Archive for June, 2026
Sociologist Denis Volkov to give a lecture “Russian Public Sentiment on the Eve of the State Duma Elections” at the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 11.06.2026 Photo: Denis Volkov / Photo by the Yabloko Party University On 18 June, the Yabloko Party University invites all those interested to a lecture by sociologist Denis Volkov: “Russian Public Sentiment on the Eve of the State Duma Elections”. The lecturer will present current sociological research data and analyse the key trends […]
Posted: June 11th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026.
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Detentions instead of dialogue
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party, 11.06.2026 The mass protests by Kuntsevo District residents [in Moscow] against the felling of trees in Moskvoretsky Park, and the heavy-handed detention of protesters by police officers, have once again revealed the face of the present-day Moscow authorities — authorities that valiantly […]
Posted: June 11th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Deputy Chair of Pskov Yabloko Svetlana Vasilkova fined for “display of extremist symbols”
Press Release, 9.06.2026 Photo: Svetlana Vasilkova / Photo by Pskov Yabloko Svetlana Vasilkova, deputy of the Pustoshka Municipal District of Pskov and Deputy Chair of Pskov Yabloko, has been fined 1,000 roubles (approximately USD 14) under the article on “display of extremist symbols” (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The ruling was handed […]
Posted: June 9th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Court upholds fine against Novgorod Yabloko member Anton Kostryukov under article on “display of extremist symbols”
Press Release, 9.06.2026 Photo: Viktor Shalyakin (left), member of the Bureau of Novgorod Yabloko, and Anton Kostryukov (right) at the Novgorod Regional Court / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko Anton Kostryukov, a Yabloko member from Veliky Novgorod, will be unable to stand in the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma. This was announced by the party’s […]
Posted: June 9th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Prominent Russian physicist and prospective Yabloko candidate for the State Duma Grei Boltachev released from special detention facility
Press Release, 8.06.2026 Photo: Grei Boltachev after his release from the special detention facility on 8 June 2026 / Photo by Vechernie Vedomosti Grei Boltachev, a prominent Russian physicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and leading research fellow at the Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has […]
Posted: June 9th, 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.
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Foreign agent legislation must be abolished — especially following the Justice Ministry’s admission about the grounds for inclusion in the register
Press Release, 8.06.2026 Picture: 4% — the share of “foreign agents” in whose case the Justice Ministry found evidence of foreign funding in 2025 Last week, Deputy Justice Minister Oleg Sviridenko staged what can only be described as an act of self-exposure. He acknowledged that foreign funding was far from the principal reason for which […]
Posted: June 9th, 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, Без рубрики.
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Prominent Russian physicist Grey Boltachev arrested in Yekaterinburg having announced his intention to stand for the State Duma on a Yabloko ticket
Press Release, 6.06.2026 Photo: Grey Boltachev / Photo by Vechernie Vedomosti Scientist Grey Boltachev has been arrested in Yekaterinburg on an alleged charge of using obscene language in a public place (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The news was reported by the outlet Vechernie Vedomosti, citing sources. Boltachev had previously announced his […]
Posted: June 9th, 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.
