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Analysis: Why Putin Fears Yabloko’s Anti-War Vote

Summary by Kyiv Post
Yabloko’s removal from Russia’s ballot shows the Kremlin fears even a small anti-war vote becoming a broader political force.

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On 10 August, a crowd of several hundred people, mostly about 20 years old and younger, gathered outside the Supreme Court of Justice, where a motion to withdraw from the Jablo party was heard and photographed by the head of the party, Nikolai Rybakov, and after the court had cancelled the registration of the apples for the parliamentary elections, they went down the subway with him.

·Riga, Latvia
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Lean Left

Czech media reported that the Russian Supreme Court has banned the anti-war political party Yabloko from participating in parliamentary elections. This is the first time that Russian authorities have first allowed such participation, only to later revoke the permit.

Lean Right

The liberal Jabloko party in Russia, sometimes there are people in Ukraine, anchor avgjørelsen to ate the Ike far stille til valg til høyesterett.

·Oslo, Norway
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Lean Right

"Apple" without an election: how cleaning up an anti-war opposition can affect Russia's war against Ukraine.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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Lean Left

Surprisingly, the Russian electoral authorities first allowed the anti-war Jablonko party to vote for the Duma. Then they did not. Putin helps to make an important finding.

·Germany
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How strong is anti-war sentiment in Russia? The Kremlin wanted to put that to the test. So, the anti-war party Yabloko was allowed to participate in the Duma elections. But the experiment went just a little too well: the liberal party immediately shot up in the polls and was therefore promptly kicked off the ballot.

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Kyiv Post broke the news in Kyiv, Ukraine on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
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