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EU sanctions 10 judges and officials over Yabloko crackdown
Ten judges, prosecutors and election officials linked to Yabloko's exclusion from the Duma elections and the jailing of its leaders join the Russia sanctions list from 28 September 2026.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 28 September 2026
The Council added 10 natural persons to the Russia-internal-repression sanctions listEuropa on 28 September 2026
Europa through Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2193
Europa, which inserts entries 99 to 108 under heading A (natural persons) of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2024/1485
Europa concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Russia
Europa. The stated context is the barring of the Yabloko political party from the September 2026 elections to the State Duma and the prison sentences imposed on its leaders for anti-war speech
Europa, which the Council describes as repression of democratic opposition seriously undermining democracy and the rule of law in Russia. The preamble cites the 19 August 2026 statement of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressing alarm at Yabloko's exclusion and at the sentencing of its deputy chair Lev Shlosberg to more than 11 years in prison.
Three of the listed persons are judges of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation involved in barring YablokoEuropa: Vyacheslav Kirillov
Europa, who on 10 August 2026 delivered the verdict excluding the party
Europa over alleged copyright breaches, extremism and other misconduct, and who on 9 April 2026 designated the human rights organisation Memorial as an extremist organisation and banned its activities; and Igor Zinchenko and Denis Tyutin, members of the judicial panel that upheld the exclusion
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Europa. Two further persons took part in the same Supreme Court proceedings on the other side of the bench: Sergey Sakharov, head of the electoral-disputes division of the Central Election Commission's legal department
Europa, who supported the application by the Rodina party seeking Yabloko's exclusion
Europa, and Ilya Rusakov, an official of the Prosecutor General's Office, who likewise supported Rodina's application
Europa.
The remaining five are judges and prosecutors in criminal cases against Yabloko politiciansEuropa. Viktoria Malyamova, judge of Pskov City Court
Europa, sentenced Lev Shlosberg to 11 years and one month of imprisonment
Europa for discrediting the Russian army and "fake news" about the war against Ukraine; Anna Goryachova, the state prosecutor in that trial
Europa, had requested 12 years and one month
Europa, and had earlier prosecuted Shlosberg under "foreign agent" legislation. Yulia Guznyaeva, assistant prosecutor of Moscow's Central Administrative District
Europa, prosecuted Yabloko leader Maxim Kruglov
Europa and requested an eight-year sentence for social media posts about the war, including the crimes committed in Bucha and Mariupol
Europa; Elina Babayants, judge of Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court
Europa, sentenced Kruglov to seven years in a penal colony
Europa with a three-year internet ban. Elizaveta Truskalenko, judge of the Vyborsky district of St Petersburg
Europa, fined Yabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov
Europa
Europa for posting a photograph of Alexei Navalny
Europa, a ruling that barred him from running in the September 2026 Duma elections
Europa.
Each entry carries 28 September 2026 as its date of listingEuropa. The regulation states that it enters into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union
Europa, is binding in its entirety
Europa and is directly applicable in all Member States
Europa.
Legal basis: Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2193 implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1485Europa.
Screen customer, counterparty and employee names against the updated Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2024/1485, and freeze any funds and economic resources belonging to the 10 newly listed persons without delay.