma of Novgorod in the current elections. At night, the politicians were released from the police station. However, they are waiting for a hearing at the Novgorod District Court. Punishment under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses provides for administrative arrest for up to 15 days. To arrest candidates to the City Duma, the court needs the approval of the city public prosecutor.
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Posted: September 10th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Citizen participation and control over voting can combat fraud
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 9.09.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 10 September, many regions of our country will hold elections at different levels: elections of local governments, legislative assemblies, and heads of regions. And in six months there will be presidential elections, which will be held within the framework of the Constitution updated in 2020, which opened the way for the permanent rule of Vladimir Putin.
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Posted: September 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov City Court refused to recognise the assignment of the status of “foreign agent” to Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg illegal. The decision will be appealed
Press Release, 9.09.2023
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo from Lev Shlosberg’s personal archive
The Pskov City Court rejected Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, in satisfying his claims against the Ministry of Justice to declare illegal the order of June 16, 2023, to include the politician in the register of “foreign agents”.
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Posted: September 9th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“You have defended the garden, which means you can do more”: the head of Yabloko called on Yekaterinburg residents to support Yabloko’s course for peace at elections
Е1.RU, 8.09.2023
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the United Democratic Party Yabloko, visited Yekaterinburg on the eve of the elections to the City Duma. He came to support his fellow party members, talk about the strategy of peaceful change with which they are going to voters, and urge the residents of the city to take part in the elections. Read the interview and learn about why politics is a matter of concern for everyone now and how ordinary people can influence fundamental government decisions.
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Posted: September 8th, 2023 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Schoolchildren in Dubrovichy, the Ryazan region, were provided with textbooks after Yabloko deputy Konstantin Smirnov intervened
Press Release, 8.09.2023
Photo: Emin Jafarov, Kommersant
The Minister of Education of the Ryazan Region, Olga Shchetinkina, informed Konstantin Smirnov, a deputy of the Dubrovichy settlement from the Yabloko party and Editor-in-Chied of the online media Vid Sboku (Side View), that all the necessary textbooks, that had not been delivered to the school in the village of Dubrovichy by the beginning of the school year, had finally arrived to the school.
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Posted: September 8th, 2023 under Economy, Education and Science, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court sentenced Mikhail Afanasyev to 5.5 years in prison in the case of “fakes about the army”
Press Release, 7.09.2023
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Mikhail Afanasyev, Editor-in-Chief of the Novy Focus online media, a Yabloko member and two-time winner of the Andrei Sakharov Prize “For Journalism as an Act of Conscience”, was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison in a criminal case on “fakes about the army” (Article 207.3, Part 2, item A of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Afanasyev was also deprived of the right to engage in journalistic activities for a period of 2.5 years. The court’s decision will be appealed.
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, came to the announcement of the verdict. This is the third hearing in the Afanasyev case that he has attended.
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Posted: September 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host a launch of the books by journalist and human rights defender Eva Merkacheva
Press Release, 6.09.2023
Photo: Eva Merkacheva / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 September, the Yabloko party will host a launch of the books by Eva Merkacheva: “The City of the Doomed. An Honest Report on Seven Penal Colonies for Life-Sentenced Prisoners”, “Who Lives Well in Russia. How Prisons Work in Modern Russia” and “High-Profile Cases. Crimes and Punishments in the USSR”. Eva Merkacheva is a Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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“If we spoke from a position of law, they would have been acquitted.” Yabloko summed up the results of the Ingush case
Press Release, 6.09.2023
Photo: Ruslan Mutsolgov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 5 September, a press conference “The Ingush case. The Results” was held at the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow. Public defenders spoke about the four-year history of the Ingush case and the appeal of the verdict: Ruslan Mutsolgov, Chairman of the Ingush Yabloko, Oleg Orlov, Co-Chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, and Valery Khatazhukov, head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Public Human Rights Centre. Lawyers Magomed Bekov, Andrei Sabinin and Bashir Tochiyev also answered journalists’ questions.
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Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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St.Petersburg Yabloko to challenge in court over 400 decisions on the creation of electoral commissions
Press Release, 6.09.2023
Photo by Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
The Yabloko party is appealing through the courts over 40 decisions of territorial election commissions on the formation of precinct electoral commissions and 400 decisions refusing to appoint Yabloko representatives as members of precinct electoral commissions. The lawsuit was filed in the Oktyabrsky District Court by Alexander Kobrinsky, a lawyer and a member of the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko in St.Petersburg.
