Press Release, 20.10.2025 On 13 November, Yabloko will hold a new charity auction in support of political prisoners’ families. The action will be the seventh in a row, and the funds raised will traditionally go to help relatives and lawyers of political prisoners. The event will take place simultaneously on two platforms — online and […]

Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau of 14.10.2025, published on 19.10.2025 Photo: Andrei Sakharov speaks at the 1st Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR, 1989 / Photo by Sergei Guneyev, RIA Novosti Fifty years ago, on 9 October 1975, Academician Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his many years of defending […]

Statement by the Yabloko Federal Bureau of 14.10.2025, published on 17.10.2025 The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko Party expresses protest against the politically motivated persecution of Maxim Kruglov and resolute disagreement with the charges brought against him.

Press Release, 17.10.2025 Photo: Yevgenia Lomakova / Photo from social media A terminally ill 20-year-old Muscovite Yevgenia Lomakova, who suffers from cystic fibrosis — a genetic disease in which the body gradually “blocks up” the lungs and digestive organs — could die in a remand prison. The young woman has been in detention for many […]

Press Release, 13.10.2025 The Yabloko party announces the start of open enrolment for the Federal Party School. This is already the fifth intake of the educational project, whose graduates become young public politicians, experts and managers — that is, the party’s active personnel reserve. Enrolment opens on 13 October and will continue until 1 November […]

Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 10.10.2025 Although Donald Trump has indeed participated in resolving a number of protracted conflicts, let us not forget that he has previously taken many actions directed against peace. Moreover, efforts in the name of peace should be dictated primarily by concern for people, not personal ambitions.

Press Release, 10.10.2025 Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko Yabloko party Deputy Chairman must return to house arrest. This decision was made today, 10 October, by the Pskov Regional Court. He granted the public prosecutor’s protest, which challenged the ruling of the first instance judge who had changed the politician’s […]

Press Release, 10.10.2025 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by Konstantin Lenkov The Third Cassation Court of St Petersburg overturned the decisions of lower courts—the district, and then the city court — regarding “Boris Vishnevsky’s participation in the activities of an undesirable organisation”. Vishnevsky’s complaint about unlawful administrative prosecution was granted “partially”, the ruling runs. This […]

Press Release, 10.10.2025 Arrested Yabloko Deputy Chairman of Yabloko Maxim Kruglov, via the FSIN-letter service, asked one of his colleagues to convey words of gratitude to all who support him: “Dear friends, Hello to everyone! I would like to convey my heartfelt gratitude to you for your support and warm words — they warm my […]

Press Release, 8.10.2025 Photo: Grigory Gribenko at the monument to Babr, the symbol of Irkutsk / Photo by Pavel Kharitonenko’s Telegram channel In the centre of Irkutsk, Yabloko activists held single pickets in support of their Moscow colleague Maxim Kruglov and all political prisoners. In addition, participants’ placards contained calls to cease fire and emphasised the […]

Press Relese, 7.10.2025 On 7 October, the court changed the preventive measure for Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg: instead of house arrest, it imposed a ban on certain actions. The order came into force today, 8 October, and is valid indefinitely, until the court verdict.

Press Release, 7.10.2025 Photo: Anna Shteinbakh / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko Anna Shteinbakh, 30, has become the new Chair of the Yabloko party’s regional branch in Kaliningrad. Anna’s colleagues elected her by a majority vote at the general meeting of the regional branch, which took place past week. As head of the […]

Press Release, 6.10.2025 Lawyer Natalia Tikhonova has appealed the arrest of Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party. In the complaint against the chosen preventive measure, the defence emphasises that the court had no grounds whatsoever for imposing a preventive measure on Kruglov at all, let alone one as severe as detention.

Statement by Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, 2.10.2025 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky and Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service We know Maxim Kruglov well. He has been a member of the Yabloko party for more than 20 years, holds a Candidate of Political Science degree, and is a specialist […]

Press Release, 2.10.2025 Photo: Maxim Kruglov in the courtroom / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow sent Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov to a remand centre until 29 November. He has been charged under Article 207.3, Part 2, point “d” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (dissemination […]

Press Release, 1.10.2025 Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service According to the Investigative Committee, a criminal case has been opened against Yabloko party Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov under Article 207.3, Part 2, point “d”   of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use […]

Press Release, 20.09.2025 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky and film director Alexander Sokurov (left) at the launch of the book “Chronicles of the Revived Arkanar” by Boris Vishnevsky at the Mayakovsky Library in St Petersburg, 7 April 2016 / Photo by Alexander Chizhenok, Kommersant A lawsuit on administrative violation has been filed with St.Petersburg City Court by […]

Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2025 Heads of the member states of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada. 15-17 June 2025 // Wikimedia The hostilities between Russia and Ukraine continue against the backdrop of declarations on the need for a ceasefire that are at times sincere, but more frequently hypocritical. Fighting of such magnitude and duration was […]

Press Release, 25.09.2025 On Tuesday, 7 October, the central office of the Yabloko party will host a book launch by Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Katrina vanden Heuvel ” Hope Springs Eternal” published as part of a project by the “Association of Researchers of Russian Society – 21 Century”. The event starts at 7:00 PM.

Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 25.09.2025 Photo: Screenshot from broadcast of Donald Trump’s speech in the UN In just one day, Donald Trump launched scathing criticism of “green” energy, migration policy and the UN. However, his most telling statements were about the Ukrainian conflict, which, among other things, contradict his own administration’s official position.