It was only Yabloko which for the second time voted against sending Ryazan officials to Donbas at the expense of local budgets.
Based on Vidsboku, 15.07.2022
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo from social media
On 14 July, the Council of Deputies of the Dubrovskiy Rural Settlement of the Ryazan District adopted a model decision to pay from the municipal budget for business trips of administration employees to the Donbass. It should be noted that this municipality was the only one in the Ryazan region, where deputies rejected such a decision. On 8 July, only three deputies voted in favour of it, three were against, and four abstained. Konstantin Smirnov, a deputy from Yabloko, Editor-in-Chief of the Internet media Vidsboku and Chairman of the Ryazan regional branch of Yabloko, was among those who voted against this.
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Posted: July 15th, 2022 under Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“This is the initiative of workers for the money of advertisers.” The management of St.Petersburg subway answered the question of Yabloko about “Z-advertising”
Press Release, 13.07.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
“Z-posters” in the St. Petersburg subway are placed on the initiative of the trade union of workers, on the money of an advertising agency. That is how the subway management responded to Yabloko’s request about the legality of placing Z-signs in St.Petersburg metro.
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Posted: July 14th, 2022 under 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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Yabloko member Konstantin Kononenko fined in Barnaul for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022
Photo by chikennnsem@gmail.com/depositphotos
The Zheleznodorozhny District Court in Barnaul, the Altai Territory, fined Konstantin Kononenko, an activist of the Yabloko party, 30,000 roubles under an administrative article on “discrediting the army.”
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Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko member Vladimir Fateyev fined twice in Tambov for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022
Photo: Vladimir Fateyev / Photo from social media
On 11 July, the Tambov Regional Court upheld the decision of the Sovietsky Court of the city of Tambov on the guilt of Vladimir Fateyev, musician and a member of the Yabloko party, in “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
On 10 June, Vladimir Fateyev pronounced “no ** ***” out loud while at the railway station. A few minutes later he was arrested by the police. The police drew up a protocol on an administrative offense against Fateyev.
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Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lyubov Zhiltsova, Yabloko deputy in the Pskov region, fined in the case of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 13.07.2022
Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova / Photo from pskov.yabloko.ru
Lyubov Zhiltsova, teacher and Yabloko deputy of the Palkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov Region, was fined 30,000 roubles for “discrediting the army” for a photo with the words “No ** ***!”
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Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chairman of the local branch of Yabloko in Novgorod found guilty of “spreading fakes” about the “special operation”
Press Release, 12.07.2022
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo from social media
On 11 July, the Novgorod District Court fined Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, 30,000 roubles for “spreading false information” about the “special operation” on the VKontakte social network (Article 13.15 Part 9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
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Posted: July 13th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow City Court upheld the verdict against Nikolai Kavkazsky
Press Release, 11.07.2022
Photo: Nikolai Kavkazsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Moscow City Court rejected the complaint by Nikolai Kavkazsky, a human rights activist and a member of the Regional Council of the Moscow Yabloko, against the decision of the Basmanny District Court. On 25 June, Kavkazsky was found guilty of “demonstrating extremist symbols” (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Nominated by the Conference of the Moscow Yabloko, the candidate for municipal deputies Nikolai Kavkazsky, will no longer be able to take part in the elections.
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Posted: July 12th, 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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Candidate in Moscow municipal elections Maya Baidakova arrested for ten days
Press Release, 8.07.2022
Photo: Maya Baidakova (left) and Andrei Morev. / Photo from social media
Maya Baidakova, deputy head of the legal department in the Council of Deputies of Yakimanka District in Moscow and a candidate for Moscow municipal deputies, was arrested for ten days under Article 20.3 of the Administrative Offences Code (“demonstration of extremist symbols”). The accusation under this article deprives a politician of the opportunity to run for election.
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Posted: July 12th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A court in Belgorod brought in a verdict of not guilty in a case against a Yabloko activist who started a picket against the destruction of the trolleybus network
Press Release, 8.07.2022
Photo: Ilya Kostyukov / Photo by Victoria Litvin
The Oktyabrsky Court of Belgorod acquitted Ilya Kostyukov, an activist of the Yabloko party, who was accused by police of participating in an unpermitted mass public rally.
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Posted: July 8th, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko Andrei Morev detained by police at the exit from the court, which found him guilty of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 7.07.2022
Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko and the head of the Yakimanka urban district of in Moscow, was detained by police officers at the exit of the court, which found him guilty of “discrediting the army” and awarded him a fine of 50,000 roubles.
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Posted: July 8th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko nominates candidates for municipal elections in Moscow
The conference demanded that the authorities immediately stop pressure on independent candidates.
Press Release, 7.07.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The conference of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party approved a list of 229 candidates for the elections of deputies of Moscow municipalities in September 2022. Yabloko candidates will compete for mandates in 66 municipal districts.
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Posted: July 8th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Court in Novosibirsk fined Yabloko member Alexei Manannikov for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 05.07.2022
Photo: Alexei Manannikov / Photo from social media
The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Novosibirsk found Alexei Manannikov, a member of the Yabloko party, a former People’s Deputy of the RSFSR (1990-1993) and a former member of the Federation Council (1993-1995), guilty of “discrediting the army” and fined him 30,000 roubles for an anti-war post posted on the social network VKontakte on 31 March, 2022. Manannikov’s personal page on the VKontakte social media was blocked by the decision of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office of 19 April, 2022.
