Press Release, 9.09.2022 Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant On the voting days of 9 – 11 September, the Yabloko party organises a “hot line” for receiving calls about violations for observers and candidates from the party. Those contacting the hotline will be able to report violations at the polling stations, get advice on further […]

Press Release, 9.09.2022 Photo: A team of Yabloko candidates in the Basmanny district in Moscow / Photo from social media The municipal election campaign in Moscow, unprecedented as of the number of deregistered Yabloko candidates, has reached the finish line. One day remains before the voting in September 9-11, and some candidates still continue to […]

Statement by the Yabloko party, 7.09.2022 Photo: leaflets of Yabloko candidates “For Peace and Freedom” We are against the so-called Smart Voting [reduced to voting for any pro-government political party but the ruling United Russia] re-announced by Leonid Volkov [head of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters]. We, as before, categorically do not share his position: voting “for […]

Press Release, 6.09.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 5 September, the regional branches of the Yabloko party and the candidates nominated by the party to run in the regional and local elections submitted lists of observers to the electoral commissions. The regional branches of Yabloko in Moscow, Pskov and Novgorod also sent their […]

Press Release, 4.09.2022 The Moscow branch of the Yabloko party has officially applied to the Moscow Electoral Commission to organise the deployment of the Remote Electronic Voting node at the party’s technical facilities, to which Yabloko IT specialists will have access.

Press Release, 2.09.2022 Photo: Maria Volokh / Photo from social media On 1 September, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Tverskoy District Court to remove Maria Volokh, a candidate for Moscow municipal deputies from Yabloko, from the elections. Earlier, District Judge sided with the Territorial Electoral Commission of the Tverskoy District in […]

Boris Vishnevsky’s blog post, 30.08.2022 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service After Grigory Yavlinsky recalled, on 24 August, the priority steps proposed by the Yabloko party back in February to prevent deaths in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the need to conclude a ceasefire agreement, a stream of accusations fell upon Yabloko […]

Press Release, 30.08.2022 Photo: The conference of the regional branch of Yabloko in the Pskov Region. / Photo by the Pskov Yabloko Press Service Yabloko web-site has published a list of registered candidates from Yabloko in the municipal elections in the Pskov region. The Pskov branch of Yabloko will compete for 244 mandates in 24 representative […]

Press Release, 27.08.2022 Photo: Police van which took Nikita Arkin to court / Photo by Nikolai Kavkazsky The Basmanny Court of Moscow sent Nikita Arkin, a candidate for municipal deputies from Yabloko in the Basmanny district, under arrest. Arkin was accused of “demonstrating extremist symbols” (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses which leads to […]

Press Release, 26.08.2022 Photo: Nikita Arkin / Photo from the social media Another Yabloko candidate for municipal deputies, Nikita Arkin, who was nominated by Yabloko to run in the Basmanny district of Moscow, was detained today. The police came to the office where Nikita works so that to detain him. Yulia Tregubova, a lawyer from […]

Press Release, 26.08.2022 Photo: Yabloko’s placard “Yabloko stands for peace!” A list of registered candidates from Yabloko in the municipal elections that will be held in different Russian regions in September has been published on the Yabloko web-site. Yabloko participates in election campaigns in 12 Russian reigons.

Press Release, 26.08.2022 Photo: Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno, Nikolai Kasyan and Tatyana Kasimova Candidates for Moscow municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno (the Yakimanka district), Nikolai Kasyan and Tatyana Kasimova (both in the Khamovniki district) were convicted under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which deprives them of the opportunity to be elected.

Press Release, 24.08.2022 Photo by Alexander Meridonov / Kommersant Police detained Yabloko candidates for municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno (Yakimanka municipal district of Moscow), Nikolai Kasyan (Khamovniki), and Tatyana Kasimova (Khamovniki), and Yabloko supporter Maria Volokh, who had been nominated to run in the Tverskoy municipal district of Moscow and had previously been withdrawn from the […]

Press Release, 22.08.2022 Photo: Sergei Smirnov / Photo from social media On 22 August, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found Sergei Smirnov, a member of the Yabloko party and a Yabloko candidate in the Tverskoy district in the Moscow municipal elections, guilty of “discrediting the army” (Article 20.3.3 Part 1 of the Code of […]

Press Release, 22.08.2022 Photo: Andrei Morev / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 August, the Territorial Electoral Commission of the Yakimanka District in Moscow decided to remove Andrei Morev, head of the Yakimanka Municipal Council in Moscow and Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko, from the forthcoming municipal elections. Earlier, Morev was found […]

Press Release, 19.08.2022 Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant The Yabloko party calls on the Central Electoral Commission to cancel the decision of the Moscow City Electoral Commission on the use of electronic voter lists in the upcoming Moscow municipal elections. Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent a corresponding appeal to Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Electoral […]

Press Release, 19.08.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service A complete list of registered candidates for Moscow municipal elections from Yabloko has been published on the party web-site. The list includes 151 candidates who will run in 43 municipal districts of Moscow.

Press Release, 17.08.2022 This Saturday, on 20 August, the Moscow office of Yabloko will host the Forum of Candidates for Municipal Deputies from Yabloko. The Forum participants will discuss the values ​​of the party in these elections, the relationship between the local agenda and political issues within the campaign, participation of young people in the […]

Press Release, 17.08.2022 Photo: Maria Volokh / Photo from social media On 17 August, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined the unregistered candidate for municipal deputies Maria Volokh in the amount of 60,000 roubles under Articles 20.2 (“violation of the rules for holding public events”) and 20.3.3 (“discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian […]

Press Release, 28.07.2022 Photo: Stanislav Yelagin / Photo from social media The electoral commission of the Krylatskoye district in Moscow refused to register another candidate for the municipal elections from the Yabloko party – Stanislav Yelagin, the current municipal deputy, city historic preservation and environmental activist. The formal reason for the refusal to register Yelagin […]