On persecution of independent cultural initiatives in Russia
Statement by the Yabloko Party, adopted on 20.08.2025, published on 22.08.2025
Photo: Bookshop Podpisniye Izdaniya (Books by Subscription) in St Petersburg. Photo by Nikolai Rybakov
In recent years, repressions in the cultural sphere have intensified in the country. Contrary to the direct prohibition in the Russian Constitution (Article 29 item 5), state censorship is rapidly expanding its boundaries and penetrating all spheres of public life – from politics and journalism to schools, universities, literature and cinema.
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Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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Yabloko honored the memory of the defenders of democracy who died under tanks during the August 1991 coup
Press Release, 22.08.2025
On 22 August, the leaders, members and activists of the Yabloko party commemorated those killed in the August 1991 coup. The traditional party action was attended by Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, his Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dorokhov, Federal Political Committee member Ivan Bolshakov, Adviser to Yabloko Chairman Grigory Grishin, party apparatus head Yevgenia Vlasova, Deputy Chairman of Moscow Yabloko Kirill Goncharov, as well as other members and supporters.
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Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko awarded compensation for unlawful removal from 2023 elections of the Yabloko candidates list in the Strugo-Krasnensk District
Press Release, 22.08.2025
Photo: Pskov Yabloko representative lawyer Vitaly Isakov / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Strugo-Krasnensk District Court granted Pskov Yabloko’s lawsuit against the Russian Ministry of Finance for compensation in connection with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation ruling of 18 March 2025, which confirmed constitutional violations in cancelling registration of seven unified candidates lists of Pskov Yabloko in the 2023 municipal elections, including the unified list of candidates for elections of deputies to the Strugo-Krasnensk District Assembly of the first convocation.
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Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Summing up the Yabloko candidate registration campaign for the 2025 elections
Press Release, 22.08.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In total, 172 Yabloko party candidates are participating in 39 electoral campaigns in 19 regions of the country under the unified party slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire agreement!”.
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Posted: August 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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No to attacks on citizens’ rights and control over their communications! Yes to freedom of choice and technological development!
Statement by the Yabloko Party, adopted on 20.08.2025, published on 21.08.2025
Photo by Yevgeny Razumny, Kommersant
What is happening today will go down in Russian history as a period when our society was thrown back in technical progress by years by decisions of the executive and legislative authorities. We are faced with restrictions on the use of popular social networks, YouTube has been effectively blocked, and in many regions there are failures in the operation of the mobile Internet in general.
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Posted: August 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko continues its monthly campaigns in Moscow and regional offices to support political prisoners
Press Release, 20.08.2025
“Dear friends and colleagues, St. Petersburg Yabloko members! Thank you for the long letter and postcards with words of support and caring. Touched,” imprisoned historian and head of the Karelian Memorial Yuri Dmitriyev wrote in a response to the St. Petersburg Yabloko. Yuri Dmitriyev is sentenced to 15 years in prison and in dire need of letters from freedom.
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Posted: August 20th, 2025 under Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko awarded compensation for unlawful removal from 2023 elections of party list in Loknya District, the Pskov region
Press Release, 18.08.2025
Photo: Leader of Loknya Yabloko list in the 2023 elections Maria Skorodumova and party lawyers Vitaly Isakov and Maxim Kopytov in front of the courthouse in Loknya settlement / Photo by the regional branch of the party
Bezhanitsy District Court (court presence in Loknya) satisfied Pskov Yabloko’s lawsuit against the Russian Ministry of Finance for compensation in connection with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation ruling of 18 March 2025, which confirmed constitutional violations in cancelling registration of seven unified candidates lists of Pskov Yabloko in the 2023 municipal elections, including the unified list of candidates for elections of deputies to the Loknya District Assembly.
