Decision of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko adopted on 2.12.2025, published on 8.12.2025

The Yabloko Party will participate in the 2026 elections.

Today, conducting an election campaign for us is not only a legal requirement necessary for preserving the party and participating in future federal elections without collecting signatures.

We consider it necessary to use all possible means to promote the values of peace, humanity, respect for people, human dignity and human rights in the socio-political space of today’s Russia. We regard elections as such an opportunity. Our task is to uphold a direction connected with humanistic values, the defence of human rights, and to ensure the development of this direction into the future. People must be at the centre of the political agenda.

The situation in the country and the world is extremely difficult and there will be no rapid changes for the better. Therefore, we have to work now and will continue to have to work in conditions where there is no immediate return commensurate with the efforts expended.

At the same time, only Yabloko of the political forces in present-day Russia is capable of offering citizens and the authorities an alternative agenda.

Events have fully confirmed the correctness of our position on the main question of today – ending the largest conflict in Europe since World War II through concluding an agreement on a ceasefire and beginning negotiations about a future peace.

One way or another, sooner or later (if nuclear war does not occur), hostilities in Ukraine will be stopped. This will open up new prospects and make Yabloko a unique element of the new political situation.

In today’s Russia, Yabloko is an alternative not only to the current system (although this is also extremely important). We represent an alternative choice of future, an opportunity to protect Russia from falling into the abyss of national populism.

Yabloko has no illusions about the honesty, transparency and equality of opportunities for participants in the forthcoming elections. Especially since they will take place under conditions of new repressive laws in force, substantially restricting legal opportunities for expressing political positions, and with “three-day voting”, which increases the scope for falsifications.

In current conditions, for the Yabloko Party, elections are not only and not so much an instrument of struggle for obtaining representation in organs of power, as an opportunity to show society a political alternative and create a foundation that people can support when prerequisites for change mature.

Today there are no grounds to hope that the 2026 parliamentary elections can bring qualitative changes to the life of the country, but the creation of a faction in the State Duma could change the situation in parliament and create a “point of crystallisation” for work towards the future.

At regional level, our task is to preserve representation in the legislative bodies of the regions where Yabloko is currently represented (St.Petersburg, Karelia, and the Pskov Region), and to obtain deputy mandates in those regions where there is a noticeable public demand for change.

It is also important that the party’s participation in municipal elections, where, as practice shows, there is less influence of administrative pressure on voting results.

The atmosphere of fear being spread in society today with the help of repressive laws, arbitrariness of law enforcement agencies and the absence of independent justice oppresses a huge number of people who want a peaceful and free life for themselves and their children. Young people perceive what is happening particularly acutely and resist the restriction of their previously customary freedoms, their role in the forthcoming elections will be especially important.

The fact that the Yabloko Party’s position on the necessity of concluding an agreement on a ceasefire as soon as possible is today shared by the majority of Russian society, but is not supported by any of the other parties, including those represented in the State Duma and legislative bodies of regions, gives us a chance in the elections. At the same time, a special responsibility falls upon candidates nominated by the Yabloko Party – acting on the basis of our principles, they will have to withstand very serious pressure.

Our main slogans are “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!”

Grigory Yavlinsky,

Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee