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.

On Friday, 10 July, the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission certified the candidate lists for the Novgorod Regional Duma nominated by the regional branch of Yabloko under the single constituency and the single-mandate constituencies.

It should be noted that on 4 July, Novgorod Yabloko held its conference and nominated its list of candidates for the regional parliament. Delegates unanimously voted to include 19 candidates on the regional list, with a further 13 candidates nominated in single-mandate constituencies. The candidate list was headed by Yabloko Deputy Chair Anna Cherepanova. The documents were submitted to the Central Electoral Commission on 9 July.

On Saturday 11 July, Olga Shtannikova, leader of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, announced that the City Electoral Commission had certified the candidate lists for the elections to the St.Petersburg parliament.

The candidate lists for the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly were nominated at the Yabloko party Congress in June. Yabloko’s candidate list was headed by Dmitry Anisimov, Victoria Razina, Yegor Karpenkov and Dmitry Khorzov. A further 62 candidates were included in 25 regional groups, and 25 candidates were nominated in single-mandate constituencies. The full list of Yabloko’s candidates for the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly is published here. The candidates’ documents were submitted to the City Electoral Commission on 9 July.

It should be noted that four Yabloko deputies served in the current convocation of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly: Boris Vishnevsky, Alexander Shishlov, Olga Shtannikova and Dmitry Anisimov. Boris Vishnevsky, who had been elected to the Assembly in 2021, was stripped of his mandate in 2024 after being designated a “foreign agent” status, and Olga Shtannikova took his seat. However, in 2025 Olga Shtannikova was stripped of her right to stand in elections after being held administratively liable under the article on “displaying extremist symbols”. Alexander Shishlov was stripped of his right to stand for the same reason. In April 2026, Shishlov relinquished his deputy mandate, and Dmitry Anisimov took his seat in the Legislative Assembly.

Yabloko’s 2026 election programme is the shortest in the party’s history, containing just 43 words. The main slogan under which the party is contesting the elections is: “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!”