Activist from Activist from Khanty-Mansiysk, West Siberia, fined 80,000 roubles under two protocols on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 5.06.2022
Photo: Ivan Menshenin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Ivan Menshenin, a member of the Yabloko party in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, West Siberia, and a candidate for the State Duma in 2021, was fined twice under Article 20.3.3, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”). The fines total 80,000 roubles.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A new book by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva “Behind Civilization” is available for download
Press Release, 03.06.2022
A new book “A Civilisation Falling Behind. How and Why Russia Failed to Become a Law-Governed State” by Sergei Mitrokhin and Galina Mikhaleva is available for download in the Library section of the Yabloko party website.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Без рубрики.
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Moscow City Duma MP Sergei Mitrokhin fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, was fined 200,000 roubles for repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies (Article 20.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The decision was made today by the Khamovniki Court of Moscow.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocks the page of Boris Vishnevsky
More than 11.500 people have been following his page
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A most popular Russian social network VKontakte blocked the page of Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from Yabloko and Deputy Chairman of the party. The social network referred to a notification from the Public Prosecutor General’s Office dated May 20. According to the Public Prosecutor Genera, Boris Vishnevsky’s page contained “inaccurate socially significant information aimed at destabilising the socio-political situation in the Russian Federation”.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, has got compensation for the illegal actions of the police
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Anna Cherepanova, Chairwoman of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, obtained compensation for moral damage and material damage in connection with the illegal actions of the Novgorod police to bring her to administrative liability. The federal budget will pay the opposition politician 15,000 roubles. On 1 June, the Novgorod Regional Court upheld the decision of the Novgorod Regional Court and dismissed the appeal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Constitutional Court to consider the legality of restricting participation in elections for “persons involved in extremist organisations”
Press Release, 2.06.2022
Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Nikolai Kuzmin / Photo from social networks
Two complaints were filed with the Constitutional Court of Russia against the constitutionality of the norms of the Russian electoral legislation, which established restrictions on participation in elections for “persons involved in the activities of extremist organisations”.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin, MP of the Moscow City Duma, will be tried for “arbitrariness” in protecting the interests of Moscow residents
Press Release, 1.06.2022
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin in the police station / Photo from social networks
On 31 May, police detained Sergei Mitrokhin, a Yabloko MP of the Moscow City Duma, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and an ex Chairman of Yabloko, during his meeting with residents of the Khamovniki district, Moscow. The meeting was devoted to plans of a developing company for laying communications for the construction of elite apartments through the courtyard of the house located at the address 11 Yefremov Street.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Saratov branch of Yabloko held “An Evening of Letters to Political Prisoners” action
Press Release, 1.06.2022
Photo from social networks
The Saratov branch of Yabloko held “An Evening of Letters to Political Prisoners” action in the Saratov office of the party. In a few hours, 15 people – members of the regional branch, supporters and civil activists – signed 111 postcards that will be sent to prisons to 43 political prisoners, including Sergei Ryzhov, Andrei Pivovarov (whom Yabloko nominated to run in the parliamentary elections in 2021 when he was already detained and demanded his release), Alexei Navalny, Nikita Uvarov, Alexandra Skochilenko and many other.
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Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pyor Ivanov from the Press Service of the Yabloko faction in St.Petersburg parliament attacked and severely beaten
Press Release, 31.05.2022
Photo from social networks
In St. Petersburg, journalist Pyor Ivanov from the Press Service of the Yabloko faction in St.Petersburg parliament, was attacked and severely beaten late in the evening of 30 May.
Late in the evening of 30 May 30, two unidentified young men beat Pyotr Ivanov near the entrance to his house. They knocked the journalist to the ground and kicked him in the head.
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Posted: June 1st, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Pskov Regional Court upheld the first sentence to Lev Shlosberg on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 30.05.2022
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Judge of the Pskov Regional Court upheld the decision of the Pskov City Court of 20 April finding Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party and Chairman of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, guilty of “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”.
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Posted: May 30th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko is forming a team for the municipal elections in the Altai Territory
Press Release, 30.05.2022
On 28 May, an expanded meeting of the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Yabloko branch in the Altai Territory was held. The Bureau discussed the political and socio-economic situation in the country and in the region and the tasks of the regional branch of Yabloko.
