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Lev Shlosberg
Лев Шлосберг
Shlosberg in 2023
Member of the Pskov Oblast Assembly of Deputies
In office
18 September 2016 – 30 September 2021
In office
15 December 2011 – 24 September 2015
Personal details
Born (1963-07-30) 30 July 1963 (age 63)
Pskov, RSFSR, Soviet Union
PartyYabloko
Alma materPskov State Pedagogical University
School of Civic Education [ru]

Lev Markovich Shlosberg (Russian: Лев Маркович Шлосберг; born 30 July 1963) is a Russian opposition politician, human-rights activist, journalist, historian[1], political prisoner according to Memorial society[2], former chairman of the Pskov Oblast branch of Yabloko, and a member of the Yabloko Party's federal political committee.[3][4]

Background

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Shlosberg is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.

Career

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He joined Yabloko 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 is irreligious.[5]

In August 2014, the newspaper «Pskovskaya guberniya», of which Shlosberg was the director, published information about the funerals of several soldiers serving in the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, who had reportedly died in the war in Donbas. Later that month, Shlosberg was assaulted, resulting in injuries to the head and a partial loss of memory. Yabloko party leader Sergey Mitrokhin wrote that the attack was probably linked to Shlosberg's investigation on these unexplained deaths.[6]

In 2015, Shlosberg was deprived of authority by a court and by vote of fellow deputies. Shlosberg claims this was politically motivated.[7][8] That year, he ran for the post of chairman of the democratic party Yabloko. He was defeated by Emilia Slabunova in the second round.[9]

On 4 July 2016 he announced he was running for Parliament, in that year's State Duma Election, but lost the election in his constituency, coming in fifth with around 6% of the vote.[10][11] Nonetheless, that same election, Yabloko won one seat in the Pskov Oblast Assembly of Deputies, and Shlosberg returned to the legislature.[12][13]

In 2021, Shlosberg decided to run in the 2021 State Duma Elections, again as a candidate of Yabloko. However this time he is running in the Khovrino constituency in Moscow, instead of his home district of Pskov.[14]

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 Anti-Corruption Foundation. 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.[15]

In April 2022, following the increased repression after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian police filed charges against him and his wife for having "discredited" the Russian military.[16]

In January 2025, Shlosberg was charged under the Russian foreign agent law and prohibited from leaving Pskov Oblast.[17] As of March 2025 Shlosberg has been indicted and trial is upcoming.[18]

On 10 June 2025 he was indicted on the "discreditation of the Russian military charges" (part 1 of the Article 280.3 of the Russian Criminal Code) and was placed under house arrest.[19]

On 3 December 2025 he was indicted for the third time under different war censorship statute - "spreading false information about the Russian army (part 2 of the Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code) - for a Telegram post made in February 2022 (even though the actual war censorship laws were signed into law in March of that year). On 14 August 2026 the prosecution asked for a sentence of 12 years and 1 month on charges of "discrediting" the Russian military and spreading "fake news" about it.[20] Three days later he was sentenced to 11 years and 1 month in prison by the Pskov City Court.[21]

Electoral history

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2011 Elections to the Pskov Oblast Assembly of Deputies
Regional Leader Party Seats Won Votes %
Yelena Bibikova United Russia 26 113,559 37.41%
Anatoly Koposov CPRF 9 75,192 24.77%
Mikhail Bryachak A Just Russia 4 45,596 15.02%
Vladimir Zhirinovsky[Footnote 1] LDPR 3 43,003 14.17%
Lev Shlosberg Yabloko 1 20,387 6.72%
2016 Elections to the Pskov Oblast Assembly of Deputies
Regional Leader Party Seats Won Votes %
Andrey Turchak United Russia 33 101,189 44,14%
Aleksandr Rogov CPRF 5 45,981 20,06%
Vladimir Zhirinovsky[Footnote 1] LDPR 3 34,053 14,85%
Oleg Bryachak A Just Russia 2 20,490 8,94%
Lev Shlosberg Yabloko 1 13,964 6.09%
Pskov Constituency (No. 148)
2016 State Duma Election (Pskov Constituency)[22]
Candidate Party Votes %
Aleksandr Kozlovsky United Russia 94,372 40.88%
Aleksandr Rogov CPRF 33,472 14.5%
Oleg Bryachak A Just Russia 28,819 12.48%
Anton Minakov LDPR 21,463 9.3%
Lev Shlosberg Yabloko 13,669 5.92%
Vyacheslav Evdokimenko CR 11,701 5.07%
Mikhail Khoronen Patriots 6,415 2.78%
Konstantin Vilkov Rodina 3,636 1.57%
Anna Galkina Civic Platform 2,886 1.25%
Vasiliy Krasnov Party of Growth 2,805 1.22%
Remm Malishkov Greens 2,015 0.87%
Buisultan Khamzaev GS 1,222 0.53%
Invalid Votes 8,378 3.63%

Notes

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  1. 1 2 Though not from Pskov, Zhirinovsky is the leader of the Pskov chapter of LDPR.

References

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  1. ↑ Meduza
  2. ↑ "Шлосберг Лев Маркович". Поддержка политзаключённых. Мемориал (in Russian). Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  3. ↑ Руководящие органы Псковского регионального отделения
  4. ↑ Шлосберг о законе Димы Яковлева: нам предложили подписаться под подлостью
  5. ↑ "Портрет дня: Лев Шлосберг – политик". ЭХО (in Russian). 2 October 2024. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  6. ↑ BBC Русская служба
  7. ↑ Льва Шлосберга исключили из псковского парламента
  8. ↑ "Outspoken Russian Lawmaker Expelled for Truth". Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  9. ↑ Yabloko.ru
  10. ↑ "Региональные группы партии "Яблоко" на выборах в Государственную Думу". yabloko.ru. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  11. ↑ "Избирательная комиссия Псковской области". pskov.izbirkom.ru. Archived from the original on 27 October 2003. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  12. ↑ "Шлосберга избрали в Псковское областное собрание". Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  13. ↑ Kara-Murza, Vladimir (21 September 2016). "Russia's 2016 Election: Despair, Apathy—and Hope?". World Affairs. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016.
  14. ↑ Кандидаты «Яблока» на выборах в Госдуму VIII созыва. Одномандатные округа[permanent dead link]
  15. ↑ ЦИК исключил Льва Шлосберга из списка "Яблока" на выборы в Госдуму
  16. ↑ "Opposition Politician Accused of 'Discrediting' Russian Military". The Moscow Times. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  17. ↑ "Russia Charges Opposition Politician Shlosberg With Violating 'Foreign Agent' Law". The Moscow Times. 17 January 2025. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  18. ↑ Shlosberg, Lev (14 March 2025). "The legal void is filled with paper". Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  19. ↑ "Russia puts Lev Shlosberg, one of the few opposition politicians left in the country, under house arrest for 'discrediting' military". Meduza. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  20. ↑ "State Prosecutors Seek 12-Year Prison Sentence for Lev Shlosberg". The Moscow Times. 14 August 2026. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  21. ↑ "Russia: Anti-war politician Lev Shlosberg sentenced to 11 years and one month in prison amid mounting pressure on his Yabloko party". Amnesty International. 17 August 2026. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  22. ↑ "18 сентября 2016 года". www.pskov.izbirkom.ru. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
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