Court in Novosibirsk fined Yabloko member Alexei Manannikov for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 05.07.2022
Photo: Alexei Manannikov / Photo from social media
The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Novosibirsk found Alexei Manannikov, a member of the Yabloko party, a former People’s Deputy of the RSFSR (1990-1993) and a former member of the Federation Council (1993-1995), guilty of “discrediting the army” and fined him 30,000 roubles for an anti-war post posted on the social network VKontakte on 31 March, 2022. Manannikov’s personal page on the VKontakte social media was blocked by the decision of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office of 19 April, 2022.
Alexei Manannikov, who has been living abroad for the past few years, said that the court’s decision was symbolic for him: in the USSR, 40 years ago, at the end of June 1982, the Moscow City Court sentenced him for “disseminating deliberately false fabrications discrediting the Soviet state and social system”. Then Manannikov was arrested and sentenced to three years for speaking in support of the Polish association of independent trade unions Solidarity and criticising the suppression of the labour movement by the state.
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Posted: July 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk Regional Court declared the refusal of the Magnitogorsk Mayor’s Office to allow a May Day demonstration illegal
Press Release, 5.07.2022
Photo: Procession “For Peace!” in Miass, 1 May, 2022
The decision of the Pravoberezhny District Court of Magnitogorsk, which sided with the Magnitogorsk administration, was appealed in the regional court by Svetlana Sheinova, Chairwoman of the Magnitogorsk Yabloko.
It should be noted that Svetlana Sheinova tried to get a permission for the May Day demonstration “For Peace!”, but was refused by the Mayor’s Office of Magnitorosk, which cited the threat of coronavirus. The same answer, like a carbon-copy, was also issued by the Mayor’s Office of Chelyabinsk to Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Yabloko party.
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Posted: July 8th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vice Governor of St. Petersburg answered Yabloko that it was allowed to place Z-signs in the subway without any documents or justifications
Press Release, 4.07.2022
Photo: Kirill Polyakov/ Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg
Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Kirill Polyakov, who is responsible for transport in St.Petersburg, responded to the appeal by the deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov. They asked for an explanation on what grounds the Z-symbols were placed on advertising space in the St. Petersburg subway.
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Posted: July 5th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Russia-2022: Underlying Causes
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 2.06.2022
The most important specific of Russian national disasters is that they can all be attributed to the inadequate
capability documented in culture to respond adequately to the challenges of history.
Alexander Akhiezer
In order to understand what has happened in Russia and before we even attempt to contemplate what comes next, we need to find an answer to the key question: why and how did we end up with a political system and state structure which has effectively organised the largest armed conflict between countries in Europe after World War II, with countless victims, creating in the process a serious large-scale and direct threat to the future? Or to put it another way, why and how did a political system appear, which has resulted in the so-called “special military operation” against Ukraine on 24 February 2022?
If we fail to answer this question, we will be unable to extricate ourselves from the destructive path that Russia has already been taking for 30 years, while the developments today will also be repeated in future in the most savage forms.
We are witnessing and participating in monumental events. It goes without saying that they include moral, cultural and historical aspects. However, in this article I will focus on the underlying political causes of these developments.
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Posted: July 4th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Understanding Russia, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Shishlov: “This is not just a fight against the so-called foreign influence”
The practice of adopting such laws shows that parliamentary activity has degraded
Rosbalt*, 30.06.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The State Duma adopted a unified law “On control over the activities of persons under foreign influence”. Now new restrictions are being introduced for foreign agents. They will be deprived of the opportunity to receive state financial support, including that in the implementation of creative activities, and they will not be able to use the simplified taxation scheme. They will also be prohibited from participating in the organisation and conduct of a public environmental expertise, teaching and educational activities in relation to minors. Alexander Shishlov, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from the Yabloko party, tells what is behind the practices of recognising Russians as foreign agents.
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Posted: July 4th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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It took the court three attempts to finally dismiss the case of “illegal campaigning” against the Chairman of the Yabloko branch in the city of Novgorod
Press Release, 29.06.2022
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin after being attacked / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The court of the first instance dismissed the case on the distribution of Yabloko campaign postcards “Ksenia Cherepanova Is for Peace” by Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the Novgorod city branch of Yabloko, due to the absence of any corpus delicti. Ksenia Cherepanova was Yabloko’s candidate at the Novgorod City Duma elections.
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Posted: June 30th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Morev, Deputy Сhairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, will be tried for “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 28.06.2022
Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
An administrative case under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the army”) was filed against Andrei Morev, Deputy Сhairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko and head of the Yakimanka Moscow district.
Morev learned that an administrative protocol was drawn up against him from the summon, which he received by mail. What exactly was considered to be “discreditation of the army” is unclear. On 7 July, Morev’s case will be considered by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Shishlov proposed to the government to remove anti-coronavirus restrictions on crossing the Russian border
Press Release, 28.06.2022
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Russian citizens continue to face travel restrictions at the vehicle checkpoints at the Russian border. The restrictions were established by the Russian government in March 2020 and have not yet been lifted, despite a sharp decrease in the morbidity and the abolition of anti-virus restrictions in the neighbouring countries. Thus, recently the refusal of the Russian border guards to allow famous Russian film director Alexander Sokurov, who is resident of St.Petersburg, to pass through the Russian-Finnish border to participate in an international conference caused a great public outcry.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod branch of Yabloko will take part in three election campaigns
Press Release, 26.06.2022
Photo: members of the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party
On 24 June, the Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party held its conference. The conference made a decision on participation of candidates from the party in the elections that will be held in the region in September.
