Resolution of the Federal Council of Yabloko adopted on 6.12.2025, published on 26.12.2025

The social and political situation in our country and globally is highly complex and dangerous.

The international order that has been in place throughout the 80 post-war years is becoming a thing of the past, leading to a large-scale institutional crisis.

The structures and institutions designed to maintain security and stability in the world have ceased functioning and fulfilling their objectives.

The political mechanism of representative democracy has been increasingly distorted by populism.

The extensive and comprehensive application of new technologies threatens to become a destructive factor in the life of society.

The most dangerous trend is the devaluation of human life, and ousting of its value from world politics.

The fourth year of the conflict with Ukraine is drawing to a close, and the danger of a direct clash between Russia and NATO, of nuclear war, is growing.

The system of treaties on nuclear arms control developed in the second half of the past century is being destroyed, and after it the non-proliferation regime becomes under threat as well.

In Russia, censorship is intensifying, restrictions on freedom of information are tightening, pressure and political repression against dissidents are mounting, intolerance towards opinions that differ from the official line is increasingly, as well as fear, is being stoked.

Seeking to eliminate even the slightest uncertainty in election results and replacing dialogue with society with the cultivation of fear and “learned helplessness”, the authorities are adopting ever more repressive laws, applying extra-judicial repressive practices, treating any dissent as an offence, and attempting to discredit political opponents by portraying them as “enemies” and “traitors”.

In view of the forthcoming elections of 2026, such pressure is particularly strongly manifested in relation to Yabloko – the only political party in Russia openly and consistently advocating a ceasefire agreement and peace negotiations.

At the same time, war weariness and the accelerating decline in the quality and standards of living are leading to growing discontent.

A significant proportion of citizens do not accept restrictions on personal freedoms, whilst the younger generation perceives the blocking of social networks and messengers as negative interference in their lives.

The disregarding of public opinion, the suppression of peaceful political protest, and the encouragement of aggressive nationalist activists whom the authorities consider their allies, creates conditions for the growth of far-right sentiment, nationalism and xenophobia, and in the longer term – fascism.

Yabloko has been continuing its work under extreme conditions for nearly four years now, engaging in real work with people, involving new supporters and party members, and participating in elections at all levels.

Events have fully confirmed the correctness of our position on the principal pressing issue – a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

We are the only political force that systematically defends and supports political prisoners both within Russia and at the international level.

We advocate for a new Russian-European integration, despite the extremely low current level of relations with EU countries.

In today’s critical situation, we still believe in our fellow citizens, in our country’s future, and we strive to lay its foundations even now.

The main thing, in our view, is to return people to the centre of politics – their life, freedom, rights and dignity.

Our response to today’s challenges is as follows:

– subordinate all structures of the state and all mechanisms, including information technologies and artificial intelligence, to the interests of people;

– understand that the meaning of the future lies not in territories or money, but in people’s free, dignified and secure lives;

– acknowledge that if politics leads to the deaths of people, and technological development does not serve human interests, then critical miscalculations have been made and the policy vector must be changed.

Such a future is an alternative not only to the current system (though that too is very important), but also to communist and nationalist populism.

The demand for change among Russian citizens will continue to form and mature; the question is where the accumulating potential will be directed – towards solving the real problems that are the cause of discontent, or towards inflating populist bubbles.

What is at stake are human lives, the wellbeing of our fellow citizens, and the future of Russia, Europe and the entire world.

Nikolai Rybakov,

Yabloko Chairman