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Photo: The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Yabloko has reviewed a video recording of a speech given by State Duma deputy Alexei Zhuravlyov (the LDPR faction) outside the Supreme Court of Russia building.
The speech contains defamatory statements about Yabloko. A claim for the protection of the party’s reputation will be filed in court today.
Photo: Candidates and party members of Yabloko in St. Petersburg / Photo by the St. Petersburg regional branch of Yabloko
The St. Petersburg City Court has dismissed Yabloko’s administrative claim challenging the decision of the city electoral commission, which had refused to register the party’s list of candidates for the Legislative Assembly elections.
Yabloko is launching a fundraiser among Russian citizens to cover legal fees for Grigory Gribenko, the former head of Irkutsk Yabloko. 40,000 roubles need to be raised.
Photo: Yabloko candidates for the Berdsk City Council / Photo by Novosibirsk Yabloko
The district electoral commission of the town of Berdsk has registered Yabloko’s candidates for the City Council deputy elections. This was reported by Novosibirsk Yabloko.
Photo: Screenshot from Emilia Slabunova’s speech at Sandarmokh, 5 August 2026
On the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, 5 August, representatives of Karelian Yabloko and candidates for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia visited the Sandarmokh tract, a forest massive where thousands of victims of Stalin’s regime were shot and buried in 1937-1938. They read out the names of victims of repression and laid flowers at the memorial.
Photo: Roman Morozov, Ivan Bolshakov and Anton Gendrikson / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission has registered the list of candidates nominated by Yabloko in the single electoral district for the 8th convocation of the Kaliningrad Region Legislative Assembly.
Photo: Candidates for deputy of the Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly Leonid Buiny, Konstantin Kiselyov and Vladimir Sobyanin, with the lead candidate of Yabloko for the State Duma elections Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Sverdlovsk Region Electoral Commission has registered Yabloko’s list of candidates for the region’s Legislative Assembly elections. The party nominated 71 candidates in the unified constituency list and 23 candidates in single-mandate constituencies.
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Yabloko candidates for the State Duma elections on their way to the Central Electoral Commission / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In recent days, some have decided to publicly express support for Yabloko on social media — support that, in the current circumstances, could lead to our party being removed from the elections.
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov at the drawing of lots at the Central Electoral Commission on 5 August
We, Yabloko, support a ceasefire agreement, the preservation of human life, and the prevention of nuclear war.
Today, statements about Yabloko were made by those who advocate endless hostilities and loss of life, while they themselves sit comfortably in the State Duma: A Just Russia, the CPRF, the LDPR [political parties]…
They want to remove us from the elections because we stand for peace, while they want to prolong the tragedy indefinitely… It benefits them. They could push things to the point of a nuclear catastrophe.
Photo: Yegor Karpenkov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Tomorrow, 7 August, the Supreme Court is due to hear the case brought by Yegor Karpenkov, a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, who is appealing against the Central Electoral Commission’s decision to exclude him from the party’s list in the elections.
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Everything happening around us today confirms that there are no signs of diplomacy that might help bring the tragic clash between Russia and Ukraine to an end. The bloodshed continues. Neither missiles, nor drones, nor sanctions, nor Donald Trump have achieved any results — military, political or economic.
LDPR opponent had tried to have his registration annulled
Press Release, 5.08.2026
Photo: Dmitry Khorzov / Photo from his Telegram channel
On 5 August, the St. Petersburg City Court dismissed a claim brought by LDPR candidate Vladimir Osmolovsky, who had sought to challenge the registration of Yabloko member Dmitry Khorzov as a candidate in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly election (for the Moskovsky district of St. Petersburg).
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov at the drawing of lots at the Central Electoral Commission on 5 August
At the drawing of lots held today, 5 August, at the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov drew ball number 2. Yabloko will appear under this number on the ballot paper for the election of deputies to the 9th convocation of the State Duma.
Photo: List leaders Inna Boluchevskaya, Olga Tuzhikova and Anna Pavlova
The Yabloko party has filed an appeal against a ruling by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia of 29 July, which cancelled the registration of the party’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia. The appeal has been lodged with the Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction in St. Petersburg. The hearing has been scheduled for 7 August at 11:00.
Photo: St. Petersburg Yabloko delegation before submitting documents for Legislative Assembly candidates to the Electoral Commission on 9 July 2026 / Photo by the St. Petersburg branch of the party
The Yabloko party has filed a claim with the St. Petersburg City Court seeking to overturn the decision of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission refusing to register the party’s list for the Legislative Assembly election.
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.
