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Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, sent an appeal to Natalia Putilovskaya, Chair of the St.Petersburg Committee on Education, with a request to conduct a check into the actions of Svetlana Lebedeva, Principal of School No. 168, who, according to teacher Serafima Saprykina, forced her to quit school in December 2021 for her reсiting to the students verses by Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky, the poets arrested and repressed in the Stalin’s period and labelled “enemies of the people” and tragically died in 1941.
Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko deputy of the Moscow City Duma, investigated the takeover of the Kolomna Dairy Plant from by Alexei Tkachyov, a State Duma deputy from the ruling United Russia party. Police helped Tkachyov in taking away the plant from its owner. “Reacting to the appeals of my Moscow voters (during the State Duma elections), I conducted my own investigation. It turned out to be a deputy investigation of a deputy’s takeover of a plant, ” Mitrokhin says.
Press Release, 4.02.2022Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo from the website of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and deputy chairman of Yabloko, sent an appeal to Igor Krasnov, Public Prosecutor General of Russia, with a request to launch prosecutor’s investigation into for signs of crime in the statements of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, who publicly called “terrorists” and “accomplices of terrorists” Igor Kalyapin, a member of the Council for Human Rights and Development of Civil Society under the President of the Russian Federation, Yelena Milashina, journalist of Novaya Gazeta, and two media – the Novaya Gazeta newspaper and the Dozhd TV channel. At the same time, Kadyrov said that “we have always eliminated terrorists and their accomplices, and there is no difference between them, and we will go on with this further.”
The Gender faction of the Yabloko party and the European Dialogue expert group are holding an international online seminar within the framework of the Women’s Time project: “Reproductive rights: from prohibition to freedom to dispose of one’s own body or vice versa”. The seminar will be held on 8 February at 18.00 (Msk).
Photo: Campaign co-leader Maxim Kruglov and campaign coordinators Andrei Morev, Sergei Ivanenko and Kirill Goncharov. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Regional Council of the Moscow branch of Yabloko approved the 2022 municipal campaign strategy and the headquarters structure.
The Moscow branch of Yabloko considers the election of a sufficient number of municipal deputies to be the main goal of the upcoming elections, which would allow Yabloko to nominate a candidate for Moscow Mayor. It is necessary to create a single Moscow Deputies Corps of Yabloko, i.e., a network of deputies who identify themselves with the values of the party, effectively interact with each other and influence the city authorities.
Photo: Artur Gaiduk, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from Yabloko
At the January session, deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly rejected Yabloko’s initiative to introduce a federal bill envisaging the exclusion of the concept of “foreign agents” and the related norms from Russian legislation.
The bill was developed by lawyers of the St. Petersburg and Pskov branches of Yabloko. Earlier, similar projects had been introduced by Yabloko regional MPs in the legislative assemblies of St. Petersburg and the Republic of Karelia. These bills were also rejected by a majority of pro-government deputies.
Photo by the Press Service of the Sverdlovsk Region branch of Yabloko
The Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Yabloko party presented candidates who will be nominated by the party for by-elections to the City Duma of Yekaterinburg:
Sergei Loskutov, Chairman of the public movement The Green Front, in electoral district No. 2 (Verkh-Isetsky district) and Alexander Kudelkin, blogger and social activist, in electoral district No. 10 (Leninsky district).
Photo: Timofey Bezugly (in the centre) / Photo by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Timofey Bezugly was elected Chairman of the Chelyabinsk city branch of the Yabloko party. Timofey presented to the local Council of the party his programme for the development of the local branch for the next two years.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov move to their seats before their meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21, 2022. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
NEGOTIATIONS
Russia has been conducting negotiations for two weeks with representatives from the US, NATO and the OSCE. In Geneva the head of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has been meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, playing a central role at the international negotiating table, has been articulating vociferously his own claims against the West.
In December 2021, even before the start of the series of negotiations Minister of Foreign Affairs Lavrov expressed his “concerns” that Russia’s proposals on so-called security guarantees might end up “bogged down” in “endless discussions that the West is famous for and knows how to do”. At the same time, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement that Russia was not prepared to agree to any compromises, that the Americans should be the ones finding compromises, as Russia already had set out its position clearly.
