Why this small party is barred from Russia's election

Why this small party is barred from Russia's election

Why did Russian authorities tolerate Yabloko for so long and why did they move now to silence the party at the polls?

Why a minor political party was excluded from Russia’s election race

Russia’s tightly controlled political stage has shrunk again: earlier this month, the country’s supreme court blocked the small, anti-war Yabloko party from taking part in the federal parliamentary elections scheduled for mid-September. The decision has raised a blunt question in a country where dissent has been steadily squeezed out of public life: why did the […]

The Kremlin’s Reasons for Ending Tolerance of a Small Opposition Party – Axadle

Russia’s Supreme Court has shut an anti-war party out of the country’s federal parliamentary elections, underscoring how little room remains for dissent as the Kremlin tightens its grip on political life. Earlier this month, the court barred the marginal Yabloko party from contesting the elections scheduled for mid-September. Why did Russian authorities permit Yabloko to […]