Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Photo: Ksenia Mikhailova / Photo from the personal archive of Ksenia Mikhailova
The St. Petersburg City Court ordered Territorial Electoral Commission No. 18 to accept documents from Yabloko’s Ksenia Mikhailova and once again consider the issue of her registration as a candidate for the election of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in single-mandate constituency No. 3 (Petrogradsky District). Initially, the judge of the city court tried to send the case for consideration to the Petrogradskiy District Court, but the appeal court returned the case back to the city court.
Photo: Mikhail Korelin / Photo from Mikhail Korelin’s personal Facebook page
A competitor from the LDPR parliamentary pro-government party is trying to remove Yabloko candidate Mikhail Korelin from the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region in the Alapaevsky single-mandate constituency.
LDPR’s Alexander Boltenkov appealed to the Sverdlovsk Regional Court with a claim that Korelin had not provided information about his minor daughter when applying for registration in the elections.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
“We have not received a court decision from the Ministry of Justice on the involvement of our candidate in an extremist organisation. After considering the issue, we made a decision that the district electoral commission currently does not have sufficient grounds to remove the candidate,” Yevgeny Fyodorov, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission of Yakutia, said.
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party, will visit Nizhny Novgorod on 26 August within the framework of his election tour around the country. During the visit, Rybakov will assess the restoration works of the historic centre of the city, as well as the quality of the urban improvement works timed to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod. In addition, the party leader will hold meetings with the board of trustees of the Switzerland Park and the organisers of the “Tom Sawyer Fest” project for the restoration of the historical buildings of the city by the citizens.
Photo: Valentina Komkova and Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
The Chelyabinsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Zlatoust Electoral Commission on refusing registration in the elections to Valentina Komkova, a Yabloko candidate in the State Duma elections, who had to run in the Zlatoust single-mandate constituency. The District Electoral Commission will have to reconsider its decision and register Komkova in the elections.
Photo: Academician Alexey Arbatov and Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Central Electoral Commission registered the first ten authorised campaigners of the Yabloko party in the elections to the State Duma. Among them are Yabloko Deputy Chairmen Ivan Bolshakov and Sergei Ivanenko, as well as members of the Federal Political Committee of the party Grigory Yavlinsky, Alexei Arbatov, Yelena Dubrovina and Viktor Sheinis.
The full list of registered Yabloko campaigners is as follows:
The Chairman of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov, sent an official letter to Veniamin Kondratyev, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, demanding to allocate funds of the regional budget and provide support to the regional healthcare.
The Yabloko party asks the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check the lawfulness of the “Million Prizes – #ChoosingTogether” lottery, which the Moscow government is conducting to encourage Muscovites to participate in online voting in the elections to the State Duma.
The actions of the Moscow government are unlawful and violate the principles of free and voluntary participation in elections, Ybaloko’s complaint runs.
On 21 August, Nikolai Rybakov visited Taganrog, the Rostov-on-Don Region, within the framework of his election tour and proposed to introduce a single environmental standard for resort cities.
A single environmental standard should include the following:
Photo: Roman Maksimov and Maxim Nikitin / Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The Electoral Commission of the Novgorod Region is going to apply to the court to cancel the registration of two Yabloko candidates for the Novgorod Region Duma: Maxim Nikitin and Roman Maksimov. The electoral commission is going to remove them from the elections for their alleged connection with “extremist organisations” – the FBK and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny – these organisations have been declared banned on the territory of the Russian Federation. Maksimov was serving an administrative arrest, and Nikitin received compulsory community service for participating in the rallies in support of political prisoners. According to the Ministry of Justice and the Novgorod Electoral Commission, this makes them involved in the activities of an “extremist organisation”.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg’s campaigners in the Khovrinsky single-mandate district of Moscow. /Photo from Lev Shlosberg’s Facebook page
The First Court of Appeal dismissed Lev Shlosberg’s appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court to cancel his registration as a candidate for the State Duma in the Khovrinsky single-mandate constituency No. 207 in Moscow.
The court rejected Shlosberg’s request to involve the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation to give an opinion on the case and request the results of the examination by the Ministry of Justice of Russia of Shlosberg’s candidacy.
Photo by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko cannot get permission from regional officials to install campaign cubes. The Chelyabinsk administration claims that all 50 places for which applications were submitted have been occupied for the whole day. All the sites are occupied by alleged campaigners of Alexander Teksler, Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, who also participates in the elections.
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov and other party members laid flowers at the monument to the Defenders of Democracy in Russia at the intersection of the streets Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring in Moscow.
Three young people – Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov and Ilya Krichevsky – died here 30 years ago, during the days of the August coup d’etat.
Photo: Alexei Navalny is being taken to the plane by ambulance. / Photo by AP / Scanpix
A year has passed since the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Neither those who ordered, nor those who actually committed the crime have been identified.
Once again, it is important to declare: a comprehensive international investigation of this crime is necessary. No journalistic disclosures on YouTube can replace a formal legal investigation involving specialists, forensic experts and lawyers. However, almost no one is demanding an official investigation, while this is the main issue.
Photo: Natalia Rezontova / Photo by the Press Service of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The Central Electoral Commission of Russia decided to exclude journalist Natalya Rezontova from the list of candidates to the State Duma from the Yabloko party. The commission made this decision in connection with the alleged involvement of Rezontova in the activities of an extremist organisation.
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Press Service of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko
A judge of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan recognised Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, involved in the activities of an “extremist” organisation Navalny Headquarters. The law suit was initiated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Central Electoral Commission of Yakutia informed Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Yabloko candidate for the State Duma elections in single-mandate constituency No. 24 and the leader of the regional branch of Yabloko in Yakutia, that the Ministry of Justice received information about his involvement in the activities of the “extremist organisation”.
Photo: candidates Nikolai Solodkov and Dmitry Lysov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Soon Dmitry Lysov, Mikhail Molchanov, Anna Shiryaeva, Nikolai Solodkov and Yulia Bobyleva will receive their long-awaited candidates’ certificates. In order to achieve a positive decision of the electoral commission on their registration in the election race, they had to go through two court instances.
Photo: Rostov-on-Don / Photo by depositphotos.com, user @e.m.mitroshin.gmail.com
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party and leader of the party’s federal list of candidates, will visit the Rostov region within the framework of his election tour on August 20-21.
