Archive for 'State Duma Elections 2026'
Central Electoral Commission unanimously registers Yabloko’s list for State Duma election
Press Release, 29.07.2026 Photo: Yabloko’s State Duma candidates and party Chair Nikolai Rybakov at the Central Electoral Commission of Russia on 29 July 2026 The Central Electoral Commission of Russia (CEC) registered Yabloko’s federal list of candidates on 29 July 2026 for the election of deputies to the 9th convocation of the State Duma. The […]
Posted: July 29th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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How to vote for a ceasefire
A Frank Conversation with Grigory Yavlinsky Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 27.07.2026 Watch on YouTube choosing your preferred language for subtitles Are there elections in Russia today that fundamentally change power? No, no such democratic institution exists in our country any more. That is how the reforms were carried out in the 1990s. Do people in Russia […]
Posted: July 29th, 2026 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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On 29 July, Central Electoral Commission to consider registration of Yabloko’s list of candidates for the State Duma election
Press Release, 28.07.2026 Tomorrow, 29 July, at 11:00, the Central Electoral Commission of Russia (CEC) will consider, at its meeting, the question of registering Yabloko’s federal list of candidates for the election of deputies to the State Duma.
Posted: July 28th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Без рубрики.
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Supreme Court of Russia upholds ruling in “demonstration of extremist symbols” case against Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov
Press Release, 28.07.2026 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by Alexander Nemenov, AFP The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has completed its review of the complaint by Yabloko Chair Nikolai Rybakov, leaving unchanged the ruling that had found him liable under Article 20.3(1) of the Code of Administrative Offences (displaying extremist symbols). The judicial panel […]
Posted: July 28th, 2026 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, Без рубрики.
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Kirill Goncharov asks Moscow City Electoral Commission to clarify Muscovites’ right to a paper ballot instead of remote electronic voting in State Duma election
Press Release, 27.07.2026 Photo: Kirill Goncharov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Chair of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov has sent an official request to Olga Kirillova, Chair of the Moscow Electoral Commission, regarding the procedure for voters to exercise their right to receive a paper ballot in the 2026 State Duma election, including for […]
Posted: July 28th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Novgorod Region Electoral Commission registers Yabloko’s list of candidates for regional parliament elections
Press Release, 26.07.2026 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko Today, 26 July, the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission unanimously registered Yabloko’s list of candidates for the elections to the Novgorod Regional Duma. The list comprises 19 candidates across all ten regional groups. The list is headed by Anna Cherepanova, Deputy Chair of Yabloko, leader […]
Posted: July 28th, 2026 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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Rodina Party seeks court order to overturn registration of Yabloko’s list for Karelian parliament elections
Press Release, 25.07.2026 Photo: Yabloko list leaders Inna Boluchevskaya, Olga Tuzhikova and Anna Pavlova The Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia has accepted for consideration an administrative claim filed by the regional branch of the Rodina (Motherland) political party seeking to overturn the 17 July resolution of the Electoral Commission of the Republic of […]
Posted: July 28th, 2026 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 and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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St. Petersburg Electoral Commission bars Yabloko from Legislative Assembly election
Press Release, 24.07.2026 Photo: The party’s delegation before submitting documents to the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission / Photo by St. Petersburg Yabloko At a meeting on 24 July, the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission refused to register Yabloko’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the Legislative Assembly. If this decision is not overturned, […]
Posted: July 24th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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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Nikolai Rybakov sends open letter to Central Eelctoral Commission Chair Ella Pamfilova over the impending refusal to register Yabloko’s list for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly elections
Press Release, 24.07.2026 Photo: Ella Pamfilova / Photo by Dmitry Dukhanin, Kommersant Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov has sent an open letter to the Chair of the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, Ella Pamfilova, concerning what the party considers to be the impending refusal to register Yabloko’s list for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly elections.
Posted: July 24th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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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Anna Cherepanova accused of “extremism” and registered as an election candidate on the same day
Press Release, 23.07.2026 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, 23 July, Deputy Chair of Yabloko and leader of the Novgorod branch of the party Anna Cherepanova was first accused of “displaying extremist symbols” and then registered as a candidate in the regional parliament elections.
