Nikolai Rybakov: the persecution of Alexander Korovainy is caused by political motives
Statement by the Yabloko Party Chairman, 8.12.2021
Photo: Alexander Korovainy / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, Alexander Korovainy, a Yabloko party member, was deprived of his deputy powers by the decision of the Council of Deputies of the Yeisk District of the Krasnodar Territory, on the basis of a letter from the head of the regional administration. Also a similar issue will be considered in relation to deputies Yekaterina and Alexander Baturinets in the close perspective.
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Posted: December 8th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Ukraine and the four Duma parties of war”. Boris Vishnevsky on the hand out of the United Russia party cards to the heads of the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine
Blog post by Boris Vishnevsky, 6.12.2021
Photo by BerksiuS_Ukr / depositphotos
The main event of the 20th congress of the [ruling] United Russia [party] is neither the re-election of [former Russian President and former PM] Dmitry Medvedev as Chairman of the party (but everyone understands that it is not he who is leading the party).
Nor small and meaningless personnel changes.
Nor the usual Putin demagogy – that allegedly “United Russia performed well during the election campaign” [in the parliamentary elections in September 2021], “won confidently, with a good margin” “once again demonstrating that the party is the rightfully a party-winner” (but we know thing song: we know too well how this “victory” was forged and what falsifications ensured this “advantage”).
The main thing is the solemn handing out of United Russia party cards to the war lords of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Lugansk People’s Republic and (LNR), the marionette “republics” [in Eastern Ukraine] which no one recognized.
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Posted: December 7th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Civil funeral rite to commemorate Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, will take place in the Yabloko party office on 7 December
Press Release, 6.12.2021
Photo: Boris Misnik / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Civil funeral rite to commemorate Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, and a Yabloko MP in the State Duma of the second convocation (1995 – 1999), will take place at the Yabloko office (Moscow, Pyatnitskaya 31, bldg. 2) on 7 December from 10:00 to 12:00. Boris Misnik will be buried at the Khovanskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
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Posted: December 6th, 2021 under Condolences.
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Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and State Duma deputy of the second convocation, passed away
Press Release, 4.12.2021
Photo: Boris Misnik / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Grigorievich Misnik, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, died aged 83, following a serious and long illness on 4 December.
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Posted: December 6th, 2021 under Condolences.
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Municipal deputies of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko signed a petition against the liquidation of the Memorial human rights society
Press Release, 01.12.2021
Photo: Logo of International Memorial
Municipal deputies from the Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party Konstantin Smirnov, Maria Rakcheyeva, and Anatoly Kivva signed a petition initiated by the Moscow Association of Independent Deputies against the liquidation of the Memorial human rights society, the country’s oldest human rights organization, one of the founders of Memorial was Acad. Andrei Sakharov.
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Posted: December 1st, 2021 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Maxim Kruglov MP on urban policies
Press Release, 29.11.2021
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Press Service of the Moscow City Duma
On Thursday, 2 December, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko party faction in the Moscow City Duma and candidate of political sciences. The topic of the lecture is “Urban policies: the problem of the lack of institutional interaction between the authorities and citizens in the process of managing a megametropolis”. The lecture will begin at 18:00 MSK.
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Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Constitutional Court upheld the application of Yabloko municipal deputies in St.Petersburg to in defending the principle of the change of power
Press Release, 26.11.2021
Photo: Yabloko municipal deputies of Liteiny District, St.Petersburg, and lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky (second from right) / Photo by Petersburg Yabloko
The Constitutional Court of the RF upheld the complaint of Yabloko deputies in the St. Petersburg municipality of Liteiny District and called for a revision of the provision of the federal law on local self-government, which allows the head of the municipality to hold office until his/her successor takes office. Such a legal loophole allowed the ruling United Russia party to hold the post of the head of the municipality for two years, whereas, this person was not elected deputy by the residents of the district.
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Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Elections, Governance, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Condolences to the families of miners and rescuers killed in the accident in the Listvyazhnaya mine, Kuzbass, the Kemerovo region
Condolences from Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, 26.11.2021
Photo by RIA Novosti / Alexander Kryazhev
Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky expressed their condolences to the families of the miners and rescuers killed in the accident in the Listvyazhnaya mine, Kuzbass, the Kemerovo region. 51 people died in the accident. Among the dead were five rescue workers who tried to take miners to the surface after the explosion. This is the largest accident with human victims at a mine in Kuzbass in ten years.
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Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Condolences.
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Nikolai Rybakov: The main thing is not to keep silent!
Press Release, 25.11.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 25 November, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov met with human rights activists and public activists who came to the building of the Supreme Court of Russia. The court is considering the claim of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the international historical and educational society Memorial founded by Acad. Andrei Sakharov and other human rights defenders in 1992.
