US elections: victorious defeat again
Grigory Yavlinsky on the results of the US midterm elections
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 6.11.2026
The results of the US midterm elections have been a serious political defeat for Donald Trump. The Democratic Party has won a convincing victory and gained full control of both houses of the US Congress. What is more, the Democrats have achieved historic successes in gubernatorial and Senate races in many key states. According to Reuters, almost 90% of voters named the cost of living as the main reason for their vote. Around two-thirds of those polled directly blamed Trump and his tariff policy for the deterioration in their financial situation. This points to deep dissatisfaction among a large part of American society with the socio-economic situation in the country and, consequently, with the policies of the current president.
What conclusion follows from this? How will US policy change? And what will happen in world politics in general?
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Posted: November 10th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Russia-US Relations.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: Negotiations without a vision of the future
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 9.11.2026
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Any steps towards a ceasefire and any attempts to start negotiations must be supported. The main thing is to stop people dying and save human lives. However, today, after more than four years of catastrophe, a ceasefire can no longer be regarded as a solution in itself. It must be inseparably linked to substantive diplomatic negotiations about the future. Otherwise, even the agreements that are reached risk proving temporary and failing to bring about a lasting peace.
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Posted: November 10th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Second hearing on the appeals against Lev Shlosberg’s sentence held in Pskov
Press Release, 9.11.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg at the hearing on 6 November via video link / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
On Friday, 6 November, the Pskov Regional Court continued hearing the appeals filed by Lev Shlosberg and his lawyers against the sentence in the consolidated criminal case.
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Posted: November 10th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to open applications for the Yuri Shchekochikhin Prize and screen a documentary about the late journalist
Press Release, 6.11.2026
Photo: Yuri Shchekochikhin in a still from the film “And the Ship Sails On”
On 10 November, Yabloko’s central office in Moscow will host a screening of the documentary “And the Ship Sails On” about Yuri Shchekochikhin, a journalist and Yabloko deputy in the State Duma (1995–2003). Yuri Shchekochikhin died in July 2003. Within two weeks, an unknown illness drained all his strength, swiftly and relentlessly. To this day, his associates, friends, colleagues and family are convinced that he was poisoned because of his investigative journalism.
After the screening, applications will open for the Yuri Shchekochikhin “Young People on Young People” Prize. The competition is organised by the Shchekochikhin Foundation and Yabloko. It is open to young writers and essayists, photographers and historians. On 10 November, Yuri Shchekochikhin’s widow, writer and journalist Nadezhda Azhgikhina, and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov will talk about the rules of the competition.
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Posted: November 10th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Party University to host astrophysicist Sergei Popov’s lecture “News from Other Worlds”
Press Release, 4.11.2026
Photo: Sergei Popov / Photo by the Yabloko Party University
The third lecture of the new term at the Yabloko Party University will take place on 17 November and will be devoted to the study of exoplanets. In his lecture “News from Other Worlds”, astrophysicist Sergei Popov will talk about new discoveries and the instruments that make it possible to find out what planets are like, and how they are born and evolve. The event will take place at Yabloko’s central office in Moscow.
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Posted: November 5th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “Novaya Gazeta’s writers have lost the opportunity to publish their paper. But they have kept their dignity”
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 31.10.2026
Photo: The logo of Novaya Gazeta.
The Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which has been forced to close after 33 years of selfless work in Russia, is a unique phenomenon of global significance.
It is a team of outstanding journalists who lived and worked by the very principles they defended. Sometimes at the cost of their own lives.
They had the same letters, but different words.
Words that told the truth about what was happening in our country.
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Posted: November 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Yabloko Deputy Chair Maxim Kruglov held in unbearable conditions in a Yaroslavl pre-trial detention facility — date of transfer to penal colony unknown
Press Release, 31.10.2026
Photo: Maxim Kruglov in court, February 2026 / Photo by Darya Kornilova
Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov has been held in Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1 (SIZO-1) in Yaroslavl, known as Korovniki, since 24 October. The politician has been placed in a special block together with prisoners held under terrorism articles. In his letter, he described the harsh conditions of his detention.
“…The conditions here are a total disaster; not even ‘Matrosskaya Tishina’ [detention facility in Moscow] comes close. I am being held in a special block, supposedly with ‘terrorists’ […]. There is no hot water, not even in theory: there is just one plastic pipe with a plastic garden tap on it, which, of course, doesn’t work very well. The toilet is a ceramic hole in the floor, and to keep out the noise from it, the previous inmates came up with an elaborate contraption to cover it. There is no broom and no rags. There is no prison ‘shop’…”
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Posted: November 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko representatives speak at the Tenth Alexei Yablokov Readings in St. Petersburg
Press Release, 31.10.2026
Photo: Olga Tsepilova, Chair of the Green Russia Faction of the party, speaking / Photo by the Alexei Yablokov Readings
On 28–29 October, St. Petersburg hosted the Tenth Alexei Yablokov Readings, held in memory of Alexei Yablokov, an eminent scientist and ecologist, a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of Yabloko, who founded the party’s Green Russia Faction and was its first Chairman. Alexei Yablokov also served as Deputy Chairman of Yabloko and was a member of its Federal Political Committee from 2008 to 2017.
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Posted: November 2nd, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “The destruction of Novaya Gazeta is a blow to Russia’s future and a personal pain for me”
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 30.10.2026
The destruction of Novaya Gazeta is a blow to Russia’s future and a personal pain for me.
