Moscow, August 14 — Yabloko's Anti-Corruption Policy Center has published a report titled "Then Remove Everyone," alleging that all five Russian parliamentary parties received at least 1.153 billion rubles from donors with "traces of foreign financing." The study is based on the parties' consolidated financial reports submitted to the Central Election Commission (CEC) for 2021–2025.
The criterion Yabloko applied to other parties mirrors the one that led to its own removal from the State Duma elections. On August 10, the Supreme Court upheld a lawsuit by the Rodina party and annulled the registration of Yabloko's federal list: Rosfinmonitoring, Russia's financial watchdog, found transfers from abroad among 74 of the party's counterparties, with donations from those individuals totaling 16,900 rubles.
Of the 1.15 billion rubles Yabloko identified, the largest share — 811.75 million — went to United Russia. Among the party's sponsors are VSMPO-AVISMA, a titanium supplier to Boeing and Airbus, and Okeanrybflot, a fishing company with business ties to the United States and the United Kingdom. United Russia's donors' foreign connections span 51 jurisdictions, including 22 countries on Russia's list of "unfriendly" states.
For the other parties, Yabloko reviewed reports for 2024–2025: it found 197.2 million rubles from such donors for A Just Russia, 98.2 million for New People, 35.1 million for the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), and 11.37 million for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). Rodina itself, according to Yabloko, received about 3.5 million rubles from donors with foreign ties.
Yabloko stressed that it does not claim the listed parties formally violated the law: ordinary foreign economic activity should not automatically turn a legal donation into "foreign financing." However, in the party's view, all of them violate the criteria set by the Supreme Court's August 10 ruling. Yabloko demands either the cancellation of its own removal or the "consistent application" of this criterion to all other election participants.
Yabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov said the party intends to appeal the Supreme Court's decision. The court will consider appeals in the case of the list's removal on August 17.