Court will conduct a hearing on extending the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov
Press Release, 22.07.2025
Photo: Konstantin Smirnov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 23 July, the Sovietsky District Court of Ryazan will consider the investigator’s petition to extend the arrest for Konstantin Smirnov, Editor-in-Chief of the Internet media Vid Sboku (Side View) and deputy of the Dubrovichy Council from Yabloko. The journalist and politician has been in custody for six months in a criminal case of extortion. Konstantin Smirnov does not admit guilt.
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Posted: July 23rd, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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“We will definitely still have the opportunity to speak openly about freedom and our ideals.” Yabloko invites all to join its regular action of writing letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 22.07.2025
A third member of the Yabloko party has been deprived of freedom for his beliefs and needs support. The leader of Kamchatka Yabloko, Vladimir Yefimov, began serving a two-year sentence in the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky penal colony in the Far East as part of a criminal case on “discrediting the army”. The journalist, founder of the TVK television company – the first non-state television company in the USSR, as been imprisoned, but does not lose hope for a better future.
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Posted: July 22nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko demands the resignation of Acting Governor of Novgorod Region Alexander Dronov
Statement by the Bureau of the Novgorod Region branch of Yabloko, 21.07.2025
Photo: Alexander Dronov and Stanislav Shultsev / Photo from the social media of Acting Governor of Novgorod Region
On 18 July 2025, [media] reported about the arrest of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Novgorod Region Stanislav Shultsev. He was with receiving a bribe worth 250 million roubles. Stanislav Shultsev is a member of the team of Andrei Nikitin, the former Governor of the Novgorod Region, now Minister of Transport of Russia, and Alexander Dronov, his associate and now Acting Governor of the Novgorod Region. Stanislav Shultsev worked in the Government of the Novgorod Region for eight years, overseeing road management and transport issues. Throughout this time, the road contracting system was based on non-competitive procurement, placing large lots worth about a billion roubles each in competitions and auctions, and concluding contracts with the same contractors. The absence of competition did not lead to reduced procurement prices or budget savings and opened up opportunities for abuse.
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Posted: July 21st, 2025 under Economy, Human Rights, Russian Economy, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko has nominated 26 candidates for elections in Tomsk and Seversk
Press Release, 21.07.2025
Photo: Vasily Yeremin and Yevgeny Kaverzin, lead candidates of the Yabloko list and incumbent Tomsk City Duma deputies
The Tomsk regional branch of the party nominated 16 people on the list and five candidates in single-mandate constituencies for elections to Tomsk City Duma at the conference of the regional Yabloko branch which took place on 19 July. Another five candidates are standing for election as deputies to the Seversk City Duma. The electoral campaign in the region will be conducted under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: July 21st, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Dagestan will participate in municipal elections under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom!”
Press Release, 21.07.2025
Photo: Albert Esedov and Vagid Devletkhanov
Incumbent Yabloko deputies in Ikrinskoye village council of Kurakh District and in Shikhikent village council of Suleyman-Stalsky District, Albert Esedov and Vagid Devletkhanov, are standing for election to the councils again – their five-year terms expire in September.” The candidates’ electoral campaigns will be conducted under the party-wide slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: July 21st, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosted a public lecture by Ilya Vaskin “Reformers in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
Press Release, 18.07.2025
The current political regime in Iran, which marked its 46th anniversary in February 2025, has just undergone a powerful test. Military operations by Israel and the US have posed a serious challenge to it. If changes were to become possible in the country, who could implement them? What is the Iranian reformist movement, from which the current President Masoud Pezeshkian emerged? Are there supporters of liberal democracy in Iran? Where do they come from? Why do they hold such views? All these issues will be discussed by Ilya Vaskin, senior lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern, Caucasian and Central Asian Studies at the Higher School of Economics and author of the Telegram channel “Iranian Politics”.
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Posted: July 18th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars.
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Yabloko participates in elections to the Cheboksary City Assembly
Press Release, 18.07.2025
Photo: Yabloko candidates Viktor Stenshin and Vladislav Arkadyev
The regional branch of the Yabloko party in Chuvashia has nominated three candidates for the Cheboksary City Assembly, who are conducting their electoral campaigns under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. Each Yabloko candidate needs to submit to the electoral commissions about 100 signatures from city residents in support of their nomination by 4 August. Elections in Cheboksary will take place on 14 September.
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Posted: July 18th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko is conducting electoral campaigns in three cities of the Vologda region: Vologda, Cherepovets and Vytegra
Press Release, 17.07.2025
Photo: Vologda / Photo by Usadboved, Creative Commons
Seven candidates for Peace and Freedom have been nominated for elections to the city dumas of Vologda and Cherepovets, as well as to the representative body of the first convocation of Vytegra Municipal District. All candidates need to submit to the electoral commissions from 14 to 50 signatures in support of their nomination by 2 August.
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Posted: July 17th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko candidates will participate in municipal elections in four cities of the Moscow region
Press Release, 17.07.2025
Photo: Conference of Moscow regional branch of Yabloko / Photo by regional branch of the party
Yabloko has nominated 16 candidates in multi-mandate electoral constituencies in Podolsk, Shatura, Balashikha and Fryazino. The candidates’ electoral campaign will be conducted under the party-wide slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. For registration in the elections, all Yabloko candidates need to submit to the electoral commission voters’ signatures in support of their nomination.
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Posted: July 17th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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“They will classify everything live and free as extremism”
Press Release, 16.07.2025
Photo: Kirill Goncharov and Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yaboko Press Service
The State Duma Committee on State Building has approved amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, proposing fines of up to 5,000 roubles for the search for extremist materials on the Internet and gaining access to them.
