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Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Vladimir Zhilinsky / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
After the inclusion of several independent human rights media and 20 Russian citizens in the register of foreign media agents, including Vladimir Zhilinsky, a member of the Regional Council of the Pskov Yabloko and coordinator of the Pskov branch of Golos [independent observers movement], the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko made a statement. The Regional Council considers the actions of the Ministry of Justice to be political repressions, expresses solidarity with all citizens affected by them, and calls on the citizens of Russia to such solidarity.
The regional branch of the Yabloko party in St. Petersburg has filed about 150 administrative lawsuits in courts challenging the results of voting at polling stations where the most flagrant violations of electoral legislation were recorded during the elections of deputies to the city’s Legislative Assembly and the State Duma.
The Ryazan branch of the Yabloko expresses its support to Sofia Ivanova, head of the Ryazan organisation of the Golos movement (a movement in protection of voters rights conducting independent observation over elections), as the Ministry of Justice entered her into the register of so-called “foreign agents” together with representatives of the Golos movement from other regions.
Photo: Collage by the Press Service of the Pskov Yabloko
The Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko made a statement on the results of the elections of the deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly. According to the Council, the official voting results were falsified and unreliable, the regional electoral commission acted in line with the federal destructive policy, cancellation of the registration of Lev Shlosberg and Nikolai Kuzmin was unlawful, Vsevolod Kozlovsky became the actual winner in single-mandate constituency No. 5 (Velikiye Luki) and the party intends to prove this in court.
Photo by the Press Service of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko
Oleg Rodin, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko, sent an appeal to Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, asking him to give a permission for an event dedicated to the memory of opposition journalist Irina Slavina who had committed the act of self-immolation protesting against police pressure on her. Members of Irina’s family support the action.
The action should take place on 2 October at 15:00. The site of the action is the place where Irina Slavina committed the act of self-immolation – opposite the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
On 22 September, the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan, Tatarstan, recognised Gulnaz Ravilova, Yabloko’s activist in Kazan, as “involved in the activities of an extremist organization”. Ravilova will be deprived of her passive electoral right for three years from the date the decision enters into force. The activist intends to appeal the court decision.
Photo: A queue of budget workers made vote on September 17 / Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
On 25 September, the Regional Council of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko adopted a statement on non-recognition of the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma as free, democratic and fair.
“The Novgorod regional branch of the Yabloko Party does not recognise the results of the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma, since they were achieved in the course of an non-free and unequal election campaign, as well as in connection with gross violations of the law on voting days, which led to a significant distortion of the expression of voters’ will. Like five years ago, they stole the representation of our voters in the Novgorod Regional Duma.
The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg satisfied Vera Morozova’s claim against the Malaya Okhta municipality. Morozova challenged the Municipal Council’s decision to deprive her of her powers as a municipal deputy from Yabloko. In November 2020, Morozovs was unlawfully deprived of her deputy’s mandate due to a formal claim to her income declaration. This initiative came from the Governor.
Infographics by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Voting at home at the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant
Blue line: voting for United Russia
Red line: voting at home
Х: annulment of ballots at precinct No. 686
* Based on the data of GAS Vybory system as of 22.09.2021
Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, analysed the results from precinct electoral commissions located in the territory of the Metallurgichesky District, and detected a direct connection between home voting and voting for the pro-government United Russia party. The Chelyabinsk Yabloko still goes on processing the data. For each fact of falsification, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko will seek filing of criminal cases and the annulment of the results.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg and Artur Gaiduk / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Artur Gaiduk, an ambulance doctor and acting deputy of the regional Legislative Assembly, was elected a deputy from Yabloko to the regional parliament on the basis of a single party list. Lev Schlosberg, Chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko in the Pskov region who was removed from elections, will become his public assistant. Another Yabloko candidate, Vsevolod Kozlovsky, according to official data, came second in single-mandate constituency No. 5 (Velikiye Luki). This result will be challenged in court.
Photo: Central Electoral Commission meeting. Photo by Dmitry Lebedev / Kommersant
The Yabloko party demanded from the Central Electoral Commission to invalidate the results of elections of deputies of the State Duma in the federal electoral district. Violations committed during voting and counting of the election results do not allow to reliably determine the voters’ will, Yabloko’s complaint runs.
Today, a meeting of the Central Electoral Commission dedicated to summing up the results of the parliamentary elections in 2021 took place. Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission, refused to give the floor to the leader of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov during the meeting. We are publishing the key points of the speech prepared by Nikolai Rybakov.
Members of the St. Petersburg and the Pskov electoral commissions with a decisive vote from Yabloko voted against the approval of the results of elections to regional parliaments and filed dissenting opinions.
Photo: Maria Rakcheyeva and Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by Vidsboku
According to the results of the elections, Konstantin Smirnov, Chairman of the Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party and the editor-in-chief of Vidsboku, was re-elected as a deputy of the Dubrovichy rural settlement of the Ryazan region for a second term. The settlement is located near Ryazan. In addition to Dubrovichy, it includes the village of Alekanovo. The territory of this Ryazan suburb is one of the most popular for cottage construction, while the infrastructure of the “old” part of the settlement is extremely worn out. In the new convocation, Smirnov intends to further fight against land manipulations and raise the problems of the housing and utilities services in the settlement.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov (in the centre) / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 20 September, Yabloko held a press conference in the party headquarters in Moscow. Yabloko leaders summed up the results of the elections to the State Duma.
Photo: Top row: Boris Vishnevsky, Alexander Shishlov, Emilia Slabunova.
Bottom row: Inna Boluchevskaya, Artur Gaiduk, Vladimir Ryzhkov
Deputies from the Yabloko party will continue to work in the regional parliaments of St. Petersburg, Karelia and the Pskov region. Vladimir Ryzhkov will become the fifth deputy from Yabloko in the Moscow City Duma. There will also be a Yabloko faction in the city parliament of the capital of Karelia Petrozavodsk – the Petrozavodsk City Council.
Yabloko records all types of violations during voting in the elections to the State Duma, said the leader of the party Nikolai Rybakov, speaking at a briefing.
“Carousels [when same people vote several times at different precincts], stuffing of ballots, people who died indicated as voters in the voter lists, observers are not allowed to see the voter lists, touch-screen voting machines are not sealed, home voting reaches 50% in some areas, voter books are not stitched or numbered, observers are prohibited from taking photos and videos, they are removed from polling stations and even beaten, portable ballot boxes are not sealed, there are malfunctions in the distant voting system,” Rybakov said.
In the Moscow region, there was recorded a large number of cases when observers and members of electoral commissions were subjected to psychological and physical pressure after Yabloko recorded violations of the electoral legislation.
The results of voting at polling station No. 349 (Shuya, Ivanovo region) for September 17 were canceled on the complaint by Ivan Krisanov, a member of the precinct electoral commission with an advisory vote from Yabloko. The reason for the cancellation of the voting results was the stuffing of the ballots.
Photo: Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Observers from Yabloko, Denis Ibragimov and Anton Serichenko, were attacked by precinct Electoral Commission No. 686 after they were able to identify the stuffing of the ballots. Assistant to United Russia State Duma deputy Vladimir Burmatov attacked the Yabloko obervers with fists. Observers suggest that it was in favour of Burmatov that the ballots were stuffed in.
