‘The funds came from Russian citizens, not from abroad’: Yabloko’s lawyer answers a classified foreign-funding dossier used to try to knock the antiwar party off the ballot
According to data from Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring), the Yabloko party had received funding from abroad, a Central Election Commission (CEC) representative said. The representative spoke during a court hearing on a lawsuit the Rodina party filed seeking to remove Yabloko from the State Duma election.
Rosfinmonitoring, Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service, provided a document to the Central Election Commission (CEC) revealing that Yabloko party candidates had received funding from abroad, the CEC representative explained during a lawsuit hearing. The document listed numerous parties of the antiwar party as receiving foreign funds, with several dozen individuals among them also benefiting from these foreign sources.
The document is classified as "for official use only" and Yabloko representatives are permitted to view it after signing a confidentiality agreement.
Yabloko's lawyer, Gadzhi Aliev, clarified that the funds did not originate from foreign individuals but from Russian citizens who had received money from abroad, according to the Telegram channel Varlamov News. Yabloko is the only party among the registered candidates for the State Duma election that openly advocates for ending hostilities in Ukraine. The lawsuit against Yabloko by the Rodina party also claims that the party's campaign materials violate copyright laws and that Yabloko is "extremist" in its political views.
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