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| Off
with your hands from the defenders of the Khimki Forest!
Statement by the YABLOKO party,
July 23, 2010.
...The Russian United Democratic
Party YABLOKO calls the human rights community and
democratic politicians to defend the constitutional
rights of the Khimki activists and render them all
possible assistance. This is the case, when Russia’s
civil society has virtually shown itself and dared
to resist the big money and the state machinery. Its
support in this confrontation is far more important
than hundreds of rallies in defense of democracy in
general.
We also fully support the requirements
of the defenders of the Khimki Forest. Destruction
of a unique natural complex providing fresh air to
the capital of Russia will bring to nothing all the
talks about modernization and demonstrate to Russian
citizens and the entire world the inability of the
Russian state to modernise...
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Destruction
of nature has been accelerating
Statement by the YABLOKO party.
June 4, 2010
The biosphere of our planet has not
improved for the past year. We have been facing dangerous
ongoing climate change, deterioration of the condition
of the world ocean, shrinking biodiversity, disappearance
of the rain forests, aging nuclear power stations
and proliferation of nuclear weapons threaten us with
another Chernobyl, chemical contamination and the
spread of GMOs. Influential international bodies –
the G-8 and the G-20, the World Bank, the European
and the Asian Banks of Reconstruction and Development
- declaring the importance of preserving the planet's
ecosystems in words, virtually support quick-profit
technologies detrimental on nature.
Lack of stringent environmental control
over implementation of commercial projects at the
national and the international level leads to a terrible
disasters like that we observe in the Gulf of Mexico... |
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The
authorities chose to support of oligarchs’ interests
and reprisals against public organisations rather
than protection of the Lake Baikal
Statement of the Bureau of
the YABLOKO party, February 1, 2010
On January 28, 2010 the police of
the Irkutsk region without any rulings of the court
or public prosecutor blocked the work of the largest
public organisation engaged in protection of the Lake
Baikal – The Baikal Ecological Wave –
confiscating their computers under the pretext of
a check whether this organisation had been using licensed
software. However, the representatives of the interior
refused even to look at the certificates of the software
submitted to them. The ecologists who tried to disobey
confiscation of their computers were threatened with
legal persecution in view of “attacking the
police”.
The YABLOKO party expresses its resolute
protest in view of such actions of the interior and
considers them as a awkward attempt to shut down the
wave of public discontent in view of the adoption
by the Government of the RF of a resolution allowing
to resume functioning of the Baikal Cellulose Paper
Plant that have been polluting Baikal with its waste,
as well as stored, buried and burnt hazardous waste
on the banks of the lake. Such governmental decision
was adopted in satisfaction of short-term interests
of the owner of the plant – a definite tycoon,
and contradicts Russia’s interests.
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On
anti-ecological policies of Russia’s authorities
Resolution of the 15th congress
of the YABLOKO party No 253, December 24, 2009
The Russian United Democratic Party
YABLOKO regards the supreme goal of a democratic state
as ensuring of flourishing of the country, the well-fare
and the highest living standards for the citizens.
One of the most important functions of the government
is ensuring of ecological safety of the citizens and
protection of nature as a national resource which
is regarded as a public asset.
The political and economic system of modern Russia,
its supreme political and economic administration
grossly violates the principles of ecological policies
determined by the Constitution of the Russian Federation:
the rights of the citizens to a friendly environment,
reliable information on its condition, recovering
of the damage incurred in ecological violations, rational
use and protection of natural resources and careful
attitude to the natural riches that should be regarded
as a foundation for life and performance of the citizens.
1. The policies of Boris Yeltsin – Vladimir
Putin – Dmitry Medvedev created a system of
underdeveloped periphery capitalism in Russia almost
entirely basing on the maintenance and development
of environmentally unfriendly productions left from
the Soviet times. Neither the government nor business
merging with the authorities pay any serious attention
to the safe environment, as it is connected with reduction
of their super profits. Consequently, Russia logically
and inevitably has found itself on the periphery of
rapidly developing innovative world. |
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State
officials’ poaching should be stopped!
Statement by the YABLOKO party
July 1, 2009
Mayor of Minusinsk (a city in the
Krasnoyarsk Area) got drowned in the Podkamennaya
Tunguska river on June 27. The circumstances of the
accident showed that this accident took place during
committing of a crime [by the Mayor] – unlawful fishing
(fishing is prohibited in this part of the river until
winter due to sturgeon spawning). |
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Sergei
Mitrokhin: Yavlinsky Convinced Putin Not to Import
Spent Nuclear Fuel
Refutation of an article from rbc.ru, March 4, 2004
In an article Putin Will Process the Nuclear Damp
(from February 27) Alexei Vinogradov made a serious
mistake. The author of the article stated that the
President supports imports of spent nuclear fuel into
Russia. This is not true. In the quotation used by
Vinogradov as his source, Putin speaks refers to the
need to focus on waste from our [domestically produced]
fuel. He implies here that spent nuclear fuel from
domestically produced fuel rod arrays were exported
to Europe by the USSR and then by Russia. |
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| Police
begins persecutions against the defenders of the Khimki
Forest
Press Release, July 30, 2010.
