Yabloko launches its municipal election campaign in Moscow
Press Release, 3.02.2022
Photo: Campaign co-leader Maxim Kruglov and campaign coordinators Andrei Morev, Sergei Ivanenko and Kirill Goncharov. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko approved the 2022 municipal campaign strategy and the headquarters structure.
The Moscow branch of Yabloko considers the election of a sufficient number of municipal deputies to be the main goal of the upcoming elections, which would allow Yabloko to nominate a candidate for Moscow Mayor. It is necessary to create a single Moscow Deputies Corps of Yabloko, i.e., a network of deputies who identify themselves with the values of the party, effectively interact with each other and influence the city authorities.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that Vladimir Putin stop the violation of the rights of citizens in Chechnya
Press Release, 3.02.2022
Photo by Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant
On 3 February, Nikolai Rybakov demanded from Vladimir Putin to restore the rights of Russian citizens living in the Chechen Republic.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Artur Gaiduk: Legislation on “foreign agents” is an instrument of pressure and repression
Press Release, 31.01.2022
Photo: Artur Gaiduk, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko
At the January session, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly rejected Yabloko’s initiative to introduce a federal bill envisaging the exclusion of the concept of “foreign agents” and the related norms from Russian legislation.
The bill was developed by lawyers of the St. Petersburg and Pskov branches of Yabloko. Earlier, similar projects had been introduced by Yabloko regional MPs in the legislative assemblies of St. Petersburg and the Republic of Karelia. These bills were also rejected by a majority of pro-government deputies.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko has decided on the party candidates for by-elections to the Yekaterinburg City Duma
Press Release, 31.01.2022
Photo by the Press Service of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko
The Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party presented candidates who will be nominated by the party for by-elections to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg:
Sergei Loskutov, Chairman of the public movement The Green Front, in electoral district No. 2 (Verkh-Isetsky district) and Alexander Kudelkin, blogger and social activist, in electoral district No. 10 (Leninsky district).
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Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A new chairman, Timofey Bezugly, will head the Yabloko branch in Chelyabinsk
Press Release, 25.01.2022
Photo: Timofey Bezugly (in the centre) / Photo by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Timofey Bezugly was elected Chairman of the Chelyabinsk city branch of the Yabloko party. Timofey presented to the local Council of the party his programme for the development of the local branch for the next two years.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2022 under Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Diplomacy of War
Russia’s Geopolitical Prospects
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 31.01.2022
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov move to their seats before their meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21, 2022. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Russia has been conducting negotiations for two weeks with representatives from the US, NATO and the OSCE. In Geneva the head of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has been meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, playing a central role at the international negotiating table, has been articulating vociferously his own claims against the West.
In December 2021, even before the start of the series of negotiations Minister of Foreign Affairs Lavrov expressed his “concerns” that Russia’s proposals on so-called security guarantees might end up “bogged down” in “endless discussions that the West is famous for and knows how to do”. At the same time, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement that Russia was not prepared to agree to any compromises, that the Americans should be the ones finding compromises, as Russia already had set out its position clearly.
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Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko challenges the Public Prosecutor General’s Office recognising housing subsidies to officials already owning apartments as legal
Press Release, 31.01.2022
The Public Prosecutor General’s Office in its answer to the inquiry by the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre recognised housing subsidies to officials already owning apartments as legal. The Government Decree made an exception in the rules for high-ranking officials, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office stressed. The experts of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre insist that such a norm is corruption prone.
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Posted: February 1st, 2022 under YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Chairman of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko took part in a rally against growth of prices and tariffs
Press Release, 31.01.2022
Photo by the Press Service of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko
The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko supported the protest of residents against the increase in prices for the maintenance of housing and the growth of tariffs for housing and communal services, as well as unjustified raising of expenses for regional officials.
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Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Economy, Housing and Utilities Reform, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts
Press Release, 28.01.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy and ex Chairman of Yabloko, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts. Such measures were taken as part of the enforcement proceedings on administrative cases of offenses in connection with Mitrokhin’s participation in unauthorized public actions in the centre of Moscow on 27 January, 2021, and a “picket of homeless people” by the Federation Council on 17 March, for which he was fined 300,000 (approx. USD 3,750) and 150,000 roubles (approx. USD 1,875), respectively.
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Posted: February 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Prevent catastrophe – prevent war with Ukraine
Yabloko’s call on the Russian society
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 150 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022
Photo: Peace March, Moscow, 2014. Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant
The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko calls on the Russian society and the Russian authorities under no circumstances to allow a war with Ukraine and stop preparations for it. We consider this an absolutely urgent, key task for society and the state. Only this currently corresponds to the fundamental national interests of Russia.
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Posted: January 28th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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On emergency measures to prevent war
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 149 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022
Photo by Vladimir Trefilov / RIA Novosti
The life, health, safety and well-being of millions of people in Russia and Ukraine are under threat. A military clash between the two neighbouring states is becoming more and more likely, fraught with huge casualties. This is a conflict of a pan-European scale, which can develop into a global one.
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Posted: January 27th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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NO TO WAR!
