Yabloko launches a fundraising campaign to cover the services of a lawyer for the leader of the Kamchatka Yabloko, who became a defendant in a criminal case on military censorship
Press Release, 4.04.2023
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Past week, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court found Vladimir Yefimov, journalist and Chairman of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court imposed a fine of 200,000 roubles on the journalist and also banned him accessing the Internet for two years. The decision has not yet entered into force. Now Vladimir Yefimov needs help to cover the services of a lawyer. Yabloko launches a fundraising campaign to collect of 80,000 roubles.
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Posted: April 4th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko held another charity event for refugees from Ukraine, including children
Press Release, 4.04.2023
The Rostov-on-Don branch of the Yabloko party, together with the Rostov Pomogayet Foundation (Rostov Helps) and the Shamaika restaurant, held another charity event called Yabloko’s Pie (“yabloko” means “apple” in Russian). On Sunday, 2 April, little cooks and their parents, refugees from Ukraine, baked pies together with Yabloko activists. They have prepared more than 20 pies under the guidance of the restaurant chefs, some of the pie will go to their families. Another part of the pies will be given to the other families of refugees who came to the Rostov region from Ukraine.
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Posted: April 4th, 2023 under Charity, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A launch of new collections of women’s prose and a meeting with writers to take place in Yabloko
Press Release, 3.04.2023
Photo: Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Svetlana Vasilenko
A launch of new collections of women’s prose and a meeting with writers, critics and publishers will take place at the Yabloko office in Moscow on 18 April. The new collections of prose are “News of the Feminine”, “Girl on the Ball, or Dreams of Childhood” (the Russian Writers’ Union) and Nadezhda Azhgikhina’s book “Dreams” (AIRO-XXI). The anchors will be Svetlana Vasilenko, the First Secretary of the Russian Writers’ Union, and Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Director of PEN Moscow.
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Posted: April 4th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Yabloko demanded that the State Duma reject a bill expediting elimination of specially protected nature preservation areas
Press Release, 3.04.2023
Photo by Sergei Kiselyov / Kommersant
The corresponding appeal was adopted at a meeting of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and sent to the deputies of the State Duma of Russia on Friday, 31 March, the last day for submitting comments to the relevant committee, which should examine the bill before the first reading.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Happy Anniversary to Novaya Gazeta! The bravest Russian newspaper turns 30 years old
Press Release, 1.04.2023
Photo: A sign at the entrance to the editorial office of the Novaya Gazeta Publishing House and a memorial plaque (left) for Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of Novaya Gazeta, killed in Moscow in 2006 / Photo by Emin Jafarov, Kommersant
Today, Novaya Gazeta is not only an example of high professionalism, fortitude and resilience, but also an example of patriotism in the best sense of the word. The key principle of the newspaper staff has always been the desire to tell the truth with the ultimate goal to make life in our country better.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Human Rights.
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“The mind refuses to believe that all this is really happening.” A letter from journalist Mikhail Afanasyev from the pre-trial detention centre about the battle between common sense and abnormality
Press Release, 31.03.2023
Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of Yabloko and a journalist, has been in jail for a year already on the charges of spreading fake news about the army “using his official position”. On 29 March, new court hearings on the case of Mikhail Afanasyev began in Abakan, Khakassia. The investigators consider Afanasyev’s article 11 fighters of the Khakassian riot police refused to go to the special operation zone a year ago as spreading fake news.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Vladimir Yefimov, the leader of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, found guilty of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 31.03.2023
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The journalist was sentenced to a fine of 200,000 roubles and a ban on publishing his materials on the Internet for two years. The decision will be appealed.
Today, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court ruled out in a criminal case against Vladimir Yefimov, a journalist and the leader of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, that he was guilty of “discrediting the armed forces” under Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: March 31st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, found guilty of “discrediting the army” for publishing a UN report on victims in Ukraine
Press Release, 30.03.2023
Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo from the Yabloko Press Service
Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, was found guilty of “discrediting the army” for publishing a UN report on victims in Ukraine on the VKontakte social media and fined 30,000 roubles. Alexander is going to appeal the decision.
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Posted: March 30th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Social Democratic Faction of Yabloko held a round table “How do we see the future of Russia?”
Press Release, 29.03.2023
The Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko party held a round table “How do we see the future of Russia?”. Three main scenarios for the development of events were discussed at the round table: peace; neither peace nor war; and the third world war.
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Posted: March 29th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Democratic faction, Social Policies.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko recruits observers for the upcoming elections
Press Release, 29.03.2023
Photo: Training of citizens who are going to work at polling stations as observers / Photo by the Saratov branch of Yabloko
This year, a large number of municipal election campaigns will be held in the Saratov region. Local self-government is the most important mechanism for the implementation of democracy, which unfortunately does not work for us in Russia, but still we should not give up even in such a situation, there are many examples when, against all odds, worthy people became deputies and tried to change something.
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Posted: March 29th, 2023 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vladimir Yefimov to make his last statement at the trial on 31 March. A decision on his criminal case can be made on the same day
Press Release, 29.03.2023
On 31 March, Vladimir Yefimov, a journalist and the leader of the regional branch of Yabloko, will make his las statement at the trial over him in the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court. The verdict can be pronounced on the same day.
