00:00At least 35 people were detained in front of the Russian Supreme Court building.
00:05in Moscow, where the Yabloko party, opposed to the war in Ukraine, was filing its appeal
00:10against the decision to exclude him from the parliamentary elections.
00:14This was reported by Kirill Goncharov, leader of the Moscow branch of the party.
00:18According to him, the detainees were transferred to the police stations in Hamovniky and Arbat.
00:24Goncharov stated that he personally witnessed the events and considered the arrests
00:28They lacked foundation.
00:30Among those arrested was Yabloko's candidate for the State Duma and actor Victor
00:35Balabanov, 73, who also has a pacemaker.
00:39The latter had appeared before the court as a witness in the case.
00:44Human rights activists also reported on the arrest of the Yabloko militant,
00:48Yevgenia Titova.
00:49According to party representatives and human rights advocates, police officers attempted
00:54disperse the Yabloko supporters gathered in front of the court.
00:58In Petrosavodsk, a court barred the Yabloko party, which advocates ending the war, from holding elections.
01:04from Russia against Ukraine, from participation in the municipal elections.
01:09The court upheld the cancellation of the registration of Yabloko's list of candidates for the
01:14Legislative Assembly of Karelia.
01:16The court held that the first financial report submitted by this political party
01:22before the Regional Electoral Commission for the registration of the list of candidates there would
01:27allegedly signed by an unauthorized person.
01:32The Yabloko party also risks being excluded from the Duma elections
01:36state, planned for the fall of 2026.
01:40On July 29, the Central Election Commission had registered this political force for
01:46participate in said elections.
01:48The party's federal list of candidates included 269 people, while others
01:54135 submitted documentation to compete in single-member constituencies.
01:59In early August, Rodina party leader Alexei Surablyov filed a lawsuit
02:06before the Supreme Court of Russia with the aim of excluding Yabloko from the elections to the
02:11Lower House of the Russian Parliament.
02:13The lawsuit alleges several procedural violations, including the alleged misuse of property
02:19intellectual and support for the LGBTT movement.
02:23Furthermore, the plaintiff alleges that this political force committed irregularities in
02:30the financing of his election campaign.
02:32It is worth noting that Yabloko is the only party participating in the State Duma elections
02:38Russian who advocates a swift end to the war against Ukraine.
02:42For this reason, its members are classified as foreign agents.
02:47It should be recalled that the pro-Kremlin Rodina party filed a lawsuit against this
02:53opposition force.
02:54His representatives accuse Yabloko of excessive campaign spending and of distributing
03:00materials through foreign agents and foreign social networks.
03:05Later in the hearing, a representative for Rodina also alleged that Yabloko had
03:11copyright infringed by using a photograph of the aftermath of the atomic bombing
03:17from Hiroshima.
03:18However, the prosecution makes no secret of the fact that it doesn't even know who the owner is.
03:23of said photograph.
03:25The situation has generated additional attention amid growing online interest in
03:30Yabloko.
03:31In the last two weeks, interaction with posts about the match has
03:36multiplied by 4.5, according to unofficial data from independent sources.
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