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Three Yabloko Candidates Disqualified from Russian Parliamentary Elections

morning · · thread: Russia's Central Election Commission Registers Yabloko Party for State Duma Elections

2 sources · Latvia

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  • Meduza Latvia · Centre-left · Crowdfunded; exiled Russian newsroom
  • Novaya Gazeta Europe Latvia · Centre-left · Crowdfunded; exiled Russian newsroom

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Russian courts have disqualified three single mandate candidates from the Yabloko party ahead of the September parliamentary elections. In Tatarstan, the Supreme Court removed Airat Gumerbayev following a lawsuit from the local election commission regarding his holdings of foreign securities. The Tula Regional Court also struck candidate Anton Paramonov from the ballot after a lawsuit from Svetlana Bobrovskaya of the Pensioners Party cited foreign securities. In Bashkortostan, the Supreme Court revoked the registration of Alexey Akimenko. He was accused of administering an online community that hosted materials deemed extremist, specifically logos of social networks banned in Russia. Akimenko ran in the same district as Rodina party chairman Alexey Zhuravlev.

Yabloko has stated it will appeal the disqualifications. The party has nominated 125 single mandate candidates across 51 regions. Previously, the Supreme Court struck the party's federal list from the ballot on August 10, and regional lists were removed in Karelia, Kaliningrad, Pskov, and Sverdlovsk.

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Outlets of this lean framed the disqualifications as a blow to the only antiwar party running in the elections.

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