Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
The Zavodskoy District Court of Kemerovo found Yabloko’s Alexander Kalashnik and Nikolai Kovalchuk guilty of violating the procedure for holding mass events in Kemerovo. They received fines of 3,000 roubles and 1,000 roubles, respectively, under Article 20.6.1, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
On February 27, both activists came out on single pickets (that do not require any permissions from the authorities), after which protocols on administrative violations were drawn up against them. Mass events are prohibited in the Kemerovo region, as well as in Moscow and in many Russian regions, due to the coronavirus epidemic, despite the relaxation of the sanitary regime.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 23 March, the Commission on Political Rights of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation discussed the implementation of legislation by the law enforcement when initiating criminal and administrative cases, searches, detentions and arrests in February-March 2022. Nikolai Svanidze, Commission Chairman, historian and journalist, invited Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov Yabloko, Lev Ponomaryov, human rights defender, and Denis Shadrin, lawyer of the human rights OVD-Info NGO, to the meeting.
On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University hosted a Zoom-lecture by Dr. Yevgeny Gontmakher on the topic: “A“special operation” in Ukraine: the consequences for the economy and citizens”. The lecturer is a professor at the Higher School of Economics, Doctor of Economics, Co-Chairman of the Public Constitutional Council, and an expert of the European Dialogue group.
The Yabloko Party University will host an online lecture by Grigory Yavlinsky “New Reality: Changes in Russia and in the World. Causes and consequences”. The lecture will take place on 29 March at 18:00. Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Federal Political Committee, Professor, Doctor of Economics.
On 23 March, deputies of the Moscow City Duma listened to the report of Oleg Baranov, head of the Moscow Police, on the work of the police in 2021.
As part of the report of the Chief of Moscow Police, the deputies were shown a video with statistical data. Thus, the police reported that 5,930 people were detained at unpermitted mass actions in 2021, 5,834 protocols on administrative offenses were drawn up, and 13 criminal cases were opened. 47,412 police officers worked at the elections of the State Duma deputies. According to the video, their work was recognised as impeccable.
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The police detained Vladimir Yefimov, Chairman of the Kamchatka Yabloko, Yefimov managed to tell Kam 24 media about his detention in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky:
“I was detained near my house. There were five police officers. They said that I had to go with them to clarify the circumstances. They say that Nazi symbols were allegedly published on my social networks. Now we are going to the department of the Centre for Combating Extremism,” Yefimov said.
He also added that he had never published images with symbols of Nazism on his social media accounts.
Photo: Michelle Bachelet / Photo from http://euro-ombudsman.org
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov turned to international organisations with a proposal to help organise the exchange of wounded and captured soldiers in Ukraine and the bodies of the dead. The head of the party sent corresponding letters to Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, and Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe.
Today at 6:30 a.m., Daria Poryadina, a member of the Yabloko party and Editor of the periodical Sota, told her colleagues in the media that her flat was being searched. There has been no connection with Daria so far.
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov and Vasily Moskovets / Photo from social networks
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party, and human rights activist Vasily Moskovets filed a lawsuit with the Chelyabinsk regional court demanding that the regional government must lift the ban on holding public events in the region, it imposed during the start of the “special military operation” in Ukraine referring to the coronavirus epidemic.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, spoke on the air of radio PLN FM about the possibility of holding elections against the backdrop of Russia’s “special operation” in Ukraine.
“Formally, Russia remains a republic, as is written in our Constitution. You can laugh, you can cry, but it says that Russia is a republic. And the republic is supposed to hold elections.
We see now that the authorities are preparing for elections or for the process that they call elections. The State Duma adopted a law abolishing the institution of members of election commissions with an advisory vote.
We demand not to turn the law enforcement into punitive bodies
Statement by the Yabloko party, 18.03.2022
Photo by Alexander Kazakov/Kommersant
Early in the morning of 18 March, the police, with the participation of riot police (OMON), searched the apartment of the Chairman of the Pskov Yabloko Lev Shlosberg, members of the Regional Council of the Pskov Yabloko Nikolai Kuzmin and Yekaterina Novikova, the parents of Nikolai Kuzmin, the parents of the Editor-in-Chief of the Pskovskaya Gubernia newspaper Denis Kamalyagin, in the house and apartment of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, and in the home of journalist Viktor Agafonov. The search was also carried out in the apartment of 93-year-old father of Lev Shlosberg.
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin and Yelena Izotova / Photo from social networks
On 17 March, the police searched the homes of a number of civil activists and journalists in Kazan, including Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of Yabloko in Tatarstan, party activists Yelena Izotova and Gulnaz Ravilova.
In Pskov, searches are being carried out at the places of residence of several members of the Pskov Yabloko team, including Lev Shlosberg, the leader of the regional branch and a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko. The searches started at 6:20 a.m.
Photo: Yevgeny Gontmakher / Photo from social networks
On 22 March, the Yabloko Party University will host a Zoom-lecture by Dr. Yevgeny Gontmakher on the topic: “A“special operation” in Ukraine: the consequences for the economy and citizens”. The lecturer is a professor at the Higher School of Economics, Doctor of Economics, Co-Chairman of the Public Constitutional Council, and an expert of the European Dialogue group.
Photo: Yelena Izotova and Gulnaz Ravilova / Photo from social networks
Today, the police came with searches to the activists of Yabloko in Tatarstan, Yelena Izotova and Gulnaz Ravilova, as well as to Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan.
Photo: Cars of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine. Photo by Sergei Averin / RIA Novosti
On 2 March, Grigory Yavlinsky put forward a proposal that the Yabloko party should be provided the opportunity to organise a humanitarian corridor for the exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead between Ukraine and Russia. The Yabloko party had such experience during the first Chechen war. The next day, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov formally addressed this proposal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova, International Red Cross President Peter Maurer, head of the Russian Red Cross Pavel Savchuk, and WHO Representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic.
Photo: Police “inspecting” the office of the Pskov Yabloko
On March 5, the police came to the office of the Pskov branch of Yabloko to conduct an “inspection” and seize computer equipment as part of the administrative proceedings initiated today, on 5 March, under the latest “anti-war” Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in order to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, to maintain international peace and security”), which was adopted and entered into force yesterday.
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, asked Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, basing on Article 21 of the Federal Law on the Human Rights Commissioner in the Russian Federation, to take measures of state protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens in view of information about mass-scale violations of the rights of citizens in St. Petersburg.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn / Photo from social networks
Today, six policemen came to the house of Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The law enforcement insisted on taking Nogovitsyn to the police department, where a protocol was drawn up against him under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 (“public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in order to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, maintain international peace and security”).
Photo: Denis Bolshakov and Andrei Morev at the Moscow Mayor’s Office / Photo by Andrei Morev
Andrei Morev, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, and Denis Bolshakov, a member of the Regional Council of the Moscow branch of the party, filed an application to the Moscow Mayor’s Office for a demonstration on 27 March from 14:00 to 19:00.