The Public Prosecutor General’s Office in its answer to the inquiry by the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre recognised housing subsidies to officials already owning apartments as legal. The Government Decree made an exception in the rules for high-ranking officials, the Public Prosecutor General’s Office stressed. The experts of the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre insist that such a norm is corruption prone.
Photo by the Press Service of the Bashkirian branch of Yabloko
The Bashkirian branch of Yabloko supported the protest of residents against the increase in prices for the maintenance of housing and the growth of tariffs for housing and communal services, as well as unjustified raising of expenses for regional officials.
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The authorities banned Sergei Mitrokhin, Yabloko Moscow City Duma deputy and ex Chairman of Yabloko, from traveling abroad and arrested his accounts. Such measures were taken as part of the enforcement proceedings on administrative cases of offenses in connection with Mitrokhin’s participation in unauthorized public actions in the centre of Moscow on 27 January, 2021, and a “picket of homeless people” by the Federation Council on 17 March, for which he was fined 300,000 (approx. USD 3,750) and 150,000 roubles (approx. USD 1,875), respectively.
The Federal Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko calls on the Russian society and the Russian authorities under no circumstances to allow a war with Ukraine and stop preparations for it. We consider this an absolutely urgent, key task for society and the state. Only this currently corresponds to the fundamental national interests of Russia.
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko No 149 of 25.01.2022, published on 27.01.2022
Photo by Vladimir Trefilov / RIA Novosti
The life, health, safety and well-being of millions of people in Russia and Ukraine are under threat. A military clash between the two neighbouring states is becoming more and more likely, fraught with huge casualties. This is a conflict of a pan-European scale, which can develop into a global one.
Photo: A column of Yabloko party demonstrators during the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov, 24 February, 2019. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko resolutely condemns the militaristic hysteria whipped up by high-ranking Russian officials and propaganda, a demonstration of readiness to start a war.
Never in the modern history of Russia has the threat of a major war been as close as it is now. Demonstrative troop deployments, large-scale concentration of forces on the western border, articles by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev questioning the statehood of Ukraine and its historical choice, putting forward of ultimatums to the US and NATO with obviously unrealisable demands are the signs that the Russian leadership is losing touch with reality.
The current Russian government, 30 years after the collapse of the USSR, decided to declare its special rights in relation to the former Soviet republics and is trying to apply the doctrine of limited sovereignty to them.
Photo: Oleg Vinogradov / Photo by the Press Service of the Yabloko party
The Federal Bureau of Yabloko expelled from the party Oleg Vinogradov, former Chairman of the Yaroslavl regional branch of the party. The reason was his falsification of documents of the primary organisations of the branch, as well as imposture – as early as on 28 June, 2021, the Bureau of Yabloko terminated Vinogradov’s powers, but he continued to sign official documents and make statements for the media as Chairman of the Yaroslavl branch of Yabloko.
The Bureau of the Yabloko party believes that the campaign to abolish elections on a party list basis, which has unfolded in many cities and regions of Russia in recent years, represents an attempt by the bankrupt ruling party to maintain a political monopoly and secure their fabricated majority.
The Investigative Committee filed a criminal case on the fact of fraud in the elections of deputies of the State Duma in the Satkinsky District of the Chelyabinsk region. A voter applied to the headquarters of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko which was engaged in election observation and said that on 19 September, having come to his polling station No. 1213 in the village Berdyaush of the Satkinsky District, he found out that he and five members of his family, including those who had not been living in the village for a long time, had already voted.
Photo: Tatyana Pasman / Photo by the Press Service of the Pskov branch of Yabloko
Such a decision was made by the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Pskov branch of Yabloko in connection with the early termination of the powers by Dmitry Permyakov, a Yabloko deputy of the Pskov city parliament.
The Bureau of the Regional Council of the Pskov Yabloko decided to transfer the mandate of the deputy of the Pskov City Duma to Tatyana Pasman, after Dmitry Permyakov resigned in December 2021.
