Russia’s Supreme Court to Consider Ban on Anti-War Yabloko Party Ahead of Elections
The court case could block more than 400 Yabloko candidates and remove the only registered pro-peace party from the ballot, officials said.
- The Russian pro-Western opposition party Yabloko faces calls to be barred from upcoming elections due to its anti-war stance, with Russian nationalists calling its members 'traitors'.
- Yabloko aims to tap into discontent over the Ukraine war, with polls showing majority support for peace negotiations, particularly among young Russians.
- The party's leaders have been targeted by authorities, with its deputy leader jailed and its head in Pskov arrested over criticism of the conflict.
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After the end of the USSR, Iabloko (The Apple, in Russian) carried the hopes of the liberals turned towards the West. But, accused of being rigid or even giving lessons, this party plunged into the ballots. Since the 2003 elections, it has no longer had a parliamentary group in the Duma, the lower сhamber of Parliament. Yet, a few weeks before the legislature, Iabloko said that it felt a shudder fed by the ras-le-bol of young Russians overexpres…
Russia's Supreme Court said on Friday it would consider a lawsuit to bar Yabloko, the only officially registered party which opposes Moscow's war in Ukraine, from contesting parliamentary elections in September.
Yabloko Faces Legal Challenge Ahead of Russian Elections
Russia's Supreme Court is set to review a case seeking to bar the opposition party Yabloko from participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The lawsuit, filed by the pro-Kremlin Rodina party, claims Yabloko is a Western-backed entity aiming to tarnish Russia's image and electoral process.
Nationalist Rodina Party Sues to Disqualify Yabloko From State Duma Elections
The nationalist Rodina party has filed a lawsuit with Russia’s Supreme Court seeking to disqualify the liberal Yabloko party from upcoming State Duma elections, Rodina leader Alexei Zhuravlyov announced Friday. “The Yabloko party are national traitors.
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