Head of the Novorzhevsky district Sofya Pugacheva fined for “discrediting the Russian army”
Press Release, 16.08.2022
Photo: Sofya Pugachyova / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service
The Pushkinogorsk District Court in the Pskov Region found Sofya Pugachyova, head of the Novorzhevsky District elected from Yabloko, guilty of “discrediting the Russian army” due to the disappearance of the letters V and Z from the windows of the district community centre, which had been allegedly painted by the children from the summer camp on their own initiative for the Day of Russia (12 June). The local activists of the ruling United Russia party regarded the incident as a pretext for public persecution of the head of the district. The deputies of the district Assembly appealed to the public prosecutor’s office, and the police searched Sofya Pugacheva’s office, confiscating her office laptop, personal phone and work notebooks. The court fined Sofia Pugacheva 50,000 roubles (around 850 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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The Irkustk branch of Yabloko started litigation for the right to hold a rally against articles about “discrediting the army” and “fakes about the army”
Press Release, 11.08.2022
Photo: A rally in Irkutsk, 2020 / Photo from social media
The Irkutsk branch of Yabloko, together with civil activists, filed a lawsuit against the city administration of Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia. The lawsuit was filed with the Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk for administration’s refusal to give a permission for the holding of a rally on 20 August. This was announced by the representative of the Irkutsk Yabloko Grigory Gribenko. Yabloko members and civil activists wanted to speak out against the so-called “censorship articles” introduced to the administrative and criminal codes of Russia for “discrediting the army” and “fakes about the army”. The administration of Irkutsk refused to give their permission for the rally, referring to COVID restrictions.
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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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After Alexander Shishlov was accused of “discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”, he began getting threats and insults
Press Release, 11.08.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, appealed to the Public Prosecutor of St.Petersburg Viktor Melnik in connection with the fact that after initiating administrative proceedings against him (at the initiative of the St. Petersburg Public Prosecutor’s Office) under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the RF (“discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”) he started receiving threats and insults on the VKontakte social media.
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Posted: August 17th, 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 municipal deputy in St. Petersburg accused of “discrediting the armed forces”
Press Release, 6.08.2022
Photo: Dmitry Baltrukov / Photo from Dmitry Baltrukov’s personal archive
Dmitry Baltrukov, a Yabloko deputy of the municipal council of the municipality Smolninskoye in St.Petersburg, was accused of “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”. The district police officer informed Baltrukov of this after monitoring his social media accounts by the Centre for Combating Extremism (Centre E).
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Posted: August 17th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s St.Petersburg MP Alexander Shishlov accused of “discrediting the Armed Forces”
Press Release, 29.07.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Petrogradsky District of St.Petersburg filed a protocol on an administrative offense against Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the RF (“public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces”).
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Posted: August 1st, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The electoral commission of the Krylatskoye district in Moscow refused to register the second Yabloko candidate for the municipal elections – Stanislav Yelagin
Press Release, 28.07.2022
Photo: Stanislav Yelagin / Photo from social media
The electoral commission of the Krylatskoye district in Moscow refused to register another candidate for the municipal elections from the Yabloko party – Stanislav Yelagin, the current municipal deputy, city historic preservation and environmental activist. The formal reason for the refusal to register Yelagin in the race was an allegedly incomplete package of documents. Earlier, the electoral commission refused to register Alexei Krapukhin, an activist and member of the Regional Council of the Moscow Yabloko. Both the Yabloko candidates will appeal the electoral commission’s decision.
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Posted: July 29th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate for Governor of the Novgorod region Anna Cherepanova does not recognise the elections due to fraud with the municipal filter
Press Release, 27.07.2022
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 27 July, Anna Cherepanova, a candidate for Governor of the Novgorod region from the Yabloko party, submitted documents for registration to the Electoral Commission, despite the fact that she was unable to collect the required number of signatures from municipal deputies needed for registration in the race. According to the candidate, the administration of the Novgorod Governor Andrei Nikitin, who is being re-elected for a new term, used unscrupulous technologies in order to prevent Yabloko’s representative from running in the gubernatorial elections. Anna Cherepanova spoke about the violation of her rights as a candidate and rights of all voters of the region at the round table of the Public Chamber of the Novgorod Region.
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Posted: July 28th, 2022 under Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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In the Komi Republic, a Yabloko member fined 60,000 roubles for “discrediting the army” and “insulting the authorities”
Press Release, 27.07.2022
Photo: Vera Zabaluyeva / Photo from Vera Zabaluyeva’s personal archive
On 30 March, the City Court of Ukhta fined Yabloko member Vera Zabaluyeva 60,000 roubles under the Articles on “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and “insulting the authorities” (Article 20.1 Part 3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
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Posted: July 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko regional branches to hold actions of sending letters of support to political prisoners
Press Release, 26.07.2022
The Yabloko party holds actions in support of political prisoners in different Russian regions. Any Russian citizen can participate.
The participants of the actions can bring their own postcards and write words of support to any political prisoner, as well as sign postcards specially printed by Yabloko for politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and journalist and Yabloko member in Khakassia Mikhail Afanasyev, who have been in custody since April under the criminal charges of spreading “fake news” about the Russian army. Yabloko regional offices undertake to send all letters and postcards to the prisoners.
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Posted: July 27th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Ivan Kotkov, a Yabloko member in the Pskov region, fined twice for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 25.07.2022
Photo: Ivan Kotkov / Photo from Ivan Kotkov’s personal archive
Ivan Kotkov, a member of the Yabloko party in the city of Velikiye Luki, Pskov region, was fined twice for “discrediting the army”. The first time he was brought to administrative responsibility for a sticker on his car, the second time for posting a photo of his car on social media.
