Four candidates from Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko submitted signatures in support of their nomination
Press Release, 22.07.2024
The required number of signatures for participation in the elections of deputies of the Chelyabinsk City Duma were submitted by the Chairman of the Chelyabinsk Yabloko and lawyer Yaroslav Shcherbakov (district No. 2, Kalininsky district), teacher of Russian language and literature Olga Sazonova (district No. 4, Kalininsky district), Chair of the Gender faction of the regional branch of Yabloko, student Maria Chikulayeva (district No. 19, Sovetsky district) and human rights activist Anna Ilyina (district No. 21, Traktorozavodsky district). The period for collecting signatures in support of the nomination of candidates for deputies of the Chelyabinsk City Duma has ended, and the verification of signatures by the electoral commission will commence soon. All Yabloko candidates are running in the elections demanding the immediate conclusion of a ceasefire agreement and the release of all political prisoners.
Read more »
Posted: July 22nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Alexander Zagainov is registered as a candidate from Yabloko for municipal deputies in Krasnoyarsk
Press Release, 22.07.2024
The electoral commission of the Berezovsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory decided to register Alexander Zagainov, a candidate from the Yabloko party for the district council in single-mandate electoral district No. 10 of Krasnoyarsk. The current deputy of the Esaul Village Council is running in the villages of Ermolaevo, Esaulovka, Terentyevo, the village of Ermolaevsky Zaton and in 20 dacha non-profit partnerships. The candidate campaigns under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom”.
Read more »
Posted: July 22nd, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Ksenia Cherepanova is a registered candidate for deputy of the Novgorod Regional Duma from Yabloko
Press Release, 19.07.2024
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova
Members of the Soletsk District Electoral Commission unanimously decided to register Ksenia Cherepanova, a candidate from the Yabloko party in the by-elections of deputies of the Novgorod Regional Duma in the Soletsk single-mandate electoral district. Ksenia Cherepanova, the Chair of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Veliky Novgorod, the head of the regional anti-corruption centre and economist, is participating in the elections with the programme “For Peace and Freedom”. The Soletsky municipal district includes Batetsky, Volotovsky, Soletsky and Shimsky districts and constituencies of the Novgorod region.
Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Tula regional branch of Yabloko is collecting signatures to participate in the elections of deputies to the regional and the city parliament
Press Release, 19.07.2024
The Tula regional branch of Yabloko nominated two lists of candidates for the regional and city Dumas (parliaments). The Yabloko team is running in the elections under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!” and asks for the help of all residents of the region who share the party’s positions and want Yabloko to take part in the elections.
Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko is running for the Chelyabinsk City Duma and asks its voters and supporters to help with collection of signatures
Press Release, 19.07.2024
The Chelyabinsk regional branch of Yabloko nominated candidates for elections to the Chelyabinsk City Duma as a party list and in single-mandate constituencies. Yabloko candidates are campaigning under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!” To be registered in the elections, candidates must collect 5,000 signatures from residents from all over the city to register the party list and 200 signatures for each candidate in the city’s single-mandate constituencies.
Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Anatoly Kivva, a candidate for deputy from Yabloko, has been registered in the Zaborevsky rural settlement of the Ryazan region
Press Release, 19.07.2024
Photo: Anatoly Kivva / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
The Territorial Electoral Commission of the Ryazan District has registered a candidate for deputy of the Zaborevsky rural settlement from the Yabloko party, Anatoly Kivva. The elections will take place on 6-8 September.
Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Ten candidates from Yabloko are registered for elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 19.07.2024
The Territorial Electoral Commission in the Novgorod region registered ten candidates from Yabloko. In total, the regional branch of the party nominated 13 candidates. Registration was denied to Valery Kochnev, and Oksana Sergeyeva will soon be denied registration as well, they were found guilty last year of “demonstrating extremist symbols”. Registration of a candidate for the by-elections to the regional Duma, Ksenia Cherepanova, will take place on 19 July.
Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Sergei Mitrokhin: The Moscow City Duma is not a place for deputies
Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog post, 19.07.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov and Sergei Mitrokhin at their meeting with Muscovites / Photo from social media
The refusal [of the electoral commission] to register Maxim Kruglov for elections to the Moscow City Duma was expected. The barrier of [mandatory] collection of voters’ signatures [in favour of a candidate’s nomination] was created against Yabloko from the very beginning. For this reason, the Moscow law does not exempt a party that has a faction in the city parliament from collecting signatures. This norm is provided for in all regions of the Russian Federation, except Moscow, precisely because of Yabloko, which is strong in the capital, but does not have a faction in the State Duma.
Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Regional and Local Elections 2024, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The Ministry of Justice failed to explain on why it recognised Boris Vishnevsky as a “foreign agent”
Press Release, 19.07.2024
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky by the court with his defence attorneys / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
The Vasileostrovsky District Court in St.Petersburg held the first hearing on the merits in the lawsuit filed by Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and MP of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, against the Ministry of Justice. Vishnevsky challenges the decision by the Ministry of Justice to include him in the “foreign agents” register.
Read more »
Posted: July 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma Maxim Kruglov denied registration as a candidate for elections
Press Release, 17.07.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov after a meeting of the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters
This decision was made today by the electoral commission for electoral district No. 13, despite objections filed by Maxim Kruglov’s headquarters to the protocol of verifying signatures. Yabloko is preparing a legal complaint.
According to the candidate’s legal team, only 166 signatures out of 5,664 signatures could be considered invalid, that is, 2.9% of the total; whereas the law allows to register candidates with 5% of defective signatures. Meanwhile, the electoral commission said on Monday evening that it considered 1,037 signatures – 18.3% – as “invalid”. However, it should be noted that not a single signature was recognised by the commission as unreliable (falsified).
Read more »
Posted: July 18th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Moscow City Duma Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Alexander Yefimov fined again for “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”
Press Release, 17.07.2024
Photo: Alexander Yefimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Volzhsky City Court, in a retrial, once again fined Alexander Yefimov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, 15,000 roubles under the charges of “participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) because of his interview to the Golos project. The decision was made on 17 July. Yefimov intends to appeal it.
Read more »
Posted: July 17th, 2024 under Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The electoral commission is going to invalidate about a thousand signatures in support of the nomination of Maxim Kruglov in the elections to the Moscow City Duma
Press Release, 16.07.2024
Photo: Maxim Kruglov’s team before submitting signatures to the district electoral commission / Photo by the candidate’s headquarters
Maxim Kruglov, a Yabloko candidate for the Moscow City Duma and the current deputy of the Moscow City Duma, told about the decision of the electoral commission to invalidate about a thousand signatures out total 5,660 signatures required for his registration in the Moscow City Duma elections. Lawyers from Maxim Kruglov’s team are preparing objections to the commission’s decision and will defend the signatures in court if necessary.
Read more »
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Novgorod branch of Yabloko appealed to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office due to poor quality works on a military memorial in Staraya Russa dedicated to the victims of the World War II
Press Release, 16.07.2024
Photo: Plastic signs at the Simonovskoye cemetery in Staraya Russa / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party sent an appeal to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the failure of the authorities to complete works to create a memorial in Staraya Russa to soldiers who died in the World War II. The memorial at the Simonovskoye cemetery, where about 30,000 Soviet soldiers are buried, was opened in October 2023. An inspection in July 2025, which was carried out by the Novgorod Yabloko, showed that in the process of creating the memorial, the administration of Staraya Russa arbitrarily refused to carry out critically important works provided for by the design project and replaced materials with cheaper analogues.
Read more »
Posted: July 16th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Electoral commissions are carrying out a political order to prevent Yabloko candidates from participating in municipal elections in St. Petersburg
Statement by the Bureau of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, 15.07.2024
Candidates for municipal deputies from the Yabloko party are being denied registration en masse. In the Admiralteysky, Central, Petrogradsky, Kirovsky and other districts of St. Petersburg, candidates are rejected registration on the same far-fetched grounds that do not correspond either to the law or to the actual circumstances, and the texts of the claims coincide almost word for word, including obvious typos. At the same time, electoral commissions neither accept any objections from candidates, nor provide arguments in favour of their speculations.
Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Pskov branch of Yabloko nominated 36 candidates to participate in 11 election campaigns
Press Release, 15.07.2024
Photo: Yabloko candidates Yevgeny Vasiliev and Alexei Kanishchev
On 14 July, the conference of the Pskov branch of Yabloko nominated candidates for the by-elections of a deputy of the Pskov City Duma in electoral district No. 5, elections for the head of the Gdovsky district, deputies of the assemblies of the Bezhanitsky, Dnovsky, Plyussky, Porkhovsky and Usvyatsky municipal districts. The regional branch nominated unified party lists and candidates for single-mandate constituencies.
Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
The Ministry of Justice hurried to add a candidate from the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko to the register of foreign agents in order to disrupt her registration
Press release, 13.07.2024
Photo: Anna Karulicheva with her team / Photo by regional branch of Yabloko
On 12 July, three hours before the meeting of the electoral commission, which was supposed to consider the issue of registering Anna Karulicheva, a Yabloko candidate and former deputy of the Narva Okrug municipality in St.Petersburg, the Ministry of Justice urgently included her in the list of foreign agents. According to the Ministry of Justice, she “disseminated false information about the electoral system of the Russian Federation”.
Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
We Need a Ceasefire Now — Before It Is Too Late
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.07.2024
Armoured Peace Dove. Banksy. 2003
“It often requires more courage to dare
to do right than to fear to do wrong”.
Abraham Lincoln
The most recent rotation of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union – which is usually a formal procedure in the European bureaucratic system — became a high-profile international event. On 1 July 2024 Hungary assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had previously declared on numerous occasions that a diplomatic resolution of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict was required, immediately started implementing the practical part of his peace plan.
Orban was already in Kyiv on 2 July, where at a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky he called on the parties to agree to a ceasefire. Three days later the Hungarian Prime Minister went to Moscow. His meeting with Vladimir Putin was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, as well as aides to the Russian President Yuri Ushakov and Vladimir Medinsky (the last two individuals were key figures during the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in spring 2022 in Belarus and Turkey). As had been the case in Kyiv, Orban called on Russia to agree to a ceasefire for the start of negotiations with Ukraine. Beijing became the next stop in Orban’s peace-making blitz tour. A ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was also the central topic of conversation at his meeting with the President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping. In general Xi supported Orban’s idea, but stressed that a ceasefire could be achieved only “when all major powers exert positive energy, rather than negative energy.” Orban left Beijing for Washington where the NATO Summit started on 9 July.
If one proceeds from the assumption that Viktor Orban’s goal is to achieve peace in Europe, then the route he took to discuss a ceasefire is logical and reasonable: Kyiv-Moscow-Beijing-Washington – these are the countries which hold the keys to ending the bloodshed. His meeting with the Turkish President Recep Erdogan held at the NATO Summit in Washington was also useful.
Read more »
Posted: July 15th, 2024 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
The construction of a tourist centre on the shores of Lake Onega in Karelia was stopped due to the efforts of Yabloko deputies and local residents
Press Release, 12.07.2024
Photo from social media
The Karelian Interdistrict Environmental Public Prosecutor’s Office established that a plot of pine forest on the shore of Lake Onega with an area of over 6 hectares was transferred into private hands illegally. Forest lands, which include centuries-old pine forests, can be exclusively federal property. The public prosecutor sent a statement of claim to the court to declare all transactions, the subject of which are the disputed territories, null and void. As an interim measure, a ban was introduced on the owners of plots and third parties to carry out any economic activity on the forest territory, including its felling. The inspection was carried out by the Interdistrict Environmental Public Prosecutor’s office after numerous appeals to the public prosecutor’s office and to officials from Yabloko deputies, as well as a great public outcry caused by the news of felling the forest.
Read more »
Posted: July 12th, 2024 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
“They are convicted for creativity. For not toeing the line. For making people think.” Yabloko leaders on the sentence to theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk
Press Release, 8.07.2024
Photo: Playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich in court / Photo by Ilya Pitalev, RIA Novosti
On 8 July, the Second Western District Military Court of Moscow sentenced theatre director Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to six years in a general regime penal colony each in the case of “justifying terrorism”.
Read more »
Posted: July 10th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko to honour the memory of the victims of Stalin’s political repression in Sandarmokh, Karelia, and invites all the party supporters to participate
Press Release, 08.07.2024
Photo: A monument at the place of mass burial with an inscription “People, don’t kill each other!”
On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Terror, on 5 August, the Yabloko delegation will go to the Sandarmokh, Karelia, the place of mass burial of victims of Stalin’s political terror. Yabloko ativists will lay flowers at the memorial cemetery and honour the memory of the victims of Soviet repression. Yabloko invites all its supporters to join our trip.
Read more »
Posted: July 8th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Comments: none
