The Moscow branch of Yabloko filed an application to the Moscow Mayor for a demonstration on March 27
Press Release, 16.03.2022
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.
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Posted: March 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Police searches homes of Yabloko activists
Press Release, 13.03.2022
Photo: Pavel Sychyov / Photo from social networks
In Rostov-on-Don, a search was carried out at the home of Tatyana Sporysheva, a supporter of the Yabloko party. The police seized all the equipment. The lawyer was not allowed into the apartment. The status of Sporysheva in the case is not clear. On 14 March, the activist was summoned for interrogation within the framework of the case of rehabilitation of Nazism because of a repost in Telegram of an article by journalist Sergei Reznik. A journalist involved in corruption investigations was forced to leave Russia.
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Posted: March 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Kemerovo branch of Yabloko is under pressure from the law enforcement
Chairman of the branch Vitaly Ilyin, activists Valentin Grushevsky, Alexander Kalashnik and Denis Shakin are under pressure
Press Release, 12.03.2022
Photo: Vitaly Ilyin / Photo from social networks
The Chairman of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko and activists of the regional branch were fired from their jobs and fined under the new “anti-war” article, also they received warnings and threats from the security forces for their position on *** in Ukraine.
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Posted: March 16th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko MPs in the St.Petersburg parliament Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky called for the abolition of laws imposing penalties for anti-war protests
Press Release, 15.03.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky sent an appeal to the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and deputies of the State Duma demanding to immediately cancel the amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, adopted on 4 March, imposing penalties for spreading “fakes” about the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, “publicly discrediting the use of the Armed Forces” and “public calls to obstruct the use of the Armed Forces”.
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Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko initiated a new petition on the immediate start of an exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead with Ukraine on the principle of “all for all”
Press Release, 7.03.2022
Photo by Valery Melnikov / RIA Novosti
Well-known St. Petersburg influencers in culture and science, politicians and human rights activists appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a petition to immediately begin an exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead with Ukraine on the principle of “all for all”.
The petition was published on the Change.org platform by Anatoly Golov, a member of the Bureau of the Yabloko party.
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Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The leader of the Rostov Yabloko Maria Krivenko received ten days of arrest. She was subjected to psychological pressure from the Centre for Combatting Extremism officers
Press Release, 8.03.2022
Photo: Maria Krivenko / Photo from social networks
Maria Krivenko, Chairperson of the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko received ten days of administrative arrest for “petty hooliganism”, which she did not commit. Maria and Yabloko will appeal against the decision of the court.
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Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Police detained seven members of Yabloko in four Russian regions including chairpersons of the regional branches of the party in Bashkiria, Ivanovo and Rostov regions
Press Release, 6.03.2022
Photo by Alexander Meridonov / Kommersant
At least seven members of the Yabloko party were detained on March 6 in four Russian regions, including chairpersons of the regional branches of the party in Bashkiria, Ivanovo and Rostov regions.
The police detained Maria Krivenko, Chair of the Rostov branch of Yabloko, at the entrance to the party office in Rostov-on-Don in the morning of 6 March. She was taken to police department No 4 of the Leninsky district, where a protocol of a violation was drawn up under Article 20.1 part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“petty hooliganism”). Earlier, another activist of the Rostov branch of Yabloko Vladimir Beradze received 15 days of arrest under the same article. Probably Maria Krivenko will stay at the police department for the night, and tomorrow, 7 March, she will appear before the court.
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Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko member Svetlana Gannushkina summoned for questioning to the Federal Security Service, and the Civic Assistance Committee NGO searched
Press Release, 5.03.2022
Photo: Svetlana Gannushkina / Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service
Federal Security Service (FSB) officers came to the Civic Assistance Committee on 4 March. Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the Committee and a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, said that the server and hard drive were taken away during the search, and she was taken for interrogation, which will continue on 9 March (after public holidays in Russia).
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Posted: March 15th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Moscow Mayor’s Office refused to give a permission to Yabloko for the march “For Peace!”
Press Release, 5.03.2022
Photo: Peace March in 2014. Moscow
The Department of Regional Security of the Moscow government officially refused the Yabloko party to hold the march “For Peace!” both on 12 and 13 March.
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Posted: March 5th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vladimir Beradze, a Yabloko member in Rostov-on-Don, arrested
Press Release, 4.03.2022
Photo: Vladimir Beradze / Photo from social networks
On 3 March, the police in Rostov-on-Don detained Vladimir Beradze, a member of the Yabloko party. He is one of the applicants for the action “For Peace and Friendship Between Peoples”.
The police approached Beradze in the street and checked his documents, and then took away his passport and phone. The police accused the activist of swearing and molesting passers-by, as well as resisting arrest, which was not true.
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Posted: March 4th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Kirill Rumyantsev, a Yabloko activist in Saratov, threatened with expulsion from the university for a picket for peace
Press Release, 4.03.2022
Photo: Kirill Rumyantsev during his single picket
The Press Service of the Yabloko party received was a voice recording of a conversation between Kirill Rumyantsev, an activist of the party and a fourth year student of the Saratov State Law Academy, and Alexander Zemlyansky, the Director of the Academy’s Institute of Justice.
