Russia’s Supreme Court threw Yabloko off September’s Duma ballot. The antiwar party has just 4,000 members, but 8,000 people have applied to join in the last two weeks.
Yabloko’s election campaign became Russia’s biggest political story of the summer before it had even properly begun: the Supreme Court removed the party from the ballot, and hundreds of young people came out to support Yabloko. Meanwhile, one of Yabloko’s leaders, Lev Shlosberg, was sentenced to 11 years on trumped-up charges. Amid all that, the party is riding an unprecedented surge of…
The Russian Supreme Court removed the far-left Yabloko party from the September Duma ballot, despite the antiwar party having just 4,000 members. However, 8,000 people have already applied to join Yabloko in the last two weeks, marking an unprecedented surge in popularity. The party's Moscow branch head, Kirill Goncharov, discussed the party's response to this popularity and its intentions during an interview with Bereg, a cooperative of independent journalists.
Goncharov expressed that the party is feeling a real burst of optimism despite the setback, as they continue with their election campaign and feel a need to support their members facing legal troubles.
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