Posted: July 24th, 2026 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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The Sverdlovsk Region Electoral Commission certifies Yabloko’s list of candidates for the regional Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 23.07.2026 Photo: Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly candidates Leonid Buyny, Konstantin Kiselyov, Vladimir Sobyanin, and Yaroslav Shcherbakov, head of Yabloko’s party list for the State Duma elections, who came to Yekaterinburg from Chelyabinsk to support his colleagues / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Sverdlovsk Region Electoral Commission has certified Yabloko’s list of candidates […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2026 under Elections, Governance, 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 representatives in the Leningrad Region and Yekaterinburg submit candidates’ documents to the regional Electoral Commissions for the Legislative Assemblies
Press Release, 21.07.2026 Photo: a file with Yabloko’s slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear”! /Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Tuesday, 21 July, Yabloko representatives in the Leningrad Region and Yekaterinburg submitted candidates’ documents for the regional parliaments to the regional Electoral Commissions. It should be noted that the party […]
Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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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Documents “disappear” for three Yabloko candidates at St. Petersburg district electoral commissions. They now face possible refusal of registration
Press Release, 21.07.2026 Photo: Anton Kostik, Dmitry Khorzov, and Yaroslav Tambovtsev District electoral commissions in St. Petersburg have issued Yabloko’s candidates for the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly with notices citing supposedly identified deficiencies in the documents (i.e. “failure to provide” the necessary documents) required for registration. Yet all the documents were submitted in full, as […]
Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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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Novgorod Yabloko leader Anna Cherepanova submits candidates’ documents to the Electoral Commission for registration
Press Release, 20.07.2026 Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Anna Cherepanova, Chair of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and the party’s authorised representative, submitted documents to the Novgorod Region Electoral Commission for registration of the party’s list of candidates in the election to the Novgorod Regional Duma.
Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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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Moscow Region Yabloko submits candidates’ documents to the Electoral Commission for the Moscow Regional Duma
Press Release, 20.07.2026 Photo: The team of Moscow Region Yabloko before submitting the candidates’ documents for the regional parliament / Photo by Moscow Region Yabloko On Sunday, 19 July, the team of Moscow Region Yabloko submitted to the Regional Electoral Commission the documents of the candidates put forward by the party for the Moscow Regional […]
Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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 candidate for the State Duma and the Pskov Region Legislative Assembly Tatyana Pasman fined for “displaying Nazi symbols”
Press Release, 18.07.2026 Photo: Tatyana Pasman / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On Saturday, 18 July, a judge of the Pskov City Court found teacher and Yabloko candidate Tatyana Pasman guilty of “displaying Nazi symbols, or the symbols of extremist organisations” (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Offences Code) and fined her 1,000 roubles. Tatyana […]
Posted: July 21st, 2026 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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A court in Kirov fines an environmentalist and Yabloko State Duma candidate for “displaying extremist symbols”
Press Release, 18.07.2026 Photo: Archive photo from the party, a 2011 rally in Moscow in support of Maxim Petlin A court in Kirov has fined Vladislav Arkhipov, an environmentalist and Yabloko candidate for the State Duma on both the federal list and in a single-mandate constituency, under the article on “displaying extremist symbols”. He may […]
Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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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The Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission certifies Yabloko’s candidate list for the regional Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 18.07.2026 Photo: The submission of documents by Yabloko candidates to the Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission on 15 July 2026 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Today, 18 July, the Kaliningrad Region Electoral Commission certified Yabloko’s candidate list for the regional Legislative Assembly. It should be noted that the list comprises 36 candidates […]
Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pskov Yabloko submits unified candidate list for the regional Legislative Assembly to the Regional Electoral Commission for certification
Press Release, 17.07.2026 Photo: Artur Gaiduk, Chairman of Pskov Yabloko; party candidates Vera Rebrova, Yana Ivanova and Alexei Kanishchev; Pskov Yabloko lawyer Maria Uryupina; and financial commissioner Yulia Doronda / Photo by Pskov Yabloko Authorised by the Conference, Artur Gaiduk, Chairman of the Pskov regional branch of Yabloko, and his deputy Yana Ivanova submitted a […]
Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Electoral Commission of Karelia registers Yabloko’s candidate list for the Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 17.07.2026 Photo: Inna Boluchevskaya, Olga Tuzhikova, and Anna Pavlova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Republic of Karelia has become the first region where the Electoral Commission has allowed Yabloko candidates to stand in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the region.
Posted: July 21st, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, 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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