Yabloko will hold the first in 2023 actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners
Press Release, 24.01.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
This week and early next week, the Yabloko party’s central office and offices of the regional branches of the party will host the first in 2023 actions of writing letters to Russian political prisoners. Yabloko traditionally invites all Russian citizens who would like to send a kind words and wishes to those unjustly deprived of their liberty to join the actions. Yabloko will take care of sending letters by mail. Also Yabloko has written a short guide on how to write a letter for a political prisoner so that the letter is not stopped by censors.
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Posted: January 26th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko raised 624,000 roubles for political prisoners at a charity auction
Press Release, 25.01.2023
Photos by the Yabloko Press Service
On 24 January, the Yabloko party held a charity auction in support of eight Russian political prisoners: 31 lots from Russian politicians, journalists and cultural figures were put up for auction. The total amount of the funds raised, including redeemed lots and voluntary donations, amounted to 624,000 roubles. Donations continue to come to the account of the organisers of the auction.
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Posted: January 25th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“This is political persecution. The goal is very simple – to intimidate everyone. Deputy Сhairman of Yabloko on the trial of the artist Alexandra Skochilenko
Press Release, 20.01.2023
Photo: Alexandra Skochilenko at the trial with lawyers / Photo by Boris Vishnevsky
The criminal case of the St. Petersburg artist Alexandra Skochilenko, who is accused of spreading “fake news” about the army, must be closed, and she should be acquitted. This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, Boris Vishnevsky, who came to the court to support Skochilenko on Friday, 20 January.
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Posted: January 24th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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The Pskov Regional Court upheld the decision of the court of a lower instance, did not apply to the Constitutional Court and did not satisfy Svetlana Vasilkova’s complaint
Press Release, 20.01.2023
Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service
On 20 January, the administrative board of the Pskov Regional Court considered the appeal of Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky district elected from Yabloko, about the early termination of her powers by the district assembly of deputies. The deputies of the district Assembly made such a decision on 24 November, dismissing Vasilkova from her post, despite the fact that the State Finance Committee of the Pskov Region recognised the district headed by Vasilkova one of the best in the region in 2021 and allotted additional funding in the form of an additional incentive payment which was used for preparation for the heating season.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Nadezhda Azhgikhina on the future of journalism in Russia and the world
Press Release, 20.01.2023
Photo: Nadezhda Azhgikhina
On 25 January, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “What will journalism be like in Russia and in the world?” by Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Ph.D. in Philology, member of the Executive Committee of Article 19, an international non-profit organisation protecting and promoting freedom of expression and freedom of information throughout the world, and Director of the PEN-Moscow Association. The lecture will begin at 18:00 MSK.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Magnitogorsk branch of Yabloko struggles for the return of a free speech zone to the city
Press Release, 20.01.2023
Photo: The inscriptions run: Magnitogorsk. The right to a protest. Let’s return “hyde park” to the centre of the city.
The Chelyabinsk Region Court accepted the claim of Kira Belaya, Chairwoman of the Magnitogorsk local branch of Yabloko, against the Government of the Chelyabinsk Region on the return of a “hyde park” (a place for holding rallies without any permissions) to the centre of the city of Magnitogorsk. The first hearing is scheduled for 27 February.
Kira Belaya will be represented in court by Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk Region branch of Yabloko, who in the Fall of 2022 won a similar lawsuit in the city of Chelyabinsk.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Bow to the memory of these people and say it again: people, give up revenge”. Yabloko honoured the memory of the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova
Press Release, 19.01.2023
Photos by the Yabloko Press Service
On 19 January, Yabloko leaders and activists in Moscow once again met at Prechistenka 3 to honour the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by neo-Nazis 14 years ago. Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov, Moscow City Duma MP Sergei Mitrokhin, deputy chairs of the Moscow branch of Yabloko Kirill Goncharov and Andrei Morev, Chairman of the Yabloko Gender Faction Galina Mikhaleva, and other members of the party laid flowers at the impromptu memorial.
