{"id":1137077,"date":"2026-08-08T03:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1137077\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:35:18","slug":"russias-sole-anti-war-party-targets-coming-elections-favours-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1137077\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s sole anti-war party targets coming elections, favours ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sensing frustration among many Russians towards the Ukraine war<\/a>, Russia<\/a>\u2019s liberal Yabloko party is hoping to use parliamentary elections this September to raise its profile, casting itself as the only opposition group in favour of a ceasefire.Elections in Russia are tightly controlled \u2013 every parliamentary vote since 2003 has been won by the ruling \u201cUnited Russia\u201d party, which supports President Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yabloko is unlikely to win any seats. A poll conducted earlier this year showed it at just three per cent support \u2013 short of the five-per cent threshold needed to enter Russia\u2019s lower house State Duma.<\/p>\n

But the party believes the campaign is helping to widen its support base, particularly among young people usually apathetic towards politics, and it has relished the opportunity to push its anti-war message on a national scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can bring peace even a single day closer, then our participation in all of this will not have been in vain,\u201d party leader Nikolay Rybakov said.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1993 by a group of pro-Western public officials, Yabloko enjoyed relative success in the years following the post-Soviet collapse. Since 2003, however, it has failed to win seats in the State Duma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sensing frustration among many Russians towards the Ukraine war, Russia\u2019s liberal Yabloko party is hoping to use parliamentary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1137078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[67654,299,10546,309172,2301,309174,332,657,753,333,309173],"class_list":["post-1137077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-alexei-navalny","tag-europe","tag-kyiv","tag-maxim-kruglov","tag-moscow","tag-nikolay-rybakov","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-yabloko"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117057796610944024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}