The Russian Supreme Court has ruled to uphold a petition by the Rodina party to disqualify the Yabloko party from the upcoming elections to the Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma.
Below is a brief summary of the case compiled by TASS.
Russian Supreme Court ruling
- The Russian Supreme Court upheld the Rodina party’s claim.
- The Yabloko party has been removed from elections to the State Duma.
- The party has five days to appeal the ruling.
- The Yabloko party has received funding from foreign sources, a representative of Russia’s Centrla Election Commission (CEC) has told the court.
- Besides, Rodina submitted to the judge documents from the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation (Rosfinmonitoring) to prove its claim.
- According to the watchdog, the Yabloko party received funds from the United States and Germany via intermediaries.
