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Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocked the page of Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the party. The social network referred to a notification from the Public Prosecutor General’s Office dated May 20. According to the Public Prosecutor Genera, Boris Vishnevsky’s page contained “inaccurate socially significant information aimed at destabilising the socio-political situation in the Russian Federation”.
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Anna Cherepanova, Chairwoman of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, obtained compensation for moral damage and material damage in connection with the illegal actions of the Novgorod police to bring her to administrative liability. The federal budget will pay the opposition politician 15,000 roubles. On 1 June, the Novgorod Regional Court upheld the decision of the Novgorod Regional Court and dismissed the appeal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Nikolai Kuzmin / Photo from social networks
Two complaints were filed with the Constitutional Court of Russia against the constitutionality of the norms of the Russian electoral legislation, which established restrictions on participation in elections for “persons involved in the activities of extremist organisations”.
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin in the police station / Photo from social networks
On 31 May, police detained Sergei Mitrokhin, a Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and an ex Chairman of Yabloko, during his meeting with residents of the Khamovniki district, Moscow. The meeting was devoted to plans of a developing company for laying communications for the construction of elite apartments through the courtyard of the house located at the address 11 Yefremov Street.
The Saratov branch of Yabloko held “An Evening of Letters to Political Prisoners” action in the Saratov office of the party. In a few hours, 15 people – members of the regional branch, supporters and civil activists – signed 111 postcards that will be sent to prisons to 43 political prisoners, including Sergei Ryzhov, Andrei Pivovarov (whom Yabloko nominated to run in the parliamentary elections in 2021 when he was already detained and demanded his release), Alexei Navalny, Nikita Uvarov, Alexandra Skochilenko and many other.
In St. Petersburg, journalist Pyor Ivanov from the Press Service of the Yabloko faction in St.Petersburg parliament, was attacked and severely beaten late in the evening of 30 May.
Late in the evening of 30 May 30, two unidentified young men beat Pyotr Ivanov near the entrance to his house. They knocked the journalist to the ground and kicked him in the head.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Judge of the Pskov Regional Court upheld the decision of the Pskov City Court of 20 April finding Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, guilty of “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”.
On 28 May, an expanded meeting of the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Yabloko branch in the Altai Territory was held. The Bureau discussed the political and socio-economic situation in the country and in the region and the tasks of the regional branch of Yabloko.
Recently a number of officials of the Government, the State Duma and the Security Council of Russia have made statements about their intention to withdraw from the Bologna process of a common European higher education area.
These statements do not just uphold the current course of the Russian authorities towards Russia’s self-isolation. They create new threats of Russia’s scientific, technological and cultural backwardness from the modern world.
Photo: The Moscow City Duma / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Moscow City Duma did not support Yabloko’s amendments to the Moscow Electoral Code on the return of a mixed electoral system and the possibility to appoint election observers from public associations. Yabloko’s amendments to the Electoral Code of Moscow were presented by Andrei Morev head of the municipal district Yakimanka in Moscow, Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the district and Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko.
The Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party elected a new chairperson at the Conference of the regional branch. Natalia Chubykina became new Chair.
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On May 24, Judge of the Novgorod District Court overturned the decision of the court of a lower instance to bring Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, to administrative liability for violating election campaigning rules during the by-elections of a deputy of the Duma of Novgorod in constituency No. 3, in which Yabloko candidate Ksenia Cherepanova ran.
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov and Vasily Moskovets / Photo from social networks
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, filed a lawsuit with the Chelyabinsk Regional Court demanding from the regional government to open a hyde parks (specially designated places where any public events – meetings, rallies, or pickets – can be held without notifying the authorities) in all the seven districts of Chelyabinsk. The defendant is the Government of the Chelyabinsk Region.
After the government excluded several locations from the list of city guide parks, only two sites remained in Chelyabinsk.
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The pro-government majority of St.Petersburg parliament excluded from the agenda of the plenary session Yabloko’s draft statement on the protection of citizens’ rights to freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”: 37 parliamentarians voted for the decline of consideration of consider the document introduced by the Yabloko faction, two voted against the decline (only Yabloko), and two abstained.
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, made a speech in the St. Petersburg parliament on the issue of amending the regional Social Code on the provision of social support and payments to St. Petersburg residents who were hit or affected during the “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine.
As soon as Vishnevsky started speaking about the need to stop hostilities leading to victims and recalled the proposals of the Yabloko Congress on a ceasefire in Ukraine and peace negotiations, Alexander Belsky, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, turned off his microphone.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Lev Shlosberg in the Novorzhev Library / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko Party announces its traditional annual collection of books for libraries for the upcoming Library Day, 27 May. This year, books will be collected for the library of the city of Novorzhev, the Pskov region.
Today, this library is one of the few venues in the city for cultural communication and education for both children and adults. Particular attention should be paid to the children’s books fund, which is not only small, but also considerably outdated.
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The administration of the popular VKontakte social network blocked the page of Anna Cherepanova, a deputy of the City Duma of Novgorod and Chair of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, at the request of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office.
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo from social networks
Vladimir Yefimov, Chairman of the Kamchatka regional branch of the Yabloko party, was released from the detention centre, where he spent two days in connection with the criminal case brought against him.
Photo: Vladimir Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a criminal case was filed against Vladimir Yefimov, a journalist and Chairman of the Kamchatka branch of Yabloko, under Article 280.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”). A search was carried out in Yefimov’s home, and Yefimov was placed in the detention facility.
Earlier, Vladimir Yefimov had been already fined 30,000 roubles twice in administrative cases on “discrediting the army”.
On Monday, 23 May, Andrei Babushkin commemoration meeting will be held at the Moscow office of Yabloko (Pyatnitskaya, 31 building 2).
Andrei Babushkin, human rights defender, Chairman of the Committee for Civil Rights, a member of the President’s Council on Human Rights and Yabloko Bureau member, passed away on 14 May.