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Posted: August 19th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Arthur Gaiduk asks Federal Antimonopoly Service to check legality of restricting calls in Telegram and WhatsApp
Press Release, 15.08.2025
Photo: Arthur Gaiduk / Photo by Pskov Yabloko
Pskov Regional Assembly deputy from Yabloko Arthur Gaiduk sent an appeal to Federal Antimonopoly Service head Maxim Shaskolsky requesting a check of the legality of Roskomnadzor’s (Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications) decision to restrict calls for Russians in foreign messengers Telegram and WhatsApp.
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Posted: August 19th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Nikolai Rybakov: “What are the expectations from the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska?”
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 15.08.2025
Photo: Screenshot from LIDOVE NOVINY website
The meeting of the leaders of the US and Russia will be the seventh in total and the first since the beginning of Donald Trump’s new presidential term. Before this, leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump met six times. The last was at the G20 summit in Japan in June 2019. Expectations from this meeting among the media and all who dream of ending the conflict in Ukraine are enormous. I spoke with journalist Jiří Just from the Czech media LIDOVE NOVINY about what I would like to expect from this conversation.
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Posted: August 19th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations.
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Yabloko programme for 14 September 2025 elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 14.08.2025
Novgorod Yabloko published its programme for the regional and local elections in the Novgorod Region due on 14 September 2025.
The Novgorod branch of the party states that Yabloko is participating in the elections in order to achieve the following goals:
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Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Pskov Yabloko awarded first compensations for unlawful removal of party lists from 2023 elections
Press Release, 13.08.2025
Photo: Pskov Yabloko candidates in the 2023 elections Nikolai Barkhatov and Lyudmila Kochneva, and lawyer Vitaly Isakov / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
On 12 August, Opochka District Court and Pushkinogorsk District Court satisfied Pskov Yabloko’s lawsuits against the Russian Ministry of Finance for compensation for cancelling registration of the Yabloko’s unified lists in the 2023 municipal elections. The unlawfulness of removing Yabloko’s lists and the right of the party to receive damage compensation was recognised by the Constitutional Court on 18 March.
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Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2023, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Materials revealed that led to Ksenia Cherepanova being recognised as “foreign agent”: among them news about repressions against Yabloko and criticism of local self-government reform
Press Release, 13.08.2025
Photo: Ksenia Cherepanova / Photo: Novgorod Yabloko
The Novgorod Region Ministry of Justice Department has drawn up an administrative protocol against member of the Novgorod Yabloko Bureau Ksenia Cherepanova for failing to self-report as a “foreign agent”. The protocol lists materials whose publication on Ksenia Cherepanova’s Telegram channel allegedly occurred with foreign support. The list includes the following materials: seven reposts on Telegram of other “foreign agents'” materials and three posts criticising local self-government reform, including a message about persecution of Vologda Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Yegorov, party Federal Bureau member Alexander Yefimov and leader of the Ryazan regional branch of Yabloko Konstantin Smirnov. The protocol of the Novgorod Ministry of Justice provides no evidence of foreign influence. The court hearing on Ksenia Cherepanova’s case for failing to self-report will take place at Novgorod District Court on 20 August.
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Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Regional and Local Elections, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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25 years since the tragedy. Nikolai Rybakov on the submarine Kursk disaster and the drowned sailors
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 12.08.2025
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov, Vladimir Dorokhov and Kirill Goncharov at the memorial to the crew of the nuclear submarine cruiser Kursk in Moscow / photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Today, together with colleagues, we came to the memorial to the crew of the nuclear submarine cruiser Kursk in Moscow to honour the memory of the dead sailors on behalf of all Yabloko members.
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Posted: August 13th, 2025 under Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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ALASKA: THE ISSUES THAT SHOULD ACTUALLY BE DISCUSSED BY RUSSIA AND THE USA
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 12.08.2025
Picture: ChatGPT
The international press is in state of disarray and chaos, including even the most authoritative publications: discussions of the forthcoming meeting of the leaders of the Russia Federation and the United States of America in Alaska are accompanied by utter incomprehension and irritation, derogatory comments, irrelevant and inappropriate wishful thinking and gloomy forecasts. This is so regrettable, as in actual fact substantive talks between the Russian and American Presidents in the current circumstances might well serve as a useful and even landmark development.
