Yabloko in Kurgan will participate in the City Duma elections
Press Release, 2.07.2025
Photo: Yelena Panova / Photo from the personal archive
Kurgan Yabloko has nominated Yelena Panova, Chair of the regional branch of the party, as a candidate for the Kurgan City Duma elections in single-mandate electoral constituency No. 3. For registration in the elections, the candidate for Peace and Freedom must provide the electoral commission with about 1,400 signatures from district residents in support of her nomination by 11 July.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Voronezh Yabloko has nominated candidates for the Voronezh City Duma elections
Press Release, 2.07.2025
Photo: Volunteers of Voronezh Yabloko headquarters / Photo by the regional branch of Yabloko
Past week the Bureau of the regional branch of Yabloko nominated a list of 18 candidates for the Voronezh City Duma elections. The candidates’ electoral campaign is conducted under the common Yabloko slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”. Yabloko must collect 4,500 signatures from Voronezh residents in support of registration of the Yabloko candidates list by 29 July.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Novosibirsk Yabloko will participate in elections for the City Council and local self-government
Press Release, 2.07.2025
Photo: Yabloko candidates Pyotr Kopylov and Valentin Fedotov
The conference of the Novosibirsk regional branch of the Yabloko party has nominated Pyotr Kopylov, 38-year-old entrepreneur and public activist, a candidate for the Novosibirsk City Council elections in electoral constituency No. 4, and Valentin Fedotov, 70-year-old supplementary education teacher, inventor and environmental activist, for the Council of Deputies of Suzun Municipal District (electoral constituency No. 14). Both candidates are conducting their electoral campaigns under the common Yabloko slogan “For Peace and Freedom! For the Ceasefire Agreement!”.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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In Novoaltaysk, a candidate for Peace and Freedom from the Yabloko party will participate in the elections
Press Release, 2.07.2025
Photo: Artyom Reka / Photo from the personal archive
The Bureau of the Altai regional branch of the Yabloko party has nominated a candidate for the by-elections of deputy to the Novoaltaysk City Assembly. Artyom Reka, 37, a car mechanic and Yabloko party member, has been nominated to run in single-mandate electoral constituency No. 16.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko in Tatarstan has nominated a candidate for the Kazan City Duma
Press Release, 2.07.2025
Photo: Candidate Sofia Fyodorova / Photo by the regional branch of the party
The Bureau of the regional branch of the Yabloko party in Tatarstan has nominated Sofia Fyodorova as a candidate for deputy of the Kazan City Duma in a single-mandate constituency. To be registered in the elections, the candidate needs to collect 250 signatures in support of her nomination.
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Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Elections, Human Rights, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Farewell to nuclear disarmament?
Strategic stability on the brink of collapse
Independent Military Review, 1.07.2025
Photo: Alexei Arbatov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
In six months, the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) expires. However, the topic of nuclear disarmament is completely absent from the official discourse of the great powers against the backdrop of the Ukrainian and Iranian-Israeli conflicts. Executive Editor of “NG-Dipkurier” (“NG Diplomatic Courier”) Yury PANIEV spoke with Academician Alexei ARBATOV, the head of the Centre for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, about the risks of losing the nuclear weapons control system created over the past six decades.
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Posted: July 2nd, 2025 under Foreign policy, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko hosted a lecture by Sergei Shklyudov “The Experience of Electronic Voting in Estonia: Myths and Reality”
Press Release, 1.07.2025
Electronic voting is an extremely controversial tool. It has many supporters and many opponents. Some countries have tried to introduce electronic voting in their elections, but then inevitably returned to paper. Today, only the experience of Estonia is virtually the only example of the successful introduction of electronic voting into the electoral system. It is the Estonian experience that innovators refer to when introducing electronic voting at home. This year marks 20 years since the moment when, Estonians were the first in the world to officially vote at virtual polling stations in the local elections of 2005. Since then, electronic voting has been regularly used in Estonia in municipal, European, and national parliamentary elections.
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Posted: July 1st, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Без рубрики.
