St. Petersburg Electoral Commission bars Yabloko from Legislative Assembly election
Press Release, 24.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 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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Nikolai Rybakov sends open letter to Central Eelctoral Commission Chair Ella Pamfilova over the impending refusal to register Yabloko’s list for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly elections
Press Release, 24.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 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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Anton Gendrikson, Yabloko candidate for the State Duma and Kaliningrad Region Legislative Assembly, detained for “displaying extremist symbols”
Press Release, 23.07.2026
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).
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Posted: July 24th, 2026 under Без рубрики.
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Anna Cherepanova accused of “extremism” and registered as an election candidate on the same day
Press Release, 23.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 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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The Sverdlovsk Region Electoral Commission certifies Yabloko’s list of candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 23.07.2026
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 »
Posted: July 23rd, 2026 under Elections, Governance, 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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Ministry of Justice refuses to lift ‘foreign agent’ status from Yabloko Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov over a ‘birthday greeting card’ from Nikolai Rybakov
Press Release, 23.07.2026
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”.
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Posted: July 23rd, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko representatives in the Leningrad Region and Yekaterinburg submit candidates’ documents to the regional Electoral Commissions for the Legislative Assemblies
Press Release, 21.07.2026
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.
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Posted: July 21st, 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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Fourth informer-witness questioned in Lev Shlosberg case as prosecution ends presentation of evidence
Press Release, 21.07.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
The trial in the consolidated criminal case against Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, is continuing at the Pskov City Court. It should be noted that hearings in the politician’s case are being held daily from 13 to 31 July (except at weekends). At previous hearings, Lev Shlosberg had filed a motion to recuse the judge and the state prosecution; after this was rejected, the prosecution moved on to presenting evidence, which included wiretap recordings. Prosecution witnesses were then questioned in court — members of the nationalistic Russian Marches and the quasi-paramilitary Pskov Territorial Defence. Here is an account of how the hearings on 17 and 20 July unfolded (read the detailed report on the hearing here.
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Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Documents “disappear” for three Yabloko candidates at St. Petersburg district electoral commissions. They now face possible refusal of registration
Press Release, 21.07.2026
Photo: Anton Kostik, Dmitry Khorzov, and Yaroslav Tambovtsev
District electoral commissions in St. Petersburg have issued Yabloko’s candidates for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly with notices citing supposedly identified deficiencies in the documents (i.e. “failure to provide” the necessary documents) required for registration. Yet all the documents were submitted in full, as recorded in the official inventories. In one case, there is video footage of the documents being submitted. The commissions are refusing to give the candidates prompt access to the case materials.
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Posted: July 21st, 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’s actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and Russian regions: schedule of upcoming events
Press Release, 20.07.2026
Photo: Postcards in support of political prisoners / Photo by St. Petersburg Yabloko
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. We invite everyone to join and are publishing the schedule of events in Moscow and Russian regions.
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Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Novgorod Yabloko leader Anna Cherepanova submits candidates’ documents to the Electoral Commission for registration
Press Release, 20.07.2026
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and the party’s authorised representative, submitted documents to the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission for registration of the party’s list of candidates in the election to the Novgorod Regional Duma.
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Posted: July 21st, 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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Moscow Region Yabloko submits candidates’ documents to the Electoral Commission for the Moscow Regional Duma
Press Release, 20.07.2026
Photo: The team of Moscow Region Yabloko before submitting the candidates’ documents for the regional parliament / Photo by Moscow Region Yabloko
On Sunday, 19 July, the team of Moscow Region Yabloko submitted to the Regional Electoral Commission the documents of the candidates put forward by the party for the Moscow Regional Duma elections. The list includes 18 candidates, with a further five people nominated in single-mandate constituencies.
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Posted: July 21st, 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 candidate for the State Duma and the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Tatyana Pasman fined for “displaying Nazi symbols”
Press Release, 18.07.2026
Photo: Tatyana Pasman / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Saturday, 18 July, a judge of the Pskov City Court found teacher and Yabloko candidate Tatyana Pasman guilty of “displaying Nazi symbols, or the symbols of extremist organisations” (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Offences Code) and fined her 1,000 roubles. Tatyana Pasman is a Holocaust researcher, a deputy of the Pskov City Council, and the party’s candidate for the State Duma and the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly in the forthcoming elections.
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Posted: July 21st, 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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A court in Kirov fines an environmentalist and Yabloko State Duma candidate for “displaying extremist symbols”
Press Release, 18.07.2026
Photo: Archive photo from the party, a 2011 rally in Moscow in support of Maxim Petlin
A court in Kirov has fined Vladislav Arkhipov, an environmentalist and Yabloko candidate for the State Duma on both the federal list and in a single-mandate constituency, under the article on “displaying extremist symbols”. He may now be barred from the elections.
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Posted: July 21st, 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 Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission certifies Yabloko’s candidate list for the regional Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 18.07.2026
Photo: The submission of documents by Yabloko candidates to the Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission on 15 July 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, 18 July, the Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission certified Yabloko’s candidate list for the regional Legislative Assembly. It should be noted that the list comprises 36 candidates put forward as part of 11 regional groups, with a further three candidates nominated in single-mandate constituencies.
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Posted: July 21st, 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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Pskov Yabloko submits unified candidate list for the regional Legislative Assembly to the Regional Electoral Commission for certification
Press Release, 17.07.2026
Photo: Artur Gaiduk, Chairman of Pskov Yabloko; party candidates Vera Rebrova, Yana Ivanova and Alexei Kanishchev; Pskov Yabloko lawyer Maria Uryupina; and financial commissioner Yulia Doronda / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Authorised by the Conference, Artur Gaiduk, Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko, and his deputy Yana Ivanova submitted a unified list of candidates for the regional parliament to the Regional Electoral Commission. The list includes 44 candidates.
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Posted: July 21st, 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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The Electoral Commission of Karelia registers Yabloko’s candidate list for the Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 17.07.2026
Photo: Inna Boluchevskaya, Olga Tuzhikova, and Anna Pavlova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Republic of Karelia has become the first region where the Electoral Commission has allowed Yabloko candidates to stand in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the region.
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Posted: July 21st, 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 court is completing its examination of the prosecution evidence on the Lev Shlosberg case
Press Release, 16.07.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 15 July, three witnesses for the prosecution have been questioned at the Pskov City Court in the consolidated criminal case against Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko. It should be noted that from 13 to 31 July, hearings in the politician’s case are being held daily (except at weekends). At previous hearings, Lev Shlosberg had filed a motion to recuse the judge and the prosecution, and then, after the motion was denied, the prosecution moved on to presenting its evidence (which turned out to include a wiretap recording of Lev Shlosberg).
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Posted: July 17th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Federal Bureau of Yabloko nominates four more candidates for the State Duma in the Moscow and Novgorod Regions
Press Release, 16.07.2026
Photo: Voting at the Yabloko Congress in June / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
At a meeting on 16 July, the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party nominated four more candidates for the State Duma in single-mandate constituencies in the Moscow and Novgorod Regions. This brought the total number of single-mandate constituencies in which the party has nominated candidates to 141.
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Posted: July 16th, 2026 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Omsk regional branch of Yabloko submits documents to Electoral Commission for candidates for the State Duma in single-mandate constituencies
Press Release, 16.07.2026
Photo: Tatyana Schneider, Chairwoman of Omsk Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Tuesday 14 July, the Omsk regional branch of Yabloko submitted documents to the district Electoral Commission to register the party’s candidates in three single-mandate constituencies for the elections of the State Duma.
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Posted: July 16th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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