Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Photo: Alyona Popova / Photo from Alyona Popova’s personal Facebook page
On Tuesday, 18 May, lawyer Alyona Popova will give a lecture for the students of the Yabloko Party University and Yabloko’s Gender School on the topic “Feminism in Russia: the System’s Struggle Against Equality, Why Are the Authorities Afraid of Women?” The lecture will be held via Zoom and will begin at 19:00.
On April 28, Olga Radayeva, First Deputy Chair of the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party, took part in an online conference on gender equality organised by Svensk Ungdom (Finland) and Civic Forum (Belarus).
Five speakers shared their experience of defending women’s rights in their countries: Ellinor Juth (Svensk Ungdom, Finland), Marina Korzh (Feminist movement “March Babe!”, Belarus), Olga Radayeva (Gender Faction of the Yabloko party, Russia), Olena Stadnik- Stefurak (European Youth of Ukraine, Ukraine), Ghena Ayach (Future Youth Movement, Lebanon).
The speakers told about their organisations, the situation with women’s rights, positive and negative trends in the field of gender equality in their countries, what problems in the field of gender equality came to the forefront in their countries, which legislative acts contributed to the achievement of gender equality, and which on the contrary, slowed down the process.
Parents of children in the Prionezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia and Petrozavodsk have been finally paid in full the parental compensation for raising a child in kindergarten (for missed days) which is due to them according to the law. This is stated in the response of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to the appeal of Emilia Slabunova, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia from Yabloko.
In the Prionezhsky district, a recalculation was carried out and 45 parents received the corresponding compensations. In Petrozavodsk, recalculation was made for 13,738 parents.
Photo: Ilya Shablinsky / Photo from Ilya Shablinsky’s personal Facebook page
On Thursday, May 20, the Yabloko Party University will hold a zoom lecture by lawyer Ilya Shablinsky. The topic of the lecture is “The electoral law and the electoral process. History and Law “. The lecture will begin at 19:00.
The issues to be covered at the lecture are as follows:
– How has the Russian electoral legislation evolved?
– Electoral systems and elections in Russia in 1993 – 2016.
Yabloko leaders and activists honoured the memory of those who died in the Second World War at the Preobrazhensky cemetery in Moscow. They laid flowers and a wreath at the War Memorial.
The solemn and mourning ceremony was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, Sergei Ivanenko, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Sergei Mitrokhin, deputy of the Moscow City Duma, Kirill Goncharov, member of the Federal Bureau of the party, Galina Mikhaleva, head of the Yabloko Gender Faction and others.
On 8 May, on the eve of Victory Day, the Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov and the party delegation laid flowers and wreaths at the memorial to the victims of the siege of Leningrad at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg.
“The Piskarevskoye cemetery is a special landmark for every Leningrad and St. Petersburg family. Almost everyone has relatives who died at the front line defending the city, or died in the besieged Leningrad from hunger and diseases. Coming here, to the sound of an incessant metronome, we honor the memory of everyone – from soldiers to little Leningrad citizens who died in the besieged city. And this memory unites people – people who should never allow new wars,” Nikolai Rybakov said.
Leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid a wreath and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow in memory of those who died in the Second World War.
The ceremony was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko founder and Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, Sergei Ivanenko, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Ivan Bolshakov, Yabloko Deputy Chairman, Acad. Alexei Arbatov, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, deputies of the Moscow City Duma Sergei Mitrokhin and Maxim Kruglov, Kirill Goncharov, member of the Federal Bureau of the party, Andrei Morev, head of the Municipal council of the Yakimanka Moscow district and many others.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral Commission, proposing to hold a one-day rather than three-day voting in the elections to be held in September 2021. Rybakov also proposed not to conduct early voting, remote voting and outdoor mass voting in order to avoid possible violations.
Twenty years ago, a hostile takeover by the state of NTV, the first all-Russian TV channel independent of the state, took place. By common consent, NTV, established in 1993, became a world-class TV channel [in Russia] in a few years. But in 2001, a year after Vladimir Putin came to power, the TV channel was virtually eliminated, and in front of the entire country: it was deprived of its independence and transferred to the ownership of Gazprom. The reason for the destruction of NTV was its independent information policy, which really did not obey the Presidential Administration. Today it is hard to believe, but that was exactly the reputation of the former NTV with a multimillion audience. Therefore, then, in April 2001, thousands of people took to the streets in defence of the TV channel being destroyed by the authorities. There had already been the explosions of blocks of flats and the beginning of the Second Chechen War, further there had to be acts of terror in a theatre in Moscow and a school in Beslan, the murders of [Yabloko MP] Yury Shchekochikhin and [journalist and human rights activist] Anna Politkovskaya, the seizure of Crimea and the war in Donbass, all against the backdrop of complete nationalisation and subordination to the Kremlin of almost all politically significant media outlets.
Yesterday night, Hans van Baalen, our colleague and Chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), passed away. He was 60 years old.
During his political career, Hans was a Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, Member of the European Parliament, President of Liberal International, and since 2015 he has led the ALDE party.
Yevgeny Bunimovich, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Education and a member of the Yabloko faction of the Moscow City Duma, called the ameded law on educational activities represents a manifestation of censorship. The law will come into force on 1 June and will seriously limit the possibility of holding lectures, master classes and other educational events at various venues.
Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov sent a letter to Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, demanding to ensure the right of candidates to hold campaigning public events in connection with the upcoming elections of deputies to the State Duma.
Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko branch in Tatarstan
The Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and the Association of Tatarstan Observers signed a memorandum on the creation of a joint regional headquarters of election observers during the Forum of Kazan Opposition Forces, which took place in Kazan on 24 April. They plan to monitor all the 2021 election campaigns. The founders of the headquarters plan to cover the maximum number of polling stations with observers.
On 27 April, the Bureau of the Ivanovo branch of Yabloko issued a statement announcing launch of a public campaign for the legal protection of the participants of the rally of 21 April. “On 21 April, a rally in support of Alexei Navalny and other prisoners of conscience was held in the Ivanovo region, as in many other regions of the country. The peaceful action resulted in the detention of more than 50 people in the regional centre. Such a large number of the detained in unprecedented for our region. According to our information, about 40 reports on an administrative offense under Article 20.2 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation “Violation of the established procedure for organising or holding an assembly, meeting, demonstration, procession or picketing” were drawn up for the event participants,” the statement runs.
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The Novgorod District Court terminated the administrative case against Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and deputy of the Duma of Novgorod, due to the lack of an administrative offense.
The police intended to bring Anna Cherepanova to responsibility under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation (organisation or holding of a public event without filing a notice of a public event in accordance with the established procedure). Police claims were caused by a rally in memory of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, which took place in Novgorod’s “Hyde Park” (a specially designated place where holding a rally does not require any notifications of the authorities) on 27 February.
Activists planted a linden alley, 15 spruces and larch trees
Press Release, 27.04.2021
Photo by the Press Service of the Tula branch of Yabloko
On 25 April, activists of the Tula regional branch of Yabloko went to a cleanup action together with residents of one of the houses in the Central District of Tula. They planted a linden alley and 15 spruces and larches. The action called “From green courtyards to a green city” is not a one-time event, but will be held further.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Ivan Bolshakov. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On April 24-26, 2021, Yabloko’s Green Russia faction and regional branches of the Yabloko party took part in the traditional All-Russian action dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy.
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau No. 2554 dated 22.04.2021
Published on 26.04.2021
Photo: The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant / Photo by Nomadsoul1.depositphotos
The Chernobyl tragedy made it into human history as one of the largest man-made disasters.
Due to the explosion of the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the territory of the former Soviet Union and other countries were contaminated with hazardous materials. As a result, a significant number of settlements had to be relocated. Millions of people have been exposed to radiation. Even today, the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are present in the territories of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and other countries. The contamination of vast areas with radionuclides was accompanied by clearly identifiable negative consequences for public health and predicted risks of radiogenic diseases in the future around the world. The affected territories have not been properly rehabilitated to date.
Photo: Wooden architecture in the Kizhi Island/Photo by Kannap.depositphotos
Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova and Ivan Gusev turned to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin with a proposal to make the necessary decisions to revise the coefficients for changing the costs of repair and restoration works performed at cultural heritage sites (historical and cultural monuments) from the 2012 price level to the 2021 price level, as well as introduce the method of annual price indexation when determining the costs of such works.