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Posted: January 19th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko proposes to introduce criminal penalties for propaganda of nuclear war
Press Release, 18.01.2023
Photo: Gas masks at a school in Pripyat, an abandoned city in the Chernobyl zone / Photo by Alexander Vedernikov, Kommersant
Yabloko MP Artur Gaiduk submitted to the Pskov Regional Assembly a draft federal law on criminal liability for public calls for the use of nuclear weapons and propaganda for their use. Earlier, similar bills were introduced by deputies from Yabloko in the legislative assemblies of St. Petersburg and Karelia. Members of the Committee on Legislation of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg considered the initiative dangerous and rejected it.
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Posted: January 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War. Yabloko leaders paid tribute to the victims
Press Release, 18.01.2023
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 18 January, the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, the leaders of the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg and Moscow paid tribute to the memory of the victims. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov laid flowers at the Leningrad Stele in the Alexander Garden in Moscow. Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, honoured the memory of the soldiers and the victims of the siege at the monument in Victory Square in St. Petersburg.
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Posted: January 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko invites all Russian citizens to the participation in the action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 18.01.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 21 January the Rostov-on-Don branch of Yabloko will conduct an action of writing letters to Rusisan political prisoners. Everyone is invited to participate. The action will start at 17:00.
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Posted: January 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will hold an auction in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 17.01.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 24 January, Yabloko will host an annual charity auction in support of political prisoners. The guests of the party office in Moscow and the viewers of the YouTube broadcast will be offered 19 lots provided by well-known Russian politicians, journalists and artists. All the funds raised will be used to support eight political prisoners.
The donors of the lots this year were politicians Grigory Yavlinsky, Nikolai Rybakov, Boris Vishnevsky, Lev Shlosberg, journalists Svetlana Sorokina, Pavel Lobkov and Viktor Shenderovich, film critic Zinaida Pronchenko, poet Dmitry Bykov, political strategist Pavel Dubravsky, artists Sergei Polyakov, Yevgeny Sinyutin and Yaroslav Shirogorova, the team of the independent theater “Teatr.doc”, the editors of the almanac Moloko Plus and others.
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Posted: January 18th, 2023 under Charity, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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“A number of laws need to be repealed, just in their entirety.” New laws were added to the Register of Repressive Laws of the Russian Federation
Press Release, 17.01.2023
Photo by Emin Jafarov / Kommersant
The Yabloko party has prepared a third, updated version of the Register of Repressive Laws in the Russian Federation, which has been maintained by Yabloko experts since 2019. Today it includes 62 legal acts: federal and regional laws, as well as presidential decrees.
The criteria for entering a law into the Register of repressive laws are based on an assessment of one of the respectful international or Russian structures, rather than evaluative political judgments. Such structures include the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights, the Venice Commission, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation and the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: January 18th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko activists will lay flowers at the site of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova
Press Release, 17.01.2023
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 19 January, leaders and activists of the Yabloko party will lay flowers at the site of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, at Prechistenka 3 in Moscow.
Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova were shot dead by neo-Nazis from the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists on 19 January, 2009.
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Posted: January 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“The Decree on the announcement of partial mobilisation goes on to be in force”. Such is the response of the Presidential Administration to Yabloko’s MP Artur Gaiduk
Press Release, 17.01.2023
Photo: Mobilisation. / Photo by Viktor Korotayev, Kommersant
The response of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Work with Appeals from Citizens and Organisations forwarded to to Yabloko’s MP in the Pskov regional parliament Artur Gaiduk and signed by the assistant I. Alexandrov, runs:
“On 28 October, 2022, the notification and call [to military service] of citizens in the reserve was completed, the military commissariats continue to recruit military units from citizens who expressed a desire to voluntarily participate in the special military operation, as well as citizens who wish to enter military service on a contract basis. The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation2022 No. 657 of September 21 “On the announcement of partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation” goes on to be in force”.
