“We cannot remain silent”: Yabloko and human rights defenders outraged at the detention in Moscow of Aina Mankiyeva, a “fugitive” from Ingushetia
Press Release, 15.01.2026
Photo: Aina Mankiyeva / Photo from social media
On the night of 15 January 2026, Moscow police detained 21-year-old Aina Mankiyeva, a native of Ingushetia. The reason was an accusation of theft brought by Aina’s relatives, to whom law enforcement officers were preparing to “hand her over” the following morning. The fact was that the young woman had fled from, in her own words, systematic beatings and in particular from “repeated rapes” at home, and had asked not to be sought and to be given the opportunity to sever all ties with her family. In their homeland, such “fugitives” may face death or disappearance.
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Posted: January 19th, 2026 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko has applied to Russia’s Supreme Court demanding an end to the practices of holding court hearings without public access
Press Release, 14 January 2026
Photo: The Supreme Court of Russia / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Nikolai Rybakov, Chair of the Yabloko Party, has sent an appeal to Gennady Lopatin, Director General of the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of Russia, demanding an analysis of the practices of scheduling court hearings at hours that effectively prevent members of the public and journalists from attending.
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Posted: January 14th, 2026 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Party to be represented in ten territorial electoral commissions in the Sverdlovsk Region
Press Release, 13.01.2026
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The formation of territorial electoral commissions (TECs) in the Sverdlovsk Region for a new five-year term has been completed. The regional branch of the Yabloko Party submitted 12 candidates, of whom ten were approved. All the candidates either hold higher legal education qualifications or have extensive experience working in the electoral system, meaning they are capable not only of preventing electoral violations but also of blocking violations by their fellow electoral commission members.
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Posted: January 14th, 2026 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In 2025, activists and members of Yabloko wrote over 12,000 letters to political prisoners
Press Release, 12 January 2026
Photo: Pre-New Year letter-writing action at Moscow Yabloko / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In the beginning of the new year, Yabloko summarises the results of its ongoing campaigns in 2025, including one of the most extensive and long-running – the action of writing letters to political prisoners. Each month, supporters and members of the party in dozens of Russian regions hold this event, regularly sending postcards and letters to support those facing criminal prosecution or imprisonment on politically motivated charges for their words, thoughts and responsible civic stance.
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Posted: January 14th, 2026 under Charity, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Venezuelan Warning
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.01.2026
Photo: Nicolás Maduro with his wife, accompanied by US security service officers, making their way to court in New York, USA // Photo by XNY/Star Max/GC Images
Why did the US attack Caracas and seize Maduro? The answer to this question is considerably simpler than the theories being published. The entire matter lies in the fact that Venezuela possesses the world’s largest oil reserves — over 300 billion barrels — and Donald Trump wants Venezuelan oil to be controlled by the United States in one way or another, something he has never concealed.
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Posted: January 12th, 2026 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Maritime Territory Yabloko organised a van load of fruit for children at orphanage in the Mysovaya village
Press Release, 28 December 2025
To give a bit of warmth to those who especially need care — that was the goal pursued by Maritime Territory Yabloko party members when they announced a fundraising appeal at the beginning of December for orphaned children in the village of Mysovaya. In the end, thanks to donations from caring people and Yabloko supporters, they managed to raise enough for an entire van load of fruit.
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Posted: December 29th, 2025 under Charity, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov spoke at a rally in defence of Lake Baikal in Irkutsk
Press Release, 27 December 2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke at a rally against the law on clear-cutting at Lake Baikal, which President Vladimir Putin signed on 15 December.
During his speech, Rybakov spoke about the cynicism of the deputies who introduced this law and recalled the investigation by Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre about how parliamentarians wrote the law on logging at Baikal to serve the interests of companies connected to them:
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Posted: December 29th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko hosts major New Year Charity Fair with NGOs whose beneficiaries learn adaptation through creative work
Press Release, 26.12.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 25 December, a New Year Charity Fair was held at the Yabloko party office in Moscow, featuring various inclusive NGOs whose mission is to help people with different disabilities adapt and socialise.
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Posted: December 28th, 2025 under Charity, Без рубрики.
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On the Challenges of the Time and Yabloko’s Position
Resolution of the Federal Council of Yabloko adopted on 6.12.2025, published on 26.12.2025
The social and political situation in our country and globally is highly complex and dangerous.
The international order that has been in place throughout the 80 post-war years is becoming a thing of the past, leading to a large-scale institutional crisis.
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Posted: December 26th, 2025 under Federal Council meetings, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations.
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“As Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, in the system’s view, I cannot be at liberty”: Maxim Kruglov spoke in court
Press Release, 25.12.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov at the Moscow City Court hearing on 25 December 2025
On 25 December, the Moscow City Court heard an appeal against the detention of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov, who is accused of spreading “fakes” about the army and has been held in a pre-trial detention centre since 2 October. The defence categorically insisted, and not for the first time, that there were no grounds for detention, that the investigation was making critical errors and could not justify its regular demand to keep Kruglov in custody. The prosecutor objected: there were no grounds for changing the preventive measure. Maxim Kruglov chose to deliver a speech at this hearing devoted to the judicial system.
