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Karelian Yabloko has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Karelia against the ruling of the Petrozavodsk City Court of 31 July. It should be noted that a judge of the Petrozavodsk City Court had found lawful the refusal to register Yabloko’s candidates for deputies of the 13th convocation of the Petrozavodsk City Council. The actual decision to refuse registration had been taken by Territorial Electoral Commission No. 1 on 25 July.
Photo: Dmitry Khorzov / Photo from his Telegram channel
Dmitry Khorzov, a candidate for deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, received notification from the St. Petersburg City Court on 3 August that his opponent from the pro-government LDPR party was seeking to have his election registration annulled. The territorial electoral commission had earlier “lost” the documents of Khorzov’s nomination. He proved he was in the right by presenting video footage showing him submitting a complete and correct set of documents. The missing documents were quickly found.
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky testifying in court in defence of Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
On Friday, 31 July, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, testified as a defence witness in the case against Lev Shlosberg at Pskov City Court. It should be noted that hearings in the case were held daily (except at weekends) from 13 to 31 July.
Photo: Vasily Yeryomin and Tatyana Levchenko / Photo by Tomsk Yabloko
On Friday, 31 July, the leaders of Tomsk Yabloko submitted documents to the Regional Electoral Commission for verification of the party’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk region.
Photo: Yabloko’s delegation before submitting documents to the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission / Photo by St. Petersburg Yabloko
The Central Electoral Commission of Russia (CEC) has rejected Yabloko’s complaint against the decision by the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission to refuse registration of the party’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. The decision has just been taken.
Photo: Ivan Bolshakov with his letter to Chair of the Moscow Electoral Commission Olga Kirillova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Ivan Bolshakov, one of the leaders of Yabloko’s federal list in the State Duma election and the party’s representative at the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, has sent a request to Olga Kirillova, Chair of the Moscow Electoral Commission, demanding that she check the campaigning in Moscow by the pro-government United Russia party. Specifically, the request concerns posters for United Russia’s State Duma candidates that have not been paid for from an electoral fund and that are being placed en masse on “Chisty Gorod” (“Clean City”) noticeboards — a government housing-and-utilities project intended for notifying residents of apartment buildings.
Photo: List leaders Inna Boluchevskaya, Olga Tuzhikova and Anna Pavlova
Today, 29 July, the Supreme Court of Karelia heard an administrative claim by the regional branch of the Rodina (Motherland) party seeking to overturn the ruling of the Electoral Commission of the Republic of Karelia of 17 July, which had registered Yabloko’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the 8th convocation of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia.
Photo: Yelena Perepelitsa / Photo from her Yandex.Maps profile
Today, 29 July, the Moscow City Court rejected an appeal against the detention imposed on Yabloko member Yelena Perepelitsa in the case concerning a donation to a banned organisation.
Photo: Yabloko’s State Duma candidates and party Chair Nikolai Rybakov at the Central Electoral Commission of Russia on 29 July 2026
The Central Electoral Commission of Russia (CEC) registered Yabloko’s federal list of candidates on 29 July 2026 for the election of deputies to the 9th convocation of the State Duma. The CEC’s decision was unanimous.
Yabloko’s federal list currently has 269 candidates with seven lead candidates. A further 135 candidates have submitted documents to stand in single-mandate constituencies.
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Are there elections in Russia today that fundamentally change power? No, no such democratic institution exists in our country any more. That is how the reforms were carried out in the 1990s.
Do people in Russia have a choice today? Yes, such a choice still exists for now. Whether everything stays as it is now, or whether the country’s leadership starts seeking ways towards a ceasefire and a diplomatic process, depends on how people actually vote. It is precisely so that people can speak out in favour of such a new policy that Yabloko is taking part in the elections in September 2026.
Tomorrow, 29 July, at 11:00, the Central Electoral Commission of Russia (CEC) will consider, at its meeting, the question of registering Yabloko’s federal list of candidates for the election of deputies to the State Duma.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by Alexander Nemenov, AFP
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has completed its review of the complaint by Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov, leaving unchanged the ruling that had found him liable under Article 20.3(1) of the Code of Administrative Offences (displaying extremist symbols). The judicial panel upheld the decisions of the lower courts, including the Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg and the Third Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction.
Photo: Yabloko’s letter with a marking “received” by the CEC / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko submitted a complaint to the Central Electoral Commission of Russia (CEC) against the decision by the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission to refuse registration of the party’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
Photo: Kirill Goncharov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Chair of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov has sent an official request to Olga Kirillova, Chair of the Moscow Electoral Commission, regarding the procedure for voters to exercise their right to receive a paper ballot in the 2026 State Duma election, including for those who fall under the remote electronic voting (REV) system.
Photo: Yabloko representatives submitting candidates’ documents to the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission on 9 July / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The St. Petersburg Electoral Commission refused to register Yabloko’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the 8th convocation of the Legislative Assembly. The decision was taken on 24 July.
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko
Today, 26 July, the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission unanimously registered Yabloko’s list of candidates for the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma. The list comprises 19 candidates across all ten regional groups.
The list is headed by Anna Cherepanova, Deputy Chair of Yabloko, leader of Novgorod Yabloko, a sitting deputy and leader of the Yabloko faction in the Novgorod City Duma.
Photo: Yabloko list leaders Inna Boluchevskaya, Olga Tuzhikova and Anna Pavlova
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia has accepted for consideration an administrative claim filed by the regional branch of the Rodina (Motherland) political party seeking to overturn the 17 July resolution of the Electoral Commission of the Republic of Karelia registering Yabloko’s list of candidates for the elections to the eighth convocation of the Karelia’s Legislative Assembly.
Today, 25 July, Territorial Electoral Commission No. 1 of Petrozavodsk refused to register the list of candidates put forward by Yabloko for the elections to the Petrozavodsk City Council.
Photo: The party’s delegation before submitting documents to the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission / Photo by St. Petersburg Yabloko
At a meeting on 24 July, the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission refused to register Yabloko’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the Legislative Assembly. If this decision is not overturned, voters in St. Petersburg will not be able to vote for a Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly.