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Posted: July 26th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Protests fail to affect politics not only in Russia, but also in the world”
Corriere Della Sera, 22.07.2022
Photo: Peace March in Moscow in 2014 / Photo by Yevgeny Nadalinsky, Kommersant
On 16 July, the influential Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera published an interview with Grigory Yavlinsky on the situation in connection with the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Unfortunately, there are fragments in the Corriere Della Sera publication that do not correspond to the original Russian text. Here is the English translation of the Russian text of the interview, which was sent to the newspaper.
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Posted: July 25th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, Без рубрики.
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Candidates-spoilers bearing the same family names are put forward against Yabloko candidates in the forthcoming Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 22.07.2022
Photo by Yevgeny Pavlenko / Kommersant
Candidates-spoilers bearing the same family names or names sounding nearly identical have been put forward against at least eleven Yabloko candidates for Moscow municipal elections. Seven doppelgängers bear the same family names as Yabloko candidates and four have surnames sounding very close to the surnames of Yabloko candidates.
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Posted: July 22nd, 2022 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow authorities are trying to prevent Yabloko candidate Alexei Krapukhin from running in the municipal elections in the Moscow district of Krylatskoye
Press Release, 20.07.2022
Photo: Alexei Krapukhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Moscow authorities are trying to prevent Alexei Krapukhin, a member of the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and Yabloko candidate in the forthcoming Moscow municipal election, from running in the municipal elections in the Moscow district of Krylatskoye by denying him registration as candidate via using a loophole in the interpretation of the Moscow Electoral Code. Yabloko will fight so that Krapukhin is registered – the law and judicial practice are on our side.
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Posted: July 21st, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Andrei Morev arrested for 15 days and may be deprived of the right to participate in elections
Press Release, 20.07.2022
Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and head of the Yakimanka district of Moscow, was arrested for 15 days for “demonstrating extremist symbols”.
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Posted: July 20th, 2022 under Elections, 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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Boris Vishnevsky on Vladimir Putin’s article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians” of July 2021, and the Russian parliamentary elections of 2021 as a lost chance to prevent the 24th of February
Boris Vishnevsky’s Telegram Channel VishNevskoyoeVremya, 12.07.2022
Photo: Vladimir Putin is looking at the map titled «Russia and neighboring countries». August 11, 2006 // REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/KREMLIN’S PRESS OFFICE
Exactly one year ago, on 12 July, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians”.
It actually denied Ukraine’s right to statehood and sovereignty.
It stated that the Ukrainian state had no right to a significant part of its territories, which were the “historical territories” of Russia, the latter had been “robbed” of them at one time.
It stated that the Ukrainian state was not independent, but was under “external control” by the West.
This article announced what later started on 24 February, 2022. Nothing was hidden. Anyone who wanted to could see it.
A week later, the founder of Yabloko, Grigory Yavlinsky, replied to this article, analysing in detail the fundamental fallacy of its provisions.
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Posted: July 19th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Без рубрики.
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Chairman of the Kabardino-Balkarian branch of Yabloko turns 70! Yabloko congratulates Khakim Kuchmezov on his anniversary
Congratulations, 18.07.2022
Photo: Khakim Kuchmezov / Photo by the Yaboko Press Service
On 18 July, Khakim Kuchmezov, Chairman of the Kabardino-Balkarian branch of Yabloko, turns 70. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Ryabakov congratulates Khakim Kuchmezov on his anniversary.
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Posted: July 19th, 2022 under Greetings, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko deputies in Petrozavodsk City Council applied to the Public Prosecutor’s Office because of cutting of forest area in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, with the permission of the authorities
Press Release, 15.07.2022
Photo: A logged area near the Savin Navolok Park, Petrozavodsk / Photo by the Karelian Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko faction in the Petrozavodsk City Council sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Karelia, asking to conduct an inspection in connection with the cutting down of woods in Petrozavodsk. Deputies from Yabloko – Dmitry Rybakov and Olga Tuzhikova – consider the reduction of the forest area to be illegal and attribute this to urban planning activities conducting in accordance with the General Plan of Petrozavodsk Development of the 2008 version.
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Posted: July 19th, 2022 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Pivovarov sentenced to four years in prison and an eight-year ban on political activities
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram Channel, 15.07.2022
Photo: Andrei Pivovarov
A court in Krasnodar sentenced Andrei Pivovarov, a public figure and former candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, to four years in prison and an eight-year ban on political activities.
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Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Letters to the victims of the “censorship article”: postcards to Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev can be taken at the office of the Yabloko party
Press Release, 18.07.2022
Photo: postcards to Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev: “Freedom to Vladimir Kara-Murza and all political prisoners!” “Freedom to Mikhail Afanasyev and all political prisoners!”
Yabloko has printed postcards in support of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Mikhail Afanasyev, who are in custody on criminal cases about “fakes about the army”. In Moscow, one can take postcards on the ground floor of the party office at Pyatnitskaya 31, building 2 and then send them to the prisoners. Soon it will be possible to take postcards from the offices of Yabloko’s regional branches.
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Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko office in Moscow is collecting guarantees for Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov so that the court would release them on bail
Press Release, 15.07.2022
Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov
The Yabloko party in Moscow has started collection of guarantees for politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and Dmitry Ivanov, the author of the Protest MGU Telegram Channel, so that they could be released on bail. Kara-Murza and Ivanov are now under arrest on criminal charges of “fakes about the Russian army”. Any Russian citizen over the age of 18 can stand surety for political prisoners.
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Posted: July 18th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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