The liquidation of a newspaper whose editorial team loved and respected our country and sincerely told the truth about it, as best they could, for more than 33 years is not only the destruction of freedom of speech. In the 21st century, it is also yet another step towards a serious crisis with grave consequences.
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Posted: November 2nd, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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“Continuing to defend the truth”: Yabloko’s nationwide marathon in memory of the victims of political repression
Press Release, 30.10.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression, Yabloko is holding its nationwide marathon of reading out loud the names of the dead, “People, Do Not Kill Each Other!”. As every year, the event began early in the morning and will continue until late in the evening, bringing together dozens of regions and thousands of participants across the country. The marathon is taking place online, but in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod, Pskov, Karelia, Vladivostok and many other Russian cities, people can join it in person: they can come to the party’s offices and read out loud, live on air, the names of the innocent victims of the Great Terror who were convicted and shot during Stalin’s period.
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Posted: October 30th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Your name is synonymous with honour, independence, humanity and the love of peace”: Dmitry Muratov turns 65!
Congratulations from Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, 29.10.2026
Photo: Dmitry Muratov at the presentation of stamps bearing a portrait of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, 6 October 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Dmitry Muratov, journalist, one of the founders of Novaya Gazeta, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a member of Yabloko since 2003, turns 65 on 29 October. Party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the party’s Federal Political Committee, have sent him their congratulations:
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Posted: October 29th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Greetings, Human Rights.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “Without understanding the past and remembering it, there can be no bright future”
For the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 29.10.2026
On 30 October, Russia marks the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression. It is a day to remember the millions of people who fell victim to terror: those who were shot, those who died in the camps and prisons, and those who were sent into exile. It is a day to remember a tragedy.
In 2007, almost twenty years ago, we at Yabloko prepared and published the book “1937” (https://www.yabloko.ru/content/1937 ). It brought together documents and testimonies about the crimes of those years. At the time, we wrote about the need for official recognition of the mass killings, torture, unlawful arrests and persecution carried out by the Soviet state of that era, and expressed the hope that Russia would manage to draw the necessary conclusions from its own history.
Today we have to state that this has not happened.
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Posted: October 29th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov appeals against fine for spoiled ballots
Press Release, 29.10.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov at a polling station on 20 September 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has filed an appeal with the St. Petersburg City Court challenging the ruling of the Vyborgsky District Court, which fined him 1,000 roubles for spoiling his ballots in the elections.
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Posted: October 29th, 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, Без рубрики.
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Court adjourns hearing of appeals against Lev Shlosberg’s sentence until 6 November
Press Release, 29.10.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Today, 29 October, the Pskov Regional Court began hearing the appeals against the sentence of Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chairman of Yabloko. It should be noted that the appeals were filed by three defence lawyers: Vladimir Danilov, Vera Kovalchuk and Leila Abdullayeva. In total, the defence cited more than 20 grounds for overturning the politician’s sentence.
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Posted: October 29th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s events on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression: authorised rallies, lectures and a nationwide marathon
Press Release, 28.10.2026
On 30 October, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression, Yabloko is holding a nationwide marathon of reading out loud the names of the dead, “People, Do Not Kill Each Other!”. It will take place online and, as in previous years, will bring together dozens of regions and thousands of people. Separate commemorative events will also be held on 30 October in many Russian cities, and we describe the largest of them below.
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Posted: October 29th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Party University to host Nadezhda Azhgikhina’s lecture “Journalism: Power, Mirror or Handmaiden?”
Press Release, 28.10.2026
Photo: Nadezhda Azhgikhina / Photo by the Yabloko Party University
The second lecture of the new term at the Yabloko Party University will be given by journalist, writer and Candidate of Philological Sciences Nadezhda Azhgikhina. Her lecture, “Journalism: Power, Mirror or Handmaiden?”, will take place at the party’s central office on 11 November.
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Posted: October 29th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Court fines Yabloko member Dmitry Khorzov 30,000 roubles over a campaign leaflet calling for peace
Press Release, 27.10.2026
Photo: Dmitry Khorzov
Today, 27 October, the Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg has fined Yabloko member Dmitry Khorzov, a former candidate in the 2026 State Duma elections, under the administrative article on “discrediting the use of the armed forces” (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The judge ordered him to pay a fine of 30,000 roubles.
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Posted: October 27th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“The Great Terror in the USSR: 90 Years On”: Yabloko to host a public talk on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression
Press Release, 26.10.2026
Photo: Poster for the event / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Wednesday, 28 October, Yabloko’s central office in Moscow will host a public talk entitled “The Great Terror in the USSR: 90 Years On”, dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression. The speakers will be historian and public figure Nikita Petrov, human rights defender and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jan Rachinsky, and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov.
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Posted: October 26th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Dmitry Anisimov elected new Chairman of St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko
Press Release, 24.10.2026
Photo: Dmitry Anisimov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 24 October, the second stage of the 22nd Conference of the St. Petersburg regional branch of Yabloko took place. The delegates elected the governing bodies of St. Petersburg Yabloko: the Chairman, the Bureau and the Regional Council. It should be noted that the leadership of Yabloko’s branches is elected for a two-year term.
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Posted: October 26th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov transferred from Butyrka pre-trial detention facility in Moscow to a penal colony
Press Release, 23.10.2026
Photo: Maxim Kruglov in court / Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant
Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov has been transferred from the Butyrka pre-trial detention facility in Moscow, where he spent about a year, to a general regime penal colony. We will provide further information about his arrival at the colony and where he will serve his sentence.
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Posted: October 26th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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