Grigory Yavlinsky: “We go on working”
Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky on the removal of Yabloko from the State Duma elections, 17.08.2026
Photo: The Supreme Court hearing on 17 August 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The ruling of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation removing Yabloko from the elections is unprecedented in the destructive impact it has on the constitutional foundations of the electoral system, freedom of speech and creative expression, and fair political competition.
With this ruling, the authorities are diminishing the rights of all candidates, all electoral associations, and all voters. It fails to serve any of the legal values of the electoral process and obstructs the exercise of constitutional rights.
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Posted: August 18th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Court sentences Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg to 11 years and 1 month in a penal colony. Statements by party leaders
Press Release, 17.08.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court on 14 August 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Pskov City Court has issued its ruling in the consolidated criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg. The judge has sentenced the politician to 11 years and 1 month in a penal colony.
The prosecution had sought 12 years and 1 month’s imprisonment for the politician under two criminal cases at once: over “discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” (Article 280.3(1) of the Criminal Code) and over “disseminating information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” (Article 207.3(2)(d) of the Criminal Code). The cases were opened over a debate published on YouTube and a single repost on Telegram.
Statement by party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee Grigory Yavlinsky on the sentencing of Lev Shlosberg:
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Posted: August 17th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov’s speech before the Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Appeal against the removal of Yabloko’s list of candidates from the parliamentary elections, 17.08.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Honourable Court,
Esteemed participants in these proceedings,
Before the hearing began, at least 35 people who came for today’s hearing — despite there being free seats in the courtroom, and despite having broken no rules — were detained and taken to police stations. Among them is Viktor Balabanov, a candidate for the State Duma, whom we had invited to today’s hearing so that he could act as a witness.
Moreover, over the past two days, law enforcement officers in Moscow have been visiting people who attended a lawful, open [Supreme Court] court hearing [on the removal of Yabloko from the parliamentary election] a week ago — journalists and State Duma candidates from Yabloko — and issuing all of them with formal warnings against committing offences. I cannot call this anything other than intimidation. I believe that everyone must be released today.
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Posted: August 17th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov to party supporters: “Take care and don’t fall for provocations”
Press Release, 14.08.2026
Photo: An electronic screen displaying Yabloko campaign banner “For Peace and Freedom” in Veliky Novgorod.
Dear friends,
This is important. Yabloko is not holding, and does not plan to hold, any public actions in any city in Russia. Today this is dangerous for participants.
I ask you not to fall for provocations, and to continue supporting us in other ways — as you can do — through your comments, publications, volunteering, donations, and other lawful and safer means. Nothing is more important to us than your trust and your safety. The elections matter, but your freedom, your health and your life matter far more.
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Posted: August 14th, 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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“What are the real reasons behind removing Yabloko from the State Duma elections?”
The Analytical Centre of Yabloko, 14.08.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov answering questions from the press outside the Supreme Court on 10 August 2026, after the ruling was announced / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 10 August, the Supreme Court of Russia upheld a claim brought by the pro-Kremlin Rodina party to cancel Yabloko’s registration for the State Duma elections. The party’s federal list had previously been registered by the Central Electoral Commission and, following the drawing of lots, had taken second place on the ballot, directly after United Russia.
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Posted: August 14th, 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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Prosecution seeks 12 years and 1 month in a penal colony for Lev Shlosberg
Press Release, 14.08.2026
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Today, 14 August, the prosecution has asked Pskov City Court to sentence Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg to 12 years and 1 month’s imprisonment.
It should be noted that, in the consolidated criminal case against Lev Shlosberg, he is charged under two articles of the Criminal Code: Article 280.3(1) (repeated “discrediting the army”), over a debate with historian Yuri Pivovarov in which Shlosberg argued for the need for an urgent ceasefire, and Article 207.3(2) (“fakes about the army”), over reposting a publication on a Telegram channel in February 2022.
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Posted: August 14th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s appeal against removal from the elections to be heard on 17 August
Press Release, 14.08.2026
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and lawyer Vitaly Isakov, one of the party’s leading candidates, at the Supreme Court on 10 August / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Updated. Yabloko has filed an appeal against the decision of the Supreme Court of Russia to remove the party’s list from the State Duma elections. It was previously reported that representatives of the Rodina party had also filed an appeal. Both appeals will be heard on the same day – 17 August.
Russia’s Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for Monday, 17 August (at 10:00), to consider an appeal against its own decision to remove Yabloko’s list of candidates from the elections to the 9th convocation of the State Duma. The appeal against the Supreme Court’s decision was filed today, 14 August, by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and Ivan Bolshakov, Head of the party’s Analytical Centre and one of the leaders of the federal list for the forthcoming elections.
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Posted: August 14th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Why the Supreme Court removed Yabloko from the elections. The formal grounds, from its reasoned ruling
Press Release, 12.08.2026
Photo: The Supreme Court examines Grigory Yavlinsky’s interview / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Supreme Court has sent Yabloko its reasoned ruling on the removal of the party’s federal list of candidates from the State Duma elections, following a suit brought by the Rodina political party. The formal grounds cited were rouble-denominated donations from Russian nationals who had themselves received money from abroad, publications in support of Yabloko on social networks blocked or restricted in Russia, and alleged copyright infringements. These included the use of lines from the song “Let the Sun Shine Forever” and the phrase “As Long As There’s No War”, as well as an image generated with the use of ChatGPT. The court declined to recognise ChatGPT as artificial intelligence.
