Russia’s Supreme Court has blocked what is described as the country’s final active liberal political party from contesting September’s federal elections, after the faction was accused of being active on Western social media, and of taking Western money.
The Yabloko [‘Apple’] party, led by chairman Nikolai Rybakov has been de-registered as a legal party and consequently blocked from contesting September’s federal elections for the State Duma [federal assembly or parliament]. The ruling in Russia’s Supreme Court came on Monday afternoon and came after a legal complaint was lodged by small pro-Kremlin nationalist party Rodina [‘Motherland’] in protest at the Russian electoral commission having earlier signed off on Yabloko being able...
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