Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Photo: The Moscow City Duma / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Moscow City Duma did not support Yabloko’s amendments to the Moscow Electoral Code on the return of a mixed electoral system and the possibility to appoint election observers from public associations. Yabloko’s amendments to the Electoral Code of Moscow were presented by Andrei Morev head of the municipal district Yakimanka in Moscow, Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the district and Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko.
The Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party elected a new chairperson at the Conference of the regional branch. Natalia Chubykina became new Chair.
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On May 24, Judge of the Novgorod District Court overturned the decision of the court of a lower instance to bring Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, to administrative liability for violating election campaigning rules during the by-elections of a deputy of the Duma of Novgorod in constituency No. 3, in which Yabloko candidate Ksenia Cherepanova ran.
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov and Vasily Moskovets / Photo from social networks
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, filed a lawsuit with the Chelyabinsk Regional Court demanding from the regional government to open a hyde parks (specially designated places where any public events – meetings, rallies, or pickets – can be held without notifying the authorities) in all the seven districts of Chelyabinsk. The defendant is the Government of the Chelyabinsk Region.
After the government excluded several locations from the list of city guide parks, only two sites remained in Chelyabinsk.
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The pro-government majority of St.Petersburg parliament excluded from the agenda of the plenary session Yabloko’s draft statement on the protection of citizens’ rights to freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”: 37 parliamentarians voted for the decline of consideration of consider the document introduced by the Yabloko faction, two voted against the decline (only Yabloko), and two abstained.
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, made a speech in the St. Petersburg parliament on the issue of amending the regional Social Code on the provision of social support and payments to St. Petersburg residents who were hit or affected during the “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine.
As soon as Vishnevsky started speaking about the need to stop hostilities leading to victims and recalled the proposals of the Yabloko Congress on a ceasefire in Ukraine and peace negotiations, Alexander Belsky, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, turned off his microphone.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Lev Shlosberg in the Novorzhev Library / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko Party announces its traditional annual collection of books for libraries for the upcoming Library Day, 27 May. This year, books will be collected for the library of the city of Novorzhev, the Pskov region.
Today, this library is one of the few venues in the city for cultural communication and education for both children and adults. Particular attention should be paid to the children’s books fund, which is not only small, but also considerably outdated.
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The administration of the popular VKontakte social network blocked the page of Anna Cherepanova, a deputy of the City Duma of Novgorod and Chair of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, at the request of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office.
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo from social networks
Vladimir Yefimov, Chairman of the Kamchatka regional branch of the Yabloko party, was released from the detention centre, where he spent two days in connection with the criminal case brought against him.
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a criminal case was filed against Vladimir Yefimov, a journalist and Chairman of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, under Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”). A search was carried out in Yefimov’s home, and Yefimov was placed in the detention facility.
Earlier, Vladimir Yefimov had been already fined 30,000 roubles twice in administrative cases on “discrediting the army”.
On Monday, 23 May, Andrei Babushkin commemoration meeting will be held at the Moscow office of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 building 2).
Andrei Babushkin, human rights defender, Chairman of the Committee for Civil Rights, a member of the President’s Council on Human Rights and Yabloko Bureau member, passed away on 14 May.
A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind. How and Why Russia Failed to Become a Law-Governed State” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva will be launched in the Moscow office of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 bldg. 2) on Tuesday, 31 May, at 18:00.
The Pskov Regional Court satisfied the complaint by Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, Nikolai Kuzmin, a municipal deputy, and Yekaterina Novikova, a member of the Yabloko Regional Council, against an illegal decision of the city court to open a criminal case on “slander” against the Governor of the Pskov region Mikhail Vedernikov in an anonymous Telegram channel.
Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the Moscow City Court will consider the appeal of politician Vladimir Kara-Murza against the ruling of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow on the choice of a measure of restraint in the form of detention. Kara-Murza has been in jail since 22 April on trumped-up charges of alleged spreading “fake news” about the Russian army.
Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova / Photo by pskov.yabloko.ru
The Pechorsky District Court dismissed the case of “discrediting the army” against Lyubov Zhiltsova, a mathematics teacher and a deputy of the Palkinsky District Assembly in the Pskov Region from Yabloko.
On 25 February, Lyubov Zhiltsova published on her personal page on the VKontakte network a photo of herself with a sheet of paper running “No ** ***”. On 18 April, police officers came to her house in the village of Slopygino, Palkinsky District, and drew up an administrative protocol of offense against her for “discrediting the armed forces” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).
The human rights defender died at the age of 58 on 14 May
Press Release, 17.05.2022
Hundreds of people came to the House of Human Rights in Smolensky Boulevard, Moscow, so that to pay their last respects to Andrei Babushkin: colleagues of Andrei Babushkin in the human rights movement, members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, including its former and current Chairmen Mikhail Fedotov and Valery Fadeyev, and, certainly, Andrei Babushkin’s friends and colleagues in the Yabloko party, in which he has been a member since 1999.
The 16 of May marks the 70th anniversary of Alexander Konstantinovich Nikitin, Chairman of the Board of the Bellona Environmental Human Rights Centre and Deputy Chairman of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov congratulates Alexander Nikitin on his anniversary.
Photo: Andrei Babushkin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 May, Andrei Babushkin, a human rights defender and a member of the Yabloko party since 1999, passed away at the age of 58. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, and Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the Federal Political Committee of the party, express their condolences.
Photo: Andrei Babushkin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the night of 14 May, Andrey Vladimirovich Babushkin, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, passed away at the age of 58.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Judge of the Pskov City Court found Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko, guilty of committing an administrative offense under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”) for a video commentary on the Grazhdanin TV channel and imposed a fine of 32,000 roubles.