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Posted: May 30th, 2022 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko opposes self-isolating Russian universities from the outer world
Statement by the Yabloko party, 27.05.2022
Photo by Alexander Kozlov / Kommersant
Recently a number of officials of the Government, the State Duma and the Security Council of Russia have made statements about their intention to withdraw from the Bologna process of a common European higher education area.
These statements do not just uphold the current course of the Russian authorities towards Russia’s self-isolation. They create new threats of Russia’s scientific, technological and cultural backwardness from the modern world.
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Posted: May 27th, 2022 under Education and Science, History, Human Rights, Social Policies.
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The Moscow City Duma did not support Yabloko’s amendments to the Electoral Code of Moscow
Press Release, 25.05.2022
Photo: The Moscow City Duma / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Moscow City Duma did not support Yabloko’s amendments to the Moscow Electoral Code on the return of a mixed electoral system and the possibility to appoint election observers from public associations. Yabloko’s amendments to the Electoral Code of Moscow were presented by Andrei Morev head of the municipal district Yakimanka in Moscow, Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the district and Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko.
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Posted: May 27th, 2022 under Elections, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Novosibirsk branch of Yabloko elects new chairperson
Press Release, 25.05.2022
Photo: Natalya Chubykina
The Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party elected a new chairperson at the Conference of the regional branch. Natalia Chubykina became new Chair.
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Posted: May 27th, 2022 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court decision to bring Viktor Shalyakin to administrative liability for “illegal campaigning” canceled
Press Release, 25.05.2022
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On May 24, Judge of the Novgorod District Court overturned the decision of the court of a lower instance to bring Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, to administrative liability for violating election campaigning rules during the by-elections of a deputy of the Duma of Novgorod in constituency No. 3, in which Yabloko candidate Ksenia Cherepanova ran.
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Posted: May 26th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko demands from the regional government to open “hyde parks” in all districts of the city
Press Release, 25.05.2022
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov and Vasily Moskovets / Photo from social networks
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, filed a lawsuit with the Chelyabinsk Regional Court demanding from the regional government to open a hyde parks (specially designated places where any public events – meetings, rallies, or pickets – can be held without notifying the authorities) in all the seven districts of Chelyabinsk. The defendant is the Government of the Chelyabinsk Region.
After the government excluded several locations from the list of city guide parks, only two sites remained in Chelyabinsk.
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Posted: May 26th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly did not dare to consider the statement by the Yabloko faction on the protection of freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”
Press Release, 25.05.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The pro-government majority of St.Petersburg parliament excluded from the agenda of the plenary session Yabloko’s draft statement on the protection of citizens’ rights to freedom of information in the conditions of a “special operation”: 37 parliamentarians voted for the decline of consideration of consider the document introduced by the Yabloko faction, two voted against the decline (only Yabloko), and two abstained.
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Posted: May 26th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Boris Vishnevsky: The sooner there is peace, the less there will be wounded and dead, the less there will be tragedies and losses
Press Release, 25.05.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Boris Vishnevsky, MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, made a speech in the St. Petersburg parliament on the issue of amending the regional Social Code on the provision of social support and payments to St. Petersburg residents who were hit or affected during the “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine.
As soon as Vishnevsky started speaking about the need to stop hostilities leading to victims and recalled the proposals of the Yabloko Congress on a ceasefire in Ukraine and peace negotiations, Alexander Belsky, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, turned off his microphone.
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Posted: May 25th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party announces collection of children’s books for the Novorzhev Library, the Pskov region
Press Release, 23.05.2022
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Lev Shlosberg in the Novorzhev Library / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko Party announces its traditional annual collection of books for libraries for the upcoming Library Day, 27 May. This year, books will be collected for the library of the city of Novorzhev, the Pskov region.
Today, this library is one of the few venues in the city for cultural communication and education for both children and adults. Particular attention should be paid to the children’s books fund, which is not only small, but also considerably outdated.
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Posted: May 25th, 2022 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The page of Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod Yabloko, is blocked in the popular VKontakte social network
Press Release, 23.05.2022
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The administration of the popular VKontakte social network blocked the page of Anna Cherepanova, a deputy of the City Duma of Novgorod and Chair of the Novgorod branch of the Yabloko party, at the request of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office.
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Posted: May 24th, 2022 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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