Court fines Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov over a post expressing condolences
Press Release, 4.12.2025
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov holds a placard “Freedom to Political Prisoners” / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has been found guilty of “displaying extremist symbols” and fined 1,500 roubles. Punishment under this article also entails a ban on standing in elections for one year if the court’s ruling comes into force.
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Posted: December 4th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko will take part in the 2026 elections under the slogans “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!”
Press Release, 3 December 2025
The Yabloko party will take part in the 2026 elections – to the State Duma and regional legislative assemblies, including those regional parliaments where Yabloko is currently represented (St Petersburg, Karelia, and the Pskov Region). This decision was taken at a meeting of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko on 2 December. The campaign will be conducted under the slogans “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!”
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Posted: December 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: On Political Therapy
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 2.12.2025
Photo: President Donald Trump meets in the Oval Office with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte following a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 18 August 2025 // Photo by Daniel Torok
Any peace initiatives aimed at halting hostilities between Russia and Ukraine continue to provoke strange, hysterical reactions from all sides. For instance, the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, recently declared that “a very swift path to peace is not advantageous for Ukraine” – in other words, let people continue to be killed and let the destruction of energy infrastructure carry on through the winter.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko’s New Year charity fair to take place on 25 December
Press Release, 3.12.2025
On 25 December, the Yabloko party invites everyone to a New Year charity fair. For the third year now, we have been holding such a fair with the participation of inclusive projects and charitable foundations.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2025 under Charity, Human Rights.
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Muscovites sent over 300 postcards and letters to political prisoners during Yabloko’s traditional event of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 28.11.2025
Photo: Participants of the event of writing letters on 27 November / Photo by Vyacheslav Radchenko
On 27 November, Moscow Yabloko held an action of writing letters to political prisoners – a monthly event where anyone can write a few words to people who are convicted or awaiting trial in politically motivated criminal cases. This time, Yabloko members paid special attention to their colleague and Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov, who is in a remand prison on charges of disseminating “fakes” about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
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Posted: December 1st, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Court fines St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly deputy from Yabloko Olga Shtannikova for a post about fighting corruption from 13 years ago
Press Release, 27.11.2025
Photo: Olga Shtannikova / Photo by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko
On Thursday, 27 November, a hearing took place at Kalininsky District Court in St.Petersburg on an administrative case concerning “demonstration of extremist symbols and attributes” (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). Yabloko MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Peterburg, Olga Shtannikova, was accused of such an offence. She, back in 2013, reposted on VKontakte a message about an anti-corruption investigation mentioning politician Alexei Navalny.
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Posted: November 27th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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In Veliky Novgorod, Yabloko demands resignation of the mayor, as the budget of the city designed in officials’ interests
Press Release, 27.11.2025
Photo: Anna Cherepanova (centre) / Photo by the Novgorod branch of Yabloko
On 26 November, a session of the Veliky Novgorod Duma took place, where Yabloko faction leader Anna Cherepanova voted “against” the draft city budget for 2026. She explained the faction’s position by saying that the draft budget for Novgorod causes genuine shock: money is planned to be spent on officials, not on the city. Cherepanova expressed no confidence in city Mayor Alexander Rozbaum and demanded his resignation, which should become the logical conclusion of the scandal over the record increase in salaries for Novgorod officials and Rozbaum himself.
Posted: November 27th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Valery Borshchev’s Birthday
Press Release, 27.11.2025
Yabloko invites all its friends to a special evening event – “Valery Borshchev’s Birthday”. This is not a traditional memorial evening, but a new creative format for us, in which we will pay tribute to Valery Borshchev.
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Posted: November 27th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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Court extends arrest of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov for another month. Kruglov to remain in remand prison until 29 December
Press Release, 25.11.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov at the hearing on 25 November 2025 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 25 November, Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court extended the arrest of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov for a month – until 29 December. Speaking in court, Kruglov’s defence emphasised: the investigation not only did not have a single argument in favour of arrest, but in principle had no reason to persecute the politician. Moreover, the case materials were compiled carelessly, they contained gross errors, and the arguments in favour of arrest did not fit within Criminal Procedure Code norms.
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Posted: November 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Konstantin Smirnov to remain in remand prison until the end of January 2026: court again extends preventive measure for Ryazan Yabloko leader
Press Release, 25.11.2025
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 25 November, Sovetsky District Court in Ryazan once again extended the preventive measure for Konstantin Smirnov, leader of the Ryazan branch of Yabloko and journalist. He is accused of “extortion”, but is in fact being persecuted for political reasons for fighting municipal reform (which is actually reduced to enlargement of municipal districts and, thus, liquidation of many of the municipal councils of the settlements subject of the reform), criticising the regional authorities and publishing anti-corruption investigations. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov came to court on 25 November to support his friend and colleague. On the eve of the hearing, Eva Merkacheva, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, sent an appeal to the court requesting that Smirnov’s preventive measure be changed.