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A unique mosaic panel in a sports facility building destroyed in Udmurtia. Yabloko has filed a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office about the sports minister’s inaction
Press Release, 30.06.2025
Photo: Mosaic panel in the Izhstal Ice Palace building / Photo from social media
One of the rare monuments of 1970s mosaic art – a mosaic panel possessing artistic and historical value – was situated in the foyer of the Izhstal Ice Palace building in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. Despite assurances from Udmurtia’s Minister of Physical Culture and Sports Denis Parakhin about preservation of the panel, it was demolished. Leader of Udmurtia Yabloko Iya Boronina has filed a complaint with the regional public prosecutor’s office about the minister’s inaction regarding the preservation of the mosaic panel, as well as about the legality of the destruction of the mosaic.
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Posted: June 30th, 2025 under Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Judiciary, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies.
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Yabloko in Karelia proposed exempting outpatient clinics and hospitals from property tax. The ruling party rejected the initiative, but later passed it off as their own
Press Release, 30.06.2025
Photo: The Legislative Assembly of Karelia / Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly
The Yabloko party faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia prepared a bill to exempt state medical institutions from paying property tax. Such a measure would help direct more budget money towards improving the quality of healthcare. The Head of Karelia, Arthur Parfenchikov, did not support Yabloko’s proposal, and the parliamentary majority ignored the vote on the bill. A month later, the deputies who had not voted held a meeting and decided to submit this proposal to the Karelia’s government as their own.
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Posted: June 30th, 2025 under Education and Science, Governance, Healthcare, Social Policies, The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Maxim Kruglov on the proposal of the head of the Presidential Human Rights Council to expel foreign families from the country: “The head of the Human Rights Council has apparently forgotten what his job is”
Press Release, 27.06.2025
Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant
The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev called for expelling migrant families from Russia if their children do not go to school. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are almost 786,000 minor foreigners in Russia. At the same time, the number of foreign children studying in schools is about 192,000 people.
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Posted: June 27th, 2025 under Education and Science, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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The Yabloko Gender Faction took part in the roundtable of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Club, dedicated to the history of the Russian women’s movement
Press Release, 26.06.2025
Photo by the Gorbachev Foundation
First Deputy Chair of the Yabloko Gender Faction Olga Radayeva participated part in the roundtable of the Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva Club project, which was held at the Gorbachev Foundation in June. The starting point for the discussion was the books by women’s movement historian Irina Yukina “Russian Feminism as a Challenge to Modernity” (2007) and “From Ladies-Patronesses to Activists of Women’s Sections” (2024).
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Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Gender Faction, Human Rights.
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Pskov Regional Court leaves Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party Lev Shlosberg under house arrest
Press Release, 26.06.2025
Photo: Lev Shlosberg /Photo by Pskov Yabloko
On 11 June, the Pskov City Court ruled that Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party Lev Shlosberg should be arrested until 8 August. Shlosberg is at home, under house arrest, deprived of access to a telephone, mail, and the Internet, he is also restricted in communication and movement.
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Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Moscow’s Chief Sanitary Doctor will assess, at Yabloko’s request, the coronavirus threat cited by the Moscow authorities when banning protest actions
Press Release, 26.06.2025
Photo: A mass sporting event at one of Moscow’s stadiums during the period of “coronavirus restrictions” / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant
The letter to Yelena Andreyeva, Chief Sanitary Doctor of Moscow, was sent by the applicants of the pickets for the dismantling of the bas-relief depicting Joseph Stalin as the “father of the nation” in the Moscow metro – Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman, Maxim Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the party, Kirill Goncharov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, and other party members. Yabloko asks the Chief Sanitary Doctor to give explanation about the current sanitary and epidemiological situation in Moscow, as well as the current restrictions related to the prevention of the spread of COVID: whether there is a risk of the spread of a new wave of COVID, whether there is data confirming the need to limit mass events, and whether measures have been officially established for the safe organisation of events.
