The Ministry of Natural Resources of Udmurtia will provide Yabloko with data on the quality of drinking water in Izhevsk
Press Release, 18.06.2025
Photo: Izhevsk Pond / Photo by Vyacheslav Bukharov, Wikimedia Commons
The appeal to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic of Udmurtia was sent on the initiative of Elizaveta Khusnutdinova, a member of the regional Bureau of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia. Yabloko is requesting information about the quality of water in Izhevsk Pond – one of the sources of centralised water supply for the city of Izhevsk, alongside Votkinsk Reservoir and artesian wells. For many years, the authorities have been unsuccessfully fighting pollution of the artificial water body stretching 12 kilometres. Meanwhile, about a third of Izhevsk’s population drinks water from the pond.
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Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly submitted a bill to abolish the discriminatory ban on participation in elections for “foreign agents”
Press Release, 18.06.2025
Photo: Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg / Photo by the St.Petersburg parliament Press Service
The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly has prepared and submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament a draft federal law on restoring passive electoral rights for Russian citizens included in the “foreign agents” registry.
According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 32, Part 2), every Russian citizen has the right to be elected to state and local government bodies. This right can only be restricted for persons declared legally incapacitated by a court or held in places of detention. There are no mentions of “foreign agents” in the Constitution.
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Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An appeal has been sent to the Moscow City Duma with a proposal to install a memorial sign at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s death
Press Release, 17 June 2025
Photo: People’s memorial at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s death on Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
An initiative group of 11 people, including Yabloko party leaders Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky, has sent an appeal to the Moscow City Duma’s Commission on Monumental Art with a proposal to install a memorial sign at the site of Boris Nemtsov’s death.
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Posted: June 17th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Chelyabinsk Yabloko nominated candidates for the Chelyabinsk Region Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 16 June 2025
Yabloko proposes that South Urals residents support candidates in single-mandate constituencies participating in the elections to the Chelyabinsk Region Legislative Assembly under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. To participate in the elections, each Yabloko candidate needs to collect more than 2,500 signatures from district residents. The conference of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the party took place on 12 June.
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Posted: June 17th, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Anna Cherepanova warned against abuse of the “municipal filter” in the Novgorod Region gubernatorial elections
Press Release, 16 June 2025
Photo: Anna Cherepanova / Photo by the Novgorod regional branch of Yabloko
On 14 September, early elections for the head of the region will take place in the Novgorod Region. Anna Cherepanova, Chairwoman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party and candidate in the gubernatorial elections in 2017 and 2022, has called on the Electoral Commission to take measures to counter violations of the law in the upcoming elections. The politician calls for recording such violations as the participation of officials from regional and local administrations in collecting signatures from municipal deputies required for registration of a candidate in the race, and organised transportation of municipal deputies to notaries so that to notarise their signatures in favour of registration of certain candidates. The leader of Novgorod Yabloko also demands the elimination of administrative pressure on deputies, threats and prohibitions on signing for a Yabloko candidate.
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Posted: June 17th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial elections 2022, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pskov Yabloko demands the lifting of all types of freedom restrictions on Lev Shlosberg and will seek the termination of his criminal case
Statement by the Regional Council of Pskov Yabloko, 16.06.2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg’s support group at the court hearing on choosing his preventive measure in Pskov on 11 July 2025 / Photo by Stepan Baranov, Pskov Yabloko
We firmly condemn the detention of Lev Shlosberg on the contrived charge of “discrediting the army”. We believe that Lev Shlosberg’s actions lack both the event and the elements of a crime. His placement under house arrest is an act of political persecution for his incorruptibility, principled stance and independence, and an attempt to exclude him from legitimate political work.
Lev Shlosberg is a well-known Russian politician, historian, journalist, human rights defender, and elected deputy of two convocations of the Pskov Regional Assembly, who for many years has spoken honestly and openly about the problems of the Pskov region and the entire country. He was not afraid to speak with people sincerely and without hypocrisy.
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Posted: June 16th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Woman is a human being, not a demographic unit: the Yabloko faction in St.Petersburg parliament spoke against the ban on “incitement to abortion”
Press Release, 11.06.2025
On 11 June, the Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg adopted at third reading a law introducing administrative liability for “incitement to abortion”. This definition could encompass everything from personal conversation to medical consultation. The Yabloko faction in the St Petersburg parliament is categorically against this repressive measure.
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Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Elections, Gender Faction, Governance, Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Lev Shlosberg has been placed under house arrest as part of a criminal case concerning “repeated discrediting of the army”
Press Release, 11.06.2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg in the court room / Photo by Nikolai Rybakov
The investigation insisted on such a preventive measure for the Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party during a court hearing at Pskov City Court today. The judge also closed the hearing at the request of the investigator and public prosecutor. The preventive measure has been imposed until 8 August. At court, Lev Shlosberg was supported by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov.
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Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko marked the 75th anniversary of Yuri Shchekochikhin’s birth
Press Release, 10.06.2025
The legendary Soviet and Russian journalist, investigator, playwright and politician was remembered at the office of the party he represented in the State Duma until his death in 2003.
The evening featured speeches by journalist and writer Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Yuri Shchekochikhin’s widow; Novaya Gazeta editor Sergei Sokolov; director Alexei Simonov; Vladimir Mukusev, journalist and presenter of the popular Vzglyad TV programme; Pavel Zaitsev, lawyer and former investigator with the Investigative Committee under the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs; politicians Nikolai Rybakov and Grigory Yavlinsky and other. Songs under guitar were performed by Yabloko politician Boris Vishnevsky and composer Sergei Nikitin.
