Lev Shlosberg: “Democracy is like air”
Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 15.10.2021
Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Democracy is air. One can ask the question, “Do you need air?” People can answer in different ways, but they will suffocate without air. The situation with democracy in our country is understandable, it is obvious. Democracy is the rule of the people, literally translated from Greek into Russian. It is quite obvious that there is no people’s power in our country.
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Posted: October 25th, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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Anatoly Golov: Vladimir Putin’s lost war
Anatoly Golov’s blog post, 20.10.2021
Photo by mike_laptev/depositphotos.com
Recently, President Putin, speaking of the 13,000 fatalities on the roads of the country in 2020, compared this to losses “in military actions”. True. Russia is losing a lot of people in the war that our drivers are waging against Russian roads.
However, there is another war, and the losses there are much greater! According to Rosstat [the Russian Federal Statistical Service], more than 400,000 people have died from COVID in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic! According to the official data of the operational headquarters, significantly more than 13,000 people died in October alone,
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Posted: October 22nd, 2021 under Economy, Healthcare, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Без рубрики.
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On the situation in Russia
Decision No 145 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021
Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant
The situation in Russia, in almost all spheres, is currently determined by trends summarising the previous 25 years and set by the 2020 “constitutional reform” [Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution].
This is a movement of the authoritarian Vladimir Putin’s System towards even greater closeness, repressiveness, militarisation, imitation of democracy, pseudo-patriotic ideologisation, and ultimately towards totalitarianism equipped with the latest technologies.
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Posted: October 21st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Results and lessons of the first parliamentary elections of the system after the 1 July, 2020 [the adoption of Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution]
Decision No 144 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021
Photo: Distribution of seats in the Russian parliament based on the results of the 2021 elections. Photo: by Igor Ivanko / Kommersant
The past parliamentary elections are the first after the cynical, insulting and hypocritical imposition on the country of [Vladimir Putin’s] “amendments” to the Constitution.
We participated in these elections being well aware that in the changed conditions it is absolutely impossible to maintain the previous goals, objectives and methods of work of Yabloko as a centrist social-liberal democratic party of a parliamentary type in a campaign that cannot be called elections by any standards.
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Posted: October 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021.
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The situation and prospects of political struggle in Russia in 2021
Decision No 147 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko believes that the assessments, forecasts and fears expressed in the article “No to Putinism and Populism” and the decision by the Political Committee [of Yabloko] “On Systemic Threats to the Life, Health and Rights of Russian Citizens” of 24 February, 2021, have been confirmed.
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Posted: October 19th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian Economy, Situation in Crimea, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, War in Syria, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko on Dmitry Muratov being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Statement by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021
Photo: Dmitry Muratov / Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant
The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Dmitry Muratov “for his efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace” is an award to a Russian citizen, a public figure, editor-in-chief of an opposition newspaper and a member of the Yabloko party. Certainly, this is a prize to the [murdered] journalists of Novaya Gazeta – Yuri Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya, Natalya Estemirova, Igor Domnikov, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, but not only to them.
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Posted: October 19th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions.
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On the calls to vote of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Decision No 148 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021
Photo: Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), bows to the bust of Stalin on 5 March 2021, the anniversary of Stalin’s death / Photo by Irina Buzhor / Kommersant
The Political Committee of Yabloko considers it extremely harmful for Russian politics and the country as a whole to use voting for the communists as a tactical method of fighting a repressive dictatorship. Bolshevism and Stalinism, which the Communist Party of the Russian Federation represents in modern Russia, is an ideology alien to us. Moreover, Yabloko’s position is that creation of a modern state in Russia and development of the country is impossible without overcoming Bolshevism and Stalinism. Lack of understanding this and insufficient attention to overcoming Bolshevism in the first post-Soviet decade is one of the key reasons for the failure of the reforms.
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Posted: October 18th, 2021 under Elections, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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The Federal Political Committee of Yabloko assessed the election results and defined the party’s tasks for the future
Press Release, 15.10.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 14 October, a closed meeting of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party took place in Moscow, 15 out of 17 members took part in it (Igor Artemyev and Svetlana Gannushkina were absent). The main topic of discussion was the results and lessons of the past parliamentary elections – the first elections after the establishment of “the 1st of July system”, the adoption of Vladimir Putin’s amendments to the Russian Constitution.
The Political Committee is aware of the difficulties and threats is store for the party in the modern political system, constructed by a repressive regime, up to and including the ban on its activities.
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Posted: October 18th, 2021 under Elections, Political Committee Decisions, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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A faction of the Yabloko party created in the Petrozavodsk City Council
Press Release, 14.10.2021
Photo: Photo collage by the Yabloko Press Service
A faction of the Yabloko party has been created in the Petrozavodsk City Council, Karelia. It includes two deputies from Yabloko: Dmitry Rybakov and Olga Tuzhikova. Dmitry Rybakov became the leader of the faction, he headed the list of the party candidates in the elections to the City Council.
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Posted: October 18th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A new term of the Yabloko Party University will open with a lecture by Yevgeny Gontmakher on the social development of the Russian Federation in the COVID era
Press Release, 14.10.2021
Photo: Yevgeny Gontmakher. Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 21 October, a new term of the Yabloko Party University will begin.
