The Court of Cassation did not cancel the fine for Alexander Shishlov for “discrediting the army”. The court also imputed Shishlov the facts that had not taken place
Press Release, 30.05.2023
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Third Court of Cassation decided not to cancel the fine for “discrediting the army” to Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Chairman of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko. Moreover, Deputy Chairman of the Third Court of Cassation indicated in the decision the facts that were neither in the case file nor had taken place in reality, namely, Shishlov’s procession with a poster through the city.
Read more »
Posted: June 5th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The defenсe of the arrested leader of the Vologda Yabloko Nikolai Yegorov challenged the conclusions of the odious forensic expert
Press Release, 29.05.2023
Photo: Nikolai Yegorov with his family / Photo from social media
An investigation against the chairman of the Vologda regional branch of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Yegorov, is underway. The leader of the Bologda Yabloko is charged with “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code). According to the Yegorov’s lawyer, an examination of the content of the posts incriminated to Yegorov will be carried out by odious Danila Mikheyev, already widely known for his conclusions on the cases of extremism and “discrediting the army”. The 23-year-old “expert” does not have a profile higher linguistic education, as required by the federal law “On State Forensic Expertise”. In the summer of 2022, the Ministry of Justice, at the request of several lawyers whose clients were accused basing on Mikheyev’s expertise, confirmed that the odious “expert” did not have the necessary qualifications for the expertise.
Read more »
Posted: June 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Yabloko’s Gender Faction to discuss the National Strategy for Women
Press Release, 31.05.2023
Photo by Goldfinch4ever/Depositphotos.com
On 5 June, Yabloko will host a round table of its Gender Faction “The National Strategy for Women for 2023-2030: How to Evaluate?”. Do the quantitative data contained in the document correspond to reality? Does the Strategy really meet the objectives of achieving gender equality? The participants of the round table will answer these and other questions.
Read more »
Posted: May 31st, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
Comments: none
Yabloko candidates for deputies of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg presented their programmes
Press Release, 29.05.2023
Photo: Presentation of the programmes of candidates for deputies from the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko / Photo by the regional office of the party
Last Sunday, candidates for deputies from the Yabloko party launched their election programmes and concepts of their election campaigns, and also answered questions from voters and the press. All party candidates will campaign under the slogan “FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM!”.
Read more »
Posted: May 31st, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, 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.
Comments: none
The Novgorod Yabloko held a conference of the regional branch. New steering bodies of the branch elected
Press Release, 29.05.2023
Photo: Delegates of the Novgorod Yabloko Conference / Photo by the regional office of Yabloko
On 27 May, The Yabloko branch in Novgorod hold a party Conference of the regional branch.
Read more »
Posted: May 31st, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Yabloko Party University to host a lecture by Sergei Mitrokhin
Press Release, 26.05.2023
On 8 June, the Yabloko Party University will host Sergei Mitrokhin’s lecture “The Tradition of Constituent Assemblies and Its Role in the Future Revival of Russia”. Sergei Mitrokhin is a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, a deputy of the Moscow City Duma, and Yabloko Chairman from 2008 to 2015, candidate of political sciences.
Read more »
Posted: May 31st, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars.
Comments: none
The European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation to a Yabloko member in Tatarstan for persecution due to his participation in a peaceful action
Press Release 26.05.2023
Photo: Activists at a peaceful rally against pension reform / Photo from social media
In 2018, Yabloko member Nikita Khramov was detained in Kazan for stretching “No to the pension scam” slogan at a September rally against pension reform. Khramov was later fined 10,000 roubles under Article 20.2, Part 5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (participation in an unpermitted rally).
Read more »
Posted: May 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Volgograd Region Court upheld the decision on a fine for Yabloko’s Alexander Yefimov under the article of “discrediting the army”
Press Release 25.05.2023
Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Volgograd Region Court upheld the decision on a fine for Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party, under the article of “discrediting the army”. Yefimov intends to appeal to a higher court.
Read more »
Posted: May 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko to launch programmes of candidates for deputies to the Yekaterinburg City Duma and hold an action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 24.05.2023
On 28 May, The Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko organises an open meeting with potential candidates for deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, who will introduce themselves and their election programmes to the residents of Yekaterinburg. Everyone will have the opportunity to not only listen to the presentations of the candidates, but also to ask questions. Konstantin Kiselyov, the current deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma from the Yabloko party, will act as an expert in evaluating the programmes of candidates to the city parliament. The event will be moderated by Alexander Kudelkin, a member of the Yabloko party and ex-candidate for the elections of deputies of the State Duma in 2021 from Yabloko.
Read more »
Posted: May 24th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Ulyanovsk branch of Yabloko honoured the memory of Acad. Andrei Sakharov on his birthday
Press Release, 24.05.2023
Photo: Dmitry Gondarenko, Chairman of the Ulyanovsk branch of Yabloko, and Sergei Plyasunov, candidate to member of the party / Photo by the Ulyanovsk regional office of Yabloko
On 21 May, Dmitry Gondarenko, Chairman of the Ulyanovsk branch of Yabloko, together with Yabloko supporters, laid flowers at the memorial of the victims of political repression on the birthday of Acad. Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a Soviet scientist, theoretical physicist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, first and honorary chairman of the Memorial society and human rights defender.
