Press Release, 14.09.2020

During regional and local elections in Russia of 13 September, 48 deputies from the Yabloko party were elected in 12 regions. The deputies of the Yabloko party will work in the Kostroma Regional Duma, as well as in the city councils of Tomsk, Kaluga and Kostroma. Party representatives were also elected to the municipal councils of Bashkiria, Dagestan, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Moscow, Novgorod, Omsk, Samara and Pskov regions.

Support for Yabloko in the elections to the Tomsk City Duma has almost doubled, to 9.34%. Vasily Yeryom, Editor-in-Chief of MK in Tomsk and current deputy of the Tomsk City Duma, was elected deputy for another term. Two more deputies were elected in single-mandate constituencies. They are: Yevgeny Kaverzin, entrepreneur in the field of waste processing, and Artyom Kanarev, IT specialist.

The Yabloko list of candidates overcame the threashold and received 6.9% of the votes in the elections to the city council of the town of Seversk, a satellite Tomsk. The leader of the list, Vladimir Petrov, was elected deputy.

Businessman Maxim Guterman became a deputy of the Kostroma Regional Duma, he was elected in a single-mandate constituency. Nikolai Sorokin, head of the Kostroma Memorial human rights society, who also ran from Yabloko in the district, will work in the Kostroma City Duma. It should be also noted that the Yabloko party was represented in the regional and city parliaments and in the previous convocation.

Alexei Kolesnikov was re-elected deputy of the Kaluga City Duma. He won in a single-mandate constituency.

Yabloko party lists won the elections in the Nevelsky and Sebezhsky districts of the Pskov region, receiving over 11% of the vote. Andrei Vikhman and Sergei Melnikov became deputies, respectively. Another 19 deputies were elected to the councils of nine districts of the region.

Thus, nine deputies were elected in single-mandate constituencies in the Gdovsky region: Konstantin Gorozhanko in the Dobruchinskaya volost; Daria Andreeva, Svetlana Andreeva, Igor Bogarsky, Konstantin Utkin in the Polnovskaya volost; Sofia Sazonova and Abdulkhalik Seferov in the Samolvovskaya volost; and Valery Tsango in the Chernevskaya volost.

In the Dnovsky district (the Pskov region), two Yabloko candidates were elected in single-mandate districts: Nikolai Voronsky in the urban settlement of Dno and Yelena Dmitriyeva in the Iskrovskaya volost. Yulia Belyaeva became a deputy in Nevel. Mikhail Lesikov was elected in Novosokolniki. Gennady Kolesnik was elected in Opochka. Maria Ivanova and Olga Davydova were elected in Porkhov.

Nikolai Kuzmin became a deputy in Zavelichenskaya volost of the Pskov region. Nikolay Shparenkov  won a mandated in the Prigorodnaya volost of the Pustoshkinsky district. Anton Selivonek became deputy in the urban settlement of Idritsa, the Sebezh district.

The Yabloko party’s list has overcome the 5% barrier in the elections to the City Council of Podolsk near Moscow. The leader of the list, Alexei Starchak, was elected deputy.

Four deputies from the party will work in the Council of Deputies of the City of Okulovka, the Novgorod region: Tatyana Rumyantseva, Lyubov Vasilyeva, Svetlana Finageyeva and Alexander Byzov. Two more deputies were elected to the Council of Deputies of the Borkovsky rural settlement – Oleg Apelsinov and Andrei Gormin. Mikhail Klopsky will become a member of the Borovenkovo ​​settlement council, and Valentina Beletskikh will become a deputy in the Council of Deputies of the Polavsky rural settlement (the Parfinsky district).

Albert Esedov, Chairman of the Dagestan branch of Yabloko, became a deputy of the Ikrinsky rural settelment council (the Kurakhsky district). Vagit Davletkhanov was elected a deputy of the Shikhikent rural settlement council of the Suleiman-Stalsky district of the Republic.

Two candidates from Yabloko were elected as deputies to the councils of two districts of Bashkiria: Razap Yunusov became a deputy in the Iglinsky district and Parvazitdin Apkarimov won a mandate in the Kushnarenkovsky district.

Candidates from the party also received two mandates in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Viktor Golovkin became a deputy to the Council of the city of Zheleznogorsk, and Daria Martemyanova got a mandate in the Council of the Berezovsky district.

Alyona Gavrilova became a deputy of the Kostinsky rural settlement of the Muromtsevsky municipal district of the Omsk region.

Vadim Alekseyev was elected to the council of the Oktyabrsky inner-city district of Samara.

Yevgeny Maksimov became a deputy of the Council of the Lazurnensky rural settlement of the Krasnoarmeisky district of the Chelyabinsk region.

“The voting day showed that Yabloko’s candidates are winning elections even in such terrible conditions. It is even difficult to call it an election, when all [our candidates] are removed from elections, intimidated, taken into the courts,” Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov said.

Rybakov also recalled that for one reason or another, about a third of the candidates were not admitted to the elections – as a rule, those who had the highest chances of winning.

The Yabloko Chairman thanked voters for supporting the party throughout the country. “We have a lot of work ahead of us – the state in our country must be rebuilt after decades of planned destruction. Our work on the [Yabloko draft of the new Constitution for Russia] Constitution of Free People and the election campaigns of candidates for these elections is a great contribution to this work,” Rybakov concluded.