Yabloko member of St.Petersburg Electoral Commission Pavel Shapchits: “We have no doubts about the reliability of the election results — we are certain they are unreliable”
Press Release, 24.09.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Pavel Shapchits, a voting member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission representing Yabloko, was the only member of the electoral commission to vote against approving the results of elections in St. Petersburg. He wrote a dissenting opinion in which he explained in detail why the election results could not be considered reliable.
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Posted: September 24th, 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 Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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St. Petersburg Electoral Commission approves falsified election results. City parliament deprived of its voice for peace and freedom
Statement by St. Petersburg Yabloko, 22.09.2026
Photo: A sign reading “Yabloko. St. Petersburg” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The St. Petersburg Electoral Commission has approved the results of the elections in St. Petersburg, under which not a single Yabloko representative has won a seat in the city parliament.
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Posted: September 23rd, 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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“Thanks to your activity, the whole country and the whole world have seen that millions of Russians stand for peace”
Address by party leaders to Yabloko supporters, 22.09.2026
Photo: “Peace to the World!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Dear friends,
The election campaign has come to an end, and we would like to thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts. Those who have supported us before, and those who joined us this summer, because our position and our platform — “For Peace and Freedom! For a Ceasefire Agreement. For a Life Without Fear” — struck them as close and understandable.
Thanks to your activity, the whole country and the whole world have seen that millions of Russians stand for peace. That this is the demand of the majority of society. In an effort to prevent the only opposition from being represented in parliament, and understanding that we had every chance of taking second place in the elections and forming factions in the State Duma and regional parliaments, the authorities, acting on complaints from political spoilers, removed our federal party-list and almost all of our regional lists from the elections. But our candidates in the [single-mandate] constituencies courageously continued the campaign.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and the regions: schedule of upcoming events
Press Release, 22.09.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko invites everyone interested to its traditional monthly action of writing letters to political prisoners, where anyone can write a letter or sign a postcard to people deprived of their freedom for their beliefs. The party holds these actions regularly, not only in Moscow, but in many other cities across the country as well. Russian citizens can join the action in Moscow or in another city by checking the schedule of events.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate Viktor Kogan-Yasny: A new chapter
Blog post by Viktor Kogan-Yasny, 22.09.2026
Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny
Yabloko has shown that society does exist in our country: a peaceful society that wants peace and the public good for everyone, for Russia and its neighbours.
Arrogant officials have always looked at us (and still do) as if we were mad. And in a way, we are: living by the rules and “playing” by the rules when those who make the decisions reject any rules whatsoever is the kind of madness which, we may very much hope, will enable us to achieve our aims.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Official results for Yabloko’s single-mandate candidates show: the party could have won factions in five more regional parliaments. St. Petersburg not yet counted
Press Release, 21.09.2026
Photo: Yabloko’s poster “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the regional legislative assemblies elections, where the party’s lists were removed from the elections, received an average of between 6.84% and 13.65% of the vote. These figures confirm that Yabloko could have formed factions in the Kaliningrad, Tomsk, Sverdlovsk and Pskov Regions, as well as in Karelia. In the Novgorod Region, where the list was admitted to the vote, the party cleared the threshold, receiving 6.38% of the vote. St. Petersburg has not yet been included in these calculations: only around half of the protocols have been entered into Russia’s State Automated System “Vybory” (Elections).
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Posted: September 21st, 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 candidates in the State Duma elections took five second places and seven third places, with 11 candidates receiving over 10% of the vote
Press Release, 21.09.2026
Photo: Campaign posters of Yabloko candidates in the 2026 elections / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Central Electoral Commission’s website has published the results for 97 of the 99 Yabloko candidates who stood in single-mandate constituencies. Five of the party’s candidates took second place, and a further seven took third place. The candidates’ average result was 5.74%, and 11 candidates received more than 10% of the vote. The party is convinced that the official results are far from the real figures, but even these results testify to enormous support for Yabloko and its “For Peace and Freedom!” platform.
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Posted: September 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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Violations on the third day of voting. Observers detained in St. Petersburg and Kazan, Moscow voters denied paper ballots en masse
Press Release, 21.09.2026
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov votes according to Plan B at a polling station in St. Petersburg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 20 September, three-day voting in the elections to the State Duma of the 9th convocation, regional parliaments and municipal councils in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation came to an end.
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Posted: September 21st, 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 is comfortably clearing the threshold in the Novgorod Regional Duma elections
Press Release, 21.09.2026
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by Novogorod Yabloko
Update. After 100% of the precinct electoral commission protocols have been processed, Yabloko is receiving 6.38% of the vote; 12,986 voters voted for the party.
After 80.44% of the precinct commissions protocols had been processed, the party was receiving 5.52% of the vote. Earlier, after 27.31% of the protocols had been processed, the result stood at 5.17%. At individual polling stations in Veliky Novgorod, according to protocols obtained by observers, the party is receiving more than 20% of the vote. The count is continuing.