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Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Moscow City Duma supported Yabloko’s amendments to the Moscow budget for 2 billion roubles
Press Release, 24.11.2021
Photo by Grigory Sysoyev
The Moscow City Duma supported two amendments by the Yabloko faction to the Moscow budget for 2022: on the restoration of historical monuments and on grants for Moscow universities. The financing for the implementation of these two amendments exceeds two billion roubles, they will be financed from the reserve fund.
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Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s amendment exempts non-state universities in Moscow from property tax
This stimulates construction of new student dormitories
Press Release, 24.11.2021
Photo: A student dormitory in Copenhagen / Photo by BOOKYOURSTUDY.BY
The Moscow City Duma adopted an amendment submitted by the Yabloko faction envisaging exemption of non-state universities from an organization property tax. This measure will affect non-state universities with state accreditation that have student dormitories on the balance and stimulate construction of new student dormitories.
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Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Education and Science, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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The court ruled out that Ruslan Zinatullin, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan, was involved in the “extremist organisation”
Press Release, 23.11.2021
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Press Service of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan which had recognised Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, involved in the activities of Alexei Navalny’s Headquarters, an “extremist organisation” since summer 2021.
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Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow branch of Yabloko conducted re-registration of its members
Press Release, 23.11.2021
Photo: Sergei Ivanenko, Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Party Press Service
On 22 November, 2021, the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Moscow regional branch of the YABLOKO party summed up the results of the re-registration of its members, which took place from 1 to 15 November, 2021.
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Posted: November 24th, 2021 under Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly introduced a legislative initiative to exclude the concept of “foreign agent” from the legislation
Press Release, 23.11.2021
Photo by vladislavgajic/depositphotos
The legislative initiative of the Yabloko faction proposing to completely eliminate the concept of “foreign agent” from Russian legislation has undergone legal expertise in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. The draft was prepared by Lev Levinson, an expert of the Institute of Human Rights, at the request of the deputies of the Yabloko faction.
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Posted: November 24th, 2021 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko leaders called on the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow to dismiss the case against journalist and photographer Viktoria Ivleva
Press Release, 22.11.2021
Photo: Victoria Ivleva at the conference in support of the Yabloko list of candidates in the elections to the State Duma, on 16 September, 2021 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The leaders of Yabloko filed petitions with the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow calling for the termination of the administrative case against the journalist and photographer Victoria Ivleva, who was detained by the police on Saturday at a single picket against the liquidation of the Memorial human rights society.
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Posted: November 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Police in Kemerovo searched the home of the Yabloko former candidate for the State Duma
Press Release, 22.11.2021
Photo: Vyacheslav Chernov / Photo by the Press Service of the Kemerovo branch of Yabloko
On 18 November, police in Tashtagol, a city in the south of the Kemerovo region, searched the home of Vyacheslav Chernov, former candidate to the State Duma from Yabloko in electoral district No. 104. The reason for the search was his post on Instagram about Petr Bytyrev, former Chairman of the regional electoral commission of the Kemerovo region.
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Posted: November 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko Bureau announced the re-registration of party members
Press Release, 20.11.2021
On 19 November, the Yabloko Federal Bureau appointed re-registration of party members.
The re-registration is connected with the reform of the party, announced by the Yabloko party congress on 3-4 April 2021. Then the congress adopted amendments to the Yabloko by-laws, increasing the influence of party members and supporters on the decision-making process in Yabloko, while enhancing the party discipline.
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Posted: November 22nd, 2021 under 21st Congress of Yabloko, Congresses, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“This is the latest move in Russia’s accelerating crackdown on civil society” – Liberal International President condemns threats to shut down Memorial
Liberal International’s President Hakima el Haité has condemned the Russian authorities’ threat to shut down Memorial, one of the country’s oldest and most respected human rights organisations.
This is the latest blow against civic freedoms in the regime’s accelerating crackdown on government critics and human rights defenders. By labeling human rights activists, opposition, and journalists as “foreign agents,” the regime attempts to suffocate dissent.
“On behalf of Liberal International I express our solidarity and support for Memorial and the rest of the Russian civil society fighting against the increasing repression in the country”, President El Haité stated.
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Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Stop destruction of federalism and local self-government in Russia
Decision by the Yabloko Bureau, 19.11.2021
Photo: The authors of the bill MP Pavel Krasheninnikov and Senator Andrei Klishas. / Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant
The Yabloko party regards the Klishas-Krashennikov bill “On the general principles of organising public power in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” as the final elimination of federalism and local self-government and the construction of a rigidly centralised unitary state of the imperial type in Russia.
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Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Governance, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre asked the police to check the apartments seized by former State Duma deputies without permission
Press Release, 18.11.2021
Photo by Igor Ivanko / Kommersant
The Anti-Corruption Policy Centre of the Yabloko party asked the Moscow police to check the apartments where former deputies of the State Duma have been living unlawfully a month after the end of their MP term. In addition, the transfer of 17 apartments for use to MPs’ assistants and relatives of the deputies, who themselves live at other addresses, should also become the subject of inspection, but already by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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Posted: November 19th, 2021 under Elections, Political Parties, Politics, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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