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Posted: June 26th, 2025 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Once again Yabloko in the St.Petersburg parliament proposes taking the first step toward free elections by returning the voting rights to “foreign agents”
Press Release, 25.06.2025
Photo: Alexander Shishlov at the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg /Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg parliament
The Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg has once again submitted to the St.Petersburg parliament its initiative to return the passive electoral right (the right to be elected) to citizens recognised as “foreign agents”. Here goes the full transcript of the speech of the faction leader Alexander Shishlov.
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Posted: June 25th, 2025 under Elections, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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The Moscow authorities refused to allow Yabloko to hold pickets for the dismantling of a bas-relief with Joseph Stalin in the Moscow metro. Yabloko is going to appeal the refusal in court
Press Release, 24.06.2025
Photo by Yevgeny Biyatov, RIA Novosti
The formal reason for the refusal of the Prefecture of Central Administrative District of Moscow to approve Yabloko pickets was the “current epidemiological situation”. The authorities continue to refer to the decree of the Mayor of Moscow dated 8 June, 2020, which maintains the previously introduced ban on holding mass events due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.
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Posted: June 24th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Where is Seda? At its actions of writing letters to political prisoners, Yabloko will appeal to the President with a demand to investigate the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova
Press Release, 23.06.2025
Photo: Seda Suleimanova / Photo from open sources
Yabloko has prepared special postcards dedicated to Seda Suleimanova, a Chechen girl who ran away from relatives who threatened her with honour killing for her refusal to agree to a forced marriage, was forcibly returned to Chechnya and, ultimately, disappeared. There has been no news about Seda’s fate since then. In May 2025, journalist and Seda’s friend Lena Patyaeva handed over 5,000 signatures to the Presidential Administration demanding an investigation into Seda’s disappearance.
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Posted: June 24th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko lit candles in memory of the victims of World War II
Press Release, 22.06.2025
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On the 84th anniversary of the attack of the fascist Germany on the USSR, Yabloko honoured the memory of the victims of the terrible tragedy that affected the lives and destinies of hundreds of millions of people – participants in the events of the first half of the 20th century, as well as their descendants. The leaders and activists of the party lit candles at the monument to Moscow residents who raised to defend their city.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Grigory Yavlinsky: How to break the negotiating impasse?
Zhivoi Gvozd YouTube channel, 20.06.2025
Why are the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations taking so long and so painful? Because they are constantly trying to drag out the negotiations as much as possible. Who is trying? Both the sides. But one side is advancing, while the other, on the contrary, is losing increasingly more territory.
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Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, Без рубрики.
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Novgorod Yabloko nominated Viktor Shalyakin as a candidate for the post of Governor of Novgorod Region
Press Release, 20.06.2025
Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo: by the Novgorod Region branch of Yabloko
The Novgorod branch of Yabloko nominated Viktor Shalyakin as a candidate for the post of Governor of Novgorod Region in the forthcoming elections. The conference delegates decided to nominate Viktor Shalyakin, a former military man, for the early elections of the Governor, who knows better than anyone what war and its price are. Viktor Shalyakin advocates a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and an end to the killing of people. Only a peaceful and free Russia has a chance for the future.
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Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Elections, Foreign policy, Governance, Gubernatorial Elections, Gubernatorial Elections 2025, Human Rights, Political Parties, Russia-Ukraine relations, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to host a public lecture by Sergei Shklyudov “The Experience of Electronic Voting in Estonia: Myths and Reality”
Press Release, 20.06.2025
Electronic voting is an extremely controversial tool. It has many supporters and many opponents. Some countries have tried to introduce electronic voting in their elections, but then inevitably returned to paper. Today, only the experience of Estonia is virtually the only example of the successful introduction of electronic voting into the electoral system. It is the Estonian experience that innovators refer to when introducing electronic voting at home. This year marks 20 years since the moment when, Estonians were the first in the world to officially vote at virtual polling stations in the local elections of 2005. Since then, electronic voting has been regularly used in Estonia in municipal, European, and national parliamentary elections.
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Posted: June 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections.
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