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On 12 December, the Russian Constitution Day, the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party invites all to take part in a discussion on the topic “A Police State or a Law-Governed State”. The discussion will be held in the office of the regional Yabloko branch at the address: Chelyabinsk, Lenin prospect 21v, office 707 (7th floor). The event starts at 18:00 local time.
On 8 December, another evening of writing letters to political prisoners was held at the Kirov branch of Yabloko. This time the action was dedicated to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
On 16 December, the Yabloko party will host a lecture “The Constitutional Right to Alternative Civilian Service in Modern Conditions” by Anatoly Pchelintsev, Doctor of Law, Honorary Advocate of Russia, and member of the Writers’ Union of Russia. The lecture will begin at 19:00 (Moscow time).
Photo: Ruslan Zinalullin / Photo from social media
The Sovetsky District Court of Kazan for the third time considered the request of the investigation to conduct a search at the home of Ruslan Zinatullin, head of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Tatarstan, and issued permission to conduct investigative actions, which took place on 17 March, 2022. The search at the home of Zinatullin and other Yabloko members took place as part of a criminal case on inciting mass riots (Article 212 Part 1.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) because of a post in Telegram.
Photo: a screenshot the @necoglaioff YouTube channel
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, demanding to check the information about the torture by police officers of the detainee Nikolai Lebedev, as well as asked to identify and bring all those responsible to justice.
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev, his wife Yelena and son / Photo from social media
On 6 December, the City Court in Abakan, Khakassia, fined Mikhail Afanasyev, the founder of the Novy Focus media, 450,000 roubles under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“incitement of hatred”). Mikhail Afanasyev, a member of the Yabloko party, is the owner, General Director and sole employee of the company. According to the case file, from 2018 to 2021, the legal entity posted a number of articles on its website that were aimed at “inciting enmity and hatred towards representatives of law enforcement agencies”. The court decision will be appealed.
Photo: Vladimir Kara-Murza at the Yabloko pre-election Congress in 2021 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, the Moscow Basmanny Court will hold a hearing to extend the measure of restraint in the form of detention for politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Vladimir Kara-Murza has been in jail since 22 April on the charges of spreading “fake news” about the Russian army. In July, another criminal case was initiated against Kara-Murza – “on the activities of an undesirable organisation”, and in October he was charged under the article “treason”. Yabloko considers the persecution of Vladimir Kara-Murza political and Yabloko insists that Vladimir is innocent.
On 3 December, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and his team came to Astrakhan to meet with Yabloko members and supporters and discuss the region’s problems with active citizens.
Photos by the Yabloko branch in the Sverdlovsk region
On 3 December, the Yabloko branch in the Sverdlovsk region held a political discussion on the topic “The Image of Russia of the Future”. The organisers of the event aimed to learn how people of different ages and different political views assess the current situation and view the future of Russia. Four teams came up with their vision – “Youth Yabloko”, a representative of PARNAS, the “Team of People’s Freedom” and the “Social Democrats of the Urals”.
On 6 December, the Yabloko Party University held a lecture “February? Bourgeois? Democratic? Revolution?” about the history of the revolution in Russia in 1917. The lecturer was Boris Kolonitsky, professor at the European University at St. Petersburg and a leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Photo: the Moscow City Duma / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The draft appeal to President Putin on the need to issue a decree on the end of partial mobilisation submitted to the apparat of the Moscow City Duma on 23 November, was “rejected” by Andrei Krutyshev, head of the legal department of the Moscow City Duma, in violation of the Duma regulations. This was announced today by the authors of the project – the deputies of the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov (Yabloko), Mikhail Timonov (A Just Russia), and Yevgeny Stupin (CPRF).
Photo: Mobilisation / Photo by Viktor Korotaev, Kommersant
The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia sent an appeal to Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister. The document refers to the need to issue a regulatory legal act on the completion of partial mobilisation.
Sergei Mitrokhin, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, a deputy of the Moscow City Duma, and a candidate of political sciences, focused in his lecture on one specific issue: the origins of the rule of law. Where did Karl Marx was wrong? That was one of the topics of Sergei Mitorkhin’s lecture.
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The appeal by Yabloko deputies runs that it is necessary to issue a decree on the end of “partial mobilization”.
“The absence of such a [presidential] decree (at the moment there are only oral statements made by a number of officials about the end of partial mobilisation, but no legal acts) creates legal uncertainty and, on the one hand, allows the conscription of citizens to military service within the framework of mobilisation, and on the other hand, allows commanders of military units and courts to refuse citizens asking for dismissal from military service,” Yabloko MPs note in the appeal.
Today, 1 December, marks the 80th birthday of Valery Vasilyevich Borshchov, an outstanding human rights defender, member of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, Co-Chairman of the Yabloko Human Rights Faction. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky congratulate Valery Borshchov on his anniversary:
Photo: The action in Chelyabinsk / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Actions in support of political prisoners were held in the regional offices of the Yabloko party past week. Hundreds of letters and postcards with words of support so needed by people deprived of their freedom are sent to their recipients across the country.
Many political prisoners write in their response letters that Yabloko and civil activists are doing very important work.
“I had to go through a lot of difficult moments during this time and I don’t know how I would have coped without your support! I received over a hundred letters (postcards, photographs, and drawings) with words of support and good wishes from different cities of Russia, as well as neighbouring countries!” Yabloko activists in Tatarstan cite the words from the response letter of political prisoner Andrey Boyarshinov.
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Anna Cherepanova, head of the Yabloko party faction in the Novgorod City Duma, called on the Russian President to issue a decree on the completion of partial mobilisation. The faction’s appeal, signed by MP Cherepanova, was sent to Vladimir Putin on 30 November.
Photo: Igor Nikolayev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 15 December the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture “On the Prospects of the Russian Economy” by Igor Nikolayev, Director of the Institute for Strategic Analysis of the company “Financial and Accounting Consultants”, Doctor of Economics, and a member of the Public Constitutional Council. The lecture will start at 18:00 MSK.
Photo: Alexander Makhankov / Photo from social media
On 28 November, the St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision of the Pushkinsky District Court against Alexander Makhankov, the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the Pushkinsky district, who had been found guilty of “discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. Makhankov was fined 30,000 roubles.
Photo: Meeting of the State Council of the Udmurt Republic on 29 November, 2022 / Photo by udmgossovet.ru
Iya Boronina, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia, proposed amendments to the regional budget for 2023 and for the planning period of 2024 and 2025. The draft budget was adopted at a meeting of the State Council of the Republic on 29 November. The leader of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia prepared and submitted to the Council the proposals of Yabloko as a legislative initiative proposing redistribution of funds in favour of orphans, palliative care and provision of safety in educational institutions.