Police has begun persecution of the
activists from the "In defense of the Khimki
Forest" movement and Euvgenia Chirikova, the
movement’s leader. According to the defenders
of the forest, yesterday they found out that they
were under surveillance, police officers came to their
homes without informing their relatives of the purpose
of the visit. Also the activists did not get any official
notifications from the police.
"Yesterday, shortly after we came out of the
court of the Khimki town, we found our that we were
under surveillance. It a stout man in a white suit.
However, we managed to escape him: luckily we quickly
got into a taxi and headed to Moscow", Yaroslav
Nikitenko, Aid of Euvgenia Chirikova said... |
| Sergei
Mitrokhin applied to Prime Minister Putin and Public
Prosecutor General Chaika in view of unlawful cutting
of the Khimki Forest
Press Release, July 30, 2010.
Today on July 30, YABLOKO’s
leader Sergei Mitrokhin applied to Prime Minister
Putin and Public Prosecutor General Chaika in view
of unlawful cutting of the Khimki Forest.
According to the federal law "On
Highways”, "cutting of the woods is only
possible after obtaining a permission for construction
of a highway. The Forestry Code requires that every
user of the forests should obtain a land declaration.
The normative acts of the town of Khimki require obtaining
of a special cutting ticket, which should be supplied
with a dendroplan and a tally sheet. According to
our data, all of these documents are missing, thus
cutting of the woods is unlawful,” runs Mitrokhin’s
letter to Public Prosecutor General... |
| Sergei
Mitrokhin stopped cutting of the trees in the Khimki
Forest
Press Release, July 30, 2010.
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin
and party activists once again managed to stop cutting
of the woods in the Khimki Forest.
Mitrokhin told the workers about the
order of Public Prosecutor to stop all the works.
After this the driver of a harvester stopped his work
and was going to leave the site. However, one of the
guards from the private security company tried to
stop him, however, the driver refused to resume work.
At the same time the other guards were calling their
chiefs... |
| The
Phobos company continues eliminating the Khimki Forest
despite Public Prosecutor’s ban
Press Release, July 30, 2010.
Despite Public Prosecutor’s
ban the workers of the Phobos company constructing
the Moscow-St.Petersburg highway continue cutting
of the Khimki forest. Vyacheslav Sorokin, whose house
is located in 200 meters from the Khimki Forest, informed
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin of it today... |
| Ecologists
and civil activists detained in the Khimki Forest
are facing 15 days of arrest
Press Release, July 29, 2010.
At present YABLOKO’s leader
Sergei Mitrokhin is in Public Prosecutor’s office
in Khimki filing an application of unlawful actions
by the police.
The police confiscated mobile phones
of nine detained ecologists and journalists, thus
depriving them of an opportunity to get in touch with
lawyers and get a legal consultation.
The police officer on duty told Mitrokhin
that confiscation of mobile phones was lawful, and
the activists are kept in the wards. The police issued
protocols of administrative violation (disobeying
the police orders) against them, which can involve
such punishment as 15 days of arrest. The leader of
the defenders of the Khimki Forest Yevgenia Chirikova
(who is one of the nine detained ecologists) managed
to tell Mitrokhin that the policemen referred to an
order of the Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov who
“had prohibited any persons to appear in the
Forest”... |
| Police
breaks into ecologists’ camp
Press Release, July 28, 2010.
At night of July 28 special riot police
(OMON) broke into the camp of the Khimki Forest defenders
made close to the cutting site. The police detained
16 persons, including the leader of the ecologist
Yevgeniya Chirikova and five journalists.
However, YABLOKO and ecologists continue
defending the Khimki Forest. YABLOKO’s experts
state that the highway Moscow – St.Petersburg
can well take one of the alternative routs without
going through the Khimki Forest which is acting as
the “lungs” of the region. Cutting of
the woods has been held without any permits. Representatives
of the construction company did not come to the scheduled
meeting with the ecologists and residents of Khimki
where they had promised to show “all the due
permits”. |
| Public
hearings on the Khimki Forest postponed
Press Release, July 28, 2010.
The meeting of the residents of the
Khimki city, the Moscow regions, and Sergei Mitrokhin
with representatives of OOO Teplotekhnik conducting
cutting of the woods in the Khimki Forest is postponed
for an undetermined period.
At the agreed time (June 28, 5 p.m.)
the residents of the city and YABLOKO’s leader
and party activists came to the meeting. However,
the doors were closed and a sheet of paper notifying
that the meeting is “postponed” was pinned
on the doors. The notification gave no time or date
of the new meeting. |
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Sergei Mitrokhin and the residents of the Presnya
district, Moscow, will fill up the pit of an unlawful
construction site
Press Release, July 28, 2010.