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Posted: December 25th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary.
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Yabloko expresses support to lecturers, students and graduate students of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
Press Release, 24.12.2025
Photo by Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
It was reported today that Rosobrnadzor [the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science] has suspended the licence of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, also known as Professor Teodor Shanin’s University. For the years since its foundation in 1995, the university has become one of the best Russian universities for humanities.
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Posted: December 24th, 2025 under Education and Science, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Court decides to keep Maxim Kruglov in detention until 28 February 2026, even though the appeal against his previous detention order has yet to be heard
Press Release, 23.12.2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov and his lawyer Natalia Tikhonova in court on 23 December 2025 / Photo: screenshot from the video by the Moscow City Court Press Service
Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov will remain in detention until 28 February 2026. This decision was made today, 23 December 2025, by the Judge of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court. The court disregarded the defence’s arguments that Kruglov should not be detained at all.
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Posted: December 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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The campaign against the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences is destroying humanities education in Russia
Statement by Yabloko Chairman, 23.12.2025
Photo by Yevgeny Odinokov, RIA Novosti
Rosobrnadzor [the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science] has suspended the licence of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Prior to this, the supervisory authorities had banned the university from admitting students. The campaign against Professor Shanin’s university has been going on for almost ten years: the university has been stripped of accreditation, criminal cases have been opened against the rector and staff, and lecturers have been declared “foreign agents”.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2025 under Education and Science, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights.
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Yabloko charity fair to be held in Moscow on 25 December: hundreds of people cared for by NGOs will put their works up for sale
Press Release, 22.12.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
For the third year running, Yabloko is organising a charity New Year fair with participation of various inclusive NGOs whose mission is to help people with disabilities adapt to normal life. Many charitable organisations open workshops where their beneficiaries and volunteers knit, paint, sculpt and thus create diverse handicrafts. Such work not only integrates people into everyday life, but also helps the funds survive: by selling products at markets and fairs, the NGOs support the activities of the workshops, while fair visitors have the opportunity to buy wonderful New Year gifts.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2025 under Charity.
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Two court hearings scheduled for Maxim Kruglov on 23 December: appeal against arrest and extension of detention
Press Release, 22 December 2025
Photo: Maxim Kruglov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Perovsky District Court of Moscow scheduled two hearings on Maxim Kruglov’s case on the same day, 23 December: an appeal against the arrest of Yabloko Deputy Chairman Maxim Kruglov and an investigative motion to extend his detention. Both hearings will take place at the Perovsky Court with a six-hour interval between them.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Без рубрики.
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Representatives of Moscow Yabloko barred from participation in Moscow territorial electoral commissions: the Moscow Electoral Commission makes such decision for first time in Yabloko’s 33-year history
Press Release, 22 December 2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The Moscow Electoral Commission has formed territorial electoral commissions in Moscow for the next five years. For the first time in Yabloko’s 33-year history, not a single one of the 127 territorial electoral commissions of Moscow will have a party representative, announced Moscow Yabloko Chairman Kirill Goncharov.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2025 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov has been asked not to use environmental agenda to organise ‘protest activities’
Press Release, 22 December 2025
Photo: Lake Baikal / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has received an email from the Russian Ecological Society following his publication of a post criticising the law on logging at Lake Baikal. Rybakov was urged to “refrain from any attempts to use the environmental agenda to organise protest activities capable of leading to social confrontation”.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Без рубрики.
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‘Freedom comes from within’: Lev Shlosberg’s address from Pskov prison
Lev Shlosberg’s letter from remand prison, 18 December 2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg addresses the court via video link from remand prison
Dear friends, colleagues in the democratic Yabloko party, supporters near and far, people of peace and freedom whom I know and those whom I do not know,
On 9 December, the woman who delivers correspondence to prisoners asked me: “Are you in some sort of party?” “Yes, in Yabloko,” I replied. “You’re getting so many letters!” And I received the first pile of warm, sincere and heartfelt messages.
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Posted: December 18th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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On the danger of attempts to divide Russia and Europe with a new ‘Iron Curtain’
Decision of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko adopted on 2 December 2025, published on 17 December 2025
Photo by Vladimir Trefilov, RIA Novosti
The Russian authorities have declared the majority of European Union countries “unfriendly states”, employ offensive and aggressive rhetoric towards these countries and their leaders, accuse them of seeking to weaken and destroy Russia, reject European values as hostile, and accordingly shape public opinion within the country. The destruction of ties with Europe is accompanied by a reorientation of economic interaction towards China’s economy, which is rapidly growing and many times larger than Russia’s, towards manifestly disadvantageous strategic partnerships with countries such as North Korea, Iran and Venezuela.
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Posted: December 17th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Governance, Human Rights, Political Committee Decisions, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Без рубрики.
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