Is
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12, 2010
Photo: The Central Electoral Commission session, 10 July 2026 / Screenshot from the CEC website
At its session on 10 July, Russia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) certified Yabloko’s federal list of candidates for the State Duma elections, as well as its list of candidates for single-mandate constituencies.
Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 15 July, the St.Petersburg City Court will hear the appeal lodged by Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and former head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg, against the fine imposed on him by a judge of the Petrogradsky District Court, purportedly for “displaying extremist symbols” (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
Photo: Anna Cherepanova, leader of Novgorod Yabloko, and Viktor Shalyakin, Yabloko candidate for the Novgorod Regional Duma / Photo by the regional branch of the party
On Thursday, 9 July, Novgorod Yabloko submitted documents to the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission for participation in the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma. A total of 626 sheets we information on the candidates required by the electoral commission had been prepared, the regional branch of the party reports.
Photo: Voting at the conference / Photo by Moscow Yabloko
Today, on 9 July, the Moscow branch of Yabloko held a conference to nominate candidates for municipal deputies in the Shchukino district in Moscow. The delegates of the conference put forward a team of eight candidates who would run in three constituencies of the district.
Photo: Yabloko delegation / Photo by St.Petersburg Yabloko
On Thursday, 9 July, representatives of the Yabloko party authorised by the Yabloko Congress submitted documents to the St.Petersburg City Electoral Commission for certification of the list of candidates for the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg. The materials were submitted in boxes bearing the party’s logo and its election campaign slogan, “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!”
Photo: Participants at the Pskov Yabloko Conference / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
On 8 July the Pskov Yabloko Conference nominated 57 candidates for the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly: 44 candidates on the party’s single list and 13 candidates across all single-mandate constituencies. Yabloko candidates are standing in all elections under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!”
Photo: Elektrozavod / Photo by Angelika Zhukova, Yandex.Panoramas
Moscow Yabloko’s office has begun collecting signatures calling for the Elektrozavod complex (Moscow’s historic Electric Factory complex built in the 1910s–1920s) to be recognised as of historical value and granted state protection. Following a change in the law in 2025 (the Law on the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites), more than 1,500 Moscow monuments dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries lost their protected status. As a result, the Elektrozavod now faces the threat of demolition, which Yabloko activists, together with Moscow residents, are now trying to prevent.
Photo: Voting at the Party Congress on 27 June 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko has now put forward candidates for the legislative assemblies in nine regions. At the end of past week, regional conferences of party branches put forward candidates in the Moscow and Novgorod Regions, and, a little earlier, in the Tambov Region and the Altai Territory. Candidate lists for the regional parliaments of St.Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, Karelia, and the Sverdlovsk and Kaliningrad Regions were also put forward at the Party Congress in late June.
Photo: Maxim Kruglov at the sentencing on 24 June 2026/ Photo by Darya Kornilova
Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov, who was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony over two Telegram posts, has sent an address from Pre-Trial Detention Facility No. 2 Butyrka, in which he thanked everyone for their support, spoke about his sentence and called for support for Yabloko in the forthcoming State Duma elections. We are publishing here Maxim’s address:
Photo: Anatoly Sidakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Two administrative offence protocols have been drawn up under Article 13.15 Part 2.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (distribution of materials without indicating foreign agent status) against Anatoly Sidakov, founder of North Ossetian Yabloko and editor-in-chief and publisher of the newspaper Mir Kavkazu (Peace to the Caucasus).
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Ivan Bolshakov, Yevgenia Vlasova and Yaroslav Shcherbakov submitting documents to the Central Electoral Commission on 4 July / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has identified technical issues in Yabloko’s documents. They concern 19 of the 275 candidates on the federal list and six of the 137 candidates in single-mandate constituencies.