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Posted: September 21st, 2026 under Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: Yabloko’s campaign has demonstrated that millions of Russians want peace and freedom
Press Release, 21.09.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko could have taken second place in the 2026 State Duma elections had the party’s list not been removed from the race, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov said at a briefing on the preliminary voting results. According to him, this is borne out by the data from polling stations, the results of candidates in single-mandate constituencies, and pre-election polls. Rybakov named the public support shown by millions of Russians for peace, freedom and a ceasefire agreement as the campaign’s main achievement.
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Posted: September 21st, 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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Violations on the second day of voting. Yabloko candidate attacked, observer loses consciousness during detention, voters coerced into electronic voting
Press Release, 19.09.2026
Photo by Anton Velikzhanin, Kommersant
The second day of three-day voting in the elections to the State Duma of the 9th convocation, as well as to regional parliaments and municipal councils in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, has ended.
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Posted: September 19th, 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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Violations of the first day of voting. Yabloko observers report being denied access en masse, some receiving summonses
Press Release, 18.09.2026
Photo by Yegor Snetkov, Kommersant
On 18 September, three-day voting began in Russia in the elections to the State Duma of the 9th convocation, as well as to regional parliaments and municipal councils in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. A hotline for observers and voters is operating on the Yabloko website throughout the voting period. Throughout the day, observers from a number of regions have been reporting being denied access en masse, and some of them have begun receiving summonses to military enlistment offices. Yabloko is responding to the violations and filing complaints promptly. In addition, on Friday afternoon, party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an urgent appeal to Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia.
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Posted: September 18th, 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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Nikolai Rybakov asks Chair of the Central Electoral Commission to urgently intervene in the situation involving pressure on Yabloko observers and refusals of access to precinct electoral commissions
Press Release, 18.09.2026
Photo: A screenshot of Nikolai Rybakov’s letter that was sent to the Central Electoral Commission
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent an urgent appeal to Ella Pamfilova, head of Russia’s Central Electoral Commission, in connection with numerous reports of pressure being placed on observers appointed by Yabloko candidates, and of obstruction of their lawful work at polling stations.
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Posted: September 18th, 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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Central Moscow and several polling stations in St. Petersburg may be left without Yabloko observers
Press Release, 17.09.2026
Photo: A ballot with an inscription “A vote for peace” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Territorial electoral commissions (TECs) unlawfully refused to admit around 100 observers for Yabloko candidate Sergei Mitrokhin to work at polling stations. On 16 September, he filed a complaint with the Central Electoral Commission. Throughout the day on 17 September, the Central Electoral Commission kept saying that the complaint was under review. Meanwhile, voting begins tomorrow.
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Posted: September 17th, 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 Karachay-Cherkessia Akhmed Abazov withdraws from the State Duma race following threats against him and his family
Press Release, 17.09.2026
Photo: Akhmed Abazov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Akhmed Abazov, Yabloko’s candidate for the State Duma in single-mandate Constituency No. 19 in the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, has stated that he was forced to withdraw his candidacy due to unprecedented pressure and threats against him and his family. According to him, the pressure came from representatives of the Karachay-Cherkessia regional branch of United Russia and certain officials from the Republic’s leadership.
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Posted: September 17th, 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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Address to Yabloko supporters ahead of the 2026 State Duma elections
Press Release, 17.09.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov meeting with Yabloko supporters in St. Petersburg
Dear friends,
We are writing to you on the eve of the elections to remind you of the situation as voting begins, how to vote for the Yabloko party, and what we suggest doing where no Yabloko candidates remain on the ballot.
Over the past few weeks, millions of people have heard, understood and supported Yabloko’s platform: that human life is the highest value, and that Russia needs peace, freedom and a life without fear.
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Posted: September 17th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko candidates for the Karelia Legislative Assembly elections in 2026
Press Release, 16.09.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Yabloko candidates to the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and Petrozacodsk City Council / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko’s list of candidates for the Republic of Karelia’s Legislative Assembly election had been registered by the Electoral Commission of the Republic of Karelia; however, on 29 July, the Supreme Court of Karelia annulled its registration following a claim by the regional branch of the Rodina party.
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Posted: September 16th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Vote your conscience
Decision by Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, 15.09.2026
Photo: Yabloko supporters outside the Supreme Court building on 10 August 2026 / Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant
In connection with the arguments that have been circulating in recent days about the possibility of supporting some other political party, or candidates put forward by other parties, in the elections, the Federal Political Committee states that such a position is unacceptable for the Yabloko party.
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Posted: September 15th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026.
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Yabloko appeals to the Constitutional Court over the removal of its federal list from the elections
Press Release, 15.09.2026
Photo: A session of the Constitutional Court / Photo by Yevgeny Pavlenko, Kommersant
The Yabloko party has filed a complaint with Russia’s Constitutional Court over the removal of the party’s federal list from the State Duma elections.
Yabloko is challenging the constitutionality of a number of provisions of the laws “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights” and “On the Election of Deputies of the State Duma,” specifically in the sense given to them by the law enforcement practice that has developed around them.
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Posted: September 15th, 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.
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