Yabloko at the March in Memory of Boris Nemtsov
Yabloko activists honoured the memory of the murdered politician throughout Russia
Press Release, 1.03.2021
Photo: Nizhni Novgorod, the region where Boris Nemtsov was Governor in 1991-1997
On February 27, Yabloko members went to rallies, single pickets and other events in many regions of Russia so that to commemorate murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. In Moscow, Yabloko leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky laid flowers at the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge.
In St. Petersburg, Yabloko members, headed by Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the party, laid flowers at the Solovetsky Stone – a memorial to the victims of political repression. Similar actions took place in Vologda, Tula, Omsk, Stavropol, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don and Cheboksary. In Nizhny Novgorod, Yabloko party activists laid flowers at the temporary memorial to Boris Nemtsov in Teatralnaya Square.
Photo: Chelyabinsk
After the refusal to approve commemorative marches and rallies, members of the Chelyabinsk and the Ivanovo branches of Yabloko held commemorative actions in the so-called guide parks [the areas where small rallies do not require permissions from the authorities] of the capitals of their regions. A rally for freedom and against repression was held on the embankment of the Gzen River in Novgorod. Single pickets and other memorial events were held by Yabloko activists in Astrakhan, Vladivostok, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Elista and Yaroslavl.
Photo: The action in Ivanovo
Earlier, regional authorities in 21 Russian regions refused to give permissions for Yabloko’s actions in memory of Boris Nemtsov. Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, was shot six times in the back and in the head on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge on the evening of 27 February, 2015. Only the Altai branch of Yabloko managed to get a permission for a limited number of participants – up to 100 people – in Barnaul. On February 28, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov spoke at this permitted rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Barnaul.
Photo 4: The Altai Territory
More photos from other cities are here
Posted: March 2nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.