Archive for 'Political Parties'
Yabloko member of St.Petersburg Electoral Commission Pavel Shapchits: “We have no doubts about the reliability of the election results — we are certain they are unreliable”
Press Release, 24.09.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Pavel Shapchits, a voting member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission representing Yabloko, was the only member of the electoral commission to vote against approving the results of elections in St. Petersburg. He wrote a dissenting opinion in which he explained in detail why the election […]
Posted: September 24th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Address to Yabloko supporters ahead of the 2026 State Duma elections
Press Release, 17.09.2026 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov meeting with Yabloko supporters in St. Petersburg Dear friends, We are writing to you on the eve of the elections to remind you of the situation as voting begins, how to vote for the Yabloko party, and what we suggest doing where no Yabloko candidates remain on the ballot. […]
Posted: September 17th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko candidates for the Karelia Legislative Assembly elections in 2026
Press Release, 16.09.2026 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Yabloko candidates to the Legislative Assembly of Karelia and Petrozacodsk City Council / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko’s list of candidates for the Republic of Karelia’s Legislative Assembly election had been registered by the Electoral Commission of the Republic of Karelia; however, on 29 July, the […]
Posted: September 16th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Sverdlovsk Region, police are seeking to remove from the elections three State Duma candidates and four Regional Legislative Assembly candidates
Press Release, 15.09.2026 Photo: Top row: Konstantin Kiselyov, Vladimir Sevostyanov, Vladimir Sobyanin. Bottom row: Shana Ogney, Vladimir Sobyanin, Alexander Kudelkin, Vladimir Sevostyanov In Sverdlovsk Region, three Yabloko candidates for the State Duma and four Yabloko candidates for single-mandate constituencies in the regional Legislative Assembly are now at risk of being removed from the elections. The police […]
Posted: September 15th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko sets out voting guidance for 20 September elections – Plan B
Press Release, 9.09.2026 Ahead of Russia’s 20 September elections, Yabloko has issued guidance to its supporters under the name “Plan B” — a call to vote as a matter of conscience, civil responsibility and desire for peace.
Posted: September 11th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko will be listed as number 2 on the ballot paper for the State Duma election
Press Release, 5.08.2026 Photo: Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov at the drawing of lots at the Central Electoral Commission on 5 August At the drawing of lots held today, 5 August, at the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov drew ball number 2. Yabloko will appear under this number on the ballot paper […]
Posted: August 5th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko demands Moscow City Electoral Commission check legality of United Russia’s mass-scale campaigning on residential building noticeboards
Press Release, 30.07.2026 Photo: Ivan Bolshakov with his letter to Chair of the Moscow Electoral Commission Olga Kirillova / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Ivan Bolshakov, one of the leaders of Yabloko’s federal list in the State Duma election and the party’s representative at the Central Electoral Commission of Russia, has sent a request […]
Posted: July 30th, 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 Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Supreme Court of Karelia removes Yabloko’s list of candidates from election following claim by the Rodina party
Press Release, 29.07.2026 Photo: List leaders Inna Boluchevskaya, Olga Tuzhikova and Anna Pavlova Today, 29 July, the Supreme Court of Karelia heard an administrative claim by the regional branch of the Rodina (Motherland) party seeking to overturn the ruling of the Electoral Commission of the Republic of Karelia of 17 July, which had registered Yabloko’s list […]
Posted: July 30th, 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, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Members of St. Petersburg Electoral Commission from pro-government parties United Russia, the CPRF, LDPR and New People support barring Yabloko from election
Press Release, 26.07.2026 Photo: Yabloko representatives submitting candidates’ documents to the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission on 9 July / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The St. Petersburg Electoral Commission refused to register Yabloko’s list of candidates for the election of deputies to the 8th convocation of the Legislative Assembly. The decision was taken on […]
Posted: July 28th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, 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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The 1996 presidential election: 30 years on
Grigory Yavlinsky’s website, 1.07.2026 Watch on YouTube choosing your preferred language for subtitles or English for the sound track Thirty years ago, in the presidential election, we tried to prevent the creation of a corporate oligarchic state in Russia and proposed ways of correcting the reforms of the first half of the 1990s, which had […]
Posted: July 1st, 2026 under Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Privatisation in Russia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
