The new leader of Yabloko. What is known about Emilia Slabunova. Yabloko chose Emilia Slabunova as the new party leader. Shlosberg did not pass.

At the reporting and election congress of Yabloko on the night of Sunday, December 20, Emilia Slabunova was elected chairman of the party. Rain briefly introduces the new leader.

Photo: Alexey Filippov / RIA Novosti

Emilia Slabunova is 57 years old. She graduated from the history department of Kuibyshev State University. After that, she worked as a teacher of history and social studies at the Petrozavodsk Construction College, and went to work at the city lyceum, where she soon became the director. In 2004 she received a PhD in Pedagogical Sciences.

Slabunova became a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council in 2001. Then she tried to become its chairman, but did not get the required number of votes. A few years later, in 2003, she joined Yabloko.

Since 2011, she has been a deputy of the Karelian Legislative Assembly. She worked as deputy head of the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs.

She participated in the mayoral elections of Petrozavodsk in 2013, but a couple of weeks before the vote, her candidacy was withdrawn by a court decision. A complaint about the incorrect registration of a candidate from Yabloko was then filed by the leader of the Karelian branch of the Patriots of Russia party, Yuri Shabanov. Before this, in 2002, Slabunova also tried through the court to remove Shabanov from the elections to the Karelian parliament, but she failed.

When Slabunova was removed from the lists, she asked her voters to vote for self-nominated candidate Galina Shirshina. Shirshina won and Slabunova joined her team. She headed the expert council under the mayor.

A year after Shirshina’s work, the city council gave her bad results for her work, and in early December the deputies decided to dismiss the mayor. All this time, Slabunova supported the mayor and said in an interview that she saw political pressure in the assessment of Shirshina’s work.

Together with Shirshina, Slabunova opposed the abolition of direct elections of the mayor and the introduction of the appointed position of city manager. At the meetings, she spoke about the ineffectiveness of such work, criticized corruption in the institutions of city managers and emphasized that the abolition of direct elections of the city head is a violation of constitutional human rights and freedoms. However, in the summer of 2015, a law abolishing direct mayoral elections was adopted.

At the reporting and election congress of Yabloko, 91 people voted for Emilia Slabunova. The second candidate, Lev Shlosberg, received 56 votes. In total, there were 158 delegates at the congress.

“The congress made a decision and will bear responsibility for it,” he commented.

The candidacy was nominated by Sergei Mitrokhin.

“Slabunova proves that she is an independent person who does not succumb to pressure - neither administrative, nor political, nor threats of criminal prosecution. This allows me to say that Slabunova is a worthy candidate. Including in the electoral sense,” he said.

She was supported by party co-founder Grigory Yavlinsky, emphasizing her joint work with Galina Shirshina.

“Slabunova and Shirshina are people who are in a state of real, acute political struggle in a region far from Moscow. The fight against arbitrariness,” Yavlinsky said.

According to the new amendments to Yabloko's charter, the chairman can serve no more than two terms, that is, no longer than eight years.

Emilia Edgardovna Slabunova (October 7, 1958, Ufa) - Russian politician, chairman of the Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" since December 20, 2015, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia of the 5th convocation (2011-2016), deputy chairman of the Committee on Education, Culture, sports and youth affairs, member of the Yabloko faction. Member of the political committee of the all-Russian party "Yabloko".

Emilia Slabunova
Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia since December 4, 2011
Chairman of the Yabloko party since December 20, 2015
Birth: October 7, 1958 Ufa
Party: "Apple"
Education: Kuibyshev State University
Academic degree: Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences
Occupation: Politician, teacher

Emilia Edgardovna Slabunova born on October 7, 1958 in Ufa. In 1980 she graduated from the history department of Kuibyshev State University.
From 1982 to 1992 she taught history and social studies at the Petrozavodsk Construction College. Then she went to work at the Municipal Educational Institution “Lyceum No. 1” in Petrozavodsk, where she was a teacher and deputy director for scientific and methodological work.
From 1999 to 2013 - director of Lyceum No. 1. At the same time she was the coordinator of a multi-system educational district and a teacher of the advanced training system.

In 2004, she defended her dissertation on the topic “Pedagogical conditions for scientific and methodological support for the development of a multidisciplinary lyceum” at the Karelian State Pedagogical Institute, candidate of pedagogical sciences.
Honorary Worker of General Education of the Russian Federation, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation.

