Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov came to the Supreme Court to support Memorial
Nikolai Rybakov Facebook post, 14.12.2021
Photo from Nikolai Rybakov’ Facebook page
Nikolai Rybakov: I have come to the Supreme Court where the hearings on the liquidation of International Memorial [a human rights society engaged in human rights and investigation of repression in the USSR] are being held. Hope is the last to die, however, it is obvious that the Public Prosecutor General could not start a political law suit without coordinating such an action at the very top level.
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Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, asked the Russian Public Prosecutor General to withdraw the claim submitted to the Supreme Court to liquidate the Memorial human rights society
Press Release, 14.12.2021
Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo from Arthur Gaiduk’s Facebook page
Artur Gaiduk, MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly, considers the demands of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the Memorial human rights organisation unlawful and essentially unconstitutional, and calls on Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General, to abolish the law suit against Memorial.
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Posted: December 14th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Albert Khusainov: the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko marked International Human Rights Day with pickets and a meeting of human rights defenders
Albert Khusainov’s blog post, 13.12.2021
Photo: Albert Khusainov / Photo by the Press Service of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko
The Bashkirian branch of the Yabloko party held a meeting of party members and non-partisan civil activists in connection with the anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December, 1948, and the subsequent declaration of 10 December as International Human Rights Day.
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Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Acad. Alexei Arbatov on the defence and security of Russia
Press Release, 13.12.2021
Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Wednesday, 22 December, Acad. Alexei Arbatov will give a lecture in the Yabloko Party University on the topic “Defence and Security of Russia”. The lecture will begin at 18 o’clock.
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Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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President Putin bears personal responsibility for the safety and security of renowned filmmaker Alexander Sokurov
Statement by the Yabloko party Chairman, 13.12.2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJX-hPb6hNQ
At the meeting of the Human Rights Council with President Vladimir Putin the outstanding Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov openly, clearly and very powerfully expressed his deepest concern about the state of affairs and political developments taking place in our country.
The words and stance of Alexander Sokurov can be treated in different ways – one may agree or disagree. However, threats, personal insults and disgusting rudeness addressed to him after the meeting and discussion with the President are categorically unacceptable. What is happening around Sokurov these days only confirms his correctness.
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Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The principle “accused means guilty” is inadmissible. About the law suit of Prof. Alexander Kobrinsky against the media Kholod and Narodnye Novosti
Statement by the Yabloko party Chairman, 12.12.2021
Photo by Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant
On 6 December, 2021, the Petrogradskiy District Court of St. Petersburgsatisfied the claim of Prof. Alexander Kobrinsky, a member of the Yabloko party, to Sofia Volyanova (Ovchinnikova) and the media Narodnye Novosti (part of the Ye. Prigozhin’s [a businessman connected with Vladimir Putin] media holding).
The court found the article about Kobrinsky on the Kholod web-site containing numerous false defamatory accusations. Despite the fact that the hearings were declared closed, the defendants did not provide any evidence to support what was written in the article.
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Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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The Pskov City Duma will have a new deputy from Yabloko
Press Release, 11.12.2021
Photo: Dmitry Permyakov / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Dmitry Permyakov, a deputy of the Pskov City Duma from Yabloko, resigned as a deputy of the city parliament in connection with the beginning of his studies outside Russia.
“To be even more helpful, I need to learn more. Therefore, I decided to study and will learn new things in another country. This is not a loud emigration or escape from the ship (with a mad captain). It is wrong and impossible to just be a deputy, even more scholarly than before, but from a distance,” Dmitry Permyakov wrote on social networks.
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Posted: December 13th, 2021 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Ivanenko re-elected Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko to a second term
Press Release, 11.12.2021
Photo: Sergei Ivanenko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Sergei Ivanenko, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, was re-elected Chairman of the Moscow branch of the party for a second two-year term. This decision was made by the delegates of the conference of the Moscow branch of the party, which is being held at the central office of the party on 11 December.
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Posted: December 12th, 2021 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Pskov branch of Yabloko is from now on represented in each territorial electoral commission of the region
Press Release, 8.12.2021
Photo: Ekaterina Novikova, a new member of the territorial electoral commission of the city of Pskov from the Yabloko party
The Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region approved all 22 candidates for commission members nominated by the regional branch of the Yabloko party; whereas 13 electoral commission members from Yabloko are appointed for the first time.
On 28 November, the process of nominating candidates for the formation of 22 out of 26 territorial electoral commissions of the Pskov region was completed.
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Posted: December 9th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: the persecution of Alexander Korovainy is caused by political motives
Statement by the Yabloko Party Chairman, 8.12.2021
Photo: Alexander Korovainy / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, Alexander Korovainy, a Yabloko party member, was deprived of his deputy powers by the decision of the Council of Deputies of the Yeisk District of the Krasnodar Territory, on the basis of a letter from the head of the regional administration. Also a similar issue will be considered in relation to deputies Yekaterina and Alexander Baturinets in the close perspective.
