Another Yabloko candidate for Moscow municipal deputies detained by police
Press Release, 26.08.2022
Photo: Nikita Arkin / Photo from the social media
Another Yabloko candidate for municipal deputies, Nikita Arkin, who was nominated by Yabloko to run in the Basmanny district of Moscow, was detained today. The police came to the office where Nikita works so that to detain him. Yulia Tregubova, a lawyer from the OVD-Info human rights NGO, is not allowed to the police department where Arkin was taken. Nikita is charged with Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi symbols of signs, or symbols or signs of extremist organisations”), which may deprive him of the opportunity to be elected.
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Posted: August 27th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko published a list of its registered candidates for municipal elections
Press Release, 26.08.2022
Photo: Yabloko’s placard “Yabloko stands for peace!”
A list of registered candidates from Yabloko in the municipal elections that will be held in different Russian regions in September has been published on the Yabloko web-site. Yabloko participates in election campaigns in 12 Russian reigons.
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Posted: August 27th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Three more Yabloko candidates for Moscow municipal deputies may be removed from the elections
Press Release, 26.08.2022
Photo: Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno, Nikolai Kasyan and Tatyana Kasimova
Candidates for Moscow municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno (the Yakimanka district), Nikolai Kasyan and Tatyana Kasimova (both in the Khamovniki district) were convicted under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which deprives them of the opportunity to be elected.
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Posted: August 26th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Gnezdilov met with head of the Taiwan’s representative office in Russia Keng Chung-Yung
Press Release, 25.08.2022
Photo: Alexander Gnezdilov and Keng Chung-Yung/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Alexander Gnezdilov, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, met with Keng Chung-Yung, head of Taiwan’s Representative Office in Russia. The meeting was initiated by the Taiwanese side, and the reason for it was Alexander Gnezdilov’s article “Why does Taiwan matter?”, published on the Yabloko web-site in early August. The text was dedicated to the visit of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, to Taipei, which was widely discussed around the world.
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Posted: August 25th, 2022 under Foreign policy, History, Без рубрики.
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The development of neo-Stalinism must be prevented
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 25.08.2022
Photo: Zakhar Prilepin / Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant
On 3 August, “an introductory meeting of the working group on the investigation of anti-state activities in culture (GRAD)” was held in the State Duma, under the chairmanship of Zakhar Prilepin, Co-Chairman of the A Just Russia – For Truth party, setting the task: “identifying the mechanisms of foreign influence in the field of culture and developing measures for the implementation of the state policy in the field of culture”.
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Posted: August 25th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Anna Cherepanova participates in the competition for the post of the Novgorod Mayor
Press Release, 25.08.2022
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo from social media
Anna Cherepanova, deputy of the Novgorod City Duma and Chair of the regional branch of Yabloko, submitted documents to participate in the competition for the post of the Novgorod Mayor.
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Posted: August 25th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Police detained Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno, Nikolai Kasyan, and Tatyana Kasimova, and Yabloko supporter Maria Volokh
Press Release, 24.08.2022
Photo by Alexander Meridonov / Kommersant
Police detained Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno (Yakimanka municipal district of Moscow), Nikolai Kasyan (Khamovniki), and Tatyana Kasimova (Khamovniki), and Yabloko supporter Maria Volokh, who had been nominated to run in the Tverskoy municipal district of Moscow and had previously been withdrawn from the elections.
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Posted: August 25th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky asked the government of St.Petersburg to reveal the budget items used to form battalions bearing toponymic names of the region
Press Release, 24.08.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Alexei Korabelnikov, St.Petersburg Vice Governor for Finance, asking him to tell under which articles of the city budget for 2022 funds are being allocated for the formation of battalions bearing toponymic names of the region.
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Posted: August 25th, 2022 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Prosecutor General’s Office explained to Yabloko why it is impossible to call the “special operation” a war
Press Release, 24.08.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, received a response to his appeal to the Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, where he asked to explain the principles of the new laws on “discrediting the army” and “fakes about the army”. The Public Prosecutor General said that calling the “special operation” a war is unacceptable, since war is declared by federal law.
