Russia’s Supreme Court disqualified the only antiwar party over copyright, campaign financing, and a picture from ChatGPT — without ever ruling on whether calls for peace are extremism

On August 10, Russia’s Supreme Court barred Yabloko — the only party in the race campaigning for peace with Ukraine — from the State Duma elections. The formal pretext was a lawsuit from the Rodina party, which accused Yabloko of numerous violations of election law: copyright infringement, incitement to extremism, and “gray-area” campaigning. It was unclear which of those claims the Supreme Court accepted and which it rejected, because the ruling was not made public. But on August…