...In early May 2010, head of the
Moscow construction complex Vladimir Resin said that
the contract with the developer - the Phobos company
– was dissolved. The local authority also issued
an order to stop the works. However, these orders
did not stop the Phobos construction company.
The residents of the neighbouring houses are afraid
that their houses may give cracks and, consequently
be ruined due to large-scale construction works in
the old district of the city. After the workers were
ousted by police the residents decided to fill in
the excavated pit with earth. On
Thursday, July 29, Sergei Mitrokhin will meet with
the residents of the district and also participate
in filling in the pit with earth...
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| YABLOKO
to participate in public hearings on the Khimki Forest
Press Release, July 28, 2010.
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin
and party activists will participate in the meeting
of the residents of the Khimki district with representatives
of a contracting company eliminating the Khimki Forest.
The hearings will take place at 5 p.m. in the Dom
Kulturi Rodina (address: Khimki, Leninsky prospect
2, by the Khimki railway station in the Leo Tolstoy
Park).
Please note that tonight despite an
announced moratorium on construction works and cutting
of the woods, OAO Teplotekhnik continued cutting of
the trees. According to the witnesses the work was
conducted under spotlights. It is expected that after
public hearings the participants of the meeting will
go to the place of cuttings so that to stop unlawful
works.
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| Unlawful
works in the place of destructed architectural heritage
stopped
Press Release, July 26, 2010.
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin
stopped construction works in the place of destructed
architectural heritage in Tishinsky lane, Moscow.
Despite a ban of the Moscow regulator the builders
began excavation works. After arrival of Sergei Mitrokhin
the workers disappeared.
The building at Bolshoi Tishinsky
30/44 building 1, was built in the early 20th century
by architect Nirnzeye and was almost completely destroyed
in 2008. Under a pretext of renovation the construction
company left only a corner wall of the building. The
residents of the area jointly with the YABLOKO party
have been fighting against construction of a new building
with a multi-level underground garage on the site
of the destructed monument of architecture for two
years. In early May 2010, head of the Moscow construction
complex Vladimir Resin said that the contract with
the developer - the Phobos company – was dissolved...
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| A
mass-scale rally for protection of the environment
took place in Tuapse
Press Release, July 19, 2010.
From 2 to 3 thousand people, according
to different estimates, gathered for a rally in protection
of environment in Tuapse (a city on the Black Sea)
on July 18. The rally was organised by an initiative
group headed by coordinator of the Environmental Watch
in the North Caucasus and member of the YABLOKO party
Andrei Rudomakha.
The participants of the rally demanded
to conduct a referendum on construction of a terminal
for the EuroChem chemical company in the Tuapse port,
as well as stop oil extraction at the Black Sea shelf.
A broad-scale campaign launched by
the local authorities and targeted at disruption of
the rally was held on the threshold of the public
action...
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| Ecologists
block the driver who attacked the leader of the Movement
in Protection of the Khimki Forest
Press Release, July 19, 2010.
The activists protecting the Khimki
forest made a camp in the place of cutting of the
woods and are now blocking a car of a stranger who
attacked Eugenia Chirikova, the leader of the Movement
in Protection of the Khimki Forest, and almost hit
her with his car.
On July 16 this man drove to the camp in a silver
KIA jeep (No B 104 YE 98). Coming out of the car the
man began hitting Eugenia on the hands trying to make
her drop her mobile phone. Then he jumped into his
car and tried to knock her down with his car, Eugenia
managed to escape only by a miracle...
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| In
protection of the Khimki Forest and its defenders
Statement by the YABLOKO party,
July 17, 2010.
...Environmental safety of several
thousands of the residents of the Khimki area is swapped
for profit, unraparable damage to the ecological system
of the Moscow region. For the sake of profits the
authorities are covering the criminals: the bandits
who made handicapped Mikhail Bekotov, Editor-in-Chief
of the Khimki Pravda paper courageously defending
the Khimki Forest, have not been found.
Elections to the federal parliament will come soon.
We are drawing the attention of the Muscovites and
the residents of the Moscow region to the fact that
the attack against the Khimki Forest is supported
by the omnipresent [progovernmental] United Russia
party and its leader Vladimir Putin. Thus, hey once
again demonstrate that the commercial interests of
the few are more important than care of the health
and well-being of many...
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The
police finally returned impounded soft and hardware
to the Baikal Ecological Wave
Press Release, July 15, 2010.
The YABLOKO congratulates the staff
of the Baikal Ecological Wave who managed to prove
that impounding of computers and software from their
office was unlawful. The computers are returned, and
the Irkutsk police brought their apologizes to the
ecologists.
During the investigation it was confirmed
(however, this was obvious from the beginning): the
Baikal Ecological Weave used only licensed software...
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Flash
mob in protection of the Lake Baikal at the Red Square
Press Release. June 5, 2010.
Video, photographs.
