Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
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.
Photo: Ella Pamfilova / Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin, Kommersant
Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov has sent an open letter to the Chair of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, Ella Pamfilova, concerning what the party considers to be the impending refusal to register Yabloko’s list for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly elections.
Photo: Anton Gendrikson / Photo by Anton Gendrikson’s campaign headquarters
Today in Kaliningrad, at around 4 p.m. local time, Anton Gendrikson, Yabloko’s candidate for the State Duma and the Kaliningrad Region Legislative Assembly, was detained. He managed to report that he had been taken to the police station for the Leningradsky District, and that he was being accused of “displaying extremist symbols” (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, 23 July, Deputy Chair of Yabloko and leader of the Novgorod branch of the party Anna Cherepanova was first accused of “displaying extremist symbols” and then registered as a candidate in the regional parliament elections.
Photo: Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly candidates Leonid Buyny, Konstantin Kiselyov, Vladimir Sobyanin, and Yaroslav Shcherbakov, head of Yabloko’s party list for the State Duma elections, who came to Yekaterinburg from Chelyabinsk to support his colleagues / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Sverdlovsk Region Electoral Commission has certified Yabloko’s list of candidates for the regional parliament. In Sverdlovsk Region, the party had nominated 71 candidates for the single constituency (out of a possible 78) and 23 candidates for single-mandate constituencies. More than 2,000 sheets of documents were submitted to the Electoral Commission. Read more »
Photo: Vladimir Dorokhov at a Yabloko event in 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Vladimir Dorokhov, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and a member of the party’s Federal Bureau, who was designated a “foreign agent” in 2024, has been refused by the Ministry of Justice in his bid to have this status lifted. The reason given for the refusal was that Dorokhov had continued to engage in political activity, namely, receiving a birthday greeting from the party Chairman on the Yabloko website, regularly laying flowers at memorials to victims of political repression, and joining Yabloko’s demands for Telegram’s blocking to be lifted. Vladimir Dorokhov has pointed to the “absurdity of the Ministry’s arguments,” remarking that the official letter from the state agency reads more like a note “from a madhouse”.
Photo: a file with Yabloko’s slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear”! /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Tuesday, 21 July, Yabloko representatives in the Leningrad Region and Yekaterinburg submitted candidates’ documents for the regional parliaments to the regional Electoral Commissions. It should be noted that the party has put forward candidates for Legislative Assembly elections in 12 regions in total. The party’s Congress at the end of June put forward, among others, the candidate lists for the Legislative Assemblies of the Sverdlovsk and Leningrad Regions.