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Posted: August 24th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko announces actions in support of political prisoners in the offices of Yabloko on 26 August
Press Release, 22.08.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Friday, 26 August, Yabloko organises an evening of writing letters to political prisoners. The action will take place in the Yabloko regional offices throughout Russia. Yabloko calls everyone who wants to support politicians and civil activists who are unjustly convicted or are under investigation to come to Yabloko’s offices. Participants of the action can sign postcards printed by the Yabloko party or bring ordinary letters. Regional offices take up the obligation to send all correspondence to the addressees.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Candidate for municipal deputies in Moscow Sergei Smirnov fined for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 22.08.2022
Photo: Sergei Smirnov / Photo from social media
On 22 August, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found Sergei Smirnov, a member of the Yabloko party and a Yabloko candidate in the Tverskoy district in the Moscow municipal elections, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and violating the rules for holding public events (Article 20.2 Part 5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The fines amounted to 40,000 and 20,000 roubles respectively.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Morev, Yabloko head of the Yakimanka municipal council in Moscow, removed from municipal elections
Press Release, 22.08.2022
Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 19 August, the Territorial Electoral Commission of the Yakimanka District in Moscow decided to remove Andrei Morev, head of the Yakimanka Municipal Council in Moscow and Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko, from the forthcoming municipal elections. Earlier, Morev was found guilty of “demonstrating extremist symbols” and served 15 days of administrative arrest. Andrei Morev was also deprived of his right to be elected for a year, as he was found guilty under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“demonstration of extremist symbols”).
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Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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In Moscow Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims in the coup of August 1991
The leaders and activists of Yabloko laid flowers at the Monument to the Defenders of Democracy
Press Release, 21.08.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 21 August, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims in the August 1991 coup. Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko and a deputy of the Moscow City Duma, Kirill Goncharov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko, Nikolai Kavkazsky, a deputy chairman of the Yabloko Gender Faction, and party activists laid flowers at the Monument to the Defenders of Democracy in Russia, which is located at the intersection of Novy Arbat street and the Garden Ring.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court did not recongnise as evidence the expertise in the case of “Alexander Shishlov discreding the army”, and appointed a new expertise
Press Release, 19.08.2022
Photo: Lawyers Andrei Chertkov and Leonid Krikun, and Alexander Shishlov (from left to right) / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Petrogradsky District Court in St.Petersburg held the first hearing in an administrative case initiated against Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”).
The court supported the motions of the defence to attach to the case the conclusions by experts I.A. Levinskaya and D.V. Dubrovsky, containing a critical assessment of the “expert opinion” compiled by V. Abakanova, Associate Professor of the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, and on the appointment of psychological and linguistic expertise.
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Posted: August 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko urges the Central Electoral Commission to stop using electronic voter lists in Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 19.08.2022
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant
The Yabloko party calls on the Central Electoral Commission to cancel the decision of the Moscow City Electoral Commission on the use of electronic voter lists in the upcoming Moscow municipal elections. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a corresponding appeal to Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission.
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Posted: August 19th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko has published a list of its registered candidates for Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 19.08.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A complete list of registered candidates for Moscow municipal elections from Yabloko has been published on the party web-site. The list includes 151 candidates who will run in 43 municipal districts of Moscow.
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Posted: August 19th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will hold the Forum of Candidates for Municipal Deputies
Press Release, 17.08.2022
This Saturday, on 20 August, the Moscow office of Yabloko will host the Forum of Candidates for Municipal Deputies from Yabloko.
The Forum participants will discuss the values of the party in these elections, the relationship between the local agenda and political issues within the campaign, participation of young people in the campaign, gender equality, and practical aspects of holding a campaign.
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Posted: August 18th, 2022 under Elections, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Politics, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Civic activist Maria Volokh fined in Moscow for “discrediting the Russian army”
Press Release, 17.08.2022
Photo: Maria Volokh / Photo from social media
On 17 August, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined the unregistered candidate for municipal deputies Maria Volokh in the amount of 60,000 roubles under Articles 20.2 (“violation of the rules for holding public events”) and 20.3.3 (“discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”) of the Administrative Code for an action against censorship and repression. Earlier, the Territorial Electoral Commission of the Tverskoy district unanimously removed Volokh from the municipal elections, allegedly for the candidate’s residence permit in the Netherlands, without providing any evidence.
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Posted: August 18th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An assistant to a city council deputy from Yabloko was fined for “discrediting the army” in Petrozavodsk, Karelia
Press Release, 17.08.2022
Photo: Elena Neronova / Photo from social media
On 16 August, the Petrozavodsk District Court of the Republic of Karelia found Elena Neronova, a civic activist and an assistant to a city council deputy from the Yabloko party Olga Tuzhikova, guilty of “discrediting the Russian army”. The fine under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the RF amounted to 30,000 roubles (over 500 Euro).
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Posted: August 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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In Sochi, Daniil Hoegman, Chairman of the Yabloko branch and children’s sports coach, fined for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 16.08.2022
Photo: Daniil Hoegman / Photo from social media
On 15 August, the Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi found Daniil Hoegman, Chairman of the Lazarevsky local branch of the Yabloko party and children’s sports coach, guilty of “discrediting the Russian armed forces”. The party activist was fined 30,000 roubles (over 500 Euro).
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Posted: August 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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