On June 5, the World Environment Day,
the activists of the YABLOKO party conducted a flash
mob at the Red Square. YABLOKO’s activists carried
a large white banner showing the Lake Baikal chanting
"Hands off of the Lake Baikal!" The same
slogan was printed on their shirts. However, this
march was broken by police and all the participants
of the action were taken to the police station. |
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YABLOKO
submits application dispute lawfulness of the recently
adopted General Plan of Moscow Development
Press Release. June 7, 2010
Today, on June 7, YABLOKO’s leader
Sergei Mitrokhin submitted an application to the Moscow
City Court disputing lawfulness of the General Plan
of Moscow Development. Mitrokhin asks the court to
recognise adoption of the General Plan of Moscow Development
null and void.... |
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On
June 7, 2010, YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin
will start litigation in the Moscow City Court disputing
lawfulness of the General Plan of Moscow Development
Press Release. June 4, 2010
On Monday, June 7, 2010, YABLOKO’s
leader Sergei Mitrokhin will start litigation in the
Moscow City Court disputing lawfulness of the General
Plan of Moscow Development. “The conclusion
of the state expertise was signed on December 22,
2009, a month after the draft General Plan of Moscow
Development was submitted to the Moscow City Duma.
This fact alone will suffice for abrogation, however,
in our statement we indicate a number of other procedural
violations,” Sergei Mitrokhin said... |
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YABLOKO’s
leader to visit Nizhni Novgorod
Press Release. June 4, 2010
On Saturday, June 5, YABLOKO’s
leader Sergei Mitrokhin will visit Nizhni Novgorod.
As part of his mission, Mitrokhin
and political scientists and businessmen from Nizhny
Novgorod will take part in a roundtable discussion
"Environmental and political situation in Russia.
The upcoming elections in autumn 2010”. The
event will be held at the Higher School of Economics
from 09:30 to 10:40. Then Sergei Mitrokhin, will participate
in a press conference for regional journalists devoted
to the elections. The press conference will take place
in the Interfax office (beginning at 11:00).
Then YABLOKO’s leader Sergei
Mitrokhin and Chair YABLOKO’s Green Russia faction
Acad. Alexei Yablokov will conduct a picket against
the raising of the water level in the Cheboksary reservoir.
Members of the environmental organization Dront will
also participate in the picket... |
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The
General Plan of Moscow Development signed by the city
authorities to be disputed in court
Press Release. May 28, 2010
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin
will dispute in court the General Plan of Moscow.
“Procedural violations in development and adoption
of the Plan were considerable. We shall apply to court
as soon as the General Plan is published,” Mitrokhin
said...
Mitrokhin also offered to the Moscow
residents whose interests will be affected by the
Plan to apply to YABLOKO for help... |
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Public
Prosecutor to check the lawfulness of pulling down
of historical buildings in Kadashi, Moscow
Press Release. May 27, 2010
On May 27, Chair of the YABLOKO party
Sergei Mitrokhin forwarded a letter to V.Shevshuk,
Public Prosecutor of Moscow, and A.Kibovsky, head
of the Rosokhrankultura (Agency for preservation of
historic and cultural heritage) with a request to
stop unlawful pulling down of buildings in the territory
of the Resurrection Temple in Kadashi, Moscow.
The buildings that had to be pulled
down on May 24 in Kadashi are situated within the
boundaries of a historical and cultural heritage zone,
and any works except for preservation and regeneration
are prohibited there. Mitrokhin also expressed his
doubts in the lawfulness of the permit issued by Moskomnasleydiye
(the Moscow Heritage Committee) to pull down buildings
there... |
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The
first suit against the State Plan of Moscow Development
motioned
Press Release. May 18, 2010
The YABLOKO party has motioned a suit
in the first instance court demanding to oblige the
Moscow authorities to provide a state expertise the
State Plan of Moscow Development. “According
to our information, the State Plan of Moscow Development
has not received a positive conclusion from the state
expertise in spite of the fact that Mosgosekspertiza
(Moscow State Expertise Agency) under the Moscow Government
was mandated to conduct it. As far as we know, most
experts were dissatisfied with the solution of transport
problems in the new plan,” runs the statement
signed by YABLOKO’s Chair Sergei Mitrokhin... |
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YABLOKO’s
rally for protection of the Lake Baikal conducted
in Ulan-Ude
Press Release, March 27, 2010
On March 27, a mass rally in protection
of the Lake Baikal took place in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia.
The rally was organised by YABLOKO’s branch
in Buryatia and ecological organisations. About 500
people came to the rally.
The participants of the rally demanded
to abrogate the Resolution of the Government of the
RF No 1 on launching the Baikal Pulp Plant. The rally
called the authorities to develop tourism in the area
which would create new jobs for the citizens of Baikalsk,
rather than creating jobs at environmentally unfriendly
enterprise...
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Russia’s
Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin sends a letter to Public
Prosecutor in defence of the Khimki forest
Press Release, March 25, 2010
Russia’s Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin
asked Public Prosecutor Yury Chaika to examine whether
the government’s decision to construct a highway Moscow
– St.Petersburg that has to go through the Khimki
forest was lawful.