Photo: Voting at the regional branch conference / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko
Past Saturday, 4 July, Novgorod Yabloko held its regional branch conference and put forward its list of candidates for the Novgorod Regional Duma in the upcoming elections. Delegates voted unanimously to include 19 candidates on the regional list, with a further 13 candidates put forward in single-mandate constituencies.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Ivan Bolshakov, Ivan Dorofeyev and Dmitry Anisimov at Russia’s Central Electoral Commission, 4 July 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, 4 July, Yabloko’s leaders and members submitted to Russia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) the documents for registration of the party’s federal list of candidates for the State Duma in the upcoming elections. The document packages for 412 candidates were submitted in 16 green boxes (weighing more than 96 kg in total) bearing the party’s logo and Yabloko’s election slogan: “For peace and freedom! For a life without fear!”
Photo: Yelena Perepelitsa / Photo from Yelena’s profile on Yandex.Maps
Today, 3 July, the Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow ordered a restraining measure of detention in custody for a period of two months for Yelena Perepelitsa, a 60-year-old Yabloko member detained the day before in a case concerning donations to a banned organisation (Article 282.3(1) of the Russian Criminal Code).
Photo: Meeting of the Tambov Region Electoral Commission / Photo from the commission’s website
At a meeting on 2 July, the Electoral Commission of the Tambov Region certified the list of Yabloko party candidates for the elections of deputies to the eighth convocation of the Tambov Regional Duma.
Photo: Yevgenia Berkovich / Photo by the support group of Yevgenia Berkovich on Telegram
Is it permitted or not for political prisoner Yevgenia Berkovich, a theatre director sentenced to 5 years and 7 months in a penal colony under the article on “justifying terrorism”, to write, read and make phone calls from the Kostroma penal colony? This question was widely discussed in March, following a publication by Novaya Gazeta, which stated that the colony administration was not allowing Berkovich to keep diaries, engage in creative work, or telephone her family. Anna Cherepanova, a deputy of the Veliky Novgorod City Duma and Deputy Chairwoman of Yabloko, responded at the time to the violations of the rights of Yevgenia Berkovich and other women prisoners at the Kostroma colony, submitting enquiries to the prosecutor’s office and the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights. A response arrived on 5 June.
Photo: Zhanna Shlosberg and Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
On 2 July, the Pskov City Court held the second hearing on the merits of the consolidated criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg. The court allowed the politician’s wife, Zhanna Shlosberg, to join the case as a lay defender. At the same time, the court did not admit lawyer Vitaly Isakov to the defence, since Isakov was to appear as a witness in the trial.
Photo: Yelena Perepelitsa / Photo by Moscow Yabloko
Yabloko member Yelena Perepelitsa was detained in Moscow today, 2 July. She was questioned for several hours by Investigative Committee investigators in connection with a case concerning a donation to a banned organisation. She was then held in a detention facility until the morning. On 3 July, a court is due to consider the question of a preventive measure.
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, adopted 26.06.2026, published 1.07.2026
Photo: Imprisoned Yabloko members – Maxim Kruglov, Lev Shlosberg, Konstantin Smirnov, Vladimir Yefimov, Mikhail Afanasyev and Vasily Neustroyev
Today, Russia has only one political party that openly opposes the current policies of the authorities and offers a genuine alternative. This is the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko, founded thirty-three years ago.
Yabloko is the only political force in Russia that is openly fighting for an immediate ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Since 24 February 2022, Yabloko’s leaders and rank-and-file members have used every opportunity to state their position and convey it to the country’s political leadership, the citizens of Russia, and world politicians. The call to sign a ceasefire agreement, preserve human lives, and seek diplomatic paths towards resolving the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine has become Yabloko’s foremost demand over the past four and a half years.
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Thirty years ago, in the presidential election, we tried to prevent the creation of a corporate oligarchic state in Russia and proposed ways of correcting the reforms of the first half of the 1990s, which had failed entirely. We stated publicly that, without this, the state would pose a threat both to the country itself and to Russia’s immediate neighbours.
