Nikolai Rybakov demands that the Prosecutor General disclose data on the scale of environmental damage following the oil spill in the Kerch Strait
Press Release, 11.07.2026
Photo: Clean-up operations following the oil spill caused by the two Volgoneft tankers that ran into distress in the Kerch Strait on the afternoon of 15 December 2024, on the coastline at Anapa. / Photo by Yuri Bereznyuk, Kommersant
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent an appeal to Prosecutor General Alexander Guzan, demanding that he disclose information on the state of the environment in the zone of the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait and initiate real measures to address the consequences of the disaster. To date, reliable information on the environmental consequences has still not been published.
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Posted: July 13th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Political prisoner Mikhail Afanasyev turns 50! We congratulate the journalist and Yabloko member on his anniversary
Press Release, 13.07.2026
Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 12 July, Yabloko member Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist of the online media Novy Fokus, a Free Media Awards laureate, and a two-time recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize “For Journalism as an Act of Conscience”, turns 50. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has congratulated Mikhail Afanasyev on his anniversary.
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Posted: July 13th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Greetings, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko submits its list of candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly’s single-mandate constituencies to the regional electoral commission for certification
Press Release, 11.07.2026
Photo: Yana Ivanova and Artur Gaiduk / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
On 11 July, Artur Gaiduk, Chairman of the regional party branch in the Pskov region, and his deputy Yana Ivanova, both authorised by the conference of Pskov Yabloko, submitted to the Pskov Region Electoral Commission the list of candidates for all 13 single-mandate constituencies. Under the law, the list must be certified within three working days.
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Posted: July 13th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov calls on State Duma deputies to give up bonuses totalling 2 billion roubles
Press Release, 10.07.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent a letter to State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and to deputies, proposing that they give up the enormous bonuses or transfer them to help gravely ill children.
It had become known from media reports that State Duma deputies were planned to be paid bonuses in September of this year (before the termination of the powers of the current convocation of the State Duma) funded from budget savings. The total volume of these payments is estimated at two billion roubles, with the cost per deputy amounting to 4.4 million roubles.
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Posted: July 13th, 2026 under Без рубрики.
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Electoral commissions of St.Petersburg and Novgorod regions certify Yabloko’s candidate lists for regional parliaments
Press Release, 11.07.2026
Photo: Yabloko’s placard “For Peace and Freedom! For the Immediate Ceasefire Agreement!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Two electoral commissions – the St.Petersburg City Electoral Commission and the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission – certified Yabloko’s candidate lists for regional parliaments in two constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: July 13th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Central Electoral Commission has certified Yabloko’s candidate lists for the State Duma elections
Press Release, 10.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 11th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Alexander Shishlov’s appeal against the court ruling that stripped him of the right to stand for election will be heard on 15 July
Press Release, 10.07.2026
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).
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Posted: July 11th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko submits documents to Novgorod Region Electoral Commission for elections to the Regional Duma
Press Release, 10.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 11th, 2026 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Moscow Yabloko puts forward candidates for municipal deputies in the Shchukino district of Moscow
Press Release, 10.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 10th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko submits documents to St.Petersburg electoral commission for elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 9.07.2026
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!”
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Posted: July 10th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko nominates 57 candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 9.07.2026
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!”
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Posted: July 9th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko launches a petition to save the Elektrozavod, a rare industrial heritage site in Moscow facing imminent demolition
Press Release, 8.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 8th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lists of Yabloko candidates for parliaments in nine regions published
Press Release, 7.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 8th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Maxim Kruglov: “Come what may, my party is standing in the forthcoming elections. Support Yabloko!
Press Release, 7.07.2026
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:
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Posted: July 8th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Administrative offence protocols drawn up against editor-in-chief of Mir Kavkazu newspaper over missing “foreign agent” labels, the paper published Yabloko materials
Press Release, 6.07.2026
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).
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Posted: July 6th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Central Electoral Commission’s objections to Yabloko’s list of candidates are technical and easily amended
Press Release, 6.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 6th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko puts forward 32 candidates for the Novgorod Regional Duma, the lead candidate is Yabloko Deputy Chair Anna Cherepanova
Press Release, 5.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 6th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko submits documents to Russia’s Central Electoral Commission for registration in the State Duma elections
Press Release, 4.07.2026
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!”
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Posted: July 6th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko member Yelena Perepelitsa remanded in custody for two months over donation to a banned organisation
Press Release, 3.07.2026
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).
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Posted: July 6th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Tambov Region Electoral Commission certifies Yabloko’s list for regional Duma elections
Press Release, 3.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2026 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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