It goes without saying that the one-to-one meeting in Alaska will not suffice to resolve the key issues required for the fundamental resolution of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict – these problems cannot be resolved without Ukraine and European countries.
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Posted: August 12th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Human Rights, Russia-China Relations, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Trilogy of lawlessness: municipal filter destroys political alternative
Statement by the Bureau of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko, 11.08.2025
Photo: Yabloko candidate Viktor Shalyakin / Photo by Novgorod Yabloko
On 8 August 2025, the Electoral Commission of the Novgorod Region refused to register Yabloko Party candidate Viktor Shalyakin for the Governor elections under the pretext of “insufficient signatures from municipal deputies”. We consider the refusal to register the only opposition candidate a “political order” aimed at depriving citizens of the right to choose.
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Posted: August 12th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Lev Shlosberg is accused of posting videos but the links lead to another person’s page, not his
Press Release, 8.08.2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court / Photo by the regional branch of the party
On 7 August, the 38th magistrate’s court in Pskov held another, already eighth hearing on the criminal case against Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg for allegedly evading “fulfilment of foreign agent obligations”. The investigation believes that the politician posted several videos on his VKontakte page, which he administers, without the so-called “foreign agent” label.
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Posted: August 8th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The threat humanity faces again. Yabloko hosted a screening and discussion of the film “Children of Hiroshima”
Press Release, 7.08.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 6 August, on the tragic 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow hosted a screening of the documentary film by Japanese film director Kaneto Shindo “Children of Hiroshima”. The film was shot in 1952 – seven years after the terrible tragedy that the Japanese experienced.
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Posted: August 7th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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Yaroslav Shcherbakov on ex-Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky being placed on wanted list: worked and ran away
Yaroslav Shcherbakov’s blog post, 7.08.2025
Photo: The plaques state that (1) Boris Dubrovsky, Governor of Chelyabinsk Region from 24.09.2014 – 19.03.2019, participated in a cartel agreement. The established damage amounts to over 20 billion roubles. (2) Mikhail Yurevich, Governor of Chelyabinsk Region from 22.04.2010 – 15.01.2014, accused of taking bribes. The established damage amounts to over 3 billion roubles.
Today it was reported that ex-Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky is put on the wanted list by authorities.
Since 2019, the Yabloko party’s Anti-Corruption Policies Centre has been seeking from the Interior Ministry to open a criminal case and appealed its termination to the Public Prosecutor General’s Office.
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Posted: August 7th, 2025 under Elections, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Thousands of Hiroshimas and thousands of Nagasakis
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 6.08.2025
Photo: After the atomic bombing. Hiroshima, Japan. 17 November 1945 // U.S. Department of Energy
These days mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On 6 August 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, equivalent in power to 13-18 kilotons of TNT. Three days later, on 9 August 1945, another American bomber, the B-29 Bockscar, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, equivalent to 19-21 kilotons of TNT. The two explosions instantly killed 80,000 people, and by the end of 1945 the total death toll ranged from 150,000 to 246,000 people.
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Posted: August 6th, 2025 under Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Court keeps Yabloko Deputy Chairman Lev Shlosberg under house arrest until 8 October
Press Release, 6.08.2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg in court on 11 June 2025 / Photo by Stepan Baranov
The decision to extend the preventive measure was made by a judge of the Pskov City Court. The hearing was held in a closed session. Journalists were asked to leave the courtroom before the court ruling was announced.
It should be noted that a criminal case was opened against Lev Shlosberg for repeated “discrediting of the army” due to debates with historian Yury Pivovarov, in which the politician defended the position of the necessity of an immediate ceasefire. On 11 June, he was placed under house arrest.
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Posted: August 6th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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