Political career
In 2001, she was elected as a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council. In May of the same year, she was nominated for the post of Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, but did not receive the required number of votes.

She joined the Yabloko party in 2003. In 2006, as part of the party list, she ran for the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia of the IV convocation, but the list was removed by the republican authorities.

In December 2011, she was elected as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia of the 5th convocation in a single electoral district. Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs, member of the Yabloko faction.

In September 2013, she was the main opposition candidate in the mayoral elections of Petrozavodsk. Two weeks before the vote, her candidacy was withdrawn from the elections by decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court for a violation committed during the preparation of one of the candidate’s documents. The Supreme Court of Karelia, having considered Slabunova’s appeal, upheld this decision.

Then, self-nominated Galina Shirshina, supported by the regional branch of the Yabloko party, won over the current mayor and member of the United Russia party Nikolai Levin. After the elections, Slabunova resigned from her post as director of the lyceum and in October 2013 moved to a permanent job in the Legislative Assembly in order to help Shirshina as the chairman of the expert council under the head of the administration of the Petrozavodsk city district.

Subsequently, she actively participated in a protracted conflict with the head of the Republic of Karelia, Alexander Khudilainen, seeking his resignation due to the aggravated political situation in the region and the persecution of Yabloko. In May 2015, Slabunova led a thousand-strong rally in the center of Petrozavodsk for the resignation of the governor; on June 23, she transferred 10 thousand signatures to the administration of the Russian President for the resignation of the head of the republic.

Chairman of the Yabloko party
On December 19, 2015, at the XVIII Congress of the Yabloko party, elections for the Chairman were held. According to the new rules adopted at the congress, neither the current leader of the party, Sergei Mitrokhin, nor its founder, Grigory Yavlinsky, could be elected again, since they had already chaired for two terms.

“Indeed, on Friday, December 4, Grigory Yavlinsky proposed my candidacy for this high position and convincingly asked me not to refuse. I admit, this was somewhat unexpected for me. But I’m a team man, and if the party entrusts me with this job, I won’t be able to refuse it.”
Before the vote, Grigory Yavlinsky called on delegates to support Slabunova. Alexander Gnezdilov from Moscow, Nikolai Rybakov from St. Petersburg and Lev Shlosberg from Pskov also participated in the first round of elections for the new Chairman. 74 people voted for Slabunova; she lacked three votes to win in the first round (Shlosberg received 38 votes, Rybakov - 19, Gnezdilov - 12). Before the second round, Gnezdilov and Rybakov spoke in support of her. In the second round, she received 91 votes out of 154, Schlosberg received 56 votes, and seven more ballots were declared invalid.

The Yabloko congress was held on Saturday at the Center of the Trade Union of Agricultural Workers in the town of Moskovsky near Moscow. The event was opened by the party chairman at that time, Sergei Mitrokhin. He reasoned that, despite the difficult situation in the country, it has strengthened and is not for sale, preserving the face that parliamentary parties have long lost. They talked about the intransigence of Yabloko on the Crimean issue, the “creeping re-Stalinization and re-Sovietization” of power.

Mitrokhin made an obvious point - they say that, unlike “certain bloggers” who are engaged in the fight against corruption, “Yabloko” “does not carry out any order.” “Mitrokhin has completely sunk, let him talk about Browder,” Navalny responded on Twitter.

In the end, the Yabloko member proposed electing a new chairman for one, and not four years, as required by the party charter: “So that during this time one can understand how effectively he (the chairman - Gazeta.Ru) really leads.” . This maneuver could allow Mitrokhin to retain the chairmanship until the Duma elections. But the congress did not support the initiative.

Against the background of the tired speech, Yavlinsky’s emotional speech sounded much stronger. He talked about the upheavals of recent years: “the annexation of Crimea,” “the participation of Russian troops in Ukraine,” and the hopeless involvement in the Syrian conflict. According to the party patriarch, Russia’s entry into conflicts is necessary for the elites to retain power in the country and persecute those who disagree.

The raison d’être of Yabloko, he said, is to prevent “Russia’s descent into political and bloody chaos.” The speaker called the situation in the country “frozen by money, propaganda, authoritarianism, chaos,” and 86% of support for the authorities was a momentary mood.

