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Police
in Moscow Rough up More Demonstrators
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, July 28, 2004
The Yabloko press service reported on 27 July that two members of
the party were taken to a hospital following a rally outside FSB
headquarters in Moscow, Ekho Moskvy and Interfax reported. The two
injured, Irina Vorobeva and Aleksei Kozhin, are members of the party's
youth wing, and one of them is reportedly in serious condition.
Passions
Over Referenda
By Orkhan Dzhemal and Yana Serova, Novaya Gazeta, June 10, 2004
A referendum is a form of direct democracy. The people themselves take
decisions on state issues, without using legislators as intermediaries.
Early democracies functioned in this way: the citizens of ancient Athens
or medieval Novgorod engaged in what amounted to constant referenda.
Over
1.4 Million Rally on May Day
By Anneli Nerman, The Moscow Times, May 6, 2004
With many of Moscow's Soviet-era satellites joining the European
Union on Saturday, the Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky stressed
that Russia's future also lies in integration with Europe.
Griogry
Yavlinsky calls on democratic parties to unite
Rosbalt, May 1, 2004
According to a Rosbalt correspondent, YABLOKO’s leader also stated
that the conditions requisite for the functioning of independent courts,
parliament and mass media should be created in Russia. Public and civil
control over secret services and the law and enforcement agencies should
be installed.
Resolution
of the meeting Civil Society Against a Police State
Moscow, Lubyanka square, May 1, 2004
Civil rights and liberties have been steadily curbed by the authorities.
The division of powers into the legislative, the executive and the judicial
has been transformed into a sheer formality.
Does
Russia still need May Day
With participation of Grigory Yavlinsky,
Vladimir Lukin and Sergei Mitrokhin
Based on BBC Monitoring, Anchor: Savvik Shuster, NTV Channel, "Freedom of Speech" programme, April 30, 2004
A table indicated that 60 per cent of the population
thought that May Day had lost its meaning; 37 per cent thought it was important
and should still be celebrated today; 4 per cent were unable to reply.
Liberals
but No Hemp Lovers on May 1
By Oksana Yablokova, The Moscow Times, April 30, 2004
Yabloko will be joined by members and supporters of the Union of
Right Forces party, the Committee 2008: Free Choice movement, Greenpeace,
and the human rights organizations Moscow Helsinki Group, Soldiers'
Mothers and others, Yabloko spokeswoman Yevgenia Dillendorf said.
Vladimir
Putin normalized the Moscow authorities
By Yulia Taratuta and Igor Khamrayev, Kommersant, No 77, April 28, 2004
Moscow City Hall changed its mind and allowed YABLOKO
to organize a demonstration on May 1
Democracy
and Barricades: History Repeats Itself
IA MiK, April 14, 2004
...Meanwhile, another application on conducting a democratic march
and signed by the leader of the Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO
Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairperson of the Moscow Helsinki Group Ludmila
Alexeeva and Chairperson of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of
Russia Valentina Melnikova was submitted to the Moscow Mayor's Office
on April 12, 2004.
Grigory
Yavlinsky: The ban of the First of May march is symptomatic
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Marina Gvozdevskaya, BBC, April 9, 2004
"...And this is connected with the fact that the action was
announced as "Civil Society Against a Police State," and
it was banned because it was stated in such an open and clear way."
It
is time to protect the Constitution
The Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO, Appeal to Russia's independent public organisations, April 2, 2004
Freedom of assembly is one of the first victories of the Russian democracy.
At present we can be deprived of this our conquest. The authorities have
already done away with the independence of the large mass media and discredited
the institution of free elections.
President
Condemns Protest Bill
Combined Reports, The Moscow Times, April 13, 2004
Putin is sensitive about his democratic image after being criticized
by the opposition and some Western governments for dominating the
state-run airwaves in the run-up to his landslide re-election March
14.
Putin
Criticizes Draft Law Limiting Freedom of Assembly
MosNews, April 12, 2004
Putin called the restrictions on the freedom of assembly "unwholesome".
He said that "in terms of our reality", the right to hold demonstrations
and processions should not be limited, the agency reported.
Moscow
Mayor's Office turns down YABLOKO's application to organize a demonstration
By Konstantin Demchenko, Russkiy Kurier, No 75, p.1, April 10, 2004
Yesterday the Moscow Mayor's Office refused the request
of leaders of the YABLOKO party to allow them to organize a demonstration
and a rally on May 1. The demonstration was to take place under the slogan:
"Civil society against a police state".
YABLOKO
Forbidden from Holding Meetings in Moscow
RIA "OREANDA", April 9, 2004
On 1 May participants in the action planned to march along Myasnitskaya
Street up to Lubyanka Square and hold a meeting on the square near the
Solovetsky Stone. About 6,000 people planned to take part.
Duma
Rethinks Ban on Protests
By Caroline McGregor, The Moscow Times, April 5, 2004
In the wake of "serious social resonance," the
State Duma's United Russia majority backpedaled from outright support of
a bill banning rallies in many public places Friday, just two days after
voting in favor of it.
"YABLOKO"
Supporters Stage a Picket by the Duma
RIA "Novosti", March 31, 2004
Picketers were protesting against the draft law on rallies, meetings,
demonstrations, processions and pickets, which the Duma will discuss in
the first reading.
Yabloko
Demonstrates Against Restrictions to Freedom of Assembly
MosNews, March 31, 2004
Activists of the Russian liberal party Yabloko held a
protest rally near the building of the State Duma on Wednesday morning.
Demonstrations
near Embassies to be prohibited in Russia
pravda.ru, March 31, 2004
Demonstrations are addressed to the authorities.
How will the authorities know about popular protests, if the demonstrations
are held in residential areas?
Yabloko
Accuses Government of Violating Constitution
Rosbalt, March 31, 2004
Yabloko says the government's new legislation
on limiting public demonstrations violates the foundation of Russia's constitution
and is aimed at eliminating civil rights which are guaranteed by Article
31 of the constitution.
Russian
Bill Curbing Mass Rallies Gains
By David Holley, Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2004
In a move that could push protests largely out
of the public eye,
Russia's lower house of parliament gave preliminary approval Wednesday
to a
law that would ban demonstrations from a wide range of places, including
areas close to highways, government buildings and diplomatic missions.
Are
Meetings a Thing of the Past?
Aleksei Levchenko, Rosbalt. Translated by Alex Anderson, Rosbalt, April 1, 2004
The Duma has adopted a very interesting new law. Deputies
have decided to
severely regulate public meetings, marches and pickets. After carefully
reading it, critics of the new legislation have concluded that the right
to
hold any mass meeting will now be in question.
Duma
Bill Sharply Restricts Rallies
By Caroline McGregor, The Moscow Times, April 1, 2004
As the United Russia majority in the State Duma gave preliminary approval
to a bill outlawing protests near government buildings Wednesday, pro-democracy
activists staged a rally outside the Duma's main entrance to insist on
their right to do just that.
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