Press Release, 24.08.2020

Representatives of the Yabloko party will take part in more than 150 different level election campaigns in 36 constituent entities of the Russian Federation; 660 candidates from the party will compete for deputy mandates.

The party list of candidates was registered in the elections of only one regional legislative assembly – the Kostroma Regional Duma, where the party is exempt from collection of signatures in favour of its registration as it has a deputy mandate in this regional parliament.

Yabloko’s single-mandate candidates will take part in by-elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Altai Territory, the Leningrad and Tver Regions, and the Saratov Regional Duma.

Yabloko candidates lists and candidates in single-mandate constituencies were registered in the elections of 15 regional centres: Astrakhan, Birobidzhan, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanov, Kaluga, Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Orel, Rostov-on-Don, Smolensk, Tomsk and Cheboksary. Also, one Yabloko candidate for the State Duma in the Yaroslavl single-mandate constituency No. 194 participates in the elections.

“The authorities of almost all regions are obviously feeling uncertain and are simply afraid of our candidates. Hence, there are so many refusals in registration – on far-fetched pretexts, using dirty technologies and illegal know-how of filtering candidates. It is quite typical that we were denied participation in a number of particularly visible campaigns where we had clear chances of success. The most illustrative example is the election of the Governor of the Arkhangelsk region [where Yabloko had a candidate from the Stop-Shies movement fighting against creation of dumps of garbage imported to the region from Moscow], the parliaments of the Chelyabinsk, Ivanovo, Kurgan and Ryazan regions. This demonstrates the weakness of the government, which knows that it will lose even in a relatively fair fight,” Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov said.

“However, we believe that we must fight for every town in the country, for every municipal district. It is a matter of principle! The trust of every citizen is important to us, and every voice in support of the alternative that we propose,” the Yabloko leader added.

The list of the largest election campaigns of the party is below.

Altai Territory

Alexander Goncharenko, leader of the regional branch and member of the Federal Bureau of the party, participates in the by-elections of the deputy of the Altai Regional Legislative Assembly. In addition, candidates from the party run in the elections for deputies of the city assemblies of Zarinsk, Slavgorod and Kamensk, as well as the Talmensky District Council.

Astrakhan region

Sergei Petrov will take part in the election of deputies of the Astrakhan City Duma.

Vladimir region

More than 20 candidates from the party will take part in the elections of the Council of People’s Deputies of the city of Vladimir.

Voronezh region

The list of candidates from Yabloko was registered at the elections of deputies of the Voronezh City Duma.

Jewish Autonomous Region

Yelena Romanova is running for the by-elections of the deputy of the Birobidzhan City Duma (single-member constituency No 15).

Ivanovo region

Irina Maltseva became the only candidate in a single-mandate constituency in the election of deputies of the Ivanovo City Duma. Both the Yabloko list and the party’s candidates in single-mandate constituencies were not admitted to the elections.

Kaliningrad region

The lists of candidates from the party, headed by Igor Pleshkov, Chairman of the regional branch, have been nominated for the elections to the district councils of two city districts – Zelenogradsk and Sovetsk. In addition, candidates from the party run in single-mandate constituencies for the councils of deputies of the Baltic, Chernyakhovsky, Gvardeisky and Polessky urban districts.

Kaluga region

The list of candidates from the party will compete for the mandates of the Kaluga City Duma deputies. In addition, 15 candidates from the party were able to register in single-mandate constituencies.

Kamchatka Territory

Eight candidates from the party are participating in the elections to the Assembly of Deputies of the Paratunsky rural settlement. The party also nominated Ivan Gusev as a candidate for the post of head of the Paratunsky rural settlement.

Kostroma region

The list of 22 candidates from the party will compete for the mandates of deputies of the Kostroma Regional Duma, 11 more candidates from Yabloko have been nominated to the regional parliament in single-mandate constituencies. In addition, 15 Yabloko candidates have been nominated for the elections to the Kostroma City Duma.

Krasnodar region

Three Yabloko candidates will compete for the mandates of the Novorossiysk City Duma deputies.

Krasnoyarsk region

Lists and candidates from the party participate in the elections to the councils of deputies of the Yermakovsky, Mansky and Berezovsky regions.

Leningrad region

Party candidate Dmitry Solovyov participates in the by-elections of a deputy to the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region in the Vyborg single-mandate constituency No. 1

Moscow

Yabloko’s candidate Anna Barvashova participates in the by-elections of the Council of Deputies of the Babushkinsky municipal district.

Moscow region

The party and candidates participate in the elections of deputies in different cities and towns of the region. The lists of candidates were nominated for the elections to the Council of Deputies of the Dmitrov City District, the elections of the Council of Deputies of the Electrostal City District, the Council of Deputies of the Podolsk City District, the elections of the Deputies of the Council of Deputies of the Shatura City District. Candidates for single-mandate constituencies were nominated to the Council of Deputies of the Lytkarino urban district, the Council of Deputies of the Fryazino urban district, in the additional elections of a deputy to the Council of Deputies of the Krasnogorsk urban district.