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Posted: March 4th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko appealed to the Red Cross and WHO calling them to give the party the opportunity to organise the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of the dead
Press Release, 3.03.2022
Photo by Marina Movdavskaya / Kommersant
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent appeals to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, International Red Cross President Peter Maurer, head of the Russian Red Cross Pavel Savchuk, and WHO representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic, urging them to provide an opportunity for Yabloko for practical creation of a special humanitarian corridor for the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of the dead with Ukraine, as well as to provide evacuation routes for the civilian population.
Rybakov refers to Article 110 of the Geneva Convention, according to which prisoners of war are subject to direct repatriation.
The Yabloko leader emphasises that the party has the necessary resources and experience gained during the two Chechen wars.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Vologda branch of Yabloko notified the mayor’s office of a rally for peace
Press Release, 3.03.2022
The Vologda regional branch of the Yabloko party submitted a notification to the Vologda administration about holding a rally in Revolution Square, next to the Eternal Flame monument, on 12 March from 11:00 to 12:00. The purpose of the rally is to express the attitude towards the “special operation” in Ukraine. The declared number of participants is 100 people.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko initiated a rally for 1,000 people
Press Release, 3.03.2022
Photo: Artur Gaiduk, Nikolai Kuzmin and Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
Deputies from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk (the Pskov Regional Assembly), Nikolai Kuzmin (the Assembly of Deputies of the Zavelichenskaya Volost of the Pskov District) and Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of the party, filed a notification of a rally for peace to the Administration of the Pskov Region and sent a corresponding request to Rospotrebnadzor (the Russian Federal State Agency for Health and Consumer Rights). The rally is scheduled for 12 March at 12:00 – 14:00 (as according to the Russian law a notification should be filed for a public action no earlier than ten days before the action) and should take place in the so-called “hyde park” in Pskov (a specially designated site for holding public actions without any permissions from the authorities).
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Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Unidentified people destroyed the office of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, where Yabloko was collecting signatures for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 2.03.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Unidentified persons broke into the office of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party at Bolshaya Pokrovskaya 7, on 2 March, at about 3:00 p.m. Eight people neutralised the security guard of the building, locked themselves in the office of the party along with two activists who were there, damaged property and took away the sheets with signatures of citizens for peace with Ukraine. The leader of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko Oleg Rodin reported on the incident.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko party calls that it immediately be given the opportunity to create a humanitarian corridor for exchanging war prisoners and the bodies of the dead
Press Release, 2.03.2022
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko party officially demands that it immediately be given the opportunity to organise the process of exchanging prisoners and the bodies of the dead. Party leader Grigory Yavlinsky published this on his web-site.
“In Russia, the concealing of victims has been legalised, even relatives cannot report the death of a family member to society (up to criminal liability, according to the presidential decree of 2015). This is also why the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of the dead against the backdrop of the ongoing hostilities is becoming a key, top-priority national and human problem,” Yavlinsky points out.
He recalls the experience of the Yabloko party in the two Chechen wars. In the war in Chechnya in 1994, Grigory Yavlinsky with other State Duma deputies from Yabloko, traveled to Grozny to pick up captured Russian soldiers and the bodies of the dead Russian soldiers, as the Russian government refused to admit that they had sent soldiers to Chechnya.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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We consider this war a crime destroying the future of Russia
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, 2.03.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Every day mass detentions of participants in peaceful anti-war protests take place in St. Petersburg. They are kept in the police for many hours, they are not allowed lawyers, they are punished with fines and arrests.
In our country, where calls to unleash an aggressive war have rightly been declared a criminal offense (Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), today they punish [people] not for such calls constantly broadcasted by central television [channels], but for anti-war protest. We are categorically against this.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Federal Security Service and the Chief Department for Countering Extremism searched the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory
Press Release, 2.03.2022
Today at 6:30 in the morning, the Federal Security Service and the Chief Department for Countering Extremism searched the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory. At that moment, in addition to Zheleznyakova, there were her son and his wife, and her young grandson in the flat at the moment. The federal security officers seized a phone and a laptop from the flat.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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80,000 Russians signed Yabloko’s petition for peace
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 1.03.2022
80,000 Russian citizens have signed the Yabloko anti-war petition, one of the first Russian petitions against the war. Probably, yet this number exceeds the number of victims that the war has already brought: civilians and military on both sides. However, if the war continues, it will lead to even greater number of deaths, and the ruined economy will lead to a surge in crime, increase in corruption, and impoverishment of the already poor population.
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Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko notified the Moscow Mayor’s Office of holding a demonstration in Moscow for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 1.03.2022
Photo: Maxim Kruglov and Andrei Morev co-applicants of the action and deputy chairmen of the Moscow branch of Yabloko in the Moscow Mayor’s Office
Yabloko filed a notification with the Moscow Mayor’s Office that an anti-war march would be held in Moscow (from Strastnoy Boulevard to the intersection of Academician Sakharov Prospect with the Garden Ring) on 12 March.
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Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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