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“We have extensive experience of surviving in sulphuric acid”: interview with Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov
Novaya Gazeta. Baltiya, 11.06.2026 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Forty-seven-year-old human rights defender and environmentalist Nikolai Rybakov is the fourth chairman of the Yabloko party. He joined the party in 1995 and rose from ordinary member to the head of Russia’s largest and still-unbanned anti-war organisation. Rybakov became party chairman in 2019, meaning that […]
Posted: June 15th, 2026 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Judiciary, Political Parties, Protection of Environment, 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 Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The purpose of elections in Russia today
Alexei Melnikov’s channel on Dzen.ru, 22.05.2026 On 20 September 2026, Russia will hold elections to the State Duma, heads of regions, and legislative assemblies. We use the word “elections”, yet any clear-headed person will surely understand that our elections today — like the political process in our country as a whole — bear little resemblance […]
Posted: May 29th, 2026 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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“The message to everyone is as follows: no change — and the key words are ‘security’ and ‘sovereignty'”: Ivan Bolshakov on the first in 2026 session of the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, 31 March 2026 Photo: Ivan Bolshakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 30 March, the first session of the newly formed Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation was held. Ivan Bolshakov, member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, head of the party’s Analytical Centre, and Yabloko’s representative on the CEC, […]
Posted: April 1st, 2026 under Elections, Governance, Political Parties, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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The first lecture in the Yabloko Party University: Political scientist Ivan Bolshakov to speak on political parties in the post-truth era
Press Release, 27.03.2026 Photo: Ivan Bolshakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 2 April, the first lecture of the Yabloko Party University will be held at Yabloko’s central office in Moscow. It will be delivered by Ivan Bolshakov, a political scientist and head of Yabloko’s Analytical Centre, who will speak on political parties in […]
Posted: March 27th, 2026 under Conferences and Seminars, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko nominates Ivan Bolshakov for the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, 18.02.2026 Photo: Ivan Bolshakov at a meeting of the Yabloko’s Federal Council in 2025 / Photo: by the Yabloko Press Service The Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party has put forward Ivan Bolshakov’s candidacy to the State Duma and the President for appointment to the new composition of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC). […]
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Elections, Political Parties.
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Mentorship project for Yabloko supporters and candidates to party members is launched in Moscow
Press Release, 17.02.2026 Photo: A mentorship project meeting in Moscow / Photo by Moscow Yabloko On 15 and 16 February, Moscow Yabloko held the first meetings of participants in the mentorship project, which the Moscow branch of the party had announced at the beginning of February. Within the first days of the project, dozens of […]
Posted: February 19th, 2026 under Political Parties, Yabloko Youth, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“Total Counteraction”: Anna Cherepanova on how the Mayor and Chairman of Veliky Novgorod’s Duma are blocking Yabloko’s work
Press Release, 19.01.2026 Anna Cherepanova, Yabloko Deputy Chair and MP from Yabloko in the Veliky Novgorod City Duma, has made a statement in which she described in detail how the Novgorod Mayor, Alexander Rozbaum, and the Chairman of the Novgorod Duma, Konstantin Somov, are sabotaging Yabloko’s work. According to Cherepanova, she has to fulfil her […]
Posted: January 20th, 2026 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov urges the State Duma to retain annual declarations by deputies
Press Release, 16 December 2025 Photo by Konstantin Kokoshkin, Kommersant Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has sent a corresponding appeal to Vyacheslav Volodin, the State Duma Chairman. In his letter, Rybakov emphasised that the Yabloko party views this initiative as a direct threat to the foundations of public oversight, government accountability and the fight against […]
Posted: December 17th, 2025 under Governance, YABLOKO against Corruption, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Ivan Bolshakov: Preserving people’s lives and freedom, peace and human rights – this is true patriotism
Speech at the Federal Council on 6.12.2025, published on 7.12.2025 Photo: Member of the Federal Political Committee Ivan Bolshakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service You know, it is not very appropriate when a party bestows unique characteristics upon itself and describes itself in exceptional terms. However, sometimes circumstances develop in such a way […]
Posted: December 8th, 2025 under Elections, Federal Council meetings, Freedom of Assembly, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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