Nizhny Novgorod Region

Five candidates from the party will take part in the elections to the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod. In addition, the candidates from the party will compete for mandates in the elections of deputies of the city councils of Dzerzhinsk and Gorodets, as well as the Council of Deputies of the Balakhna municipal district.

Novgorod region

Party candidates will take part in elections of deputies to 16 different municipal councils, including in the cities of Borovichi, Chudovo and Okulovka.

Novosibirsk region

Environmetalist Natalya Chubykina will take part in the elections of deputies of the Novosibirsk City Council (district No. 6).

Omsk region

Party candidates will take part in the elections of deputies of eight regional municipal councils of the Omsk and Muromtsevsky municipal districts.

Orenburg region

Candidates from Yabloko run for elections of deputies of the Orenburg City Council, as well as the Council of Deputies of the city of Buguruslan.

Oryol Region

A list of eighteen candidates from the party was registered for the elections to the Oryol City Council of People’s Deputies. In addition, one more candidate will compete for a seat on the city council in a single-member constituency.

Pskov region

About 140 candidates from the Pskov branch of Yabloko will take part in the elections of deputies to 55 municipal and regional councils of the region. In particular, in the elections to the councils of deputies of 18 urban settlements: Gdov, Dedovichi, Dno, Loknya, Nevel, Novorzhev, Novosokolniki, Opochka, Ostrov, Pechory, Zaplyusye, Porkhov, Pustoshka, Pushkinogorie, Idritsa, Strugi Krasnye, Krasnogorodsk, Usvyaty, and councils of deputies of Sebezhsky, Kuninsky, Nevelsky districts.

Republic of Bashkortostan

Yabloko list and candidates for single-mandate constituencies will take part in the election of deputies to the Council of the city district of Neftekamsk.

The Republic of Dagestan

Party candidates will take part in the elections to four rural settlements councils – Shikhent, Ispik, Ikrinsky and Kurakhsky.

The Republic of Tatarstan

Six candidates from the party will take part in the election of deputies to the Council of the Osinovsky rural settlement of the Zelenodolsk municipal district and two candidates in the elections to the Council of the Oktyabrsky rural settlement of the Zelenodolsk municipal district.

Rostov region

Only one candidate from the party was able to register in a single-mandate constituency for the election of deputies of the Rostov-on-Don City Duma. Also, Yabloko nominated twelve single-mandate candidates to the Shakhty City Council.

Samara Region

Three candidates have been nominated to the Council of Deputies of the Samara inner city district. Another candidate was registered in the elections to the Assembly of Representatives of the Krasny Yar Rural Settlement.

Saratov region

Ksenia Sverdlova, Chair of the Saratov Yabloko, will take part in the by-elections of deputies of the Saratov Regional Duma in the Volga single-mandate constituency No. 1.

Sverdlovsk region

Nadezhda Zhuravleva will take part in the by-elections of the deputy of the Nizhny Tagil City Duma of the seventh convocation in a single-mandate constituency No.10

Smolensk region

Only two candidates from the party were able to register in the elections of deputies of the Smolensk City Council and two candidates in the elections of deputies of the Smolensk District Duma in single-mandate constituencies. The rest of the candidates and the list of the party in the elections of deputies of the Smolensk City Council were denied registration.

Tver region

Entrepreneur Ararat Gulyan will take part in the by-elections of the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Tver region of the sixth convocation in the Rzhev single-mandate constituency No. 11

Tomsk region

The list of parties and candidates for single-mandate constituencies were registered at the elections of deputies of the Tomsk City Duma. In addition, the Yabloko list of candidates and single-mandate candidates will take part in the elections to the Duma of the ZATO Seversk and the Asinovsky district.

Chelyabinsk region

Party candidates will take part in the elections of the councils of deputies of the cities of Chebarkul, Zlatoust, Kopeysk, Magnitogorsk, Miass, as well as the councils of the Leninsky, Metallurgical, Traktorozavodsky districts of the city of Chelyabinsk and the Lazurnensky rural settlement.

Chuvash Republic

The list of Yabloko candidates, as well as candidates from the party in single-mandate constituencies were registered in the elections of the Cheboksary City Assembly of Deputies

Yaroslavl region

Oleg Vinogradov, Chairman of the Yaroslavl Yabloko, was registered as a candidate for deputy in the by-elections of the State Duma in the Yaroslavl single-mandate constituency No. 194.

It should be noted that the lists of candidates from the party were removed from the elections to the regional parliaments of the Chelyabinsk, Kurgan and Ryazan regions, as well as the city councils of Ivanovo, Smolensk, Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Kaspiisk (Republic of Dagestan). All candidates to the Kurgan Regional Duma, as well as to the City Duma of Tambov, Krasnodar, Sochi, Lipetsk were not admitted to the elections in single-mandate constituencies. Some of the candidates were not admitted in their constituencies to the elections to the City Duma of Moscow, the Dumas of Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Orel, Voronezh, Astrakhan, Shakhty (Rostov Region), Samara and Cheboksary.

In addition, Oleg Mandrykin, a candidate for Governor of the Arkhangelsk region, was not admitted to the elections. Now he will appeal against the refusal of the election commission in the regional court.