Statement by the Yabloko party, 24.01.2022
Photo: A column of Yabloko party demonstrators during the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov, 24 February, 2019. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko resolutely condemns the militaristic hysteria whipped up by high-ranking Russian officials and propaganda, a demonstration of readiness to start a war.
Never in the modern history of Russia has the threat of a major war been as close as it is now. Demonstrative troop deployments, large-scale concentration of forces on the western border, articles by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev questioning the statehood of Ukraine and its historical choice, putting forward of ultimatums to the US and NATO with obviously unrealisable demands are the signs that the Russian leadership is losing touch with reality.
The current Russian government, 30 years after the collapse of the USSR, decided to declare its special rights in relation to the former Soviet republics and is trying to apply the doctrine of limited sovereignty to them.
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Posted: January 26th, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Oleg Vinogradov expelled from the Yaroslavl branch of Yabloko for imposture and forgery
Press Release, 14.01.2022
Photo: Oleg Vinogradov / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
The Federal Bureau of Yabloko expelled from the party Oleg Vinogradov, former Chairman of the Yaroslavl regional branch of the party. The reason was his falsification of documents of the primary organisations of the branch, as well as imposture – as early as on 28 June, 2021, the Bureau of Yabloko terminated Vinogradov’s powers, but he continued to sign official documents and make statements for the media as Chairman of the Yaroslavl branch of Yabloko.
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Posted: January 15th, 2022 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko stands for voter representation and against political monopoly
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 14.01.2022
Photo by chikennnsem@gmail.com/Depositphotos.com
The Bureau of the Yabloko party believes that the campaign to abolish elections on a party list basis, which has unfolded in many cities and regions of Russia in recent years, represents an attempt by the bankrupt ruling party to maintain a political monopoly and secure their fabricated majority.
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Posted: January 15th, 2022 under Elections, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A criminal case on falsification in the elections of State Duma deputies filed on the application of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 13.01.2022
Photo by bizoon/depositphotos
The Investigative Committee filed a criminal case on the fact of fraud in the elections of deputies of the State Duma in the Satkinsky District of the Chelyabinsk region. A voter applied to the headquarters of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko which was engaged in election observation and said that on 19 September, having come to his polling station No. 1213 in the village Berdyaush of the Satkinsky District, he found out that he and five members of his family, including those who had not been living in the village for a long time, had already voted.
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Posted: January 13th, 2022 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Teacher and educator Tatyana Pasman will become a deputy of the Pskov City Duma from Yabloko
Press Release, 10.01.2022
Photo: Tatyana Pasman / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Such a decision was made by the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko in connection with the early termination of the powers by Dmitry Permyakov, a Yabloko deputy of the Pskov city parliament.
The Bureau of the Regional Council of the Pskov Yabloko decided to transfer the mandate of the deputy of the Pskov City Duma to Tatyana Pasman, after Dmitry Permyakov resigned in December 2021.
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Posted: January 13th, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A Common Lot of Authoritarian States
Grigory Yavlinsky’s blog post, yavlinsky.ru, 7.01.2022
KAZAKHSTAN-PROTESTS/
Photo: The building of the Mayor’s office in Almaty. 6 January, 2021 // REUTERS / Pavel Mikheyev
The events in Kazakhstan have been developing rapidly. Yesterday morning the government was dismissed in order to extinguish the wave of discontent, and by nightfall, fighting began in different settlements of the country. Photos and videos from Kazakhstani mortuaries circulated online testify to a large number of victims.
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Posted: January 11th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Provocateurs come to the Yabloko office in Moscow outraged by Yabloko’s support of the Memorial human rights society recently liquidated by court
Facebook post by Igor Yakovlev, Press Secretary of the Yabloko party, 11.01.2022
Photo by Igor Yakovlev
Thugs from the SERB group [a nationalistic pro-Kremlin group acting in Russia and Ukraine known for their provocations against opposition] have come to our office. They express their indignation for the camera (in the hands of Tarasevich) that we are “advertising an organisation banned by the court” [meaning the Memorial human rights society].
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Posted: January 11th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Non-Poster Thoughts
Viktor Kogan-Yasny special for the Yabloko web-site, 10.01.2022
Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The current era has two destructive (and somewhat interconnected) social traits that make it very dangerous. First, the behaviour of people in their everyday life can be compared to that of a primitive bureaucrat, an ignorant functional introvert, filled with defensive reactions, to put it simply, a person following his self-interests. Second, the breaking of ties and contacts, their formalisation, and falling out of the “sentimental” tradition. This leads to the triumph of narrow-mindness, the substitution of content in the most essential issues by daily routine.
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Posted: January 10th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights.
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Viktor Kogan-Yasny on the events in Kazakhstan
Viktor Kogan-Yasny special for the Yabloko web-site, 10.01.2022
Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant
When the level of general and political culture in society is very low, especially among the numerous restless working youth;
when the entire political agenda consists of a single dominant: which implies unquestioning submission to the government for those who support this government, and the only topic of fight against corruption for those who are in opposition;
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Posted: January 10th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Без рубрики.
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