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Posted: January 17th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Tomsk activist Stanislav Shmakov is accused of damaging banners. He faces up to three years of imprisonment
Press Release, 13.01.2023
Photo: Stanislav Shmakov / Photo from social media
The Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk held hearings on selecting a measure of restraint for Stanislav Shmakov, a civil activist and assistant to a deputy from Yabloko in the Tomsk City Duma David Avetyan. Shmakov was placed under home arrest for two months. It is reported that Shmakov is accused of damaging banners with information about support for a “special military operation” in Ukraine. The banners were placed by order of the Tomsk administration. Shmakov can be imprisoned for up to three years for damages to banners amounting to about 200,000 roubles.
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Posted: January 13th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from Khakassia, will remain in custody until 17 March. The investigation cannot prove his guilt
Press Release, 13.01.2023
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Abakan City Court extended the detention of Mikhail Afanasyev, editor of the Novy Focus online media and member of the Yabloko party, for two more months due to the fact that the Investigative Committee could not prove his guilt. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the lawyer and human rights activist Pavel Chikov.
The term of Mikhail Afanasyev’s detention would have expired on 16 January. It have been repeatedly extended by the City Court of Abakan due to the fact that the charges were drawn up with errors. The judge dismissed the two public prosecutors’ objections in support of the public prosecution. The investigation cannot prove that Afanasyev disseminated false information about the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: January 13th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The administrative case on “discrediting the army” against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky returned to the police
Press Release, 13.01.2023
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Vasileostrovskiy District Court of St.Petersburg returned back to the police the protocol drawn against Boris Vishnevsky, an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Yabloko Deputy Chairman. The protocol was drawn under the article on “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
The protocol was returned to the police in accordance with Article 29.4 Paragraph 4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, as a document drawn up with violations. According to Boris Vishnevsky, this may be due to the fact that the police did not even notify the deputy about the drafting of the protocol and did not give him the opportunity to submit objections. Vishnevsky claims that all his actions and statements have been absolutely legal.
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Posted: January 13th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Petrozavodsk City Court returned the administrative case on “discrediting the army” against MP Emilia Slabunova back to the police
Press Release, 12.01.2022
Photo: Emilia Slabunova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 11 January, the Petrozavodsk City Court returned back to the police the case on “discrediting the army” opened against Emilia Slabunova, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and a member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko. According to the website of the court, the case is returned back to the police due to of Article 29.4 Paragraph 4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (incorrect execution of documents, their preparation by unauthorised persons, or the incompleteness of the submitted materials).
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Posted: January 12th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the parliament of Karelia introduced a bill on criminal liability for propaganda of nuclear war
Press Release, 11.01.2022
Photo: Trenches along the road dug by the Russian military in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukraine, 7 April, 2022 // REUTERS / Gleb Garanich
The faction of the Yabloko party in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia submitted for consideration of the Karelian parliament a draft federal law establishing criminal liability for public calls for the use of nuclear weapons, as well as for propaganda of their use. Earlier, deputies from Yabloko in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly submitted a similar bill for consideration by the St.Petersburg parliament.
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Posted: January 11th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The apartment of Stanislav Shmakov, Yabloko’s ex-candidate to the Tomsk Regional Duma, searched, after which Shmakov disappeared
Press Release, 11.01.2022
Photo: Stanislav Shmakov / Photo from social media
On the morning of 11 January, a search was conducted in the apartment of Stanislav Shmakov in Tomsk. Stanislav Shmakov is an assistant to the deputy of the City Duma from Yabloko David Avetyan and was Yabloko’s candidate in the regional Duma elections in September 2021. The circumstances of the search are still unclear. The whereabouts of the civil activist is unknown. Shmakov’s relatives applied to the police about the missing person.
Neither the family of the civil activist, nor the staff of the Tomsk City Duma have any information about the cause of the search, what case has been opened and the status of Stanislav Shmakov in the case.
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Posted: January 11th, 2023 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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