Yabloko demands all parties be removed or none
"Apple" demanded that the Central Election Commission recognize the absurdity of the decision to remove the party from elections due to donations from donors with foreign ties or cancel the registration of other parties.
Consensus
- The Supreme Court removed Yabloko from the State Duma election list on August 10.
- The removal was based on Yabloko receiving 16,900 rubles in donations from individuals allegedly receiving funds from abroad.
- Yabloko's leader, Nikita Rybakov, addressed an open letter to the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova.
- Rybakov argued that if the same criteria were applied to other parties, all parliamentary parties would also be disqualified.
- Yabloko collected evidence of similar violations across other parties, including unauthorized use of media content and unpaid advertising.
- The appeal against the removal was scheduled to be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
- Rybakov invited Pamfilova to attend the Supreme Court session.
Points of divergence
- Rybakov submitted a document with 277 pages of evidence on unpaid media advertising, copyright violations, and foreign-funded donations from all parliamentary parties. — tg_paperpaper_ru
- The Center for Anti-Corruption Policy under Yabloko found that five parliamentary parties received over 1.153 billion rubles from donors with foreign ties, with United Russia receiving over 811 million rubles from donors linked to more than 50 countries, including 'unfriendly' ones like the US, UK, Germany, France, and Ukraine. — mediazona
- United Russia used video materials from TASS and VGTRK in their campaign materials, and Rodina published content with logos of Izvestia and Channel One. — mediazona
- Rybakov stated he would not file lawsuits against other parties but published the collected data in open access. — tg_paperpaper_ru
Coverage (2 sources)
- Rybakov proposed to the EEC to remove all parties or return "Yabloko" — Бумага
- Apple asked the CEC to recognize the absurdity of the decision to remove the party from elections due to donations from donors with foreign ties or to cancel registration for other parties — Медиазона
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