It will be opened by a Zoom lecture by Yevgeny Gontmakher, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, head of research of the European Dialogue group, and a member of the Public Constitutional Council.
The topic of the lecture is “Social development of the Russian Federation in the COVID era”.
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Posted: October 14th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Social Policies.
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Online conference on discrimination against women in the labour market in Russia, Europe and the CIS
Press Release, 14.10.2021
Photo by depositphotos.com/ilixe48
On Tuesday, 19 October, the European Dialogue expert group and the Gender Faction of the Yabloko party will hold a Zoom conference on the topic “Discrimination against women in the labour market and the fight against it in Russia, Europe and the CIS countries”. The conference will begin at 18:00.
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Posted: October 14th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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The elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in 2021 are dishonest!
Statement by the Yabloko Bureau, 7.10.2021
Photo: the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg
Yabloko thanks the voters who voted for our [candidates] list and our candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.
We appreciate your stance very much and we are certain that Yabloko received many more votes than was officially announced.
Despite the fact that due to violations and falsifications, Yabloko received fewer mandates than it should have received with your support, the Yabloko deputies in the Legislative Assembly will represent and protect your interests.
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Posted: October 13th, 2021 under Elections, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly 2021, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow Region branch of Yabloko filed more than 50 lawsuits challenging the results of September elections
Press Release, 6.10.2021
Photo: Alexander Gunko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko branch in the Moscow Region is challenging the results of the September elections in courts. Candidates for deputies from the regional branch of Yabloko filed more than 50 lawsuits challenging the results of voting in different polling stations, where observers and members of electoral commissions recorded violations:
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Posted: October 13th, 2021 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko municipal deputies in Ryazan voted against representatives of United Russia when electing heads of municipal councils
Press Release, 4.10.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The first meetings of the Municipal Councils of Deputies of the new convocation of the Kriushinsky rural settlement of the Klepikovsky region and the Dubrovichy rural settlement of the Ryazan region were held. In the past elections journalist Maria Rakcheyeva was elected a deputy from the Yabloko party and Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko, was elected deputy for another term.
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Posted: October 13th, 2021 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko managed to defend in court the boundaries of the Chelyabinsk city pine forest
Press Release, 7.10.2021
Photo: Map. The Chelyabinsk city pine forest / Collage by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Left: the boundaries of the forest before 2011.
Right: the boundaries of the forest now.
The court satisfied the collective lawsuit filed by Andrei Talevlin, Deputy Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, together with human rights activist Vladimir Kazantsev, and returned the plot of the Chelyabinsk urban pine forest seized ten years ago to the boundaries of a specially protected natural area. Also, the Miass and Monakha rivers floodplains remained included into the protected territory of the forest.
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Posted: October 13th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In the Language of War
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.10.2021
Photo: Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, 15 January 2020 // Sputnik/Dmitry Astakhov/Pool via REUTERS
An article on Ukraine published by Vladimir Putin in July was completed yesterday by Dmitry Medvedev. If someone could still doubt the intentions, now everything has become obvious: Russia is moving towards war.
There is no point in discussing either the form or the content of what has been published under the signature of the former President of Russia, and now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. It is clear that rude xenophobic and chauvinistic statements against a neighbouring sovereign state are nothing more than a provocation.
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Posted: October 12th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
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“This is a prize with tears in the eyes” – Lev Schlosberg on Dmitry Muratov being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 9.10.2021
Photo: Dmitry Muratov and Lev Shlosberg at the Pskov Yabloko office on 2 April, 2019. / Photo by Artyom Avanesov
Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize as one of the last defenders of free speech in Russia. The last, not in the sense that defenders of freedom of speech in Russia will end on him, but that he is one of the last people who personally launched freedom of speech after the collapse of the USSR and who has been maintaining its level for all these 30 years.
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Posted: October 12th, 2021 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko filed 28 lawsuits challenging election results in different precincts
Press Release, 7.10.2021
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Candidates for State Duma deputies from the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko filed 28 lawsuits to the district courts to cancel voting results in the polling stations where gross violations of the law were observed on voting days and during the counting of the votes. Yabloko activists intend to achieve a recount of votes or a repeat voting in these precincts.
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Posted: October 12th, 2021 under Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky congratulates Dmitry Muratov on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Grigory Yavlinsky Fb post, 8.10.2021
Photo: Dmitry Muratov
Not many people know about the contribution of Dmitry Muratov [to protection of freedom of speech] in our country. But now they will learn about it – and not only in Russia, but all over the world. The Editor-in-Chief of Novaya Gazeta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Muratov became the third recipient of this award in our country after Acad. Andrei Sakharov and Mikhail Gorbachev. And this is fair.
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Posted: October 9th, 2021 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko member Dmitry Muratov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize! Congratulations from the Yabloko party leaders
Press Release, 8.10.2021
Photo: Dmitry Muratov at the opening of the Public Support Headquarters for presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky during presidential election campaign in 2018 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky congratulated Dmitry Muratov, a Yabloko party member and Editor-in-Chief of Novaya Gazeta, on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Posted: October 8th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Human Rights, Presidential elections 2018, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova.
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