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Posted: November 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Udmurtia sounds the alarm: with a deficit budget, expenditure on maintaining officials may increase dozens of times
Press Release, 24.11.2025
Photo: Iya Boronina, Chair of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia / Photo from personal archive
Rapid growth in budget expenditure that is not covered by own revenues is the key financial problem of the Republic of Udmurtia, Yabloko experts note. When preparing amendments to the draft law on the regional budget, they analysed both the draft budget law and the explanatory note to it, as well as the forecast of the region’s socio-economic development, the conclusion of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation on the federal budget, and Central Bank data. Over the past three years, regional budget expenditure has grown almost twofold; however, instead of a balanced and responsible financial policy that could reduce inefficient spending and lower debt burden, the regional government continues to increase expenditure, Yabloko states.
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Posted: November 25th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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Moscow Yabloko elected new leaders: Kirill Goncharov became Chairman, Yury Shein Deputy Chairman, and 18 people were elected to the Bureau of the regional branch
Press Release, 22.11.2025
Photo: Kirill Goncharov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 22 November, the Conference of the Moscow regional branch of Yabloko took place. The delegates elected new leaders of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov was elected Chairman, Yury Shein as Deputy Chairman, and 18 people were elected to the Bureau of the regional branch.
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Posted: November 25th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Actions of writing letters to political prisoners in Moscow and the regions in November-December
Press Release, 21.11.2025
Photo: Yabloko postcards that can be sent to political prisoners / Photo by the party press service
Every month, Yabloko invites everyone to its actions of writing letters to political prisoners — a traditional event that takes place at party offices in Moscow and Russian regions. Here anyone can sign a postcard or write a letter to a person persecuted for political reasons for their words, thoughts or conscientious work. For participants’ convenience, Yabloko regularly updates the schedule of events in Moscow and other cities of the country.
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Posted: November 25th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lawyers found 99 violations in the court’s sentence to Lev Shlosberg in the case of “missing ‘foreign agent’ labels”
Press Release, 20.11.2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg and his defenders Vitaly Isakov and Vladimir Danilov have appealed the sentence in the case of his allegedly “missing ‘foreign agent’ labels”, as Shlosberg saved several videos by other people on his VKontakte social media page without supplying them with his mandatory foreign agent label, which was impossible to do even from the technical point of view. It should be noted that on 5 November, judge of magistrate’s court No. 38 sentenced the politician to 420 hours of community service for keeping five other people’s videos on his personal VKontakte page without his mandatory “foreign agent” labelling. In the appeal against the sentence filed with Pskov City Court, Shlosberg and his defence identify 99 violations committed by the court of first instance.
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Posted: November 20th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov on the recognition of Boris Vishnevsky’s book as “extremist”
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 20.11.2025
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Yabloko party regards the decision made today by St Petersburg City Court regarding the collection of articles by party Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky, published in 2015, as not based on Russian law.
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Posted: November 20th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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St. Petersburg court recognises collection of articles by Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky, published in 2015, as “extremist material”
Press Release, 20.11.2025
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
St. Petersburg City Court on 20 November 2025 recognised the collection “Chronicles of Reborn Arkanar”, published in September 2015, as “extremist material”. The book is a collection of articles by Yabloko Deputy Chairman Boris Vishnevsky. It was “written by a true patriot of Russia,” famous actor and Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg Oleg Basilashvili noted in his review when the book was published.
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Posted: November 20th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko demands that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office investigate the procedure for record salary increase for Veliky Novgorod mayor
Press Release, 17.11.2025
Photo: Veliky Novgorod Mayor Alexander Rozbaum and Duma Speaker Konstantin Somov / Photo by the Veliky Novgorod Duma Press Service
Yabloko Deputy Chair and Veliky Novgorod Duma deputy Anna Cherepanova is demanding that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office investigate the legality of a twofold salary increase for Veliky Novgorod Mayor Alexander Rozbaum and city officials. A corresponding statement has already been sent to the supervisory authority.
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Posted: November 18th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lecture by Sergei Popov, astrophysicist and Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “Why do we need astronomy?”
Press Release, 17.11.2025
On 25 November, the Yabloko party’s central office in Moscow will host a lecture by Sergei Popov, astrophysicist and Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “Why do we need astronomy?”. The audience will be able not only to receive a detailed answer to the lecture’s key question, but also to participate in discussion.
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Posted: November 18th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Education and Science.
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“Proof that the world cares about you”: Yabloko’s Charity Auction brought together thousands of people and raised over 1 million roubles for political prisoners’ families
Press Release, 14.11.2025
Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov at Yabloko’s seventh Charity Auction in support of political prisoners’ families / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On Thursday, 13 November, Yabloko’s charity Auction in support of political prisoners’ families took place in Moscow. The auction was held both in person and online across Russia. Over almost six hours of bidding, 28 lots were sold: books, paintings, photographs, collectible items, excursions and personal meetings with famous people. The amount collected in one evening was 1,183,000 roubles, however the final results have yet to be tallied, as collection of voluntary donations within the framework of the auction, but outside bidding for lots, continues.
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Posted: November 14th, 2025 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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