According to him, without the “Apple” faction in the Duma, the country will face continued wars, sanctions, rash decisions, the stifling of freedom of speech even on the Internet, complete control of the intelligence services, an increase in migrants, testing of new weapons and strengthening of the contingent in Europe.

And in the next ten years, Russia will decide on its place in the world - “either a strong democratic Russia, or a peripheral, isolated country declining to nothing.”

Layout before the fight

After policy statements by the leaders, party members had to resolve key issues that the political committee brought up for discussion on December 4. The key body of the party has outlined a list of recommended candidates for chairman: this is a St. Petersburg environmental activist, a metropolitan director, the head of the Pskov branch of the party and the author of a sensational investigation into the paratroopers killed in Donbass, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova. All of them presented their programs to supporters before the congress.

The political committee also recommended the nomination of the main financier of Yabloko and the Commissioner for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, who did not represent the program. A source in the party told Gazeta.Ru that Grigory Yavlinsky had personal consultations with each candidate.

But the political committee did not recommend electing Yavlinsky and Mitrokhin as chairmen. Instead, the congress was offered amendments to limit the presidency to two terms (or eight years).

With their adoption, Mitrokhin (chairman since 2008) and Yavlinsky (head of the party from 1993 to 2008) lost the opportunity to lead Yabloko again.

The internal party struggle between Yavlinsky and Mitrokhin became the subject of discussion in the media in the final weeks before the congress.

His supporters called Mitrokhin's advantages the brutal image of a street politician who is ready to personally go to pickets, ride in paddy wagons, and defend the rights of citizens on the streets. However, his apparatus influence is much weaker than that of Yavlinsky. Mitrokhin tried to stay at the helm of the party and run for a third term, but even his native branch in Moscow did not recommend his candidacy. As a result, Mitrokhin came into conflict with Yavlinsky and, contrary to the recommendations of the political committee, decided to run for chairman.

Yavlinsky himself, who has recently been actively giving interviews and presenting various programs, is quite obviously ready to remain the informal leader of the party. At the same time, he does not hide his ambitions to lead the party’s federal list in the State Duma elections and his intention to run for president in 2018.

Mitrokhin's last fight

Mitrokhin's critics spoke out one after another. As a result, it seemed that the chairman was supported by a minority of regionals. One of the authors of the Constitution expressed disagreement with Mitrokhin’s policies and called for a broad coalition of democrats to leave the electoral ghetto. “Sergey, when you go out on a picket, you don’t organize others!” - exclaimed another speaker, . Mitrokhin was called upon to make not thick propaganda brochures, but leaflets with slogans that would be understandable to every social segment.

The Yabloko leader, in turn, criticized coalitionism in politics, citing as an example the failure of the Democratic Coalition in the regional elections in Kostroma, spoke about his effectiveness, and asked not to cut off his candidacy from voting. Mitrokhin hinted that the amendment to limit the chairmanship to two terms was adopted against him personally, because he nominated himself before December 4, when the political committee decided to amend the charter.

“They said here that now is not the time for new faces. When is it time for new faces? When are we going to lose elections again?” - Yavlinsky exclaimed in response.

He proposed limiting the presidency to two terms, saying this would be "a first in the history of the country." Yavlinsky assured that this would be an example for Russia, where leaders have been leading parties for decades. The founder of Yabloko consoled Mitrokhin that the political committee was helping the party out and did not want to “punish someone.” According to him, if he and Mitrokhin compete, this could last until their death, and in general, there is no need to be like African leaders like Mugabe.

Mitrokhin defended himself desperately, albeit doomedly.

He said that he has no personal grievances, but there are arguments in his favor: term limits are undemocratic, it is incorrect to compare him with the president, because “the powers are not the same,” the limitation is a momentary attempt to please democratic circles to the detriment of the party’s objectives.

The Yabloko chairman then promised that he would not run for a leadership position. Yavlinsky also refused this. Party members on the sidelines were indignant at why Mitrokhin was simply not allowed to be nominated, lose in the elections, and then leave with dignity.

"The Internet is for Schlosberg"

As a result, the delegates were offered six candidates for the post of leader: Slabunova, Rybakov, Ivanenko, Shlosberg, Gnezdilov and, unexpectedly, a former member of the Democratic Choice, and now an adviser to Yavlinsky. Ivanenko and Grigorov recused themselves, leaving four candidates in the game.