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Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg to remain in pre-trial detention until 21 November, contrary to the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Press Release, 6.06.2026 Photo: Lev Shlosberg at the court hearing on 5 June 2026 / Photo by Pskov Yabloko A judge of Pskov Regional Court dismissed the appeals lodged by defence counsel Vladimir Danilov and Vera Kovalchuk against the ruling of a judge of Pskov City Court, by which Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg’s pre-trial […]
Posted: June 8th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Kaliningrad court sentences Yabloko member and lawyer Vladimir Sorokin to one year in prison for a 500-rouble donation
Press Release, 5.06.2026 Photo: Vladimir Sorokin / Photo by Kaliningrad Yabloko Lawyer and Yabloko member Vladimir Sorokin has been sentenced to one year in prison for a money transfer to an organisation designated as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation (Article 282.3 Part 1 of the Criminal Code). The ruling was handed down by […]
Posted: June 5th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yegor Tkachenko of Yekaterinburg Yabloko added to Rosfinmonitoring’s list of terrorists and extremists
Press Release, 4 June 2026 Photo: Yegor Tkachenko / Photo by the Yabloko branch in the Sverdlovsk Region This was reported on the agency’s website. The party is not aware whether any criminal case has been opened against Tkachenko, though a number of media outlets have already published information to that effect. It should be […]
Posted: June 5th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Experts told the court that Maxim Kruglov’s posts contained neither assertions about the army’s actions nor hatred
Press Release, 4 June 2026 Photo: Maxim Kruglov during the court hearing of 20 May 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service At the fourth hearing in the case of Maxim Kruglov, held on 3 June, philologist Igor Zharkov and psychologist Veronika Konstantinova gave evidence. At the request of Maxim’s defence, they had conducted […]
Posted: June 5th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg appeals against six-month extension of pre-trial detention. Appeal hearing scheduled for 5 June
Press Release, 4 June 2026 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by Pskov Yabloko The Pskov Regional Court will hear appeals lodged by lawyers representing Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg — Vladimir Danilov and Vera Kovalchuk — against the ruling of a judge of the Pskov City Court of 27 May, by which she extended the […]
Posted: June 5th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko joins Muscovites in demanding an investigation into the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has “seized” part of a specially protected natural area
Press Release, 4 June 2026 Photo: Residents of the Strogino district of Moscow and members of Moscow Yabloko during the inspection of 2 June / Photo by Vyacheslav Radchenko On 2 June, residents of the Moscow district of Strogino, together with Moscow Yabloko, conducted an inspection at Moskvoretsky Park. In the Troitse-Lykovo area, residents have […]
Posted: June 5th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yavlinsky in court: “Maxim Kruglov is a patriot of Russia, there has never been any motive of political hatred in his work”
Press Release, 3.06.2026 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky and Maxim Kruglov, 2019 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, 3 June, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow continued hearing the criminal case brought against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov. He is charged with spreading “fake news” about the Russian Armed Forces (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) […]
Posted: June 4th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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‘The crisis of nuclear arms control’: Yabloko hosts a lecture by Academician Alexei Arbatov
Press Release, 3.06.2026 Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 10 June, Yabloko’s central office will host a lecture by Alexei Arbatov, one of the world’s leading experts on nuclear deterrence and arms control. The lecture is entitled ‘The Crisis of Nuclear Arms Control’. Alexei Arbatov is Head of the Centre […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights.
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Yabloko launches fundraiser to pay lawyers for party members who have faced persecution
Press Release, 2.06.2026 Photo: A screenshot from Nikolai Rybakov’s video on VKontakte “496,000 ROUBLES. That is the amount we need to raise to cover lawyers’ fees for May,” Yabloko Chairman wrote on his Telegram channel on 2 June 2026. “As you know, repression in the country is growing with every passing day — and it […]
Posted: June 2nd, 2026 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in St.Petersburg has developed a draft law to repeal the ban on electoral participation for those fined for the “demonstration of extremist symbols”
Press Release, 2.06.2026 Photo: A Yabloko protest action “Stop removing us from elections!” in 2010 outside the Central Electoral Commission building / Photo by Vasily Shaposhnikov, Kommersant The Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly has prepared a draft federal initiative to repeal an unjust ban on electoral participation. Under current law, a person […]
Posted: June 2nd, 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 faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Sociologist Alexander Sogomonov to give a lecture on the impact of demographic shifts on the future within the framework of the Yabloko Party University
Press Release, 2.06.2026 Photo: Alexander Sogomonov / Photo by the Yabloko Party University On 9 June, The Yabloko Party University invites all those interested to a lecture by Alexander Sogomonov, Candidate of Historical Sciences and sociologist: “The world in the second quarter of the 21st century: how new ‘generations’ and demographic shifts will affect the […]
Posted: June 2nd, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Без рубрики.
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The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation may restore Nikolai Rybakov’s right to stand in elections before Yabloko’s pre-election congress
Press Release, 2.06.2026 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The complaint filed by Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov in the case concerning the “demonstration of extremist symbols and insignia” has been registered at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. For a post expressing condolences to the family of Alexei Navalny, […]
Posted: June 2nd, 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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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Vengeance and Hope
Written for the Yabloko website, 1 June 2026 Photo: Viktor Kogan-Yasny / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service There is such a thing as a politics of vengeance, and there is such a thing as a politics of hope. A politics of vengeance is built on powerful, demonic motivation and energy, and for that reason […]
Posted: June 2nd, 2026 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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