# Lev Shlosberg

Lev Markovich Shlosberg (Russian: Лев Ма́ркович Шло́сберг; born 30 July 1963) is a Russian opposition politician, human-rights activist, journalist, historian chairman of the Pskov Oblast branch of Yabloko, and a member of the Yabloko Party's federal political committee.

## Biography

Shlosberg is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. 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 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 Yabloko. He was defeated by Emilia Slabunova in the second round.
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. Nonetheless, that same election, Yabloko 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 Yabloko. However this time he is running in the Khovrino constituency in Moscow, instead of his home district of Pskov.
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.
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.

## Electoral history

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 | 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 | LDPR | 3 | 34,053 | 14,85% |
| Oleg Bryachak | A Just Russia | 2 | 20,490 | 8,94% |
| Lev Shlosberg | Yabloko | 1 | 13,964 | 6.09% |
2016 State Duma Election (Pskov Constituency) :
| Candidate | 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 | Invalid Votes | Invalid Votes | 8,378 | 3.63% |