Press Release, 18.07.2014

The YABLOKO party will run in the elections in 34 regions af Russia including gubernatorial elections in three regions. The elections will take place on September 14, the single voting day.

YABLOKO’s candidates run for the position of governor in the Pskov region, the Vologda region and the Republic of Bashkiria. Lev Shlosberg, head of YABLOKO local branch and deputy of the Pskov Legislative Assembly, runs for governor of the Pskov region. Heads of the local YABLOKO braches in the Vologda region (Roman Morozov) and in the republic of Bashkiria (Sergei Naumkin) also run in the gubernatorial elections. However, YABLOKO’s candidate for governor of St.Peterburg Anatoly Golov, YABLOKO Bureau member, wasn’t registered.

YABLOKO lists of candidates and candidates in the single-mandate constituencies are nominated for the elections to Legislative Assemblies in 11 regions: the Altai Territory, the Primorsky Territory, the Khabarovsky Territory, the Bryansk region, the Vologda region, the Tula region, Moscow, the republics of Altai, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Tatarstan.

Chair of the Amur branch of YABLOKO Natalya Kalinina runs for the mayor of Blagoveshchensk. YABLOKO’s Konstantin Klimov runs for the mayor of Bratsk.

YABLOKO candidates run for city Duma deputies in Blagoveshchensk, Bryansk, Murmansk, Elista.

Municipal campaigns will take place in 22 regions. YABLOKO candidates run for heads of local authorities in the Amur region (Berezovsky rural council), the Vladimir region (Kovrov), the Vologda region (Yustuzinsky municipal district), the Irkutsk region (Bratsk), the Kaliningrad region (“Kurshskaya Kosa”), the Krasnodar Territory (Dolzhanskoye, Bratkovskoye, Dinskoye, Novotitarovskoye Platnirovskoye, Dyadkovskoye, Zhuravskoye rural settlements), the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Yesaulsky rural council), the Moscow region (Dmitroksky district, Dedinovskoye and Znamenskoye rural councils, Dubna, Proletarsky, Reutov, Korolyev) the Novgorod region (Savinskoye rural council), the Primorye Territory (Ussuriysk), the Chelyabinsk region (Troitsk).

YABLOKO candidates will run for Deputy Councils in the Arkhangelsk region (Novodvinsk), the Vladimir region (Kovrov, Kolchugino), the Irkutsk region (Bratsk), the Kaliningrad region (Ozersky district, Bagrationovsky district), the Krasnodar Territory (Yeyskoye, Dolzhanskoye, Dinskoye, Dyadkovskoye, Novovelichkovskoye, Novotitarovskoye, Staromyshastovskoye, Khutor Kazachy rural settlements), the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Yesaulsky rural council), the Leningrad region (Vsevolzhsk, Vyborg, Sosnovy Bor, Lebyazhye, Gatchina), the Moscow region, the Murmansk region (Appatity), the Novgorod region (Savinskoye rural settlement), the Primorsky Territory (Yussuriysk), the Republics of Adygea (Maykop district), Bashkortostan (Khaybulinsky district, Oktyabrsky), Karelia (Derevyanskoye rural settlement), Mari El (Kuznetsovskoye rural settlement), the Ryazan region (Rybnovsky district), the Tula region, the Khabarovsk Territory (Komsomolsk-on-Amur), the Yaroslavl region (Rybinsk).

The Moscow region branch of YABLOKO nominated 220 candidates. Dmitry Trunin runs for mayor of Dubna, Irina Moreva runs for head of Korolyev Moscovsky city district.

YABLOKO nominated 45 candidates to run in the Moscow City Duma elections including party and non-party activists who signed the political Memorandum. At the moment 44 candidates are registered. One candidate Victor Fedoruk supposedly won’t manage to run in the elections because of the scandal with the Just Russia party.