In accordance with the order of the
Government the lands of the Khimki forest were transferred
to the category of “industrial lands”.
In his letter to Public Prosecutor
Vladimir Lukin noted that the Khimki forest is a protected
natural territory in accordance with the Forestry
Code, thus any cuttings should be prohibited there...
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Sergei
Mitrokhin: Mayor of Moscow Luzhkov and head of the
Moscow police Kolokoltzev are responsible for disrupting
a protest motor race against construction of the nuclear
power station
Press Release. March 18, 2010
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin
laid responsibility responsible for disrupting a protest
race against construction of the Monakovskaya nuclear
power station on Mayor of Moscow Luzhkov and head
of the Moscow police Kolokoltzev. “As a muscovite
I feel ashamed that it was Moscow that demonstrated
unlawful actions by the police to the full extent,”
he said.
At present the 25 participants of
the motor race are in the police station. They are
accused of violating the Administrative Code of Moscow,
as they have allegedly “interfered with the
traffic order by means of driving in a column with
slogans on their cars”, runs the protocol. The
activists disagree with the police. According to Mitrokhin,
this is the first case in his practice when a regional
rather than federal norm is applied to the participants. |
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OMON
and road police do not let the participants of the
motor race against construction of a nuclear power
station in the Nizhy Novgorod region to enter Moscow
Press Release. March 18, 2010
Special police forces (OMON) and road
police have been blocking the column of the motor
race against construction of a nuclear power station
in the Nizhy Novgorod region at the Moscow Circular
Road for 40 minutes already. YABLOKO’s activists and
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin are arrested. Some
cars the police left on the road, which led to a traffic
jam.
The participants of the race were
stopped at the Moscow Circular Road for checking of
their documents. However later a police official stated
that they were stopped “because of such unsanctioned
event”. Special police forces arrived probably to
assist the road police in checking the documents. |
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YABLOKO
to join a motor race against construction of a nuclear
power station in the Nizhny Novgorod Region
Press Release. March 17, 2010
A rally against construction of a
nuclear power station in the Nizhny Novgorod Region
organised by ecological organisations and YABLOKO
will take place in the centre of Moscow on March 18.
A motor race Murom – Moscow
against construction of the nuclear power station
started today. On March 18 YABLOKO’s activists
together with party leader Sergei Mitrokhin will meet
the participants of the race in the Moscow region
and join the race.
“My task is to ensure that the
motor column is allowed to enter Moscow, as the participants
expressed their concern that the column would be stopped
by Moscow,” Sergei Mitrokhin. Today protesters
have been stopped by the police several times and
their passport data were copied. |
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Officials
offer apology to YABLOKO’s ecologist
Press Release. March 10, 2010
Officials from Administration of the
Lomonosovsky District of the Leningrad region offered
their apology to Alexander Senotrusov, deputy head
of YABLOKO’s Green faction, for their intention
to dismiss him from school where he had been working
as a teacher and their suspension of functioning of
a children’s club where he also worked. Persecutions
against YABLOKO’s activist began after his interview
to the NTV television channel.
On March 7, NTV released a piece devoted
to the practices of unlawful construction of cottages
in the natural reserves. Alexander Senotrusov told
the journalists about unlawful construction at the
Lebyazhiye village situated on Gulf of Finland shore.
After this the district administration
began persecutions against the teacher. Local bureaucrats
were going to dismiss Alexander Senotrusov as redundant
and also cut off electricity in the children’s
club where he worked.
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YABLOKO’s
action in protection of Utrish and Baikal
Press Release. February 25,
2010
A rally in protection of the Utrish
national reserve park and the Baikal Lake took place
in the centre of Krasnodar on February 20. The rally
was organised by YABLOKO’s activist Andrei Rudomakha.
After the rally the participants marched
along the main street of the city and held a second
rally at the end of the march.
About 300 – 350 people took part in
the action. |
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The
leader of Gelendzhik YABLOKO is forced to quit his
job because of a rally
Press Release, February 12,
2010
On January 31, 2010, Gelendzhik YABLOKO
conducted a meeting of protest against destruction
of the Utrish relict lagoons, where the Presidential
Property Management Department planned to build a
“sports and recreation complex” and Administration
of the Krasnodar Area – commercial buildings.
Public protest action took place by the city Administration
building.
And already on February 5, Sergei
Buldakov, leader of the local YABLOKO branch was informed
that he was transferred to another work place located
in 57 km from his current place. Alexander Umitbayaev,
Director General of the Vodokanal municipal state
company, where Buldakov worked informed Buldakov of
this transfer. |
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Sergei
Mitrokhin spoke at the rally for protection of Baikal
Press Release. February 13,
2010
About 700 people participated despite
sever frosts in the rally for protection of Baikal
in Irkutsk. Members of ecological organisations, members
and supporters of YABLOKO, residents of Irkutsk and
Baikalsk and CPRF members spoke against resuming of
functioning of the Baikal Pulp Plant.
