Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Photo: Roman Maksimov and Maxim Nikitin / Photo by the Press Service of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The Electoral Commission of the Novgorod Region is going to apply to the court to cancel the registration of two Yabloko candidates for the Novgorod Region Duma: Maxim Nikitin and Roman Maksimov. The electoral commission is going to remove them from the elections for their alleged connection with “extremist organisations” – the FBK and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny – these organisations have been declared banned on the territory of the Russian Federation. Maksimov was serving an administrative arrest, and Nikitin received compulsory community service for participating in the rallies in support of political prisoners. According to the Ministry of Justice and the Novgorod Electoral Commission, this makes them involved in the activities of an “extremist organisation”.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg’s campaigners in the Khovrinsky single-mandate district of Moscow. /Photo from Lev Shlosberg’s Facebook page
The First Court of Appeal dismissed Lev Shlosberg’s appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court to cancel his registration as a candidate for the State Duma in the Khovrinsky single-mandate constituency No. 207 in Moscow.
The court rejected Shlosberg’s request to involve the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation to give an opinion on the case and request the results of the examination by the Ministry of Justice of Russia of Shlosberg’s candidacy.
Photo by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko cannot get permission from regional officials to install campaign cubes. The Chelyabinsk administration claims that all 50 places for which applications were submitted have been occupied for the whole day. All the sites are occupied by alleged campaigners of Alexander Teksler, Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, who also participates in the elections.
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Ivan Bolshakov and other party members laid flowers at the monument to the Defenders of Democracy in Russia at the intersection of the streets Novy Arbat and the Garden Ring in Moscow.
Three young people – Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov and Ilya Krichevsky – died here 30 years ago, during the days of the August coup d’etat.
Photo: Alexei Navalny is being taken to the plane by ambulance. / Photo by AP / Scanpix
A year has passed since the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Neither those who ordered, nor those who actually committed the crime have been identified.
Once again, it is important to declare: a comprehensive international investigation of this crime is necessary. No journalistic disclosures on YouTube can replace a formal legal investigation involving specialists, forensic experts and lawyers. However, almost no one is demanding an official investigation, while this is the main issue.
Photo: Natalia Rezontova / Photo by the Press Service of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko
The Central Electoral Commission of Russia decided to exclude journalist Natalya Rezontova from the list of candidates to the State Duma from the Yabloko party. The commission made this decision in connection with the alleged involvement of Rezontova in the activities of an extremist organisation.
Photo: Ruslan Zinatullin / Photo by the Press Service of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko
A judge of the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan recognised Ruslan Zinatullin, Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko and a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, involved in the activities of an “extremist” organisation Navalny Headquarters. The law suit was initiated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Central Electoral Commission of Yakutia informed Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Yabloko candidate for the State Duma elections in single-mandate constituency No. 24 and the leader of the regional branch of Yabloko in Yakutia, that the Ministry of Justice received information about his involvement in the activities of the “extremist organisation”.
Photo: candidates Nikolai Solodkov and Dmitry Lysov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Soon Dmitry Lysov, Mikhail Molchanov, Anna Shiryaeva, Nikolai Solodkov and Yulia Bobyleva will receive their long-awaited candidates’ certificates. In order to achieve a positive decision of the electoral commission on their registration in the election race, they had to go through two court instances.
Photo: Rostov-on-Don / Photo by depositphotos.com, user @e.m.mitroshin.gmail.com
Nikolai Rybakov, Chairman of the Yabloko party and leader of the party’s federal list of candidates, will visit the Rostov region within the framework of his election tour on August 20-21.
Photo: The election banner of the Pskov branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
The Pskov regional branch of the party is not allowed to hang 15 election banners in Pskov, Velikiye Luki and districts of the Pskov region. Pskov Yabloko has spent 600,000 roubles of private donations for the production and placement of the banners. Advertising companies admit that the regional authorities are putting administrative pressure on them. The Pskov Yabloko team filed a complaint with the Regional Electoral Commission with the demand to deal with non-fulfillment of contractual obligations.
Photo: candidates from Yabloko for deputies of Lanskoye municipal district / Photo by Dmitry Lysov
The City Court of St.Petersburg rejected the appeal of the electoral commission of the Lanskoye Municipality of St.Petersburg against the decision of the Primorsky District Court obliging the electoral commission to reconsider its rejection for Yabloko candidates in registration in the municipal elections.
Yabloko was the only party out of 14 political parties participating in the parliamentary elections that did not agree with the form of the ballot paper for the elections to the State Duma, which was approved by the Central Electoral Commission today. Yabloko insisted that the name of the organisation considered a “foreign agent” by the authorities with which political prisoner Andrei Pivovarov is affiliated – the well-known NGO Open Petersburg – should be indicated in the ballot.
On 17 August, the Altai Regional Court overturned the decision of the electoral commission on the registration of Viktor Rau for the State Duma elections in Barnaul single-mandate constituency No. 39. The lawsuit was filed by Alexander Molotov, a candidate from the Just Russia [pro-government] party.
Photo: Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko / Photo by the Press Service of the regional branch of Yabloko
Since the beginning of summer, Yakutia has been experiencing the most massive forest fires in the history of the region. Fire from the forest spreads to settlements, the volunteers cannot cope. Activists and environmentalists have been writing about this from the very first days, trying to draw attention of the authorities to the disaster, and also whipping up support. The area covered by the forest fires in Yakutia exceeded 7 million hectares.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
An appeal was filed with the First General Jurisdiction Court of Appeal through the Moscow City Court against the decision of the Moscow City Court of 9 August to cancel the registration of Lev Shlosberg as a candidate for the State Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 207 (Khovrinsky). The Court of Appeal took up the complaint.
Photo (from left to right): Anton Gordyuk and Nikolai Prokudin / Photo from the personal archive of Anton Gordyuk
On 16 August, the Central Electoral Commission of Russia again returned Yabloko candidates Anton Gordyuk and Nikolai Prokudin to the parliamentary elections in the Leningrad Region. This decision was made for the second time: on 2 August, the Central Electoral Commission of Russia canceled the decision of the electoral commission of the Leningrad region to remove Gordyuk and Prokudin from the elections, however, on 6 August, the regional electoral commission again excluded them from the electoral list.
Photo: Governor Alexander Drozdenko / Photo by lenobl.ru
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov is going to send an official letter to Alexander Drozdenko, Governor of the Leningrad Region, with a demand to reallocate funds in the regional budget so that to support the regional healthcare.
Nikolai Rybakov’s letter runs that the maintenance of officials compared to last year increased by 294 million roubles, while Yabloko discovered that expenditure on healthcare fell by 4.9 billion roubles compared to 2020 (12.7% of total expenditures against 15.6% in the budget of 2020).
On 16 August, the Central Electoral Commission determined the places of parties on the ballot paper for the State Duma elections through a drawing of lots.