Gnezdilov discussed economics and international politics in his speech. Rybakov presented the “Yabloko 500 Days” program and spoke about the need to have strong regional branches with an emphasis on municipal elections, a new financial policy, and presented Yabloko as a party of small towns. His speech characterized him as a strong and energetic technocrat. But Slabunova’s speech sounded weak - the main idea concerned managerial innovations, recruiting a new team, and building the party as a “matrix-type structure.”

Schlosberg’s performance was the most powerful in terms of emotional intensity.

“Our party is holding its congress in the context of a cold civil war within the country, a war on Russia’s borders, and the threat of a world war with Russia’s participation. The current authorities of Russia, led by them, have become a war party in our country,” the politician said. He spoke about the need to attract millions of voters disillusioned with Russian politics, and the only candidate said that a broad coalition of Democrats based on Yabloko was needed.

The politician also spoke out against the persecution of Mitrokhin, emphasizing that he supports him despite past contradictions.

“What we need now is political inspiration, the living energy of confident movement forward and the inspiring oxygen of our victories. I promise to lead the Yabloko party to victory in the elections of deputies. It will be very difficult for us, but we will win!” - Schlosberg promised.

Delegates were divided on the candidates.

By the end of the event, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and tired party members reached the exit in a line, arguing over the decision made.

According to Gazeta.Ru, Yavlinsky only this week finally decided on his candidacy for the post of party chairman. A source close to the leadership of Yabloko says that initially he consulted with the apparatus and considered the young Rybakov or Gnezdilov, but found out that they did not have a chance to win.

Several party interlocutors described Schlosberg as a rather tough politician. Party members informally argue that the media image of Schlosberg as a gentle intellectual is very different from reality. The interlocutors also said that at the beginning of autumn, Schlosberg did not want to run for the post of leader of Yabloko, but then changed his mind and insisted on forming his own team. Yavlinsky’s entourage disagreed with this, offering him their deputies and strategy if elected.

“Yes, we understand that the non-systemic opposition is for Schlosberg, because the Facebook regional committee knows everything, unlike the delegates,” a source close to the party leadership says ironically. “But in reality he has less experience than Slabunova, and his region still needs him.”

“By supporting Slabunova’s candidacy, both Yavlinsky and Mitrokhin demonstrate that they do not want real change. The only candidate capable of “revitalizing” the party is Lev Shlosberg. Only Shlosberg is the number one Yabloko politician in his region, since he is the first in Karelia (the leader of the local branch of the party - Gazeta.Ru),” the political scientist summed up the results of the congress.

Critics of the party's decision seem to believe that the real reason for Shlosberg's low chances is Yavlinsky's fears about the emergence of a strong figure in the chairmanship. Moreover, these fears may counteract the actual results in the Duma and presidential elections.

Emilia Slabunova was born on October 7, 1958 in the city of Ufa, Bashkorkostan. In 1980 she graduated from the history department of Kuibyshev State University.

From 1982 to 1992 she taught history and social studies at the Petrozavodsk Construction College. Then she went to work at the Municipal Educational Institution “Lyceum No. 1” in Petrozavodsk, where she was a teacher and deputy director for scientific and methodological work.

From 1999 to 2013 - director of Lyceum No. 1. At the same time, she was the coordinator of a polysystem educational district and a teacher of the advanced training system.

In 2001, she was elected as a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council. In May of the same year, she was nominated for the post of Chairman, but did not receive the required number of votes.

She joined the Yabloko party in 2003.

In 2004, she defended her dissertation on the topic “Pedagogical conditions for scientific and methodological support for the development of a multidisciplinary lyceum” at the Karelian State Pedagogical Institute, candidate of pedagogical sciences. Honorary Worker of General Education of the Russian Federation, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation.

In 2006, as part of the party list, she ran for the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia of the IV convocation, but the list was removed by the republican authorities.

In September 2013, she was the main opposition candidate in the elections for Mayor of Petrozavodsk. Two weeks before the vote, her candidacy was withdrawn by decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court for a violation committed during the execution of one of the documents. The Supreme Court of Karelia, having considered Slabunova’s appeal, upheld this decision.

