Pskov Region Court overturns regional electoral commission’s decision to register Pskov Yabloko’s unified list of candidates
Press Release, 25.08.2026
Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Today, 25 August, the Pskov Region Court overturned the ruling of the regional electoral commission registering the unified list of candidates of Pskov Yabloko. The ruling has not entered into legal force yet. Yabloko considers it unlawful, unfounded, and adopted with the aim of unfairly eliminating political competitors. The ruling will be appealed to the court of appeal.
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Posted: August 26th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Communists of Russia party attempts to remove Yabloko’s list from the elections in the Kaliningrad Region
Press Release, 25.08.2026
Photo: Ivan Bolshakov, Roman Morozov and Anton Gendrikson / Photo by the Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission
The corresponding administrative claim has been filed with the Kaliningrad Region Court. It will be heard on Friday, 28 August. The Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission will take part in the case as an interested party.
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Posted: August 26th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Family of political prisoner Maxim Kruglov calls on the ombudsperson to help hospitalise him in a civilian hospital
Press Release, 25.08.2026
Photo: Maxim Kruglov in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The family of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov, who was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony, has appealed to Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova for help in arranging specialised medical care for the politician. Kruglov is awaiting the outcome of his appeal in Moscow’s Butyrka pre-trial detention facility.
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Posted: August 25th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s strategy for the coming weeks
Based on Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram post, 25.08.2026
Photo: A screenshot from Nikolai Rybakov’s video message on his Telegram channel, 21.08.2026
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov posted a video message on his Telegram channel describing the party’s strategy for the coming weeks.
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Posted: August 25th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, 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 leaflets available at the party’s central office in Moscow
Press Release, 24.08.2026
Photo: Yabloko leaflets “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko’s central office in Moscow has a new print run of our campaign leaflets. If you are over 18, join in distributing them!
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Posted: August 25th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, 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’s campaign “Russia for Peace and Freedom”: the party to send “Peace Packages” to supporters across the country
Press Release, 24.08.2026
Photo: Yabloko leaflets “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko party is launching a nationwide campaign “Russia for Peace and Freedom”. As part of it, any Russian citizen who wishes may receive a “Peace Package” by post free of charge — a set of the party’s printed campaign materials, including leaflets and posters — and use it to tell their family, friends and neighbours about Yabloko’s position.
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Posted: August 25th, 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 appeals against refusal to register its list for Leningrad Region Legislative Assembly elections
Press Release, 24.08.2026
Photo: A file with Yabloko’s logo and slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!” at the Electoral Commission of the Leningrad Region / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko has filed an administrative claim with the Leningrad Region Court seeking to overturn the ruling of the Leningrad Region Electoral Commission by which the party’s list of candidates was refused registration for the elections of deputies to the region’s Legislative Assembly. It should be noted that the Commission adopted the relevant decision on 13 August.
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Posted: August 25th, 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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The Rodina party, having removed Yabloko from federal elections, attempts to remove it from Pskov Region Legislative Assembly elections
Press Release, 21.08.2026
Photo: Yana Ivanova, Deputy Chair of Pskov Yabloko, and Artur Gaiduk, Chairman of Pskov Yabloko / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Today, 21 August, it has been reported that the Rodina party has filed an administrative claim with the Pskov Regional Court demanding that the registration of Yabloko’s list of candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly elections be revoked.
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Posted: August 24th, 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’s State Duma candidate Sergei Balabayev receives prosecutor’s warning over unidentified persons’ calls for street protests
Press Release, 21.08.2026
Photo: Yabloko flags with the slogan “Yabloko Stands for Peace!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 21 August, Sergei Balabayev, the authorised representative of Yabloko’s branch in the Yaroslavl Region and the party’s candidate for State Duma deputy in Yaroslavl single-mandate constituency No. 194, has been issued with a prosecutor’s warning “on the inadmissibility of violating the law”. According to the document, the warning was connected with messages distributed on social media in the party’s name, alleging that unauthorised street protests were being held in Yaroslavl.
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Posted: August 24th, 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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Court upholds fine for “displaying Nazi symbols” against Holocaust researcher and Yabloko deputy Tatyana Pasman
Press Release, 20.08.2026
Photo: Tatyana Pasman / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A judge of the Pskov Regional Court has heard the appeal lodged by Tatyana Pasman, teacher and Pskov City Duma deputy from Yabloko, and her lawyer Vladimir Danilov against the ruling of a judge of the Pskov City Court, who found Tatyana Pasman guilty of displaying “Nazi symbols” (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) and fined her 1,000 roubles. As in the city court, the hearing was held behind closed doors. The grounds for the administrative prosecution was a non-existent post on a private page on one of the social networks. The fines under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences are nominal; however, a finding of guilt under the “extremism” article renders it impossible for the person concerned to stand in elections for one year.
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Posted: August 20th, 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’s actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and Russian regions: schedule of for August – early September
Press Release, 20.08.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The action of writing letters to political prisoners is a traditional monthly event at which anyone can write a letter or sign a postcard to people deprived of their freedom for their beliefs. Yabloko holds this event not only in Moscow but in many other cities across the country. Russian citizens wishing to join the event in Moscow or in other cities can check the schedule of events on the Yabloko web-site.
