Statement by the Yabloko party in connection with the dismissal of Yabloko’s Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky district in the Pskov region
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.11.2022
Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by the Grazhdanin newspaper
On 24 November, deputies of the Assembly of Deputies of the Pustoshkinsky District of the Pskov Region, by a majority of votes, prematurely terminated the powers of Svetlana Vasilkova, head of the Pustoshkinsky District and a member of the Yabloko party.
The decision of the Assembly of Deputies was adopted by the votes of deputies from the [pro-government] United Russia and the LDPR parties.
Svetlana Vasilkova became the head of the district in 2019 in direct elections, through a difficult struggle, having received an absolute majority of votes. The decision of the deputies is a direct disrespect for the will of voters and the whole society. The United Russia party has once again shown that it is ready to trample on any expression of the will of the people which does not suit the ruling regime.
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Posted: November 25th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Do not harbor malice”. Yabloko hosted a screening of the film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” about the prisoners of one of the largest concentration camps during the Stalin’s period
Press Release, 24.11.2022
On 22 November 22, Yabloko held in its Moscow office a screening and discussion of Marina Goldovskaya’s 1988 documentary film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” devoted to the prisoners of the Solovki concentration camp, the archipelago where political prisoners – “enemies of the people” – were exiled to forced labour camps and a prison during Stalin’s Great Terror period in 1920-1930s. Yuri Brodsky, a Russian photographer and writer, author of the book “Solovki. The Labyrinth of Transformations, spoke about the creation of the film. The moderator of the discussion was Nadezhda Azhgikhina, journalist, writer, and director of PEN Moscow.
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Posted: November 25th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in the Moscow City Duma proposed to other deputies to sign an appeal to the President of Russia to issue a decree on the official end of mobilisation
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko party faction in the Moscow City Duma, following the example of the Yabloko deputies in the Karelian parliament, was one of the initiators of the appeal of the Moscow City Duma deputies to President Vladimir Putin with a call to back up his words about the end of the mobilisation by a corresponding decree. The draft appeal was submitted for consideration to the Duma.
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Posted: November 24th, 2022 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Civic activist Maria Volokh arrested for 20 days for an action against escalation of nuclear conflict
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: Maria Volokh/ Photo from social media
The Presnensky District Court of Moscow found Maria Volokh, a former candidate for municipal deputies of Moscow from the Yabloko party, guilty of a repeated violation of the established procedure for organising or holding a public event and appointed her 20 days of administrative arrest under Article 20.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
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Posted: November 24th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko demands from the regional Legislative Assembly to return the possibility of holding a discussion when approving the budget
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party, sent a proposal to each deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region to amend the Regulations of the Legislative Assembly so that to eliminate violations that prevent public participation in the meetings of the Assembly. On 24 November, the Legislative Assembly will consider the budget of the Chelyabinsk region for 2023, which will take place without public hearings and “outsiders”.
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Posted: November 24th, 2022 under Economy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A lecture by Boris Kolonitsky on the history of the February 1917 revolution will be held at the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 23.11.2022
On 6 December, the Yabloko Party University will hold a lecture by Boris Kolonitsky “February? Bourgeois? Democratic? Revolution?” about the history of the revolution in Russia in February 1917, which preceded the October 1917 coup. The lecture will begin at 18:00 (Moscow time). The lecturer is Boris Kolonitsky, professor at the European University at St. Petersburg and leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, History.
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The Budget of St. Petersburg: expenses on the key problems of citizens are reduced, but new expenses on the special military operation emerged
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg / Photo by the Yaboko Press Service
The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg adopted in the third reading the draft law of St. Petersburg “On the budget of St. Petersburg for 2023 and the planning period of 2024 and 2025”.
The Yabloko faction voted against the budget, and, like the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko om St.Petersburg, considers the draft budget unsatisfactory for many reasons.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2022 under Economy, Education and Science, Healthcare, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An action of writing letters to women political prisoners will be held at the Yabloko office in Novgorod
Press Release, 23.11.2022
Photo: Drawings by artist Ad’u
On 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, an action of writing letters to women political prisoners will be held at the Yabloko office in Novgorod.
In Russia, violence on behalf of the state has taken on a monstrous scale: women are beaten at rallies, humiliated during interrogations, arrested and kept under torture, subjected to punitive psychiatric methods for their beliefs, political activities, and having the courage to disagree with the state policies.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko insists that the President of Russia must issue a decree on the end of mobilisation. A letter was sent to the President of Russia
Press Release, 22.11.2022
Photo by Tatiana Gord, Kommersant
The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia sent an appeal to the President of Russia with a request to issue a decree on the completion of partial mobilisation, announced by Decree No. 647 of 21 September, 2022.
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Posted: November 22nd, 2022 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko will hold actions of writing letters to political prisoners at its regional offices across Russia
Press Release, 22.11.2022
This week, actions in support of political prisoners will be held in the offices of the Yabloko party across Russia. Yabloko invites all, who would like to support politicians and civil activists who were unjustly convicted or under investigation, to take part in the actions. Participants of the actions can sign postcards printed by the Yabloko party or bring their own letters. Regional offices of Yabloko undertake to send all correspondence to the addressees.
