8,000 people apply to join anti-war Yabloko amid its removal from Russia’s State Duma race. That’s twice the party’s current membership.
Yabloko has received 8,000 applications to join the party over the past two weeks, Kirill Goncharov, head of the party’s Moscow branch, said in an interview with the independent journalist cooperative Bereg.
Yabloko has received 8,000 applications to join the party over the past two weeks, according to Kirill Goncharov, head of the party's Moscow branch. This is double the party's current membership of around 4,000. The surge in applications came amid Yabloko's removal from the State Duma election. Goncharov expressed that the party feels many people are demotivated and disappointed by this decision.
He added that staying together with like-minded individuals can provide support, both politically and psychologically. Yabloko is still running candidates in regional parliament elections, with the election campaign ongoing. The party's federal list was removed from the State Duma election by Russia's Supreme Court on August 10, based on a lawsuit filed by the Rodina party.
Yabloko's lawyers rejected an appeal of the ruling a week later. Demonstrators gathered outside the Supreme Court, leading to at least 50 arrests, some receiving administrative arrests. Meduza, the news outlet, emphasized the transparency of using AI in their translation process, with a human journalist reviewing the final draft before publication.
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