The rally organised by the ecological
organisation The Baikal Wave and the Baikal movement
was held under the slogans “To close the Baikal
Pulp Plant!”, “To provide alternative
jobs to the residents of Baikalsk!” and “Stop
budget financing of oligarch Deripaska!”
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Apple
tree garden in Biryulyovo, Moscow, will be preserved
Press Release, January 25,
2010
“Apple tree garden in Biryulyovo,
Moscow, will not be cut”, Vladimir Resin, head
of the Moscow Construction Complex told to YABLOKO’s
leader Sergei Mitrokhin during their meeting today.
Moreover, the plot of land with the apple tree garden
will be included into the natural reserve Biryulyovo
Dendrary Park...
It is already the second apple tree
garden saved by YABLOKO. In 2006 the party managed
to stop cutting of the trees in Davydkovo district.
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YABLOKO’s
Political Committee: Russian state acts like an irresponsible
business corporation conducting anti-environmental
policies
Press Release, December 5,
2009
On December 5, 2009, YABLOKO’s
Political Committee discussed the ecological policy
of the government. The key report was made by Academician
Alexei Yablokov, leader of the Green Russia faction.
After a discussion the Committee adopted resolution
“On the Anti-Environmental Policies of the Russian
Authorities”.
On opening of the meeting the Political
Committee commemorated the victims of the Nevsky Express
railroad crash and the victims of the Perm nightclub
fire by a one-minute silence.
Alexei Yablokov reported on a bad
environmental situation in Russia dwelling on the
most acute ecological problems and offered ways of
their solution. According to the World Health Organisation,
493,000 people die annually in Russia because of ecological
problems. Thus, life expectancy for men is only 59
years, which is 15 – 18 years less than in the
USA and Japan. And it is even 3 – 4 years lower
in the zones of environmental pollution (about 14%
of the territory of the country). |
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Sergei
Mitrokhin: “The democratic project of the country’s
development is closed”
Press Release, November 30,
2009
On Saturday, November 29, 2009, a
meeting of YABLOKO’s Bureau took place in Moscow.
The Bureau adopted decisions on working over persuading
the government not to abolish indexation of unemployment
benefits, return gratuitous public transport tickets
for pensioners of the Moscow Region and creation of
nature reserve Utrish. The Bureau also heard the reports
of the Human Rights and the Gender factions of the
party.
The meeting was opened by party Chair
Sergei Mitrokhin who made a report on the political
situation in Russia. “It has become clear after
voting on October 11 that elections as a legitimate
institution that could be trusted by the society is
completely ruined in Russia. This means that the democratic
project of the country’s development initiated
in the late 1980s has been completely closed now –
and not only by the ruling elite, but by the society
as well,” Mitrokhin said. According to Mitrokhin,
the forthcoming YABLOKO’s congress (that will
take place in December 2009) has to formulate the
basis of a new democratic project for Russia.
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| Sergei
Mitrokhin and the camera crew of the RenTV channel
detained while trying to get to the Kurkino VIP village
Press release, November 16,
2009
Sergei Mitrokhin and the camera crew
of the RenTV channel have been detained by the security
of the Kurkino VIP village by the Valley of the Skhodnya
River natural reserve. The security have detained
the politician and the journalists and have called
the police.
Sergei Mitorkhin and the camera crew
of the RenTV channel went to the Valley of the Skhodnya
River natural reserve (where an unknown VIP village
was built on the permission of the ex-head of the
North-Western District of Moscow Viktor Kozlov) so
that to study the situation with returning of the
plot unlawfully granted to General Major of the interior
Anatoli Petukhov. On November 5, 2009, the Moscow
City Court confirmed the decision of the Tushino District
Court on abuse of authority by Kozlov. This motion
envisages retrieval of this plot amounting to 3,688
sq m, also court rulings on other plots of the natural
reserve unlawfully given for construction of cottages
have to appear shortly.
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Moscow City Court ruled that granting a plot of land
to the police top official in the nature reserve park
was unlawful
Press release, November 10,
2009
On November 5, 2009, the Moscow City
Court left in force the decision of the Tushino District
Court regarding abuse of rank by the dismissed head
of the North-Western Administrative District of Moscow
Viktor Kozlov, who unlawfully granted 3,688 sq.m of
land in the natural preservation zone of the Valley
of the Skhodnya River Park for lease to the ex-top
officer of the interior General Major Anatoly Petukhov.
According to the ruling of the court,
the plot of land granted on unlawful basis Petukhov
has to be retrieved. The decision is final and binding. |
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together with YABLOKO preserved Sadovniki park
Press Release, September 9,
2009
Two resolutions of the Moscow Government
allowing for construction works in Sadovniki park,
Moscow, were recalled.
It is not the first time that the
authorities allow construction works in the park and
the residents of the area together with the YABLOKO
party oppose it. Due to the efforts of the initiative
group of the residents of the area and YABLOKO’s
support, construction works in the park did not start
and moreover were prohibited.