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Posted: August 20th, 2026 under Без рубрики.
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St. Petersburg territorial electoral commissions register Olga Tsepilova and Anton Kostik as Yabloko candidates for the Legislative Assembly election
Press Release, 20.08.2026
Photo: Olga Tsepilova, Anton Kostik / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
St. Petersburg’s Territorial Electoral Commissions (TECs) have registered Olga Tsepilova and Anton Kostik as Yabloko candidates in the single-mandate constituency elections for the Legislative Assembly. The TECs had earlier refused to register Tsepilova and Kostik on spurious grounds. The St. Petersburg City Court subsequently ruled the refusals lawful. However, on 17 August, the Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction ordered the TECs to reconsider the registration of the Yabloko candidates.
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Posted: August 20th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s ballot numbers for elections in five regions confirmed
Press Release, 20.08.2026
Photo: A board at the Central Electoral Commission with a handwritten note reading “Yabloko Stands for Peace!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Between 17 and 19 August, the electoral commissions of the Kaliningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, Sverdlovsk and Tomsk Regions held drawings of lots to determine the positions of political parties on the ballot papers.
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Posted: August 20th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, 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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Court upholds refusal to register Yabloko’s candidate list for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 19.08.2026
Photo: Members of St. Petersburg Yabloko and parliamentary candidates at the Second Court of Appeal on 19 August / Photo by St. Petersburg Yabloko
On Wednesday, 19 August, the Second Court of Appeal dismissed Yabloko’s appeal against the ruling of the St. Petersburg City Court refusing to admit the party’s citywide list to the Legislative Assembly elections.
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Posted: August 19th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Rybakov demands Interior Ministry head end pressure on citizens who came to Supreme Court to support Yabloko
Press Release, 19.08.2026
Photo: The Ministry of Internal Affairs signboard / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has appealed to Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, demanding that he immediately halt the administrative persecution of citizens who, on 10 and 17 August 2026, were near the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation building, waiting to be admitted to open court hearings in the case concerning the party’s removal from the elections.
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Posted: August 19th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026.
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Court in St. Petersburg orders territorial electoral commissions to reconsider registration of Yabloko candidates in single-mandate constituencies for the Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 18.07.2026
Photo: Yabloko’s slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Monday, 17 August, the Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction ordered the territorial electoral commissions of two constituencies – No. 2 and No. 21 – to reconsider the registration of Yabloko candidates for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. The candidates concerned are Olga Tsepilova, Chair of St. Petersburg Yabloko, and lawyer and party member Anton Kostik.
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Posted: August 18th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “We go on working”
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky on the removal of Yabloko from the State Duma elections, 17.08.2026
Photo: The Supreme Court hearing on 17 August 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The ruling of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation removing Yabloko from the elections is unprecedented in the destructive impact it has on the constitutional foundations of the electoral system, freedom of speech and creative expression, and fair political competition.
With this ruling, the authorities are diminishing the rights of all candidates, all electoral associations, and all voters. It fails to serve any of the legal values of the electoral process and obstructs the exercise of constitutional rights.
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Posted: August 18th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Court sentences Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg to 11 years and 1 month in a penal colony. Statements by party leaders
Press Release, 17.08.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court on 14 August 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Pskov City Court has issued its ruling in the consolidated criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg. The judge has sentenced the politician to 11 years and 1 month in a penal colony.
The prosecution had sought 12 years and 1 month’s imprisonment for the politician under two criminal cases at once: over “discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” (Article 280.3(1) of the Criminal Code) and over “disseminating information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” (Article 207.3(2)(d) of the Criminal Code). The cases were opened over a debate published on YouTube and a single repost on Telegram.
Statement by party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky on the sentencing of Lev Shlosberg:
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Posted: August 17th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov’s speech before the Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Appeal against the removal of Yabloko’s list of candidates from the parliamentary elections, 17.08.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Honourable Court,
Esteemed participants in these proceedings,
Before the hearing began, at least 35 people who came for today’s hearing — despite there being free seats in the courtroom, and despite having broken no rules — were detained and taken to police stations. Among them is Viktor Balabanov, a candidate for the State Duma, whom we had invited to today’s hearing so that he could act as a witness.
Moreover, over the past two days, law enforcement officers in Moscow have been visiting people who attended a lawful, open [Supreme Court] court hearing [on the removal of Yabloko from the parliamentary election] a week ago — journalists and State Duma candidates from Yabloko — and issuing all of them with formal warnings against committing offences. I cannot call this anything other than intimidation. I believe that everyone must be released today.
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Posted: August 17th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Leningrad Region Electoral Commission refuses to register Yabloko’s list of candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly. Decision to be appealed
Press Release, 16.08.2026
Photo: Anatoly Golov, Olga Pokrovskaya and Grigory Grishin before submitting documents to the electoral commission / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Leningrad Region Electoral Commission has refused to register Yabloko’s list of candidates for the region’s Legislative Assembly. The reason given was an allegedly incorrect procedure for nominating the list – one which had raised no questions for the electoral commission at the certification stage. The decision will be appealed shortly.
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Posted: August 16th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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