Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
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"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Photo: The election banner of the Pskov branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
The Pskov regional branch of the party is not allowed to hang 15 election banners in Pskov, Velikiye Luki and districts of the Pskov region. Pskov Yabloko has spent 600,000 roubles of private donations for the production and placement of the banners. Advertising companies admit that the regional authorities are putting administrative pressure on them. The Pskov Yabloko team filed a complaint with the Regional Electoral Commission with the demand to deal with non-fulfillment of contractual obligations.
Photo: candidates from Yabloko for deputies of Lanskoye municipal district / Photo by Dmitry Lysov
The City Court of St.Petersburg rejected the appeal of the electoral commission of the Lanskoye Municipality of St.Petersburg against the decision of the Primorsky District Court obliging the electoral commission to reconsider its rejection for Yabloko candidates in registration in the municipal elections.
Yabloko was the only party out of 14 political parties participating in the parliamentary elections that did not agree with the form of the ballot paper for the elections to the State Duma, which was approved by the Central Electoral Commission today. Yabloko insisted that the name of the organisation considered a “foreign agent” by the authorities with which political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov is affiliated – the well-known NGO Open Petersburg – should be indicated in the ballot.
On 17 August, the Altai Regional Court overturned the decision of the electoral commission on the registration of Viktor Rau for the State Duma elections in Barnaul single-mandate constituency No. 39. The lawsuit was filed by Alexander Molotov, a candidate from the Just Russia [pro-government] party.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Press Service of the regional branch of Yabloko
Since the beginning of summer, Yakutia has been experiencing the most massive forest fires in the history of the region. Fire from the forest spreads to settlements, the volunteers cannot cope. Activists and environmentalists have been writing about this from the very first days, trying to draw attention of the authorities to the disaster, and also whipping up support. The area covered by the forest fires in Yakutia exceeded 7 million hectares.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
An appeal was filed with the First General Jurisdiction Court of Appeal through the Moscow City Court against the decision of the Moscow City Court of 9 August to cancel the registration of Lev Shlosberg as a candidate for the State Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 207 (Khovrinsky). The Court of Appeal took up the complaint.
Photo (from left to right): Anton Gordyuk and Nikolai Prokudin / Photo from the personal archive of Anton Gordyuk
On 16 August, the Central Electoral Commission of Russia again returned Yabloko candidates Anton Gordyuk and Nikolai Prokudin to the parliamentary elections in the Leningrad Region. This decision was made for the second time: on 2 August, the Central Electoral Commission of Russia canceled the decision of the electoral commission of the Leningrad region to remove Gordyuk and Prokudin from the elections, however, on 6 August, the regional electoral commission again excluded them from the electoral list.
Photo: Governor Alexander Drozdenko / Photo by lenobl.ru
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov is going to send an official letter to Alexander Drozdenko, Governor of the Leningrad Region, with a demand to reallocate funds in the regional budget so that to support the regional healthcare.
Nikolai Rybakov’s letter runs that the maintenance of officials compared to last year increased by 294 million roubles, while Yabloko discovered that expenditure on healthcare fell by 4.9 billion roubles compared to 2020 (12.7% of total expenditures against 15.6% in the budget of 2020).
On 16 August, the Central Electoral Commission determined the places of parties on the ballot paper for the State Duma elections through a drawing of lots.
Photo: Vladimir Zhilkin / Photo from Vladimir Zhilkin’s personal archive
The Tambov Regional Court refused the administrative plaintiff from the Russian Party of Freedom and Justice to cancel the registration of Vladimir Zhilkin, a Yabloko candidate for the State Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 177.
Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko
The Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Saratov overturned the decision of District Electoral Commission No. 30 on the refusal to register Ksenia Sverdlova, Chair of the Saratov branch of Yabloko, as a candidate for the City Duma of Saratov. The the court decision of August 12 runs that the District Electoral Commission is obliged to register the leader of the Saratov branch of Yabloko as a candidate in the elections.
Photo: Yelena Izotova/ Photo from the personal VKontakte page
The court in Kazan recognised Yelena Izotova, Chair of the Yabloko Green Russia faction in Tatarstan and a Yabloko candidate for the State Duma, involved in the “extremist” organization. Thus Izotova will now face removal from elections
According to Izotova, the court session took place in her absence.
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Press Service of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan appealed to the court with a demand to recognise Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko, the leader of the regional list of Yabloko candidates in the elections of the State Duma and the Yabloko candidate in single-mandate constituency No. 31, as the one involved in the activities of the “extremist organization” Alexei Navalny Headquarters. The court session is scheduled for 20 August.
Photo: the farewell ceremony / Photo from Nikolai Rybakov’s FB page
On 13 August, the farewell ceremony for Sergei Kovalev, a legendary human rights activist and a member of the Yabloko party, took place in the Sakharov Centre in Moscow.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky, Boris Misnik, Viktor Sheinis, Valery Borshyov and Lev Shlosberg, members of the Federal Bureau Maxim Kruglov and Grigory Grishin, Viktor Kogan-Yasny, Adviser to the Chairman of the Federal Political Committee and other took part in the ceremony.
The Chairman of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov, will visit the cities of the Novgorod region on 15 August, 2021, as part of his election tour.
In Novgorod Rybakov will meet with residents of the city and journalists and visit iconic places of the city. Then the head of the party will go to the town of Okulovka, where he will meet with activists and local deputies of the party, as well as meet with local residents in the central streets of the city.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will visit four cities of the Leningrad Region on 14 August, 2021, within the framework of his election tour.
The first city of the visit will be Vyborg. Here the party leader will meet with local residents and also discuss with them the problem of sewage flowing into the Vyborg Bay.
Photo by the Press Service of the Saratov branch of Yabloko
The panel of judges of the Saratov Regional Court rejected the appeal of the Saratov administration, which challenged the victory of the Saratov branch of Yabloko in the Volzhsky District Court on two administrative claims after the administration’s unjustified refusal to give a permission for public events as part of Yabloko’s State Duma election campaign.
The Yabloko campaign bus set off for a race along the Golden Ring of Russia and small towns in the regions adjacent to Moscow.
In five days, Yabloko’s campaign activists will visit 16 cities in the Moscow region, the Yaroslavl region, the Kostroma region, the Ivanovo region and the Vladimir region.
The Yabloko campaign bus makes stops in crowded places in the cities and towns, and there for several hours the party activists distribute Yabloko booklets with election programme.
Photo: Yelena Izotova/ Photo from the personal VKontakte page
The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kazan, Tatarstn, appealed to the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan with a claim asking to establish the involvement of Yelena Izotova, head of Yabloko’s Green Russia faction in Tatarstan and a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko in the regional group No. 49, as well as in the Moskovsky single-mandate district, in the social movement “Navalny’s headquarters”, whose activities were recognised as extremist and banned on the territory of the Russian Federation. If on August 13 the court satisfies the claim of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Yelena Izotova will lose her registration in the elections.