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One
more Moscow park protected by YABLOKO
Press Release June 29, 2009
The Prefect’s Office of the Southern District of Moscow
cancelled its resolution on construction of a restaurant
on the territory of the Bitsevsky park. Such a statement
has been made by an official from the Prefect’s Office
today during a protest action against such construction. |
YABLOKO
disrupted the plans on elimination of a specially
protected natural territory in Moscow
Press Release June 24, 2009
Today the Moscow City Duma has declined amendments
into the draft law “On Specially Protected Natural
Territories in Moscow” that would allow to conduct
once in three years the so-called “corrections” [i.e.
reductions] of such natural zones not exceeding 1
per cent of the territory. To prove to the deputies
that such an initiative will inevitably lead to shrinking
of forests and parks Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the
YABLOKO party and its faction in the Moscow Duma,
visited on June 22 with deputy’s inspection one of
such specially protected natural territories (The
Valley of the Riva Skhadnaya in Kurkino), where a
nameless elite settlement is situated. |
500
people came to the meeting for protection of Bitsevsky
Forest in Moscow
Press Release. June 3, 2009
In the evening on June 2, 2009, over 500 activists
participated in the protest action for the protection
of Bitsevsky Forest against construction of a cafe
on a safeguarded territory. |
The
Green Russia and Global Nuclear Legacy
Press Release, June 1, 2009
The leaders of the Green Russia faction of the YABLOKO
party Alexei Yablokov and Alexander Nikitin participated
in the meeting of the Global Nuclear Legacy project
in Budapest on May 29-31. Over 40 representatives
of the anti-nuclear movement from the USA, Western
and Eastern Europe, and the CIS countries came to
Budapest. The meeting joined together victims of the
nuclear industry, ecologists and specialists from
the nuclear sphere who openly inform the society of
the dangers of the industry. |
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The
Committee for the Protection of Muscovites demands
the resettlement of residents from apartment buildings
contaminated by phenol
Press release, July 22, 2004
Over 50 people gathered today at the protest meeting
organised by the Committee for the Protection of Muscovites
by the Mayor's office in Moscow. Activists from the
Committee as well as residents from the Metrogorodok
district of Moscow participated in the meeting demanding
the adoption of measures to resettle residents from
phenol-contaminated apartment blocks, i.e. residential
premises with covering made from materials emitting
dangerous levels of phenol gas.
Ministry
of Nuclear Power Ready to Finance Environmental Programs
in Chelyabinsk Region
Press release, October 31, 2003
...the Ministry is willing to "discuss the draft
specific environmental program aimed at rehabilitating
the territories contaminated due to operations of
Mayak plant, including evacuation of the residents
of Muslyumovo and Tatarskaya Karabolka towns".
Suspension
of the operations of a copper-smelting plant is a
powerful signal to environment polluters
Press release, June 27, 2003
Deputy of the State Duma Sergei
Mitrokhin (the YABLOKO faction) stated that he
was satisfied with the decision of the supreme state
inspector for control over natural resources of the
Ural Federal district Nikolai Krupinin who issued
a warrant to suspend the operations of the Krabash
Copper-Smelting Plant from June 27, 2003.
The
State Duma turned down the amendment granting tax
privileges to environmental bodies
Press release, June 21, 2003
On Friday, June 20, 2003, the State Duma refused to
grant a tax break on the property of organisations
protecting and caring for territories with an enhanced
regime of environmental protection.
YABLOKO
determines the directions of Russia's environmental
policy and calls on the State Duma to ratify the Kyoto
Protocol
Press release, June 5, 2003
In addition to the prospects of ratification and entry
into force of the Kyoto Protocol, the participants
of the Round Table discussed a range of problems related
to Russia’s environmental policy.
Deputy
Mitrokhin manages to make the law-enforcement agencies
initiate criminal proceedings for environmental pollution
Press Release, May 27, 2003
Criminal proceedings in accordance with Article 246
of the Criminal Code of the RF (violation of environmental
protection regulations at work) were started by the
Chelyabinsk Prosecutor for Environmental Protection
for "investigation of all the circumstances and
reasons for environmental pollution in the city of
Krabash ." |
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The YABLOKO party starts litigation disputing lawfulness
of the General Plan for Moscow Development until 2025
Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July
27, 2010.
The Moscow City Court appointed hearings
of the YABLOKO party law suit disputing lawfulness
of the General Plan of Moscow Development until 2025
on August 9. The trial will be open for public. "I
have filed this lawsuit personally as a citizen, whose
rights are violated by the law. If we translate this
in short from the legal language, [the Plan] affects
the following rights: driving around the city without
traffic jams, breathing clean air, buying housing
at affordable prices and walking around historical
places of the city. All these rights were violated
by the developers of the law to fill Moscow with office
and trade premises,” Sergei Mitrokhin, leader
of the YABLOKO party, said yesterday. Mitrokhin also
explained, "This trend violates my right to a
healthy environment, not only a natural, but also
architectural and technological environment”...
