Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
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.
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.
Photo: Top row: Konstantin Kiselyov, Vladimir Sevostyanov, Vladimir Sobyanin. Bottom row: Shana Ogney, Vladimir Sobyanin, Alexander Kudelkin, Vladimir Sevostyanov
In Sverdlovsk Region, three Yabloko candidates for the State Duma and four Yabloko candidates for single-mandate constituencies in the regional Legislative Assembly are now at risk of being removed from the elections. The police have filed appeals against district court rulings in their administrative cases, seeking harsher penalties. The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has scheduled the appeals for hearing on 15 and 16 September — just days before voting begins.
How should you vote in the upcoming elections? Only for the Yabloko candidate, if there is one in your single-mandate constituency, and in the regional election in Veliky Novgorod, one can vote for the Yabloko list. If there is no Yabloko candidate in your constituency, you should not vote at all. This is because all the other political parties taking part in the elections are absolutely identical: since 2021, every party in the State Duma has voted the same way on every issue — just like [the ruling] United Russia.
Photo: Yabloko candidates from Sverdlovsk Region detained on 7 September. Top row: Konstantin Kiselyov, Shana Ogney, Vladimir Sobyanin. Bottom row: Alexander Kudelkin, Alexei Kholodarev, Vladimir Sevostyanov
In the Sverdlovsk Region, three Yabloko candidates received administrative arrests under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation, and two more were fined. Two of those arrested are candidates for the State Duma.
Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny at a meeting with voters in Moscow, 8 September 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Now, all the developments have driven the situation into confusion, chaos and hysteria. The removal of Yabloko’s federal list from the ballot [in the State Duma elections] — which came as no great surprise — has continued, contrary to my own assumptions (based on notions of our system, and its hidden internal “checks and balances”, that became outdated in an instant), in the form of a flash mob of removals of [Yabloko’s] regional lists and single-mandate candidates across various regions. Nobody knows what this will mean for us in the future.
Photo: Vladimir Atamanchuk / Photo from the Raiskaya Kuban Telegram channel
On 11 September, the Krasnodar Regional Court annulled the registration of Yabloko candidate Vladimir Atamanchuk for the State Duma in the Southern single-mandate Constituency No. 54. The claim to remove the candidate was filed by his rival in the constituency, Andrei Titov of the Green Party.
There will be six representatives of St. Petersburg Yabloko on the ballot papers for State Duma candidates and 13 Yabloko’s representatives on the ballot papers for the Sr. Petersburg Legislative Assembly elections.
The party fielded a candidate in every constituency, but the peaceful agenda they represent is unwelcome to the ruling party and its satellites, so our candidates were kept off the ballot through the courts, with the help of overzealous lawyers on the electoral commissions. Most of them, however, managed to get past these administrative obstacles to make it onto ballot papers.
Photo: Campaign posters of Yabloko in the Novgorod Region / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Ahead of elections to the State Duma and the Novgorod Regional Duma (voting days: 18–20 September), Novgorod Yabloko has issued guidance for Yabloko voters.
Photo: Larisa Dolzhikova’s campaign poster / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Smolensk Regional Court has annulled the registration of Yabloko candidate Larisa Dolzhikova, who was standing in the State Duma elections in the Smolensk single-mandate constituency No. 176. The claim to remove Dolzhikova was filed by Darya Shavrikova, another candidate in the constituency, representing the Greens.
Photo: From left, State Duma candidates Oksana Boyarskaya, Valentina Komkova, Andrei Talevlin and Sergei Faryma. Yaroslav Shcherbakov is at the microphone. Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov meeting with voters in Chelyabinsk, 5 September 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Over the course of several days, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court annulled the registration of all five Yabloko candidates for the State Duma who had been nominated in the region’s single-mandate constituencies. The claims were filed by candidates from the Greens party; in four of the proceedings they were represented by Ilya Khabin, a lawyer from United Russia. Among the allegations levelled at the candidates were a work by Banksy, a quotation from Sakharov, a blue paper bird, an unidentified male voice in a video, and the hashtag #SwanLake.
Photo: A billboard bearing Yabloko’s campaign slogan on the streets of Tomsk / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, 11 September, the Tomsk Regional Court granted the LDPR’s claim and annulled the registration of Yabloko’s list for the elections of deputies to the Tomsk Region Legislative Duma.
Photo: List leaders — Konstantin Kiselyov, Tatyana Gorshkaleva, and Alexei Kholodarev
The Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction in St. Petersburg has upheld the ruling of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court annulling the registration of Yabloko’s list for the elections of deputies to the Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly.
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Chuvashia has annulled the registration of both Yabloko candidates for the State Duma in Chuvashia — the Chairman of the regional party branch, Vladislav Arkadyev, and a member of the Bureau of Yabloko in Chuvashia, Viktor Stenshin.
Photo: Iya Boronina / Photo from a personal archive
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Udmurtia has annulled the registration of the Chair of the Yabloko regional branch in Udmurtia, Iya Boronina, a candidate for deputy of the State Duma in the Izhevsk single-mandate constituency No. 39.
Photo: Anna Cherepanova and Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov at a meeting with voters in Novgorod on 8 September 2026/ Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 9 September, the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission annulled the registration of Anna Cherepanova — Deputy Chairperson of Yabloko, leader of the party’s list for the elections to the Novgorod Region Duma, a deputy of the Veliky Novgorod Duma, and Chair of Novgorod Yabloko.
Ahead of Russia’s 20 September elections, Yabloko has issued guidance to its supporters under the name “Plan B” — a call to vote as a matter of conscience, civil responsibility and desire for peace.
9 September is the last day on which parties and candidates may apply to the courts to have their rivals’ registration in the State Duma elections revoked. On this day, there were reported new court proceedings against Yabloko candidates in several Russian regions. Hearings on claims already filed will continue over the following days.
Photo: A Yabloko campaign billboard in Tomsk / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Tomsk Regional Court will hear a claim brought by LDPR seeking to revoke the registration of Yabloko’s list for the elections to the Tomsk Region Legislative Duma. The Tomsk Region is one of only two regions where Yabloko’s list is still taking part in regional elections.
Photo: Alexander Kudelkin in the courtroom / Video screenshot
The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg has sentenced Alexander Kudelkin, Yabloko’s candidate for the Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly, to ten days’ administrative detention under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation, on “displaying extremist symbols”.
Photo: Larisa Dolzhikova’s campaign poster / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