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Elections, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Alexander Yefimov called on the Ombudsman and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Volgograd Region to check the conditions of detention of prisoners of war
Based on the publication on the V1.ru web-site, 26.06.2022
Photo: Alexander Yefimov/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party from Volgograd, appealed to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Volgograd Region, the regional Public Monitoring Commission performing public control over the conditions of detention and providing aid to convicts, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the public prosecutor’s office with a request to visit and check detention centre No. 2 in the city of Kamyshin, where prisoners of war from Ukraine can be kept, as well as check the conditions of their detention .
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Posted: June 29th, 2022 under Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Human rights activist Nikolai Kavkazsky received ten days of arrest and lost his right to participate in the Moscow municipal elections
Press Release, 25.06.2022
Photo: Nikolai Kazkazsky in the police station / Photo from social networks
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has appointed ten days of administrative arrest to Nikolai Kavkazsky, a member of the regional Council of the Moscow Yabloko and human rights activist.
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Posted: June 28th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The police seized the laptop and phone of Sofya Pugacheva, head of the Novorzhevsky district in the Pskov region, in the case of “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 24.06.2022
Photo: Sofya Pugacheva / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service
On the morning of 24 June, the police inspected the premises of the administration of the Novorzhevsky district of the Pskov region as part of an administrative case initiated under Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”).
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Posted: June 28th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko asks Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tatarstan to conduct a check on the case of politically motivated expelling of a student from university
Press Release, 22.06.2022
Photo: Denis Mokrishin / Photo from social networks
The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan forwarded an inquiry to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Tatarstan asking to conduct a check on the case of Denis Mokrushin, a student of Kazan State Architecture and Development University, who had been facing pressure from the university administration for his political stance.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Today this date [the day of remembrance of the victims of the Second World War] has become an open bleeding wound and our common immense responsibility”
81 years ago Hitler attacked the Soviet Union
Press Release, 21.06.2022
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky, Nikolai Rybakov and Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the night of June 21-22, members of the Yabloko party traditionally gathered on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow to lay flowers at the 1941 memorial plaque in Victory Park and light candles in memory of the victims of the Second World War.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under History, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov Regional Court sent the case of Lyubov Zhiltsova, a teacher and a deputy from Yabloko, on “discrediting the army” for a new trial
Press Release, 21.06.2022
Photo: Lyubov Zhiltsova and Vladimir Danilov / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
On 17 May, the Pechorsky District Court dismissed the case of Yabloko’s Lyubov Zhiltsova, a teacher and a deputy of the Palkino District Assembly in the Pskov region, due to lack of corpus delicti. However, the employees of the Palkino Police Department appealed against this decision. The report on Lyubov Zhiltsova was drawn up for her photo by the school board with a sheet of paper with the inscription “No ** ***!”, which she published on her VKontakte page on February 25.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The court fined Yabloko’s Valentina Komkova for “failure to comply with the lawful demands by the police”
Press Release, 21.06.2022
Photo: Valentina Komkova / Photo by Sergei Krasnoeyev
The Miass City Court found Valentina Komkova, Chairwoman of the Miass branch of Yabloko, guilty of “failing to comply with the lawful demands by the police” and fined her 4,000 roubles. Komkova provided legal assistance to a woman detained for making an anti-war inscription on the pavement.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Russian telecommunications supervising service Roskomnadzor responded to Yabloko’s inquiries about the reasons for blocking social networks pages of Yabloko’s politicians
Press Release, 14.06.2022
Photo: “Ban yourself!” / Photo by Emin Jafarov, Kommersant
From the beginning of the so-called “special military operation”, members of the Yabloko party, who had previously been under the scrutiny of the authorities and law enforcement agencies, were subjected to tremendous pressure. Dozens of activists were detained and arrested, homes of seventeen people were searched, nineteen protocols were drawn up against Yabloko members on “discrediting the army”. However, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and Roskomnadzor (the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) came up with another way to interfere with the work of Yabloko: in less than three months, personal pages on social networks of five Yabloko politicians and the web-site of one regional branch were blocked. Blocking took place in the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, as well as on the Yandex.Zen platform.
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Posted: June 22nd, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Activist from Activist from Khanty-Mansiysk, West Siberia, fined 80,000 roubles under two protocols on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 5.06.2022
Photo: Ivan Menshenin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Ivan Menshenin, a member of the Yabloko party in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, West Siberia, and a candidate for the State Duma in 2021, was fined twice under Article 20.3.3, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”). The fines total 80,000 roubles.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A new book by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva “Behind Civilization” is available for download
Press Release, 03.06.2022
A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind. How and Why Russia Failed to Become a Law-Governed State” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva is available for download in the Library section of the Yabloko party website.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Moscow City Duma MP Sergei Mitrokhin fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, was fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies (Article 20.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The decision was made today by the Khamovniki Court of Moscow.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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