Press Release, 9.09.2021

Photo: Maxim Leonidov. Photo by Mikhail Afanasyev / Website of Maxim Leonidov

The Central Electoral Commission has registered the second list of election agents of the Yabloko party in the elections to the State Duma. The list includes professors of leading research centres, writers, lawyers, public figures, musicians, and journalists.

The following persons became Yabloko’s election agents:

Nadezhda Azhgikhina, journalist and widow of Yuri Shchekochikhin (a murdered investigative journalist and Yabloko MP);

Mikhail Balonov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene named after Professor P.V. Ramzayev;

Grigory Vaypan, head of the litigation practice of the Institute of Law and Public Policy;

Yulia Galyamina, politician, public figure, Candidate of Philological Sciences, director of the newspaper Our North;

Alisa Ganiyeva, writer and journalist;

Yevgeny Gontmakher, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Higher School of Economics;

Victoria Ivleva, journalist and photographer;

Vladimir Kara-Murza, politician and journalist;

Yuri Kostanov, Ph.D. in Law, lawyer, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group;

Maxim Leonidov, musician, the Secret group;

Maria Lyubicheva, musician, the Barto group;

Olga Malinova, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Higher School of Economics;

Galina Mikhaleva, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities;

Valery Perevalov, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Moscow Polytechnic University;

Alexander Pikhovkin, lawyer;

Dmitry Podosenov, Director of Oleg Garkusha’s art centre Garkundel;

Natalia Pushkareva, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, head of the Center for Gender Studies at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Andrei Strugatsky, public figure, son of the writer Boris Strugatsky;

Alexander Sungurov, Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg;

Tatiana Chernikova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Moscow State University for International Relations.

Earlier, the Central Electoral Commission registered as Yabloko election agents the leaders of the Yabloko party who do not participate in this elections: Grigory Yavlinsky, Alexeiy Arbatov, Viktor Sheinis, Sergei Ivanenko, Yelena Dubrovina and many others.