Archive for 'YABLOKO and Other Political Parties'
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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“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 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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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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Yabloko supports Boris Titov’s statement on the need for a ceasefire
Press Release, 27.06.2023 Photo: Boris Titov / Photo by Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant Yabloko supports the statement of Boris Titov, the leader of the Party of Growth, on the need for a ceasefire and is ready to join forces to achieve this, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov wrote on his Telegram channel. “We regard this statement in […]
Posted: June 28th, 2023 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties.
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Vladimir Ryzhkov demanded that the head of the Moscow police punish those destroying the Last Address signs put to commemorate the victims of Stalin’s repression
Press Release, 13.06.2023 Photo: Klimentovsky pereulok 9/1. Next to this door was the Last Address sign with the name of Zinaida Nikolayevna Maevskaya (shot on 29 December, 1937, and fully acquitted in 1989) It is reported that vandals have recently removed at least eight plaques installed on the houses where the victims of Stalin’s regime […]
Posted: June 14th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Liberal InternationaI names Vladimir Kara-Murza the 2023 Prize for Freedom Winner and demands his release
Press Release, 8.05.2023 Photo: Meeting of the LI Executive Committee / Photo from the LI web-site Liberal International (LI) announced journalist and public figure Vladimir Kara-Murza the winner of the 2023 Prize for Freedom. LI also adopted a resolution submitted by the Yabloko party demanding the release of Kara-Murza and immediate provision of medical aid […]
Posted: May 10th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family, YABLOKO Sister-parties, Без рубрики.
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On Russia and its citizens
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee of 24 March 2023 Published on 21.04.2023 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Mutual distrust and intolerance towards opponents have been deliberately imposed on people in modern Russia. Sanctions under “political articles” have appeared in the legislation and are being tightened; and political repressions are rapidly intensifying in […]
Posted: April 25th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko opens a school for candidates to the party members
Press Release, 4.04.2023 The curriculum includes lectures on the recent history of Russia and the history of Yabloko, classes on topical issues of modern Russian politics and the solutions offered by Yabloko. Lectures will be given by party leaders, experts in the field of international relations, human rights and environmental activities, social and economic policy. […]
Posted: April 5th, 2023 under Conferences and Seminars, Political Parties, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko participated in a picket against the ban on abortion
Press Release, 06.02.2023 On 5 February, a picket (which managed to obtain the permission of the authorities) against the ban on abortion was held in Kolyushchenko Square in Chelyabinsk. Yaroslav Shcherbakov, Chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko, as well as party members and supporters, came to the action to speak out against the ban […]
Posted: February 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Gender Faction, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko branch in the Sverdlovsk region held a political battle “The Image of Russia of the Future” in Yekaterinburg
Press Release, 5.12.2022 Photos by the Yabloko branch in the Sverdlovsk region On 3 December, the Yabloko branch in the Sverdlovsk region held a political discussion on the topic “The Image of Russia of the Future”. The organisers of the event aimed to learn how people of different ages and different political views assess the […]
Posted: December 8th, 2022 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The role and mission of Yabloko
Decision by the Yabloko Federal Political Committee No 160 of 20 October 2022, published on 1.11.2022 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko is the only socio-political institution left in Russia that opposes war, totalitarian transformation of the state, and disintegration of society. Over the three decades of post-Soviet Russia, we have many times offered […]
Posted: November 3rd, 2022 under Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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The Moscow City Electoral Commission did not provide Yabloko with access codes to observe remote electronic voting
Press Release, 15.09.2022 On 2 September, a week before the single day of voting in the municipal elections in Moscow, the Yabloko party proposed to install one of the remote electronic voting nodes on its equipment. Access to such a node provides control over the distributed storage and immutability of votes. At the moment, the […]
Posted: September 15th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Grigory Yavlinsky launched his book about the causes of what happened on 24 February
Press Release, 10.09.2022 On Saturday, 10 September, Grigory Yavlinsky launched his book “Underlying Causes. Why and How Did a Political System Appear, Which Has Resulted in the Events of 24 February, 2022?” the Moscow office of the Yabloko party.
Posted: September 10th, 2022 under Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Parties, Politics, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko rejects the so-called Smart Voting
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 […]
Posted: September 7th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Political Parties, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO and Other Political Parties, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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