Read more »
Posted: May 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
“You can’t even imagine how inspiring is the support from the outside!” Yabloko invites all to its actions of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 23.05.2023
Yabloko will hold actions in support of political prisoners in its offices all over Russia in the coming days. Everyone who would like to help politicians and civil activists who were unjustly convicted or are under investigation is invited to join our actions. Participants of the actions can sign postcards printed by the Yabloko party or bring ordinary letters. Regional offices of Yabloko take up the obligation to send all the letters and postcards to the addressees.
Read more »
Posted: May 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Sergei Mitrokhin turns 60!
Congratulations from Grigory Yavlinsky and Nikolai Rybakov
20.05.2023
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by Sergei Pyatakov, RIA Novosti
Sergei Mitrokhin, a deputy of the Moscow City Duma, a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko and the second Chairman of the party (2008-2015), turns 60 on 20 May. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, and Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Party Chairman, congratulate Sergei Mitrokhin on his anniversary:
Read more »
Posted: May 22nd, 2023 under Greetings.
Comments: none
The Yabloko Party Congress to elect party leaders in October
Press Release, 18.05.2023
The Yabloko party will hold its 22nd Congress in October 2023. The Congress will election the governing bodies of the party. This decision was made today by the Federal Bureau of the party. The date of the congress will be determined by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov.
Read more »
Posted: May 18th, 2023 under 22nd Congress of Yabloko, Congresses.
Comments: none
Yabloko MP asks the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to stop the adoption by the State Duma of a bill permitting killing of homeless animals
Press Release, 18.05.2023
Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies from the Yabloko party, sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, where he quoted the norms of federal laws and articles of the Constitution that or contrary to the legislative initiative that gives the regional authorities the right to independently solve the problem of stray animals, including killing them by methods or means.
Read more »
Posted: May 18th, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The Supreme Court of Yakutia upheld the sentence to Anatoly Nogovitsyn. Yabloko launches fundraising for the payment of the fine
Press Release, 16.05.2023
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from social media
The Supreme Court of Yakutia upheld the verdict of the City Court of Yakutsk, which sentenced the leader of Yabloko in Yakutia, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, to a 200,000 roubles fine under the criminal article on “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Read more »
Posted: May 16th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
“The battlefield demands blood and nothing else. However, in the 21st century we cannot follow the tracks reeking of blood of the 20th century.”
Lev Shlosberg gets the Gilel Storch Award for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of humanist values
Press Release, 13.05.2023
Photo: Marсus Storch hands to Lev Schlosberg the sculpture of the Gilel Storch Award
The Gilel Storch Award for 2023 was extended to Russian politician Lev Shlosberg, member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party. The award ceremony took place in Stockholm on 8 May.
The Gilel Storch Award is an international award and, according to its public declaration, is given to individuals who, through outstanding activities, have contributed to promoting democratic, universal, and humanistic values in the spirit of Gilel Storch.
Read more »
Posted: May 16th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The leader of Yabloko urged deputies of the State Duma to vote against the law stipulating killing of homeless animals and sent MPs a letter with the story of his dog taken from a shelter
Press Release, 12.05.2023
Chairman of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov, sent to deputies of the State Duma a postcard with a picture of his dog Morty and his history, as well as a urged MPs to vote against the law allowing killing of homeless animals. Each member of the State Duma will receive this postcard before voting.
Read more »
Posted: May 12th, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment.
Comments: none
The Yabloko party called on the authors of the bill on the killing of homeless animals to withdraw it from the State Duma
Press Release, 3.05.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter with a corresponding request to the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the State Duma of Russia, where the bill is being discussed today. According to Yabloko, amendments to this bill will lead to mass killings of animals in many regions of the Russian Federation.
Read more »
Posted: May 12th, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment.
Comments: none
Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov: The real memory of those who died in the Second World War would be a peaceful sky above us, over all of Europe, over the whole world. And our responsibility is to return it
Press Release, 6.05.2023
On 6 May, on the threashold of Victory Day, Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, on behalf of all Yabloko members, laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.
“When I come to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall, or Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, or the Piskarevskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, or to other mass graves, I think again and again about what an incredible price was paid for peace and how fragile it turned out to be. The real memory of those who died in the Second World War would be a peaceful sky above us, over all of Europe, over the whole world. And our responsibility is to return this world and stop killing of people,” Rybakov stressed.
Read more »
Posted: May 12th, 2023 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
Comments: none
The St. Petersburg City Court sided with Yabloko: a complaint against the investigator who seized Yelena Osipova’s paintings from the Yabloko office will be considered on the merits
Press Release, 10.05.2023
Photo: Yelena Osipova at the opening of the exhibition in the office of the St. Petersburg Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The complaint of the lawyer of the St. Petersburg Yabloko Andrei Chertkov against the actions of the investigator, who seized the paintings of the artist Yelena Osipova, is subject to consideration on the merits in the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg. This decision was made by the St. Petersburg City Court on Wednesday, 10 May. The hearings were also attended by Alexander Shishlov, head of the regional branch of the Yabloko party and the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg.
Read more »
Posted: May 11th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
