Yabloko urged Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin to initiate a criminal investigation into the attack on journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya
Statement by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, 5.07.2023
Photo: Yelena Milashina after the attack / Photo by Sergei Babinets, the Committee Against Torture
The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party called on the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin to initiate a criminal investigation into the attack on journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya. Here goes the text of the appeal:
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Posted: July 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Police again carried out the “inspection of the premises” with seizure of all the equipment in the office of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, this time the police took away not only Yabloko’s equipment, but also personal gadgets
Press Release, 5.07.2023
Photo: Entrance to the Pskov Yabloko office / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 5 July, police came to the office of the Yabloko branch in Pskov. Policemen presented a decision to initiate administrative proceedings under Article 13.15 Part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation “Abuse of freedom of the mass media”.
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Posted: July 17th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will have 79 representatives of the party working in the electoral commissions of the Kirov region for the next five years
Press Release, 11.07.2023
Photo: A polling station in Kirov / Photo by the Kirov regional branch of Yabloko
Representatives of Yabloko will count the turnout, ballots and control the voting process in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov region and deputies of the Kirov City Duma.
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Posted: July 11th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko submitted documents for registration of a referendum on direct elections of heads of cities and districts in the Chelyabinsk region
Press Release, 10.07.2023
Photo: Representatives of the referendum initiative group / Photo by the Chelyabinsk Yabloko
On 10 July, the Electoral Commission of the Chelyabinsk Region received documents for registration of a referendum on direct elections of heads of cities and districts in the region. A package of documents was submitted to the commission by representatives of the initiative group of the referendum, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko Yaroslav Shcherbakov, civil activist Mikhail Popov and Chair of the Gender faction of the Chelyabinsk Yabloko Maria Chikulayeva.
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Posted: July 10th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will take part in the elections of deputies of the Duma of Novgorod and the Council of Staraya Russa
Press Release, 10.07.2023
Photo by the Novgorod Yabloko
On 8 July, the Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated three lists of candidates for elections in the region: for the Duma of Novgorod in a single electoral district and in single-member districts, as well as for the Council of Deputies of Staraya Russa.
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Posted: July 10th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko supports Boris Titov’s statement on the need for a ceasefire
Press Release, 27.06.2023
Photo: Boris Titov / Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant
Yabloko supports the statement of Boris Titov, the leader of the Party of Growth, on the need for a ceasefire and is ready to join forces to achieve this, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov wrote on his Telegram channel.
“We regard this statement in the current conditions in the country as a manifestation of courage and wisdom. Yabloko is ready to join forces in order to achieve an early conclusion of a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
An immediate ceasefire is the only solution that will immediately save lives and stop the bloodshed. This will be the first step towards hope for a normal future,” Nikolai Rybakov noted.
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Posted: June 28th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Yabloko deputy of the Novgorod City Duma Anna Cherepanova: I have called on the members of the Territorial Electoral Commission of Novgorod to conduct voting within one day
Anna Cherepanova’s blog post, 27.06.2023
I spoke at the meeting of the Territorial Electoral Commission of Novgorod proposing to conduct voting at the election of deputies of the Novgorod City Duma within one day, 10 September [rather than three envisaged by the recent laws].
The multi-day voting system does not have a single “pro”, only “cons”.
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Posted: June 27th, 2023 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“A great citizen and thinker, co-author of the chapter on human rights of the Russian Constitution of 1993, the man who invented the Yabloko party”
Condolences of Yabloko party leaders on the death of Viktor Sheinis, 25.06.2023
Photo: Viktor Sheinis at the Yabloko Congress, 2021
On 25 June, one of the founders of the Yabloko party, an outstanding academic and statesman Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis, passed away. Yabloko party leaders expressed their condolences on his death.
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Posted: June 26th, 2023 under Condolences.
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Viktor Sheinis, a Yabloko Federal Political member and one of the authors of the Russian Constitution of 1993, passes away at the age of 92
Press Release, 25.06.2023
Photo: Viktor Sheinis / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 25 June, Viktor Sheinis, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, a deputy of the State Duma of the first two convocations, co-founder of Yabloko, and one of the authors of the Russian Constitution of 1993, died at the age of 92.
