# Yabloko leader attacks Navalnaya and Kats voting strategy: ‘They sit abroad and manipulate you’

https://mins.news/en/item/60490

- Meduza, 2026-09-16 07:25 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/09/16/yabloko-leader-criticizes-election-voting-strategy-proposed-by-russian-opposition-figures-navalnaya-and-kats-they-sit-abroad-and-manipulate-you

> Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov criticized Yulia Navalnaya and Maxim Kats’s recommendation to vote for any party except United Russia on party-list ballots and for the strongest anti-government candidate in single-mandate districts. Rybakov urged supporters to back Yabloko candidates instead and presented spoiled party-list ballots as the party’s “Plan B.”

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