Sverdlovsk Region Court Bars Yabloko From Regional Assembly Race
Sverdlovsk is the fifth region where Yabloko has had its list of candidates barred from running in the regional assembly races in September.
In a recent ruling, a judge in the Sverdlovsk region has disallowed the liberal Yabloko party’s slate of candidates from participating in the upcoming regional assembly elections. This decision came after Russia’s Supreme Court rejected Yabloko’s appeal against a nationwide ban on its candidate list for the State Duma elections in the following month.
The Sverdlovsk Regional Court sided with a lawsuit brought forth by the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), who alleged a series of infractions by Yabloko, such as those mentioned in the Supreme Court's ruling. These accusations included copyright infringement, overspending, and sharing content on banned platforms like Instagram and Facebook.
Yabloko’s Yekaterinburg branch has vowed to appeal the decision, maintaining that similar accusations could be leveled against other parties in the race, including LDPR.
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