The Pskov branch of Yabloko initiated a rally for 1,000 people
Press Release, 3.03.2022
Photo: Artur Gaiduk, Nikolai Kuzmin and Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
Deputies from Yabloko Artur Gaiduk (the Pskov Regional Assembly), Nikolai Kuzmin (the Assembly of Deputies of the Zavelichenskaya Volost of the Pskov District) and Lev Shlosberg, Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of the party, filed a notification of a rally for peace to the Administration of the Pskov Region and sent a corresponding request to Rospotrebnadzor (the Russian Federal State Agency for Health and Consumer Rights). The rally is scheduled for 12 March at 12:00 – 14:00 (as according to the Russian law a notification should be filed for a public action no earlier than ten days before the action) and should take place in the so-called “hyde park” in Pskov (a specially designated site for holding public actions without any permissions from the authorities).
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Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Unidentified people destroyed the office of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, where Yabloko was collecting signatures for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 2.03.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Unidentified persons broke into the office of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko party at Bolshaya Pokrovskaya 7, on 2 March, at about 3:00 p.m. Eight people neutralised the security guard of the building, locked themselves in the office of the party along with two activists who were there, damaged property and took away the sheets with signatures of citizens for peace with Ukraine. The leader of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko Oleg Rodin reported on the incident.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko party calls that it immediately be given the opportunity to create a humanitarian corridor for exchanging war prisoners and the bodies of the dead
Press Release, 2.03.2022
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko party officially demands that it immediately be given the opportunity to organise the process of exchanging prisoners and the bodies of the dead. Party leader Grigory Yavlinsky published this on his web-site.
“In Russia, the concealing of victims has been legalised, even relatives cannot report the death of a family member to society (up to criminal liability, according to the presidential decree of 2015). This is also why the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of the dead against the backdrop of the ongoing hostilities is becoming a key, top-priority national and human problem,” Yavlinsky points out.
He recalls the experience of the Yabloko party in the two Chechen wars. In the war in Chechnya in 1994, Grigory Yavlinsky with other State Duma deputies from Yabloko, traveled to Grozny to pick up captured Russian soldiers and the bodies of the dead Russian soldiers, as the Russian government refused to admit that they had sent soldiers to Chechnya.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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We consider this war a crime destroying the future of Russia
Statement by the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, 2.03.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Every day mass detentions of participants in peaceful anti-war protests take place in St. Petersburg. They are kept in the police for many hours, they are not allowed lawyers, they are punished with fines and arrests.
In our country, where calls to unleash an aggressive war have rightly been declared a criminal offense (Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), today they punish [people] not for such calls constantly broadcasted by central television [channels], but for anti-war protest. We are categorically against this.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Federal Security Service and the Chief Department for Countering Extremism searched the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory
Press Release, 2.03.2022
Today at 6:30 in the morning, the Federal Security Service and the Chief Department for Countering Extremism searched the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory. At that moment, in addition to Zheleznyakova, there were her son and his wife, and her young grandson in the flat at the moment. The federal security officers seized a phone and a laptop from the flat.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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80,000 Russians signed Yabloko’s petition for peace
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 1.03.2022
80,000 Russian citizens have signed the Yabloko anti-war petition, one of the first Russian petitions against the war. Probably, yet this number exceeds the number of victims that the war has already brought: civilians and military on both sides. However, if the war continues, it will lead to even greater number of deaths, and the ruined economy will lead to a surge in crime, increase in corruption, and impoverishment of the already poor population.
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Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko notified the Moscow Mayor’s Office of holding a demonstration in Moscow for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 1.03.2022
Photo: Maxim Kruglov and Andrei Morev co-applicants of the action and deputy chairmen of the Moscow branch of Yabloko in the Moscow Mayor’s Office
Yabloko filed a notification with the Moscow Mayor’s Office that an anti-war march would be held in Moscow (from Strastnoy Boulevard to the intersection of Academician Sakharov Prospect with the Garden Ring) on 12 March.
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Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Police go on detaining Yabloko activists due to their anti-war stance
Press Release, 1.03.2022
Over the past three days, police have detained at least 19 Yabloko members in Moscow, the Chelyabinsk, the Sverdlovsk, the Saratov and the Samara regions and the Republic of Bashkortostan for their anti-war stance, including Chairpersons of the Bashkirian and Samara regional branches of Yabloko Kristina Abramicheva and Anton Rubin, and Yabloko Press Secretary Igor Yakovlev with his wife.
Photo: Igor Yakovlev, Yabloko Press Secretary, with other detainees in the police wagon. / Photo from social networks
On 27 February, Yabloko activists from Ufa, Samara and Moscow were detained and taken to police stations to give explanations.
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Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In St. Petersburg Yabloko was denied approval for a rally for peace
Press Release, 28.02.2022
Photo: Lenin Square in St.Petersburg, a specially designated site for holding public actions without any permissions from the authorities / Photo from topspb.tv
The administration of the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg banned a rally for peace with Ukraine referring to the anti-COVID decree of the city government, which prohibits holding public events in St.Petersburg until 31 March.
Earlier, Alexander Shishlov and Boris Vishnevsky, leaders of the St. Petersburg Yabloko and deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St.Peterburg, and Anatoly Golov, a member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, officially notified the administration of the Kalininsky district that they intended to hold a rally in the “Hyde Park” (a specially designated site for holding public actions without any permissions from the authorities) in Lenin Square on 2 March from 18:00 to 20:00 in order to “express the demands for the cessation of hostilities against Ukraine”.
