Archive for July, 2026
Yabloko’s lead candidates for the Kaliningrad Region Legislative Assembly elections submit documents to regional electoral commission
Press Release, 15.07.2026 Photo: Left to right: Roman Morozov, Ivan Bolshakov, and Anton Gendrikson / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Wednesday 15 July, documents for Yabloko’s candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly were submitted to the Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission. The candidates heading the party’s regional list submitted the documents in person.
Posted: July 16th, 2026 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Court rejects Alexander Shishlov’s appeal and upholds ruling barring the politician from the 2026 elections
Press Release, 15.07.2026 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Wednesday, 15 July, the St.Petersburg City Court rejected the appeal and upheld the ruling of the Petrogradsky District Court fining Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and former head of the party’s faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, 1,500 roubles. […]
Posted: July 15th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, 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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Nikolai Rybakov calls for immediate reclamation of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant slag heap in the centre of Chelyabinsk
Press Release, 14.07.2026 Photo: The slag heap near the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant in Chelyabinsk Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for immediate reclamation of the slag heap belonging to the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant. Its hazardous radioactive waste has been stockpiled in the centre of the city since […]
Posted: July 15th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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Prosecution seeks to overturn sentence against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov, and calls for retrial
Press Release, 14.07.2026 Photo: Maxim Kruglov at the Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The prosecution in the trial of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov has lodged an appeal with the Moscow City Court. This was announced on Tuesday, 14 July, by the politician’s lawyer, Sergei Badamshin. According to […]
Posted: July 15th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov demands that the Prosecutor General disclose data on the scale of environmental damage following the oil spill in the Kerch Strait
Press Release, 11.07.2026 Photo: Clean-up operations following the oil spill caused by the two Volgoneft tankers that ran into distress in the Kerch Strait on the afternoon of 15 December 2024, on the coastline at Anapa. / Photo by Yuri Bereznyuk, Kommersant Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent an appeal to Prosecutor General Alexander Guzan, […]
Posted: July 13th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Political prisoner Mikhail Afanasyev turns 50! We congratulate the journalist and Yabloko member on his anniversary
Press Release, 13.07.2026 Photo: Mikhail Afanasyev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 12 July, Yabloko member Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist of the online media Novy Fokus, a Free Media Awards laureate, and a two-time recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize “For Journalism as an Act of Conscience”, turns 50. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov […]
Posted: July 13th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Greetings, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko submits its list of candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly’s single-mandate constituencies to the regional electoral commission for certification
Press Release, 11.07.2026 Photo: Yana Ivanova and Artur Gaiduk / Photo by Pskov Yabloko On 11 July, Artur Gaiduk, Chairman of the regional party branch in the Pskov region, and his deputy Yana Ivanova, both authorised by the conference of Pskov Yabloko, submitted to the Pskov Region Electoral Commission the list of candidates for all […]
Posted: July 13th, 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 leader Nikolai Rybakov calls on State Duma deputies to give up bonuses totalling 2 billion roubles
Press Release, 10.07.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent a letter to State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and to deputies, proposing that they give up the enormous bonuses or transfer them to help gravely ill children. It had become known from media reports that State Duma deputies were planned […]
Posted: July 13th, 2026 under Без рубрики.
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Electoral commissions of St.Petersburg and Novgorod regions certify Yabloko’s candidate lists for regional parliaments
Press Release, 11.07.2026 Photo: Yabloko’s placard “For Peace and Freedom! For the Immediate Ceasefire Agreement!” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Two electoral commissions – the St.Petersburg City Electoral Commission and the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission – certified Yabloko’s candidate lists for regional parliaments in two constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Posted: July 13th, 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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The Central Electoral Commission has certified Yabloko’s candidate lists for the State Duma elections
Press Release, 10.07.2026 Photo: The Central Electoral Commission session, 10 July 2026 / Screenshot from the CEC website At its session on 10 July, Russia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) certified Yabloko’s federal list of candidates for the State Duma elections, as well as its list of candidates for single-mandate constituencies.
