Lev Markovich Shlosberg (; born 30 July 1963) is a Russian opposition politician, human-rights activist, journalist, historian chairman of the

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branch of

Yabloko The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko (RUDP Yabloko; rus, Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко», Rossiyskaya obyedinyonnaya demokraticheskaya partiya "Yabloko" ...

, and a member of the Yabloko Party's federal political committee.

Biography

Shlosberg is of

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descent. He joined

in 1994, becoming head of the Pskov branch of the party in 1996. From 2011 to 2015 he was a member of the Pskov Oblast Assembly of Deputies. He has gained fame in August 2014 when he made a publication for the newspaper «Pskovskaya guberniya», where he spread information about the suspicious deaths of troops of 76th Guards Air Assault Division, Leonid Kichatkin and Alexander Osipov. Shlosberg claimed they died fighting in the Donbass. In 2015, Shlosberg was deprived of authority by a court and by vote of fellow deputies. Shlosberg claims this was politically motivated. That year, he ran for the post of chairman of the democratic party

. He was defeated by Emilia Slabunova in the second round. On 4 July 2016 he announced he was running for

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, in that year's State Duma Election, but lost the election in his constituency, coming in fifth with around 6% of the vote. Nonetheless, that same election,

won one seat in the Pskov Oblast Assembly of Deputies, and Shlosberg returned to the legislature. In 2021, Shlosberg decided to run in the 2021 State Duma Elections, again as a candidate of

. However this time he is running in the Khovrino constituency in

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, instead of his home district of

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. He also ran in the simultaneous Pskov Oblast Assembly elections. On 3 August 2021 his registration as a candidate was declined, due to alleged links with banned

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. However, on the next day he was registered, due to the fact that the court decision to ban Anti-Corruption Foundation was not yet final. Regarding State Duma elections, however, on 9 August 2021 Moscow city court annulled his registration as a candidate, also due to alleged links with Anti-Corruption Foundation. Then he was also excluded from the federal Yabloko party list. In April 2022, following the increased repression after the

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, Russian police filed charges against him and his wife for having "discredited" the Russian military. In January 2025, Schlosberg was charged under the

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and prohibited from leaving

. As of March 2025 Schlosberg has been indicted and trial is upcoming.

Electoral history

Notes

References

External links

Official site

Official Twitter
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