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Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Applications are being accepted for the international essay competition “Young about Young” named after Yuri Shchekochikhin
Press Release, 10.06.2025
Citizens of Russia and other countries aged 18-35 who write in Russian may participate in the competition.
Requirements for works:
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Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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A criminal case for repeated “discrediting of the army” filed against Lev Shlosberg. Shlosberg arrested, the trial will determine a preventive measure
Press Release, 10.06.2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg / Photo by the Pskov branch of Yabloko
A criminal case has been filed against Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Lev Shlosberg for repeated “discrediting of the army” (Article 280.3, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) due to his debate with historian Yuri Pivovarov, in which the Shlosberg defended the need for a ceasefire as soon as possible.
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Posted: June 11th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“A law laying a mine of extremism”. Maxim Kruglov on the first results of the educational filter for foreign children
Press Release, 9.06.2025
Photo by Irina Buzhor, Kommersant
Only 4% of children of immigrants to Russia have been admitted to comprehensive schools after passing the entrance filter introduced for them – a mandatory exam in the Russian language. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote about this figure with some pride on his Telegram channel. According to Vyacheslav Volodin, as of 22 May, 2,868 applications for migrant children to participate in the Russian language testing were submitted, and 498 children (17%) were admitted to the exam. “In the two months of functioning of the new rules, they have proven their effectiveness,” Volodin writes. Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Maxim Kruglov writes about what the two months of discriminatory rules actually show, and where this laws and further draft laws “on control over migrants” may lead to.
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Posted: June 10th, 2025 under Education and Science, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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Novgorod Yabloko calls its supporters to participate in the local elections together with the Yabloko team
Press Release, 3.06.2025
Photo: The Novgorod Yabloko team / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
In September, elections will be held to the Dumas of 15 districts of the Novgorod region: Borovichskaya, Valdaiskaya, Volotovskaya, Lyubytinskaya, Malovisherskaya, Marevskaya, Novgorodskaya, Okulovskaya, Parfinskaya, Poddorskaya, Soletskaya, Starorusskaya, Khvoyninskaya, Chudovskaya, and Shimskaya. Novgorod Yabloko calls on its supporters to take part in the election campaigns.
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Posted: June 4th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Pskov Yabloko is forming a team of candidates for municipal and city elections
Press Release, 3.06.2025
In September, elections will be held to the district assemblies of Velikoluksky, Gdovsky, Dedovichsky, Kuninsky, Novosokolnichesky, Ostrovsky, Palkinsky, Pskovsky, Pustoshkinsky, Pushkinogorsky and Sebezhsky districts, as well as by-elections for a deputy of the Pskov City Duma in single-mandate district No. 3. Pskov Yabloko is forming a team of candidates and invites its supporters to join.
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Posted: June 4th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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A search was conducted at the home of Roman Morozov, a member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko and lawyer for political prisoner Igor Baryshnikov
Press Release, 29.05.2025
Photo: Roman Morozov / Photo by the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko
The so-called “inspection of the premises” in Roman Morozov’s apartment was conducted by decision of the Chairman of the Regional Court. The ruling, which Morozov was given to read, stated that he was a “partner” of lawyer Maria Bontsler. According to the ruling, Bontsler was “suspected” of treason. Roman Morozov and Maria Bontsler were lawyers for Kaliningrad political prisoner Igor Baryshnikov.
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Posted: May 29th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2024, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The court left the leader of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention for another two months
Press Release, 29.05.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Soviet Court of Ryazan left the journalist and Chairman of the Ryazan Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov in pretrial detention for another two months. Smirnov has been in custody for four months, since 31 January. He does not admit his guilt in the case of “extortion”. Smirnov’s colleagues from Yabloko – the party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov and the head of the Yabloko staff Yevgenia Vlasova – came to the court hearing in Ryazan.
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Posted: May 29th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Exchange as a step towards ceasefire
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 28.05.2025
Photo: The Economist
The largest prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict has been completed.
Against the backdrop of rising tensions – statements about the lifting of restrictions by several EU countries on the use of weapons supplied to Ukraine for strikes deep into Russia and large-scale attacks on Ukrainian targets – two thousand people have been saved.
This is the largest prisoner exchange in over three years. On Friday, 23 May, on the first day [of the exchange], 390 people from both sides were exchanged on the Belarus territory. On Saturday, a further 307 people were exchanged, and 303 people on Sunday.
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Posted: May 28th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko planted thirty young fruit trees and bushes in Ivanovo
Press Release, 27.05.2025
Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
As part of the traditional spring clean-up day, the regional branch of the Yabloko party planted thirty young fruit trees and bushes in a garden (Skver Energetikov) in Ivanovo. Residents of nearby houses helped plant the seedlings and thanked Yabloko for the initiative.
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Posted: May 27th, 2025 under Charity, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko announces a book collection for the library in Novo-Steklyannoye village, Karelia
Press Release, 27.05.2025
Photo from Adobe Stock
The Yabloko Party announces an annual book collection dedicated to the Day of Libraries. This year, the collection will take place for the library of the village of Novo-Steklyannoye in the Pudozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia. The campaign will last until 11 June inclusive.
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Posted: May 27th, 2025 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Masked men raided the Yekaterinburg Yabloko office because of a denunciation
Press Release, 25.05.2025
Photo: The action of writing letters to political prisoners in Yekaterinburg Yabloko in April 2025 / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
On 25 May, Yabloko held its regular action of writing letters to political prisoners at the office of the party branch in Yekaterinburg. Masked men raided the Yekaterinburg Yabloko office because of a denunciation. There is no connection with the leaders of the regional branch yet, the circumstances are being clarified. According to some reports, the masked men took ten participants of the action away with them.
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Posted: May 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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