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Russian
and European Integration
Speech by Sergei Mitrokhin
Liberal International Executive Committee
Berlin, June 11, 2010
Announcing a policy towards modernisation
in Russia President of Russia put himself in line
with a number of Russian rulers-reformers who aspired
to perform radical transformations in the country.
Some specific traits of this policy resemble those
of his predecessors. The President understands modernisation
primarily as acceleration of scientific and technological
development. With some reservations about the need
for political reform, the latter look like a number
of quite shallow and very systematic activities...
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The
Battle for Khimki Forest. By Yevgenia Chirikova.
www.opendemocracy.net
17 March 2010
The plan to construct a section of
the new Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway through the
legally-protected Khimki Forest Park will destroy
a rare eco-system. Dogged local resistance has turned
this into a national, even international issue. But
it has not derailed the plan...
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Environmentally
unfriendly bulbs versus nuclear power stations?
Acad.Alexei Yablokov’s
blog at the Echo Moskvi web-site
December 7, 2009
I was wondering why our government
suddenly made a complete ban on incandescent electric
bulbs its prime concern (Law of the RF No 261-FZ “On
Energy Saving and Raising of Energy Efficiency and
on Introduction of Changes into Some Legislative Acts
of the Russian Federation” of November 23, 2009).
And recently I have heard the news
that Europe has been closing production of incandescent
electric lamps of the first generation (luminescent,
with mercury) – the very lamps that have to
replace our incandescent electric bulbs. And these
environmentally unfriendly productions are offered
cheaply to those who would be eager to buy them. Let
us make a simple calculation... |
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Protest Phenol Gas
The Moscow Times, July 22, 2004
"We technically only had permission to demonstrate
at Pushkin Square," said one of the protest organizers,
Ilya Yashin, a Yabloko party official. "But we
felt we had a right ... to make our voices heard."
YABLOKO
to Propose Amendments to the Forestry Code
RIA "OREANDA", April 5, 2004
By and large, the RF Ministry of Natural Resources
and the Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko"
will cooperate on environment protection and efficient
nature management.
Chemical
Funds
Associated Press, March
17, 2004
MOSCOW (AP) -- Environmental
and human rights activists criticized the implementation
of Russia's chemical disarmament program Tuesday,
accusing authorities of mismanaging funds and endangering
lives by skimping on safety and security measures.
Nuclear
Power Ministry and Green Cross in the Same Team.
By Sergei Leskov, Izvestia, December 19, 2003
The President discussed with the representatives of
the nuclear department and the ecologists the problems
of burying spent nuclear fuel, where opinions were
divided irreconcilably.
Roll-call
voting in the State Duma For the adoption of amendments
into the Forestry Code of the Russian Federation (simplyfying
the transfer of forests of the 1st category into non-forest
categories). Third Reading.
November 21, 2003 16:04:10
Video. Protest action
by YABLOKO and ecologists agianst  amendments
to the Forestry Code allowing for the transfer of
forests from the top category to the lower categories.
The State Duma. October 8, 2003. 11 min 4 sek, 256
Ęáčň/ńĺę - 49 Ěáŕéň, 128
Ęáčň/ńĺę - 18 Ěáŕéň (RealPlayer
required)
Krasnoyarsk
Territory. The Legislative Assembly approves the initiative
to restrict the transfer of forestry areas to other
categories of fields
Regions.Ru, March 3, 2003 (Archive)
According to RIA Press-Line information agency today,
on March 3, 3003 members of the permanent Commission
on Natural Resources, Ecology and Protection of Nature
of the Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Territory
supported the draft law of the State Duma deputy Sergei
Mitrokhin.
Ministry
of Nuclear Power Ready to Finance Environmental Programmes
in Chelyabinsk Region
RIA "OREANDA", November 3, 2003
The deputy minister's letter is the Ministry's official
response to Mitrokhin's appeal to the Ministry to
allot money to move people away from nuclear-contaminated
areas in Chelyabinsk region.
Deputy
Mitrokhin demands an investigation into the situation
around the methanol terminal in Azov
FMBusiness, September 5, 2003
According to the documents, a number of federal legislative
acts, such as the Law "On Environmental Protection
", the Law "On Environmental Expertise",
the Provisions on the assessment of the impact on
the environment and legislation regulating construction
work were violated during the design and construction
of the terminal in Azov.
Ratification
of the Kyoto Protocol Will Help Russia to Attract
Vast Investments into Industry
RIA Novosti, September 8, 2003
"Now we cannot achieve such a capacity, with
our outdated equipment. But when innovations are introduced,
greenhouse gas emissions will decrease significantly,"
the expert believes.
Grigory
Yavlinsky called for an increase in state ecological
controls
Vesti Programme, RTR channel, June 5, 2003
In particular, in autumn 2003 YABLOKO is going to
submit to the State Duma the Kyoto Protocol for ratification.
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