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Posted: July 17th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko in Ivanovo has nominated candidates for Peace and Freedom in the Ivanovo City Duma elections
Press Release, 16.07.2025
Photo: Ivanovo / Photo by GSerhiy, Creative Commons
The regional branch of the Yabloko party has nominated candidates for elections to the eighth convocation of the Ivanovo City Duma. The list of Yabloko candidates includes seven candidates who will compete for deputy mandates in the unified electoral constituency, as well as one candidate in single-mandate constituency No. 8. Yabloko party candidates will conduct their campaign under the slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: July 17th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Krasnoyarsk Yabloko has nominated candidates for municipal elections in Sosnovoborsk District
Press Release, 16.07.2025
Photo: Alexander Zagaynov, Viktor Zagorodnikov, and Galina Nikitina
Krasnoyarsk Yabloko has nominated candidates for the elections to the Sosnovoborsk District Council. Seven candidates on the Yabloko list of seven candidates and one single-mandate candidate will conduct their campaign under the party-wide slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: July 17th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Teams of Yabloko candidates are conducting electoral campaigns in Rostov-on-Don and Shakhty
Press Release, 15.07.2025
Photo: Rostov-on-Don / Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg, Creative Commons
Yabloko has nominated teams of candidates to conduct electoral campaigns in two cities of the Rostov-on-Don region: Rostov-on-Don and Shakhty. To register its candidates in the Rostov-on-Don City Duma elections, the Yabloko team consisting of 13 candidates, must provide 4,500 signatures from city residents to the electoral commission by 1 August. Candidates for Peace and Freedom in the Shakhty City Duma elections must also provide signatures – about 40 signatures for each candidate. Elections in both cities will take place on the single voting day – 14 September.
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Posted: July 15th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A voice for Peace and Freedom will be heard in Kostroma City Duma elections
Press Release, 15.07.2025
Photo: Alexander Lazutin / Photo from the personal archive
Yabloko has nominated Alexander Lazutin, Chairman of the Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko and General Director of the agricultural enterprise Shunga, as a candidate for the Kostroma City Duma elections. The candidate has three days left to collect 50 signatures in support of his nomination. Alexander Lazutin is nominated in electoral constituency No. 18.
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Posted: July 15th, 2025 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Nizhny Novgorod has nominated candidates for City Duma elections
Press Release, 15.07.2025
Photo: Nizhny Novgorod / Photo by Aleksey Igonin, web.archive.org
The party’s key political demand in the elections remains peace and freedom, and an immediate ceasefire agreement. Such political slogans will be voiced in electoral constituencies No. 25 and 26 in Nizhny Novgorod, where Yabloko candidates are being nominated. For registration in the elections, Yabloko candidates must collect 140 signatures each from city residents in support of their nomination by 29 July.
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Posted: July 15th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yevgeny Gontmakher on overcoming social stratification: We need a different economy
Press Release, 14.07.2025
Photo by Alexander Manzyuk, Kommersant
The Esli Byt Tochnym (To Be Precise) project has published an analysis of Russians’ incomes from 2022 to the first quarter of 2025, according to which inequality is growing in the country. Despite sanctions for some and state assistance for others, the rich have become richer and the poor poorer. Researchers note that the growth of inequality in 2023 in our country is record-breaking since the early nineties, while in 2022 inequality sharply decreased due to economic shocks for the rich and state support for the poor, over 2023-2024 the Gini index (an indicator of the level of inequality in society) increased by 2.5%, to 0.408.
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Posted: July 14th, 2025 under Economy, Russian Economy.
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Memory means responsibility, not a personality cult
Statement by the Kaliningrad regional branch of the Yabloko Party, 14.07.2025
Photo: Alexander Dudin. Demonstration. 1989
“We must become a country of convictions, without persecution and violence… All this will only be possible when the foundations for the revival of a totalitarian regime and uncontrolled power disappear.” A. D. Sakharov, from the collection “Speaks”, New York, 1974.
In connection with the opening of a bust of Iosif Dzhugashvili (Stalin) at the Baltic Fleet Officers’ House in Kaliningrad on 9 July 2025, the Kaliningrad regional branch of the Yabloko Party considers it necessary to express its position.
We consider the revival of Stalin’s personality cult unacceptable – a figure under whose rule millions of USSR citizens were subjected to political repressions, exiled, imprisoned in camps, and executed. Among them were thousands of officers, commanders, and sailors. These facts are officially recognised by the state: the Russian Federation law “On the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repressions” directly indicates the necessity of restoring justice and memory of those who suffered.
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Posted: July 14th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko in Bashkortostan nominated a candidate for the by-election to the Agidel City Council
Press Release, 10.07.2025
Photo: Alexei Akimenko / Photo by the regional branch of the party
Alexei Akimenko, Yabloko member and a former Agidel City Council deputy, was elected as a candidate for single-mandate constituency No. 8 in the by-election to the City Council of the city of Agidel. To register for the elections, the candidate must submit to the electoral commission 14 signatures in support of his nomination. Alexei Akimenko’s election campaign will be held under the general party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”
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Posted: July 11th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The voice for Peace and Freedom will be heard in the municipal elections in the Ryazan region
Press Release, 10.07.2025
Photo: Maria Rakcheyeva / Photo by the regional branch of the party
The current deputy of the Kriushinsky rural settlement of the Klepikovsky district of the Ryazan region from the Yabloko party, Maria Rakcheyeva, will take part in the elections of deputies of the Klepikovsky municipal council. Electoral district No. 1, in which Maria Rakcheyeva is running, includes the towns of Kriusha, Malinovka, Ryabinovka, Tyukovo, as well as twenty small villages. To register for the elections, the Yabloko candidate must submit to the electoral commission 14 signatures in support of her nomination.
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Posted: July 11th, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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