Vladimir Yefimov is accused of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for publications on social media. Earlier, the journalist was under pressure from the security forces for his pacifist position and was fined 30,000 roubles twice in administrative cases on “discrediting the army”.
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Posted: March 29th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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New court hearings on the case of Yabloko’s Mikhail Afanasyev begin
Press Release, 28.03.2023
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev with his wife Yelena and two younger children / Photo from the personal archive
On 29 March, the Abakan City Court will launch hearings on the criminal case of “fakes about the army” against journalist Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party and a laureate of the Andrei Sakharov Prize “For Journalism as an Act”. The first court session is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. local time (5:30 a.m. Moscow time).
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Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko prepares for the elections: a party conference scheduled, a discussion about the programme held, and formation of electoral commissions began
Press Release, 28.03.2023
Photo by the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko
Past weekend, the Regional Council of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko appointed the conference of the regional branch, which will put forward a list of Yabloko candidates for deputies of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. The conference will take place in June. Also the Council listened to the reports of deputies from Yabloko Konstantin Kiselyov (the City Duma of Yekaterinburg) and Vladimir Sevostyanov (the Duma of the Sukhoi Log City District) on the work done.
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Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Federal Political Committee of Yabloko: “We are not going to leave Russia and will fight for its future”
Press Release, 28.03.2023
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Political Committee, and Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of the Political Committee
On 24 March, a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, a collegial governing body that formulates the party’s position on major political issues between congresses, took place at the central office of Yabloko in Moscow.
The Political Committee states that the article by Grigory Yavlinsky “Just Stop!” (https://eng.yabloko.ru/just-stop/) which was published in the Novaya Rasskaz-Gazeta in early February of this year and caused a wide public outcry both in Russia and abroad, expresses the official political stance of the party.
Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, made a report on the political situation in Russia and the world.
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Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The City Court of St. Petersburg will consider the appeal of Yabloko against the decision on the court of the first instance, which refused to annul the results of the voting at polling station No. 177 with fake electoral commission members
Press Release, 27.03.2023
Photo: Elizaveta Metyolkina, a member of precinct electoral commission No. 177, according to the heads of electoral commission No. 177 and Territorial Electoral Commission No. 2, she was born in 1999 / Photo by Petersburg Yabloko
On 28 March, the St. Petersburg City Court will consider the appeal of Dmitry Anisimov, a member of the Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko, against the decision of the Vasileostrovskiy District Court, which in April 2022 did not annul the results of the past elections of deputies of the Legislative Assembly at precinct No. 177, where, according to numerous photo and video evidence and journalistic investigations, six out of 12 members of the electoral commission were fake members of the commission.
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Posted: March 28th, 2023 under Elections, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko urged Vladimir Putin to exclude the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from the register of foreign agents
Press Release, 24.03.2023
Photo: WWF in Russia
Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin with an appeal to exclude the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from the register of foreign agents. According to Rybakov, the decision on listing WWF in the register of foreign agents must be canceled, as well as the whole legislation on foreign agents.
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Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Alexander Shishlov: “A Stalinist state with its main feature – the priority of the state over the individual – is being reproduced in Russia”
Press Release, 24.03.2023
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A basis for Russia’s cardinal civilizational U-turn and the country’s leaving the mainstream development of human civilization is being created in Russia. Such a statement was made by Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the former Commissioner for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, at the plenary session of the 9th International Conference “Human Rights Activities in Modern Russia: Problems and Their Solutions” which took place on Thursday, 23 March.
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Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“This is the stem that does not allow one to bend down.” Actions of writing letters to political prisoners to be held in Moscow and Russian regions
Press Release, 24.03.2023
Photo: A drawing by imprisoned journalist and blogger Yan Kotelevsky: a prisoner is breaking the chains of censorship, religion, mortgage, ignorance, slavery, and dictatorship.
In the next two weeks, Yabloko will hold its regular actions of writing letters to political prisoners. The actions will take place at the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow and the regional branches of the party. Yabloko invites everyone who would like to send a few kind words and wishes to those unjustly deprived of their liberty to participate. Yabloko will help the participants to deal with the intricacies of how to write a letter to an imprisoned addressee, and will also take care of sending letters by mail. Please read our short guide on how to write a letter for a political prisoner.
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Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Anatoly Nogovitsyn fined 200,000 roubles for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 21.03.2023
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 21 March, the Yakutsk City Court found Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the leader of the Yabloko branch in Yakutia, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and imposed on him a fine of 280,000 roubles, which was reduced to 200,000 roubles due to the prohibition of certain actions imposed on Nogovitsyn since September 2022. In addition, until the court’s decision enters into force, Nogovitsyn is banned from leaving Russia and is required “proper behavior”. The politician intends to appeal the verdict, as he does not consider himself guilty.
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Posted: March 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The chief of St.Petersburg police promised Yabloko to return the seized paintings by artist Yelena Osipova by May
Press Release, 23.03.2023
Photo: Artist Yelena Osipova at the opening of her exhibition in the office of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Roman Plugin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, said that the paintings by the artist Yelena Osipova, seized from the exhibition “PEACEful Art Protest” in the Yabloko office in February, would be returned in early May. This was stated in his response to a question from Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, 28 March.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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