Nikolai Rybakov urges Ministry of Natural Resources to disclose the scale of environmental damage and Baltic Sea pollution following drone strikes on Ust-Luga and Primorsk
Press Release, 9.04.2026
Photo: Smoke-filled sky on the Skandinaviya highway near St Petersburg / Photo by Dmitry Anisimov
Yabloko party leader Nikolai Rybakov has sent an official letter to Alexander Kozlov, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, in connection with a series of drone strikes on port infrastructure facilities in the Leningrad Region. The Yabloko leader is requesting full information on the environmental consequences of the UAV strikes on the ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk.
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Posted: April 9th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Moscow Yabloko invites everyone to join the Yabloko Run through Moscow
Press Release, 9.04.2026
The Moscow branch of Yabloko has announced the Yabloko Run — a new format for getting together: friendly and good for everyone. The sporting event will be a collective jog through the city centre, starting from the party office on Pyatnitskaya Street.
The run will take place on 18 April at 12:00.
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Posted: April 9th, 2026 under Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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On the mass violations of citizens’ rights in the seizure of cattle in Novosibirsk Region
Adopted at a meeting of the Federal Bureau of Yabloko on 7.04.2026; published on 8.04.2026
Photo by Alexei Tanyushin, Kommersant
Since 9 March 2026, the mass-scale and forced destruction of cattle on peasant and farming holdings has been taking place in Novosibirsk Region.
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Posted: April 9th, 2026 under Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Constitutional Court refuses to examine the constitutionality of the ban on parties challenging electoral commission decisions
Press Release, 8.04.2026
Photo by Andrei Zhdanov, Kommersant
The Constitutional Court of Russia has refused to consider a complaint lodged by the St.Petersburg regional branch of Yabloko against a statutory provision that prevents the party from appealing an unlawful decision of an electoral commission.
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Posted: April 9th, 2026 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2024, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko member Vasily Neustroyev sentenced to ten years in prison
Press Release, 8.04.2026
Photo: Vasily Neustroyev / Photo from St.Petersburg observers
On 8 April, Yabloko member Vasily Neustroev from St.Petersburg was sentenced to ten years in prison. In addition to serving his sentence in a general-regime penal colony, he and five other convicted young men have been banned for seven years from posting online and participating in civil society organisations.
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Posted: April 8th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Eva Merkacheva submits character reference on imprisoned Konstantin Smirnov, requesting change of remand measure
Press Release, 6.04.2026
Photo: Presentation of Eva Merkacheva’s books at the Yabloko office, September 2023 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights and a columnist for Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, has submitted a character reference on Konstantin Smirnov, imprisoned leader of Ryazan Yabloko and editor-in-chief of Vidsboku media, requesting that the court change his remand measure.
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Posted: April 7th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Federal Antimonopoly Service evades review the legality of Telegram throttling — Yabloko receives response to Deputy Artur Gaiduk’s parliamentary inquiry
Press Release, 03.04.2026
Photo by Sergei Konkov, Kommersant
Artur Gaiduk, leader of Pskov Yabloko and a deputy of the regional Legislative Assembly, has received responses from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and the Russian Ministry of Digital Development. The letters were sent to Gaiduk in reply to his parliamentary inquiries of 15 February, in which he had asked for an explanation of the reasons behind the throttling of Telegram and requested a review of the “undue advantages” afforded to the national MAX messenger. In their responses, both agencies stated that they had nothing to report. The MAX messenger is not mentioned in either reply.
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Posted: April 7th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko invites all to the premiere of Alexander Gnezdilov’s video production of “The Remains of the Day” based on the Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel
Press Release, 3.04.2026
On 7 April, the YouTube channel “Say Yes to Peace!” will host the premiere of The Remains of the Day, a production directed by Alexander Gnezdilov based on the novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Court keeps Lev Shlosberg in pre-trial detention until 2 June: hearing on custodial measure closed to media and public
Press Release, 2.04.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Today, 2 April, the Pskov City Court resumed consideration of the investigator’s application to extend the remand in custody of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg in the case concerning “fake news” about the Russian Armed Forces (Article 207.3, Part 2, of the Criminal Code). The hearing had originally begun on 31 March but was adjourned at Shlosberg’s request, as he stated that he had not been notified of the hearing and had had no opportunity to review the investigator’s application.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Political pressure: Yabloko deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Artur Gaiduk fined ‘for displaying extremist symbols’
Press Release, 2.04.2026
Photo: Artur Gaiduk / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
A court has fined Artur Gaiduk, leader of Yabloko’s Pskov branch and deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly, 1,000 roubles under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences (“displaying extremist symbols”). An administrative liability under this article may prevent Gaiduk from standing as a candidate in the forthcoming elections, as a one-year ban on standing for election applies following a court ruling under the “extremist” article of the Code.