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Posted: December 8th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“Ukraine and the four Duma parties of war”. Boris Vishnevsky on the hand out of the United Russia party cards to the heads of the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine
Blog post by Boris Vishnevsky, 6.12.2021
Photo by BerksiuS_Ukr / depositphotos
The main event of the 20th congress of the [ruling] United Russia [party] is neither the re-election of [former Russian President and former PM] Dmitry Medvedev as Chairman of the party (but everyone understands that it is not he who is leading the party).
Nor small and meaningless personnel changes.
Nor the usual Putin demagogy – that allegedly “United Russia performed well during the election campaign” [in the parliamentary elections in September 2021], “won confidently, with a good margin” “once again demonstrating that the party is the rightfully a party-winner” (but we know thing song: we know too well how this “victory” was forged and what falsifications ensured this “advantage”).
The main thing is the solemn handing out of United Russia party cards to the war lords of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Lugansk People’s Republic and (LNR), the marionette “republics” [in Eastern Ukraine] which no one recognized.
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Posted: December 7th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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Civil funeral rite to commemorate Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, will take place in the Yabloko party office on 7 December
Press Release, 6.12.2021
Photo: Boris Misnik / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Civil funeral rite to commemorate Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, and a Yabloko MP in the State Duma of the second convocation (1995 – 1999), will take place at the Yabloko office (Moscow, Pyatnitskaya 31, bldg. 2) on 7 December from 10:00 to 12:00. Boris Misnik will be buried at the Khovanskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
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Posted: December 6th, 2021 under Condolences.
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Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and State Duma deputy of the second convocation, passed away
Press Release, 4.12.2021
Photo: Boris Misnik / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Grigorievich Misnik, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, died aged 83, following a serious and long illness on 4 December.
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Posted: December 6th, 2021 under Condolences.
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Municipal deputies of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko signed a petition against the liquidation of the Memorial human rights society
Press Release, 01.12.2021
Photo: Logo of International Memorial
Municipal deputies from the Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party Konstantin Smirnov, Maria Rakcheyeva, and Anatoly Kivva signed a petition initiated by the Moscow Association of Independent Deputies against the liquidation of the Memorial human rights society, the country’s oldest human rights organization, one of the founders of Memorial was Acad. Andrei Sakharov.
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Posted: December 1st, 2021 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Maxim Kruglov MP on urban policies
Press Release, 29.11.2021
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Press Service of the Moscow City Duma
On Thursday, 2 December, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Maxim Kruglov, head of the Yabloko party faction in the Moscow City Duma and candidate of political sciences. The topic of the lecture is “Urban policies: the problem of the lack of institutional interaction between the authorities and citizens in the process of managing a megametropolis”. The lecture will begin at 18:00 MSK.
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Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Constitutional Court upheld the application of Yabloko municipal deputies in St.Petersburg to in defending the principle of the change of power
Press Release, 26.11.2021
Photo: Yabloko municipal deputies of Liteiny District, St.Petersburg, and lawyer Alexander Kobrinsky (second from right) / Photo by Petersburg Yabloko
The Constitutional Court of the RF upheld the complaint of Yabloko deputies in the St. Petersburg municipality of Liteiny District and called for a revision of the provision of the federal law on local self-government, which allows the head of the municipality to hold office until his/her successor takes office. Such a legal loophole allowed the ruling United Russia party to hold the post of the head of the municipality for two years, whereas, this person was not elected deputy by the residents of the district.
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Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Elections, Governance, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2019, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Condolences to the families of miners and rescuers killed in the accident in the Listvyazhnaya mine, Kuzbass, the Kemerovo region
Condolences from Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, 26.11.2021
Photo by RIA Novosti / Alexander Kryazhev
Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky expressed their condolences to the families of the miners and rescuers killed in the accident in the Listvyazhnaya mine, Kuzbass, the Kemerovo region. 51 people died in the accident. Among the dead were five rescue workers who tried to take miners to the surface after the explosion. This is the largest accident with human victims at a mine in Kuzbass in ten years.
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Posted: December 1st, 2021 under Condolences.
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Nikolai Rybakov: The main thing is not to keep silent!
Press Release, 25.11.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 25 November, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov met with human rights activists and public activists who came to the building of the Supreme Court of Russia. The court is considering the claim of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office to liquidate the international historical and educational society Memorial founded by Acad. Andrei Sakharov and other human rights defenders in 1992.
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Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The Moscow City Duma supported Yabloko’s amendments to the Moscow budget for 2 billion roubles
Press Release, 24.11.2021
Photo by Grigory Sysoyev
The Moscow City Duma supported two amendments by the Yabloko faction to the Moscow budget for 2022: on the restoration of historical monuments and on grants for Moscow universities. The financing for the implementation of these two amendments exceeds two billion roubles, they will be financed from the reserve fund.
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Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s amendment exempts non-state universities in Moscow from property tax
This stimulates construction of new student dormitories
Press Release, 24.11.2021
Photo: A student dormitory in Copenhagen / Photo by BOOKYOURSTUDY.BY
The Moscow City Duma adopted an amendment submitted by the Yabloko faction envisaging exemption of non-state universities from an organization property tax. This measure will affect non-state universities with state accreditation that have student dormitories on the balance and stimulate construction of new student dormitories.
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Posted: November 25th, 2021 under Education and Science, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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