Posted: July 11th, 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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Alexander Shishlov’s appeal against the court ruling that stripped him of the right to stand for election will be heard on 15 July
Press Release, 10.07.2026 Photo: Alexander Shishlov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 15 July, the St.Petersburg City Court will hear the appeal lodged by Alexander Shishlov, Coordinator of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee and former head of the party’s faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg, against the fine imposed on him by a […]
Posted: July 11th, 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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Yabloko submits documents to Novgorod Region Electoral Commission for elections to the Regional Duma
Press Release, 10.07.2026 Photo: Anna Cherepanova, leader of Novgorod Yabloko, and Viktor Shalyakin, Yabloko candidate for the Novgorod Regional Duma / Photo by the regional branch of the party On Thursday, 9 July, Novgorod Yabloko submitted documents to the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission for participation in the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma. A total […]
Posted: July 11th, 2026 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Moscow Yabloko puts forward candidates for municipal deputies in the Shchukino district of Moscow
Press Release, 10.07.2026 Photo: Voting at the conference / Photo by Moscow Yabloko Today, on 9 July, the Moscow branch of Yabloko held a conference to nominate candidates for municipal deputies in the Shchukino district in Moscow. The delegates of the conference put forward a team of eight candidates who would run in three constituencies […]
Posted: July 10th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko submits documents to St.Petersburg electoral commission for elections to the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 9.07.2026 Photo: Yabloko delegation / Photo by St.Petersburg Yabloko On Thursday, 9 July, representatives of the Yabloko party authorised by the Yabloko Congress submitted documents to the St.Petersburg City Electoral Commission for certification of the list of candidates for the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg. The materials were submitted in boxes bearing the party’s […]
Posted: July 10th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko nominates 57 candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 9.07.2026 Photo: Participants at the Pskov Yabloko Conference / Photo by Pskov Yabloko On 8 July the Pskov Yabloko Conference nominated 57 candidates for the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly: 44 candidates on the party’s single list and 13 candidates across all single-mandate constituencies. Yabloko candidates are standing in all elections under the slogan […]
Posted: July 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, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko launches a petition to save the Elektrozavod, a rare industrial heritage site in Moscow facing imminent demolition
Press Release, 8.07.2026 Photo: Elektrozavod / Photo by Angelika Zhukova, Yandex.Panoramas Moscow Yabloko’s office has begun collecting signatures calling for the Elektrozavod complex (Moscow’s historic Electric Factory complex built in the 1910s–1920s) to be recognised as of historical value and granted state protection. Following a change in the law in 2025 (the Law on the […]
Posted: July 8th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lists of Yabloko candidates for parliaments in nine regions published
Press Release, 7.07.2026 Photo: Voting at the Party Congress on 27 June 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko has now put forward candidates for the legislative assemblies in nine regions. At the end of past week, regional conferences of party branches put forward candidates in the Moscow and Novgorod Regions, and, a […]
Posted: July 8th, 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.
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Maxim Kruglov: “Come what may, my party is standing in the forthcoming elections. Support Yabloko!
Press Release, 7.07.2026 Photo: Maxim Kruglov at the sentencing on 24 June 2026/ Photo by Darya Kornilova Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov, who was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony over two Telegram posts, has sent an address from Pre-Trial Detention Facility No. 2 Butyrka, in which he thanked everyone for their support, […]
Posted: July 8th, 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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Administrative offence protocols drawn up against editor-in-chief of Mir Kavkazu newspaper over missing “foreign agent” labels, the paper published Yabloko materials
Press Release, 6.07.2026 Photo: Anatoly Sidakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Two administrative offence protocols have been drawn up under Article 13.15 Part 2.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (distribution of materials without indicating foreign agent status) against Anatoly Sidakov, founder of North Ossetian Yabloko and editor-in-chief and […]
Posted: July 6th, 2026 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Central Electoral Commission’s objections to Yabloko’s list of candidates are technical and easily amended
Press Release, 6.07.2026 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Ivan Bolshakov, Yevgenia Vlasova and Yaroslav Shcherbakov submitting documents to the Central Electoral Commission on 4 July / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has identified technical issues in Yabloko’s documents. They concern 19 of the 275 candidates on the federal list and six […]
Posted: July 6th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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