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Posted: April 2nd, 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, The Yabloko Faction in the Pskov Regional Assembly, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Yabloko Party University to host a lecture by astrophysicist Sergei Popov: ‘The Laws of Nature and Mathematics’
Press Release, 2.04.2026
Yabloko invites you to a lecture by astrophysicist and Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Popov, ‘The Laws of Nature and Mathematics’, to be held at the party’s central office in Moscow on 14 April.
When we speak of the modern scientific description of the world, we inevitably find ourselves wanting to discover the “laws of nature”. Ideally, we express these laws in the form of mathematical equations. But in doing so, are we uncovering the laws of nature, or merely devising a useful way of describing them? Will a mathematically correct formula always describe a real object found in nature? And to what extent does working with the equations of mathematical physics help us make predictions for experiments and observations?
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Posted: April 2nd, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party University to host a lecture by journalist Nadezhda Azhgikhina: ‘Journalists Make the World a Better Place’
Press Release, 2.04.2026
Nadezhda Azhgikhina, journalist, writer and Candidate of Philological Sciences, believes that journalists make the world a better place. In her lecture at the Yabloko Party University, she proposes to discuss, among other things, how to remain an honest journalist and a decent person under any regime.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko activist Sofya Fyodorova opens human rights NGO Irek in Tatarstan to serve residents of 43 districts
Press Release, 1.04.2026
The Yabloko branch in Tatarstan has publicly congratulated party activist and lawyer Sofya Fyodorova on the opening of Irek, a human rights non-governmental organisation. The word “irek” means “freedom” in Tatar, and the NGO’s founder explains that its mission is to ensure free access to rights protection across 43 districts of the Republic of Tatarstan that are effectively cut off from qualified legal assistance.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2026 under Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An open discussion, “The Path to Freedom”, to be held at Yabloko’s central office
Press Release, 1.04.2026
Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the events of March 1976, when musicians from the rock band Plastic People of the Universe were arrested in Prague and put on a show trial for performing at a festival of “alternative culture”. They were sentenced to between eight and eighteen months in prison for “disturbing the public order”. It was these repressions that served as one of the catalysts for a group of intellectuals led by Václav Havel to produce the document known as Charter 77, which subsequently became a defining manifesto and exerted considerable influence on the course of political reform in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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Posted: April 1st, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights.
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“The message to everyone is as follows: no change — and the key words are ‘security’ and ‘sovereignty'”: Ivan Bolshakov on the first in 2026 session of the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, 31 March 2026
Photo: Ivan Bolshakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 30 March, the first session of the newly formed Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation was held. Ivan Bolshakov, member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, head of the party’s Analytical Centre, and Yabloko’s representative on the CEC, describes how the session proceeded and what stood out to him about the rhetoric of the commission’s members.
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Posted: April 1st, 2026 under Elections, Governance, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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The Yabloko Party University to host a lecture by cardiologist Yaroslav Ashikhmin, “Unexplained Symptoms”
Press Release, 31.03.2026
Photo: Yaroslav Ashikhmin
On 7 April, the Yabloko Party University will host a lecture by Yaroslav Ashikhmin, cardiologist and therapist, Candidate of Medical Sciences, entitled “Unexplained Symptoms: Rare Diseases, Psychosomatics and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”.
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Posted: April 1st, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Students in the Maritime Territory lodge mass complaints with Yabloko over pressure to install the state-owned messenger MAX
Press Release, 31 March 2026
Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant
Students at the Vladivostok Hydrometeorological College (VGMK) have been contacting the Yabloko regional branch in the Maritime Territory in large numbers to complain about being pressured to install the “national messenger” MAX. The party’s branch in the Maritime Territory notes that complaints have also been received from members of staff of the institution.
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Posted: April 1st, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“The investigation considers it impossible to complete the inquiry within six months.” Court keeps Maxim Kruglov in pre-trial detention until 25 April
Press Release, 30 March 2026
Photo: Maxim Kruglov at the hearing of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, 30 March 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow has for the fifth time considered the investigator’s application to extend the period of pre-trial detention of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov. In addition to his family members, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Federal Bureau member Andrei Morev, Moscow Yabloko Deputy Chairman Yuri Shein, Moscow Yabloko Bureau member Andrei Lazarev, and dozens of Kruglov’s colleagues, friends, and students came to show their support for the politician.
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Posted: April 1st, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Moscow Yabloko holds action of writing letters to political prisoners: over 400 letters written
Press Release, 27.03.2026
Photo: Participants in the action of writing letters to political prisoners, 26 March 2026 / Photo by Moscow Yabloko
Opening the event, Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke about the importance of supporting political prisoners. It is not enough simply to write the first letter — one must also reply to those that follow, the Yabloko leader noted: every message from behind bars is an occasion for dialogue, and that dialogue is demonstrates genuine support and a vital connection with the outside world for prisoners of conscience.
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Posted: March 30th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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