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2019 Moscow City Duma Election
Election to the 7th convocation of the Moscow City Duma took place on the United Voting Day on 8 September 2019. The elections were held in a first-past-the-post system: 45 deputies were elected in 45 single-member constituencies. The term of the new Duma will be five years. Background and preparations The Moscow City Election Commission organizes 3,616 polling stations, of which 3,440 - at the places of residence, 176 - at places of temporary residence (hospitals, sanatoriums, places of temporary detention of suspects and accused, and other places of temporary stay). Candidates for registration must collect voter signatures in their support in the amount of 3% of all constituency voters (from 4,500 to 5,500 signatures). However, regardless of whether a candidate has enough valid signatures, a candidate will not be on the ballot if more than 10% of the signatures are considered flawed by the Moscow City Election Commission (MCEC). Candidates nominated by political partie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Moscow City Duma Election
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smart Voting
Smart Voting ( rus, Умное голосование, Umnoye golosovaniye) is a tactical voting strategy put forward by the team of Alexei Navalny with the aim of depriving the ruling United Russia party of votes in regional and federal elections. The goal of Smart Voting is to consolidate the votes of those who oppose the party which Navalny dubbed as the "party of crooks and thieves". History On 28 November 2018, Alexei Navalny launched the Smart Voting project. Initially, the system was mainly aimed at depriving the nominees from the politically dominant United Russia party of their victory in the elections to the post of Governor of St. Petersburg and the Moscow City Duma on 8 September 2019. Navalny explained the strategy as follows (translated from Russian): "The parties themselves cannot agree and nominate a single candidate against United Russia. But we can agree on this. We are different, but we have one policy — we are against the monopoly of United Russia. Every ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Yashin
Ilya Valeryevich Yashin (russian: Илья́ Вале́рьевич Я́шин; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian opposition politician who led the PARNAS party from 2012 to 2016, and then its Moscow branch. He was also head of the Moscow municipal district of Krasnoselsky and former chairman of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky district from 2017 to 2021. Yashin co-founded the civic youth movement Oborona in 2005 and later the political movement Solidarnost in 2008, of which he is still one of the leaders. He was an active participant in the Dissenters' March and the 2011–2013 Russian protests. In 2012, he was elected to the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. Amidst an increase in government crackdowns on the opposition following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, some considered Yashin to have had the largest platform of any opposition politician that had not either left the country, been imprisoned, or been killed. However, in June 2022, he was arrested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Sobol
Lyubov Eduardovna Sobol (russian: link=no, Любо́вь Эдуа́рдовна Со́боль, née Fedenyova, ; born 13 September 1987) is a Russian opposition politician, lawyer and a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council (2012–2013). She produces the YouTube channel "Navalny Live" of Alexei Navalny. Sobol was a lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation until its closure in 2021. Biography Sobol was born on 13 September 1987 in Lobnya, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR. In 2004, she graduated from the gymnasium class of a secondary school with a silver medal, and entered the Institute of Jurisprudence of the State Law Academy in Moscow. In parallel with her studies, she worked in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow as secretary of the court session and as an assistant to the judge. In 2006, she entered the Law Faculty of the Moscow State University graduating with honours in 2011. In 2011 and 2012, she took part in various forms of civil-political activit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right Bloc (Russia)
The Third Alternative. Right Bloc (PB; russian: Третья альтернатива. Правый блок; ПБ; ) — an all-Russian democratic movement uniting people of right-wing and nationalist convictions, based on the ideas of national democracy. It was formed in February 2018. On July 15, 2019, on the basis of the Right Bloc movement, the formation of the All-Russian political party "Third Alternative" began. Creation, structure The reason for the emergence was repression against the right-wing organizations or their collapse, with the aim of uniting disparate organizations into a single movement, for the participation of the right-wing in legal politics. The first coordinators of the movement were Vladimir Burmistrov (ex-head of the Moscow League of the KNS), as well as Dmitry Golikov, Konstantin Filin and Ilya Sotnikov who left the ceased to exist Party of Nationalists. Right Bloc Actions The Right Bloc holds and takes part in a variety of meetings, pickets, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Timonov
Mikhail Leonidovich Timonov (russian: Михаил Леонидович Тимонов; born 22 May 1965 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian politician. Member of the Moscow City Duma, leader of the Opposition. Biography Born on September 22 May 1965 in Moscow, RSFSR. Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute. 2019 Moscow City Duma election Mikhail won the elections to the Moscow City Duma of the seventh convocation in the 16th single-mandate constituency (the districts Bogorodskoye, Preobrazhenskoye, part of Sokolinaya Gora), receiving 12.293 votes (37.6%). Member of the commissions for urban planning, state property and land use, environmental policy, urban management and housing policy. He was supported by Alexey Navalny's "Smart Voting" system. From September to November 2019 Michail Timonov led A Just Russia A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Babushkin
Andrey, Andrej or Andrei (in Cyrillic script: Андрей, Андреј or Андрэй) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: *Andrei of Polotsk ( – 1399), Lithuanian nobleman *Andrei Alexandrescu, Romanian computer programmer *Andrey Amador, Costa Rican cyclist *Andrei Arlovski, Belarusian mixed martial artist *Andrey Arshavin, Russian football player *Andrej Babiš, Czech prime minister *Andrey Belousov (born 1959), Russian politician *Andrey Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist *Andrey Borodin, Russian financial expert and businessman *Andrei Chikatilo, prolific and cannibalistic Russian serial killer and rapist *Andrei Denisov (weightlifter) (born 1963), Israeli Olympic weightlifter *Andrey Ershov, Russian computer scientist *Andrey Esionov, Russian painter *Andrei Glavina, Istro-Romanian writer and politician *Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), Belarusian Soviet politician and diplomat * Andrey Ivanov, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeny Nifantiev
Evgeny Nifantiev (russian: Евгений Олегович Нифантьев; born 14 September 1978, Krasnoyarsk) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 8th State Duma. After graduating from the First Moscow State Medical University, Nifantiev founded and headed the pharmacy holding titled “Neopharm.” In 2005-2006, he held the position of head of the department for licensing, supervision and control of medical and pharmaceutical activities of the Office of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Moscow and the Moscow Oblast). In 2011, he was included in the reserve of managerial personnel under the patronage of the President of Russia. In 2019, he became a member of the Civic Chamber of Moscow. Since September 2021, he has served as the deputy of the 8th State Duma. Sanctions Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulia Galyamina
Yulia Yevgenyevna Galyamina (russian: Юлия Евгеньевна Галямина, born 23 January 1973 in Timiryazevsky District, Moscow) is a Russian linguist and political activist. She is a member of the Yabloko political party and has been often arrested and jailed for the organization and high-profile participation in protests against Vladimir Putin. In 2018, together with anthropologist Nikita Petrov, Yulia Galyamina became active helping to raise funds for the treatment of Ket folk singer Alexander Kotusov (1955–2019) when he was terminally ill and stuck in Kellog, his isolated native village. In December 2020, she received a suspended sentence of two years of corrective labor colony for repeated violations of the rules for conducting rallies and pickets (article 212.1 of the Russian Criminal Code). In March 2022, Galyamina was detained and held in custody pending trial, charged with violating the law on public events by trying to organize a protest against R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yabloko
The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko (RUDP Yabloko) (russian: Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко», Rossíyskaya obyedinyónnaya demokratícheskaya pártiya "Yábloko", apple, ru-яблоко.ogg, links=yes) is a social-liberal political party in Russia. The party consequently participated in the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of all eight convocations. Until 2003, Yabloko was represented by a faction in the State Duma and later until 2007 by individual deputies. In March 2002, the party became a full member of the Liberal International, and since November 1998, it had been in observer status. The founder of the party Grigory Yavlinsky is an honorary vice-president of the Liberal International and winner of its Prize for Freedom. Since 2006, Yabloko has been a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). As of 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Gudkov
Dmitry Gennadyevich Gudkov (russian: Дмитрий Геннадьевич Гудков; born 19 January 1980) is a Russian politician and opposition leader. He was elected as a member of the State Duma in 2011–2016. His father, Gennady Gudkov, was also a Duma deputy in 2001–2012. Both father and son were members of the party A Just Russia. Gudkov was expelled from the party on 13 March 2013 after it accused him of "calling on the American authorities to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs".Russian Legislator Accused of Treason After U.S. Visit The New York Times (15 March 2013) While Gudkov ran as candidate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Kiselyova
Mariya Aleksandrovna Kiselyova (russian: Мари́я Александровна Киселёва; born September 28, 1974 in Samara) is a female synchronised swimmer from Russia. She competes in synchronised swimming and has won three Olympic golds and three golds in the world championships. In Russia, she is currently known as a TV show presenter and a politician for the ruling United Russia party. She is currently a member of the Moscow City Duma The Moscow City Duma (russian: Московская городская дума, Moskovskaya gorodskaya duma) is the Regional parliaments of Russia, regional parliament (city duma) of Moscow, a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject and th .... Electoral History External links * * Russian synchronized swimmers Olympic synchronized swimmers of Russia Synchronized swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Synchronized swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Synchronized swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