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Posted: June 26th, 2023 under Condolences.
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Nikolai Rybakov on the present situation
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 24.06.2023
Since 2018, we have been stating our stance appealing to Vladimir Putin that the activities of private military organisations (such as PMC Wagner) are illegal and should be banned and have been warning of the danger of a military conflict.
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Posted: June 24th, 2023 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launched a documentary film about memories of the Second World War
Press Release, 23.06.2023
On June 22, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party hosted a screening of the documentary film Pogostiye (Burying Ground), based on the book Memories of War by Nikolai Nikulin. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov told about filming this documentary.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Why feminism is good”
Press Release, 22.06.2023
Photo: Galina Mikhaleva / Photo from social media
On 3 July, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “Why feminism is good.” The lecture will be delivered by Galina Mikhaleva, Chairperson of the Yabloko Gender Faction, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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“We will be grateful to them for our lives, our children and grandchildren”
Yabloko leaders honoured the memory of those who died in the Second World War
Press Release, 22.06.2023
On the night of June 21-22, Yabloko held its traditional action “1418 Candles for Each Day of the War”. The action is dedicated to the memory of those who died in the Second World War. Yabloko leaders and activists laid flowers at the 1941 memorial plaque in Victory Park and lit candles.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2023 under History, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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Yabloko introduced a draft law on direct elections of the Mayor of Petrozavodsk. The incumbent Mayor is going to join the special military operation
Press Release, 21.06.2023
Photo: Emilia Slabunova, Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko faction submitted to the Legislative Assembly of Karelia a bill on the return of direct mayoral elections in Karelia, including the Mayor of Petrozavodsk. The incumbent Mayor (city manager) of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, Vladimir Lyubarsky, decided to go to Ukraine as a volunteer fighter of the Akhmat special forces.
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Posted: June 21st, 2023 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“I would like to wish you strength and patience, you now need them in freedom no less than we here [in prison].” Yabloko urges Russian citizens to write letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 20.06.2023
Photo: Letter from political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov to Boris Vishnevsky
Yabloko goes on conducting in its regional offices traditional actions in support of Russian political prisoners. Political prisoners do not have summer season or holidays. That is why it is so important not to stop supporting those behind bars. Yabloko has developed an instruction for writing and sending letters, so that people can get in touch with political prisoners even if they do not have the opportunity to come to one of the Yabloko offices for the action.
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Posted: June 20th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Justice announced Yabloko’s Lev Shlosberg a “foreign agent”
Press Release, 16.06.2023
Photo: Lev Shlosberg “Russian citizens for freedom” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov commented on the decision of the Ministry of Justice to recognise Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, a “foreign agent.”
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Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin decided not to participate in the elections of the Moscow Mayor because of the inability to campaign for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 16.06.2023
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Sergei Mitrokhin decided not to participate in elections of the Moscow Mayor because of the inability to campaign for peace with Ukraine. He made this announcement at the conference of the Moscow branch of Yabloko. Mitrokhin also stressed that he had no doubts that a candidate with such a stance would not be allowed to participate in the elections. Yabloko supported his stand and decided not to nominate another candidate.
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Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Moscow, Yabloko Сhairman Nikolai Rybakov will launch screening of a documentary film about memories of the Second World War
Press Release, 16.06.2023
Photo: Cover of the book by Nikolai Nikulin “Memories of the War”
On 22 June, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will launch screening of a documentary film Pogostiye (Burying Ground), based on the book “Memories of the War” by Nikolai Nikulin. The event will be held at the central office of Yabloko in Moscow, staring at 19.00 (Moscow time).
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Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Без рубрики.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko helped 15 people to pay fines imposed on them for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 16.06.2023
Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko
The Pskov branch of Yabloko used the remainder of the charitable amount raised to pay the fine for Yelena Kuzmina, a Pskov resident accused of extremism and terrorism for her posts on VKontakte social media criticizing Vladimir Putin, so that to help to cover the fines for 15 more people.
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Posted: June 19th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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