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Posted: August 12th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: “This is not about Yabloko’s fate — it is about Russia’s fate”
Yavlinsky.ru, 10.08.2026
Photo: 10 August 2026. Outside the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Supreme Court has granted the claim brought by the Rodina party and has cancelled the registration of Yabloko’s federal list of candidates for the State Duma elections. The decision will be appealed. Here goes the Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of the party’s Federal Political Committee:
Yabloko is contesting these elections with the
programme “For Peace and Freedom!” We stand for a ceasefire, for diplomacy and for achieving peace, and for preventing nuclear war. We want Russia to be free from fear and political repression, and for human life to be valued in our country, and for human dignity and rights to be respected. Our goal is a prosperous, democratic Russia.
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Posted: August 10th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Address by Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov to party supporters ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on 10 August
Address by Nikolai Rybakov, 9.08.2026
Photo: Banners “The Supreme Court of the RF”
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of Russia will hear a case on removing the Yabloko party from the State Duma elections.
Rest assured – our lawyers will not leave one stone upon another of these ill-informed and politically motivated accusations against the party. There are no legal grounds whatsoever for denying dozens of millions of Russian citizens who support peace the opportunity to vote for their representatives – for Yabloko. Some of the arguments even raise doubts about the sanity of whoever wrote them.
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Posted: August 10th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to sue State Duma MP Zhuravlyov over defamatory statements
Press Release, 7 August 2026
Photo: The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Yabloko has reviewed a video recording of a speech given by State Duma deputy Alexei Zhuravlyov (the LDPR faction) outside the Supreme Court of Russia building.
The speech contains defamatory statements about Yabloko. A claim for the protection of the party’s reputation will be filed in court today.
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Posted: August 7th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026.
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St. Petersburg City Court refuses to reinstate Yabloko’s candidate list for the Legislative Assembly elections. Decision to be appealed
Press Release, 7 August 2026
Photo: Candidates and party members of Yabloko in St. Petersburg / Photo by the St. Petersburg regional branch of Yabloko
The St. Petersburg City Court has dismissed Yabloko’s administrative claim challenging the decision of the city electoral commission, which had refused to register the party’s list of candidates for the Legislative Assembly elections.
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Posted: August 7th, 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, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko launches a fundraiser among Russian citizens to cover legal fees for Grigory Gribenko, former head of Irkutsk Yabloko
Press Release, 7 August 2026
Photo: Grigory Gribenko. Photo by Irkutsk Yabloko
Yabloko is launching a fundraiser among Russian citizens to cover legal fees for Grigory Gribenko, the former head of Irkutsk Yabloko. 40,000 roubles need to be raised.
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Posted: August 7th, 2026 under Без рубрики.
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Electoral commission registers Yabloko candidates for the City Council elections in Berdsk, a satellite town of Novosibirsk
Press Release, 7.08.2026
Photo: Yabloko candidates for the Berdsk City Council / Photo by Novosibirsk Yabloko
The district electoral commission of the town of Berdsk has registered Yabloko’s candidates for the City Council deputy elections. This was reported by Novosibirsk Yabloko.
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Posted: August 7th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“A memory that cannot be erased”: Karelian Yabloko honours the memory of victims of political repression at the Sandarmokh memorial
Press Release, 7 August 2026
Photo: Screenshot from Emilia Slabunova’s speech at Sandarmokh, 5 August 2026
On the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, 5 August, representatives of Karelian Yabloko and candidates for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia visited the Sandarmokh tract, a forest massive where thousands of victims of Stalin’s regime were shot and buried in 1937-1938. They read out the names of victims of repression and laid flowers at the memorial.
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Posted: August 7th, 2026 under Без рубрики.
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Electoral commission registers Yabloko’s list of candidates for the Kaliningrad Region Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 7 August 2026
Photo: Roman Morozov, Ivan Bolshakov and Anton Gendrikson / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission has registered the list of candidates nominated by Yabloko in the single electoral district for the 8th convocation of the Kaliningrad Region Legislative Assembly.
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Posted: August 7th, 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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Sverdlovsk Region Electoral Commission registers Yabloko’s list for Legislative Assembly elections
Press Release, 7.08.2026
Photo: Candidates for deputy of the Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly Leonid Buiny, Konstantin Kiselyov and Vladimir Sobyanin, with the lead candidate of Yabloko for the State Duma elections Yaroslav Shcherbakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Sverdlovsk Region Electoral Commission has registered Yabloko’s list of candidates for the region’s Legislative Assembly elections. The party nominated 71 candidates in the unified constituency list and 23 candidates in single-mandate constituencies.
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Posted: August 7th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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We work in Russia
Telegram channel of Nikolai Rybakov, 7.08.2026
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Yabloko candidates for the State Duma elections on their way to the Central Electoral Commission / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In recent days, some have decided to publicly express support for Yabloko on social media — support that, in the current circumstances, could lead to our party being removed from the elections.
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Posted: August 7th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov responds to attacks from leaders of parliamentary pro-government parties A Just Russia, the CPRF and the LDPR
Telegram channel of Nikolai Rybakov, 7.08.2026
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov at the drawing of lots at the Central Electoral Commission on 5 August
We, Yabloko, support a ceasefire agreement, the preservation of human life, and the prevention of nuclear war.
Today, statements about Yabloko were made by those who advocate endless hostilities and loss of life, while they themselves sit comfortably in the State Duma: A Just Russia, the CPRF, the LDPR [political parties]…
They want to remove us from the elections because we stand for peace, while they want to prolong the tragedy indefinitely… It benefits them. They could push things to the point of a nuclear catastrophe.
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Posted: August 7th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidate Yegor Karpenkov appeals to Supreme Court against Central Electoral Commission decision to exclude him from Yabloko’s State Duma candidates list
Press Release, 6.08.2026
Photo: Yegor Karpenkov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Tomorrow, 7 August, the Supreme Court is due to hear the case brought by Yegor Karpenkov, a candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, who is appealing against the Central Electoral Commission’s decision to exclude him from the party’s list in the elections.
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Posted: August 6th, 2026 under Elections, 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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