Press Release, 28.06.2026

Photo: (left to right) Ivan Bolshakov, Yana Ivanova, Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Vitaly Isakov, Tatiana Schneider, Dmitry Anisimov and Kirill Goncharov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

The Yabloko party Congress nominated candidates for the 9th convocation of the State Duma. The federal list included 275 candidates (seven in the general federal section and a further 268 across 71 regional groups), with an additional 137 candidates nominated in single-mandate constituencies.

The lead candidates of the list are:

Yaroslav SHCHERBAKOV, 38, Chelyabinsk Region
Lawyer, director of the Razvitiye law firm. Member of the party’s Federal Bureau, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch. Married, raising two children.

Dmitry ANISIMOV, 35, St.Petersburg
Candidate of Political Sciences, deputy of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Deputy Head of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly. Deputy Chairman of the St.Petersburg regional branch of the party. Married, raising a daughter.

Yana IVANOVA, 38, Pskov Region
Deputy Chairwoman of the Pskov regional branch of the party. Assistant to a deputy of the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly. Raising two children.

Vitaly ISAKOV, 31, St.Petersburg
Lawyer, defence representative for Lev Shlosberg in court. Married.

Ivan BOLSHAKOV, 41, Moscow
Political scientist. Head of Yabloko’s Analytical Centre, member of the party’s Federal Political Committee. Party representative on the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the party from 2019 to 2023. Married.

Tatiana SCHNEIDER, 43, Omsk Region
Adviser to the party Chairman. Chairwoman of the Omsk regional branch of the party. Married.

Kirill GONCHAROV, 34, Moscow
Lawyer. Chairman of the Moscow regional branch of the party. Not married.

Among the candidates, 71% are men and 29% women; 80.5% hold higher education degrees, and 17 people (6%) hold a Candidate of Sciences degree. More than a third of the list (37%) are candidates under 40, while all generations are represented: 21% are aged 40–49, 19% are 50–59, and 23% are over 60. Sixty-six per cent of the nominated candidates are party members.

The pre-election Congress lasted almost 20 hours, running from 10 a.m. on 27 June to 6 a.m. on 28 June.

The full lists of candidates will be published on the party’s website on 28 June.

It should be noted that many of the party’s leaders had been denied the right to take part in the elections on political grounds. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov and all of the party’s deputies in regional parliaments — Alexander Shishlov and Olga Shtannikova in St.Petersburg, Emilia Slabunova in Karelia, and Artur Gaiduk in the Pskov Region — had been brought to administrative liability for “displaying extremist symbols” (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences) and, thus, deprived of the right to stand in elections for one year.

Deputy Chairmen of the party Lev Shlosberg, Boris Vishnevsky and Vladimir Dorokhov had been placed on the register of “foreign agents” and not allowed to run in elections. Another Deputy Chairman, Maxim Kruglov, was sentenced on 24 June to seven years in a penal colony on a charge of spreading “fakes” about the army.