Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Resolution by the Federal Political Committee, adopted at on 18.06.2026, published on 25.07.2026
The forthcoming elections to the ninth State Duma, to be held in September, differ fundamentally from all previous parliamentary elections.
These are the first parliamentary elections to be held amid the armed conflict now entering its fifth year, when almost every day brings new reports of loss of life, suffering, and destruction.
Photo: Maxim Kruglov in court on 24 June 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, 24 June, a judge of the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow delivered the verdict in the criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov: guilty as charged, seven years in a penal colony, and a three-year ban on administering Internet resources. The verdict will be appealed, the politician’s lawyers announced. Yabloko has described the sentence as, at the very least, unjust.
A judge of the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow has just delivered the verdict in the criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov: guilty, sentenced to seven years in prison. The sentence has not yet entered into force and will be appealed.
Photo: Letter-writing evening at the party’s central office / Photo by Moscow Yabloko
The regular gatherings at Yabloko offices for writing letters to political prisoners are continuing. We invite all Russian citizens who wish to join us, and publish the schedule of our actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and Russian regions.
Today, 22 June, the substantive hearing of the consolidated criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg began at Pskov City Court. The politician attended the hearing in person. At the outset, lawyer Vera Kovalchuk filed a motion to dismiss the criminal case under Article 207.3 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the so-called “army fakes” provision) on the grounds that no criminal event had taken place, Pskov Yabloko reports.
Photo: Conference participants / Photo by Tambov Yabloko
On 21 June 2026, a Conference of the Tambov regional branch of Yabloko was held, with the nomination of a regional candidate list for the Tambov Regional Duma of the eighth convocation as the central item on the agenda.
Photo: Participants in the memorial ceremony in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Late in the evening of 21 June, on the 85th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War (the name by which WW2 is known in Russia in its dimension on Soviet territory), Yabloko leaders and party activists held a memorial ceremony at the monument to the civilians of the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow who volunteered to defend the city in 1941 and of whom the great majority were killed or taken prisoner in the first months of the war, but who managed to help halt the Nazi Germany’s assault on the Soviet capital. The monument is located on Novokuznetskaya Street in Moscow. Participants lit candles in memory of the victims and heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
Yabloko’s pre-election congress will be held in Moscow on 27 June. Delegates from across Russia will gather to nominate candidates for the State Duma and a number of regional legislative assemblies.
At the beginning of the 20th century, technical progress moved to a qualitatively new level. Europe’s political elites proved incapable of making adequate decisions and, like sleepwalkers, with no understanding of what was happening, plunged the world into two world wars. Around 100 million people died then.
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow Regional Branch of Yabloko, 18.06.2026
Photo: Elektrozavod / Photo by Anzhelika Zhukova, Yandex.Panoramas
Moscow Yabloko has received with alarm reports of possible plans by the developer — Etalon Group — to demolish the historic buildings of the Elektrozavod [Moscow’s historic Electric Factory complex], constructed in the 1910s–1920s, and replace them with a modern pastiche.
On 17 June, at a hearing of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov answered questions from the defence and the prosecution, after which the parties presented their closing arguments. The state prosecution declared that Kruglov’s guilt had been proved and requested that he be sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment.
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov at the Central Electoral Commission during the 2021 State Duma elections / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service.
On 16 June, the head of state issued a decree scheduling the Russian State Duma elections for 20 September 2026. Yabloko, which stands for peace, freedom, and a life without fear, will take part in these elections and calls on citizens to sign up as party observers, with a view to exercising civic oversight of the vote and the count.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg at the hearing on 16 June 2026 / Photo by Pskov Yabloko.
Today, 16 June, the Pskov City Court was due to begin substantive consideration of the consolidated criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg. However, at the request of the politician and his lawyers — Vladimir Danilov and Vera Kovalchuk — the hearing was adjourned to 22 June, the Pskov Yabloko branch reports.
Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky by Marianna Minsker on RTVi
RTVi, 13 June 2026
Watch on YouTube with automatic English subtitles
There has been much talk recently about who should concede what, which side should make overtures, and what compromises might be possible. But in the fifth year of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, one thing is absolutely clear: there can be only one “compromise” — an immediate ceasefire agreement, followed by negotiations and diplomacy. All the deeply contentious issues will in all likelihood require months, and possibly years, of painful negotiations — through intermediaries and directly. Negotiations will not succeed if large-scale hostilities continue alongside them — no result will be achieved. A ceasefire is needed, and lives must be saved. This is critically necessary.
Forty-seven-year-old human rights defender and environmentalist Nikolai Rybakov is the fourth chairman of the Yabloko party. He joined the party in 1995 and rose from ordinary member to the head of Russia’s largest and still-unbanned anti-war organisation. Rybakov became party chairman in 2019, meaning that his tenure has coincided with mass political repression, the beginning of the full-scale war, and the transformation of Putinism into its totalitarian form.
Photo: Denis Volkov / Photo by the Yabloko Party University
On 18 June, the Yabloko Party University invites all those interested to a lecture by sociologist Denis Volkov: “Russian Public Sentiment on the Eve of the State Duma Elections”. The lecturer will present current sociological research data and analyse the key trends that will shape voter behaviour and the political agenda in the months ahead.
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party, 11.06.2026
The mass protests by Kuntsevo District residents [in Moscow] against the felling of trees in Moskvoretsky Park, and the heavy-handed detention of protesters by police officers, have once again revealed the face of the present-day Moscow authorities — authorities that valiantly contain the spread of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in the capital by prohibiting Muscovites from exercising their constitutional right to assemble peacefully, without weapons, and hold meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches, and pickets.
Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Svetlana Vasilkova, deputy of the Pustoshka Municipal District of Pskov and Deputy Chair of Pskov Yabloko, has been fined 1,000 roubles (approximately USD 14) under the article on “display of extremist symbols” (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The ruling was handed down by the Opochetsky District Court on 8 June. This is the tenth administrative record drawn up against prospective party candidates ahead of the forthcoming September elections.
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin (left), member of the Bureau of Novgorod Yabloko, and Anton Kostryukov (right) at the Novgorod Regional Court / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko
Anton Kostryukov, a Yabloko member from Veliky Novgorod, will be unable to stand in the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma. This was announced by the party’s regional branch after the Novgorod Regional Court upheld the ruling holding Anton Kostryukov administratively liable under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (“display of extremist symbols”). The decision was handed down by a judge of the Novgorod Regional Court.
Photo: Grei Boltachev after his release from the special detention facility on 8 June 2026 / Photo by Vechernie Vedomosti
Grei Boltachev, a prominent Russian physicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and leading research fellow at the Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has been released in Alapayevsk (Sverdlovsk Region) following his arrest.