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Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the work of Yabloko’s election headquarters during the elections on 8-10 September
Press Release, 6.09.2023
The Yabloko party is taking part in 26 election campaigns in 13 regions of the country: Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Karelia, the Krasnoyarsk and the Perm Territories, the Sverdlovsk region, the Novgorod region, the Pskov region, the Moscow region, the Saratov region, the Tula region, the Rostov region, the Ryazan region, as well as Moscow (the Troitsky District). All Yabloko candidates campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!”.
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Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Fundraising for an independent examination for the leader of the Vologda Yabloko is closed. We thank everyone who did not remain indifferent and helped!
Press Release, 6.09.2023
Photo: Nikolai Yegorov / Photo from Nikolai Yegorov’s personal archive
We have closed the collection of donations for the Chairman of the Vologda branch of Yabloko Nikolai Yegorov, as a criminal case on “discrediting the army” was filed against him (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and a pre-investigation check has been underway under the article on the dissemination of “fakes about the army” (Article 207.3, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). We managed to collect 90,000 roubles for an extra-judicial psychological and linguistic examination. The funds have already been transferred to the family of Nikolai Yegorov.
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Posted: September 6th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Russia developed a poverty management system instead of overcoming poverty. Yabloko held expert hearings on the situation with poverty in Russia
Press Release, 5.09.2023
On 4 September, a meeting of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party took place in Novgorod. The Bureau held expert hearings on the problem of overcoming poverty in Russia. The participants of the event discussed the problem and the Yabloko plan for overcoming poverty. A corresponding statement on the Bureau meeting will be issued soon.
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Posted: September 5th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russian Economy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the election of the Governor of the Novosibirsk Region in 2023
Decision of the Bureau of the Novosibirsk Regional Branch of Yabloko
Statement by the Novosibirsk Regional Branch of the Yabloko party, 5.09.2023
Photo: Novosibirsk / Photo by Alexander Polezhaev, Wikimedia Commons
The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko considers the election of the governor of the region in the current Russian situation unfree and unfair. There has been set a surrogate task to imitate democratic procedures, create the illusion of a legitimate change of power. The very essence of the election lost its meaning with a complex and developed electoral system.
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Posted: September 5th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2023, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the pressure on the Yabloko party candidates
Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau, 4.09.2023
Photo: Yabloko poster: Yabloko. Your vote for peace and freedom!
On the threashold of the single voting day on 10 September, we have to once again state the growing pressure on the candidates of the Yabloko party. A campaign of defamation and bans has been waged against our candidates. The authorities are fighting against the only anti-war party that calls a spade a spade and presents an alternative policy.
Yabloko is denied the printing of newspapers and holding pickets, campaign materials are confiscated and posters are torn down.
Police conducted searches at the home of Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate for the Novgorod City Duma. Tatyana Zobnina, a candidate for the Yekaterinburg City Duma, was attacked. Another candidate, Elizaveta Kazantseva, received death threats. Two Yabloko candidates for the Novgorod City Duma, Valery Kochnev and Oksana Sergeyeva, were unreasonably accused of displaying extremist symbols.
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Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2023, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko branch in Bashkiria commemorating victims of the World War II: No more wars!
Press Release, 4.09.2023
Photo by the Yabloko branch in Bashkiria
On 3 September, the anniversary of the end of World War II, activists of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Bashkiria, according to their long-term tradition, laid flowers at the monument to the victims of the battles in August-September 1945.
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Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to launch a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 4.09.2023
Photo: The book cover
On 12 September the central office of the Yabloko party will host a launch of a collection of lectures from the Yabloko Party University “Russia: History and the Modern Period” delivered in 2020-2022 within the framework of the Yabloko Party University by well-known politicians and academics.
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Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov visited Krasnoyarsk to support Yabloko candidates in the upcoming elections
Press Release, 31.08.2023
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov visited the Krasnoyarsk Territory to support the party’s candidates in the upcoming elections to the Krasnoyarsk City Council and the by-elections to the State Duma and to speak on local media with an appeal to the residents of the region to vote for peace and freedom, as Yabloko candidates participate in the elections under this slogan and Yabloko is the only Russian political party calling for peace.
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Posted: September 4th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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