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Posted: November 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky on Russia’s thirty year long journey: “There has always been a choice. It remains even today”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 21.11.2022
Speaking about the reasons for what happened to Russia in February 2022, analysing the path traveled over three decades and looking for answers to the question of how to find a future for our country, it is extremely important to understand that everything that happened was not inevitable. Over the past 30 years, at every stage, there was an alternative, an opportunity to move along the path of creating a modern state and a modern market economy.
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Posted: November 21st, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Politics, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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Victor Kogan-Yasny: “We should not think provocatively even grounding on honesty”
Specially for the Yabloko web-site, 19.11.2022
Photo: Sergei Frolov “Nicholas II after the Abdication”
Gathering my scraps of thoughts about 1917 [the February 1917 bourgeois revolution in Russia and the following Bolshevik coup in October 1917] (and what, besides scraps, can a non-specialist have about what happened a hundred and five years ago), I think and would like to tell you about the political dangers of honest, but managerially illiterate decisions that are unable to take into account where the “black swans” may actually come from.
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Posted: November 21st, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Dmitry Rybakov, environmentalist and deputy from Yabloko, on the results of environmental studies: Petrozavodsk is polluted with heavy metals
Press Release, 21.11.2022
Photo: Dmitry Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Dmitry Rybakov, a Yabloko deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council, announced the results of geoecological studies of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, the standing Committee of the Council for Healthcare, Environment and Social Development. The study was conducted by the Institute of Geology of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the period from 2018 to 2022. According to the study, the urban area is contaminated with heavy metals. In particular, there was confirmed the presence of a technogenic geochemical anomaly in the central part of Petrozavodsk, where the former industrial site of the Onega Tractor Plant had been located.
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Posted: November 21st, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will host a screening of the film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” about the prisoners of one of the largest concentration camps during the Stalin’s regime
Press Release, 18.11.2022
Photo: Poster for the film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” (USSR, 1988)
On 22 November 22, Yabloko will hold in its Moscow office a screening and discussion of Marina Goldovskaya’s 1988 documentary film “The Solovki Power. Evidence and Documents” devoted to the prisoners of the Solovki concentration camp, the archipelago where political prisoners – “enemies of the people” – were exiled to forced labour camps and a prison during Stalin’s Great Terror period in 1920-1930s. After the screening Yuri Brodsky, a Russian photographer and writer, author of the book “Solovki. The Labyrinth of Transformations, will speak about the creation of the film. The screening will begin at 18:00 (Moscow time).
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Posted: November 18th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko urges the Ministry of Education to abandon introduction Elementary Military Training lessons at schools
Press Release, 17.11.2022
Photo by Yevgeny Pereverzev, Kommersant
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, sent a corresponding letter to Russian Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov. Rybakov proposed to include additional hours for learning foreign languages in the educational standards instead of elementary military training.
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Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Education and Science, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Social Policies, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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The court in Abakan returned to the Public Prosecutor’s Office the criminal case of Mikhail Afanasyev on “fakes about the army”
Press Release, 17.11.2022
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo from social media
The Abakan City Court returned to the Public Prosecutor’s Office the case of Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party and editor-in-chief of the Novy Focus online media, who was charged with spreading “fakes about the army” under Article 207.3 Part 2 of the Criminal Code.
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Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow City Duma Commission to consider Sergei Mitrokhin’s bill on the ecological expertise of the specially protected natural areas
Press Release, 16.11.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin with municipal candidates from Yabloko inspects the improvement of the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo park, August 2022 / Photo: Screenshot of the inspection video
On 17 November, the Moscow City Duma will conduct a meeting of the Commission on Environmental Policy, which will consider a draft resolution of the Moscow City Duma “On the draft federal law “On the Introduction of Amendments to Article 1 of the Federal Law of November 23, 1995 No. 174-FZ “On Ecological Expertise”. The bill was submitted by Yabloko MP by Sergei Mitrokhin. The commission starts at 10:00, the issue will be considered at about 11:30, the broadcast will take place on the official YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@mosgorduma) of the Moscow City Duma.
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Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow Yabloko collected 50 boxes of humanitarian aid for refugees from Ukraine
Press Release, 16.11.2022
Photo: Boxes with collected humanitarian aid prepared to be sent to the Civic Assistance Committee / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 November, activists of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party delivered 50 boxes of humanitarian aid to the office of the Civic Assistance Committee. Clothes and food-stuffs were collected by Muscovites as part of the campaign launched by Yabloko on 25 October.
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Posted: November 17th, 2022 under Charity, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko demands from the Investigative Committee to open a criminal case on the fact of the brutal murder of a prisoner recruited for the “special military operation”
Press Release, 15.11.2022
Photo: Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) / Photo by Artyom Krasnov, Kommersant
The Yabloko factions in the Moscow City Duma and the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg sent appeals to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, demanding to conduct an investigation and initiate a criminal case into the brutal murder (according to information disseminated on the Internet) of a Russian citizen Yevgeny Nuzhin, a former prisoner recruited by the private mercenary group the Wagner Group. The letters were signed by Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, and Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Posted: November 16th, 2022 under Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The St. Petersburg City Court refused to cancel the fine to Alexander Shishlov for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 15.11.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov and his lawyer Andrei Chertkov / Photo by Dinar Idrisov
A judge of the St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision on the fine in the case of “discrediting the army” against Alexander Shishlov, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the head of the regional branch of the party. Shishlov intends to appeal the decision of the City Court to the Third Court of Cassation.
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Posted: November 16th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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