Yabloko, Russian Antiwar Party, Is Banned From Parliament Elections

The party, Yabloko, has navigated a delicate balancing act with an increasingly heavy-handed Kremlin, but its pro-peace manifesto turned out to be the red line.

The bureau of Ilya Yashin’s Peaceful Russia party has proposed a coordinated voting action for September 20 — the main day of voting in Russia’s State Duma election.

Russia’s Supreme Court removed the only liberal party, Yabloko, from the upcoming State Duma elections in September, after granting a lawsuit filed by the nationalist Rodina party on Monday, Aug. 10. Hundreds of Russian citizens gathered outside the courthouse, protesting the ruling.

The ruling removes the only registered party campaigning on a pro-peace platform from the nationwide party-list ballot.

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