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Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko deputies in regional parliaments called on Vladimir Putin to stop the hostilities in the territory of Ukraine
Press Release, 28.02.2022
Photo: President Putin’s meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. / Photo from Kremlin.ru
The Yabloko factions in the parliaments of Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Pskov region and Karelia initiated appeals from their legislative assemblies to President Putin calling him to immediately stop hostilities in the territory of Ukraine and start peace negotiations through international mediation, withdraw military units to places of their permanent deployment, carry out exchange of prisoners on the principle of “all for all”.
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Posted: March 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nemtsov. War. Putin.
Seven years since the murder of tough opponent of the war Boris Nemtsov
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 27.02.2022
On 27 February, 2015, Boris Nemtsov was killed by the walls of the Kremlin. Russian President Putin is politically responsible for this assassination.
Boris Nemtsov has always been a tough and consistent opponent of the war with Ukraine. Now, every day, every hour, every minute, citizens of Ukraine and Russia are dying because of the war unleashed by the Kremlin. Russian President Putin is responsible for what is happening.
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Posted: February 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The police are persecuting Yabloko members across Russia for their actions for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 27.02.2022
Photo: Alexander Kudelkin (left) and Maxim Petlin (centre) in a police wagon / Photo from social networks
The persecution of members and activists of the Yabloko party continues throughout the country. The reason for the persecution is the tough stance for peace with Ukraine, which the party consistently defends. The pretext for detentions of party members and supporters is the organisation of coordinated anti-war rallies and single pickets.
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Posted: February 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Across Russia Yabloko activists take part in rallies for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 27.02.2022
Photo: Saratov/Photo from social networks
Activists of the Yabloko party are participating in pickets for peace with Ukraine in those cities where public actions are not prohibited by anti-COVID restrictions [that imply criminal punishment even for single pickets]. Single pickets were held in Ivanovo, Saratov, Krasnodar, Yeysk, Miass, Chelyabinsk, Pskov, Vladivostok, Ufa, and Samara.
In some cities, Yabloko has filed notices with the authorities of mass events such as demonstrations and rallies.
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Posted: February 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Over 60,000 people have signed Yabloko’s appeal for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 25.02.2022
Over 60,000 people have signed Yabloko’s appeal for peace with Ukraine as of 25 February, 13:30. Almost two thirds of them signed within the past 24 hours.
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Posted: February 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: We call on Vladimir Putin to immediately stop the fighting and begin negotiations at international mediation
Nikolai Rybakov’s FB post, 25.02.2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a flagrant violation of international law, it is a crime against humanity. The guilty of this crime will be punished sooner or later. But today every citizen of the country shares the responsibility for what is happening – do not be silent, express your disagreement with the war on your pages on social networks.
Sign Yabloko’s appeal against the war with Ukraine, as 60,000 people have already done. We call on Vladimir Putin to immediately stop the fighting and begin negotiations at international mediation.
Posted: February 27th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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The Yabloko party considers the war against Ukraine the gravest crime
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, 24.02.2022
Photo by Maxim Bogodvid / RIA Novosti
Yabloko expresses its categorical protest against the outbreak of armed hostilities against Ukraine. This war means Russia’s war against the objective course of history, a war against time, and a tragic fall out from the reality of the modern world.
The consequences of this war will be long lasting, but now it is, in the first place, a tragedy, suffering and death of people, and this will be never recovered. The grounds behind this tragedy are lies, cruelty and absolute indifference of the Russian authorities to people.
The Yabloko party considers the war against Ukraine the gravest crime.
We believe that this war is contrary to the national interests of Russia and destroys the future of Russia.
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Posted: February 24th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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40,000 people have signed Yabloko’ petition
Nikolai Rybakov’s Facebook post, 24.02.2022
Today, after the shocking news, despite interruptions in the website, 18,000 more people expressed their civil stance and signed the petition “No to war!” [as of 18:00].
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Posted: February 24th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organises an anti-war rally “Struggle for Peace”
Press Release, 22.02.2022
Photo: Boris Nemtsov commemorative march in Moscow in 2019. Source: Press Service of the Yabloko Party
On 27 February, the day of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko together with PARNAS will hold a commemorative rally against the war with Ukraine in Gagarin Park in Chelyabinsk. The action will be conducted from 14:00 to 18:00.
The rally will be held in the so-called “Hyde Park”, a site approved by the city authorities and intended for holding public events without any permissions or approvals by the authorities .
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Posted: February 24th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Over 20,000 Russian citizens signed Yabloko’s petition for peace with Ukraine
Press Release, 22.02.2022
Photo: Anti-war action “The Peace March” in Moscow, 2014. Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant
Over 20,000 Russian citizens signed Yabloko’s petition for peace with Ukraine on the website of the Yabloko party as of the evening of 22 February.
The collection of signatures began on 13 February. The first 10,000 signatures were collected by 19 February. After the situation in Donbass began aggravating, and especially after yesterday’s meeting of the Russian Security Council, the pace of collection has increased dramatically, and in three days the number of signatures has doubled.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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A step towards bloodshed. Statement by the Yabloko party on the recognition of the independence of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic”
Statement by the Yabloko party, 22.02.2022
Photo: Signing of the agreement between the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, the “Luhansk People’s Republic” and Russia in the Kremlin on 21 February, 2022. / Photo from kremlin.ru
President Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s recognition of the “independence” of the self-proclaimed “republics” – the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic”, signed agreements on “mutual assistance” with them, and sent Russian troops to their territories.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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