Then, self-nominated Galina Shirshina, supported by the regional branch of the Yabloko party, won over the current mayor and member of the United Russia party Nikolai Levin. After the elections, Slabunova resigned from her post as director of the Lyceum and in October 2013 moved to a permanent job in the Legislative Assembly in order to help Shirshina as the chairman of the expert council under the head of the administration of the Petrozavodsk city district.

At the XVIII Congress of the Yabloko party on December 19, 2015, elections for the Chairman were held. According to the new rules adopted at the congress, neither the current leader of the party, Sergei Mitrokhin, nor its founder, Grigory Yavlinsky, could be elected again, since they had already chaired for two terms.

Before the vote, Grigory Yavlinsky called on delegates to support Slabunova. Alexander Gnezdilov from Moscow, Nikolai Rybakov from St. Petersburg and Lev Shlosberg from Pskov also participated in the first round of elections for the new Chairman. 74 people voted for Slabunova; she lacked three votes to win in the first round. Before the second round, Gnezdilov and Rybakov spoke in her support. In the second round, she received 91 votes out of 154, Schlosberg received 56 votes, and seven more ballots were declared invalid.

Under Slabunova, in 2016, an attempt to create an election coalition between the political parties Yabloko and PARNAS ended in failure. Slabunova refused the proposed conditions of unification: a single list of these two parties in the upcoming elections to the State Duma in the form of including members of the Yabloko party in the PARNAS list and PARNAS support for Yavlinsky in the Russian presidential elections in 2018. She called this proposal a provocation and an invitation to Yabloko to self-destruct. As a result, Yabloko put forward a separate list to the State Duma.

In July 2016, an article by E. Slabunova was published against the holding of primaries in Russia, which, however, did not contain any mention of the 2016 United Russia primaries. Slabunova harshly criticized the internal party elections of the PARNAS party, saying: “in the primaries of the Democratic Coalition last fall, and this time less than 0.01% of voters accepted. Such figures clearly do not indicate the great legitimacy of the past primary elections.”

Husband Alexander Ivanovich Slabunov - Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor of Petrozavodsk State University, Head of the Laboratory of Petrology and Tectonics of the Institute of Geology of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Daughter - Anastasia. Son - Kirill.

The biography of Emilia Edgardovna Slabunova is not replete with great successes in the political arena.

Born on October 7, 1958 in Ufa. A historian by training (history teacher). In 1980 she graduated from Kuibyshev State University.Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences. In 2004 she defended dissertation on the topic “Pedagogical conditions for scientific and methodological support for the development of a multidisciplinary lyceum.”

In the 1980s, she worked as a teacher of history and social studies at the Petrozavodsk Construction College. In the 1990s she was a teacher and then deputy director of Lyceum No. 1; from 1999 to 2013 she headed it. In 2010, the Lyceum became first in the municipal and regional rankings based on the results of All-Russian Olympiads. Since 2013, Petrozavodsk “Lyceum No. 1” has been included in the list of “ 500 best schools in Russia." Based on the results of her pedagogical work, Emilia Slabunova was awarded the title “Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation,” and she was awarded the distinction “Honored Worker of General Education of the Russian Federation.”

Her political career began in 2001, when Slabunova was elected as a deputy of the Petrozavodsk City Council.

IN 2003 Slabunova becomes a member of the Yabloko party, then joins the political committee of the party. IN 2006 participates in elections to the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, but then the party removed from the elections. December 4, 2011 elected as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia of the 5th convocation on the Yabloko party lists.

IN 2013 was nominated for the election of the mayor of Petrozavodsk, but was withdrawn at the request of the chairman of the regional branch of Patriots of Russia, Yuri Shabanov, who three months later became deputy head of Karelia for regional policy. By the way, in 1999, Slabunova replaced Shabanov as director of Lyceum No. 1.

After winning the election for mayor of Petrozavodsk, Galina Shirshina headed the Expert Council under the head of the Petrozavodsk urban district. Helps Galina Shirshina realize own program as mayor of the city.

Since 2015, he has been a co-chairman for the resignation of the Head of Karelia Alexander Khudilainen, organizing and conducting opposition “Against political repression in Karelia.”

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova five reasons why the organizers of the rally are demanding the resignation of Alexander Khudilainen. Among them are disrespect for the residents of the republic, political repression against the opposition, lack of competent economic policy, unjustified optimization in the field of education and culture, and the use of security forces for political purposes.

Holds a position in the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs.