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.

The region-wide part of Yabloko’s list is headed by:

• Konstantin Kiselyov, a Yabloko deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, lawyer, political consultant, and PhD in Philosophy;
• Tatyana Gorshkaleva, an engineer and member of the Federal Council of Yabloko;
• Alexei Kholodaryov, an expert in IT and business automation, and a deputy of the 7th convocation of the Yekaterinburg City Duma (2018–2023).

In 2026, Yabloko is contesting the legislative assembly elections in nine Russian regions: St. Petersburg, the Republic of Karelia, and the Pskov, Sverdlovsk, Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Moscow and Tomsk regions. The party has also nominated candidates in single-mandate constituencies in the Lipetsk region and the Altai Territory.

Yabloko’s candidate lists had earlier been registered for the elections in Karelia and the Novgorod region. In Karelia, the registered list was subsequently removed from the elections following a lawsuit brought by the Rodina party; Yabloko is appealing this decision at the Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction. In St. Petersburg, the electoral commission refused to register the candidate list, and the party is appealing this refusal at the St. Petersburg City Court.