Press release, 11.06.2014

The Moscow YABLOKO Regional Council recommended candidates to be considered by the party conference to run in 41 precincts in the Moscow parliamentary elections. The meeting of the Regional Council lasted for seven hours and finished late at night. The candidates represented YABLOKO, other democratic parties and movements and independent candidates.

The candidates presented themselves to the Regional Council and answered questions of the council members. There were 68 candidates for 45 Moscow precincts. The discussion of the candidates was conducted behind closed doors.

There was a hot discussion. In four electoral districts none of the candidates received a majority of votes from the Regional Council. So it was decided to conduct further consultations on these precincts.

The Regional Council developed the following principle for nomination: to nominate those non-YABLOKO activists who agree to sign the memorandum and the agreement on sharing the same values and principles, however, priority was given to YABLOKO’s candidates.

Six candidates out of 41 are not YABLOKO party members, and four candidates joined YABLOKO at the Regional Council meeting.

Several party leaders were nominated to run in the Moscow City Duma elections: renowned environmentalist Alexei Yablokov, economist and politician Sergei Ivanenko, a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society Development and Human Rights Andrei Babushkin, human rights activist Valery Borshchyov and Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO Irina Kopkina.

The list also contains many young people: Semyon Burd, Kirill Goncharov, Alexander Gnezdilov, Sergei Grigorov, Nicholai Kavkazsky and Maxim Kruglov.

The Regional Council nominated the following non-YABLOKO democratic candidates: Mikhail Peskov, Chair of the Moscow branch of the Democratic Choice party, Varvara Gryaznova, activist of the 5th of December party, Igor Nikolayev, Director of the Institute of Strategic Analysis, Viktor Fedoruk, expert in the housing and utilities sector, Alexei Karpukhin, civil activist and Elena Grischenko, environmental activist.
List of candidates as of precincts:

1 – Eugenia Vlasova

2 – Mikhail Peskov

3 – postponed

4 – Irina Kopkina

5 – Elena Morozova

6 – Sergei Grigorov

7 – Marina Ivannikova

8 – Igor Nikolayev

9 – Vladimir Samoshin

10 – Inna Mertzalova

11 – Andrei Babushkin

12 – Vladimir Khodakov

13 – Svetlana Savitskaya

14 – Maxim Kruglov

15 – Alexei Krapukhin

16 – Elena Grishchenko

17 – Nicholai Pinyasov

18 – Semyon Burd

19 – Vera Karasyova

20 – Alexander Molochov

21 – Svetlana Rodionova

22 – Marina Karavayeva

23 – Eugene Prochik

24 – postponed

25 – Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko

26 – Yuri Medovar

27 – Victor Fedoruk

28 – Alexei Yablokov

29 – postponed

30 – Varvara Gryaznova

31 – Dmitry Novikov

32 – Kirill Goncharov

33 – postponed

34 – Georgy Ogorodnikov

35 – Valery Borschyov

36 – Grigory Semyonov

37 – Elena Rusakova

38 – Ilya Khandrikov

39 – Dmitry Sysoyev

40 – Olga Radaeva

41 – Dmitry Tupikin

42 – Mikhail Menshikov

43 – Sergei Ivanenko

44 – Alexander Gnezdilov

45 – Nikolai Kavkazsky

Vera Kichanova (centre)

Mikhail Peskov, Chair of the Moscow branch of the Democratic Choice party

Municipal deputies Inna Mertzalova and Grigory Semyonov

YABLOKO Regional Council member Alexander Gnezdilov

Municipal deputy Elena Rusakova

Sergei Ivanenko, economist, member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee

Yulia Galyamina, activist of the 5th of December party

Elena Grischenko, environmental activist

YABLOKO’s Kirill Gontcharov and Nikolai Kavkazsky

Vyacheslav Naganov from the Progress Party

YABLOKO’s Maxim Kruglov

Galina Mikhaleva, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch, and Sergei Mitrokhin, Chairman

Municipal deputy Mikhail Menshikov

Mikhail Petrov, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, and Varvara Gryaznova, activist of the 5th of December Party

Municipal deputy Natalia Chernyshova

Alexander Vinokurov, owner of the Dozhd television channel

Municipal deputy Maxim Katz