Alexei Manannikov, who has been living abroad for the past few years, said that the court’s decision was symbolic for him: in the USSR, 40 years ago, at the end of June 1982, the Moscow City Court sentenced him for “disseminating deliberately false fabrications discrediting the Soviet state and social system”. Then Manannikov was arrested and sentenced to three years for speaking in support of the Polish association of independent trade unions Solidarity and criticising the suppression of the labour movement by the state.
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Posted: July 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk Regional Court declared the refusal of the Magnitogorsk Mayor’s Office to allow a May Day demonstration illegal
Press Release, 5.07.2022
Photo: Procession “For Peace!” in Miass, 1 May, 2022
The decision of the Pravoberezhny District Court of Magnitogorsk, which sided with the Magnitogorsk administration, was appealed in the regional court by Svetlana Sheinova, Chairwoman of the Magnitogorsk Yabloko.
It should be noted that Svetlana Sheinova tried to get a permission for the May Day demonstration “For Peace!”, but was refused by the Mayor’s Office of Magnitorosk, which cited the threat of coronavirus. The same answer, like a carbon-copy, was also issued by the Mayor’s Office of Chelyabinsk to Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party.
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Posted: July 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vice Governor of St. Petersburg answered Yabloko that it was allowed to place Z-signs in the subway without any documents or justifications
Press Release, 4.07.2022
Photo: Kirill Polyakov/ Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg
Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Kirill Polyakov, who is responsible for transport in St.Petersburg, responded to the appeal by the deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov. They asked for an explanation on what grounds the Z-symbols were placed on advertising space in the St. Petersburg subway.
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Posted: July 5th, 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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Russia-2022: Underlying Causes
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 2.06.2022
The most important specific of Russian national disasters is that they can all be attributed to the inadequate
capability documented in culture to respond adequately to the challenges of history.
Alexander Akhiezer
In order to understand what has happened in Russia and before we even attempt to contemplate what comes next, we need to find an answer to the key question: why and how did we end up with a political system and state structure which has effectively organised the largest armed conflict between countries in Europe after World War II, with countless victims, creating in the process a serious large-scale and direct threat to the future? Or to put it another way, why and how did a political system appear, which has resulted in the so-called “special military operation” against Ukraine on 24 February 2022?
If we fail to answer this question, we will be unable to extricate ourselves from the destructive path that Russia has already been taking for 30 years, while the developments today will also be repeated in future in the most savage forms.
We are witnessing and participating in monumental events. It goes without saying that they include moral, cultural and historical aspects. However, in this article I will focus on the underlying political causes of these developments.
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Posted: July 4th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Shishlov: “This is not just a fight against the so-called foreign influence”
The practice of adopting such laws shows that parliamentary activity has degraded
Rosbalt*, 30.06.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The State Duma adopted a unified law “On control over the activities of persons under foreign influence”. Now new restrictions are being introduced for foreign agents. They will be deprived of the opportunity to receive state financial support, including that in the implementation of creative activities, and they will not be able to use the simplified taxation scheme. They will also be prohibited from participating in the organisation and conduct of a public environmental expertise, teaching and educational activities in relation to minors. Alexander Shishlov, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from the Yabloko party, tells what is behind the practices of recognising Russians as foreign agents.
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Posted: July 4th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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It took the court three attempts to finally dismiss the case of “illegal campaigning” against the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the city of Novgorod
Press Release, 29.06.2022
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin after being attacked / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The court of the first instance dismissed the case on the distribution of Yabloko campaign postcards “Ksenia Cherepanova Is for Peace” by Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the Novgorod city branch of Yabloko, due to the absence of any corpus delicti. Ksenia Cherepanova was Yabloko’s candidate at the Novgorod City Duma elections.
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Posted: June 30th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Morev, Deputy Сhairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, will be tried for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 28.06.2022
Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
An administrative case under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the army”) was filed against Andrei Morev, Deputy Сhairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and head of the Yakimanka Moscow district.
Morev learned that an administrative protocol was drawn up against him from the summon, which he received by mail. What exactly was considered to be “discreditation of the army” is unclear. On 7 July, Morev’s case will be considered by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov proposed to the government to remove anti-coronavirus restrictions on crossing the Russian border
Press Release, 28.06.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Russian citizens continue to face travel restrictions at the vehicle checkpoints at the Russian border. The restrictions were established by the Russian government in March 2020 and have not yet been lifted, despite a sharp decrease in the morbidity and the abolition of anti-virus restrictions in the neighbouring countries. Thus, recently the refusal of the Russian border guards to allow famous Russian film director Alexander Sokurov, who is resident of St.Petersburg, to pass through the Russian-Finnish border to participate in an international conference caused a great public outcry.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will take part in three election campaigns
Press Release, 26.06.2022
Photo: members of the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party
On 24 June, the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party held its conference. The conference made a decision on participation of candidates from the party in the elections that will be held in the region in September.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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