The Central Election Commission demanded that Yabloko provide information about the connection of Andrei Pivovarov, whom it nominated, with an NGO - a “foreign agent”

The Central Election Commission demanded that the Yabloko party, by August 3, provide information about the connection of two of their candidates to the State Duma with NGOs - “foreign agents.” The meeting was broadcast on the commission’s website; excerpts are provided TASS and Zaks.ru. by

CEC Secretary Natalya Budarina, that we are talking about the former executive director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov, who is now in a pre-trial detention center in Krasnodar, and lawyer Marina Agaltsova. The Ministry of Justice pointed this out to them when checking the party’s federal list.

“There is information about [Pivovarov] that [he] is the chairman and founder of the organization <...> “Open Petersburg,” said Budarina. “The candidate [Marina Agaltsova] received funds from the organization “Institute of Law and Public Policy.”

“Open Petersburg,” which was involved in a project to help municipal deputies “United Democrats,” was included in the register of “foreign agents” in December 2020, and the research organization “Institute of Law and Public Policy” was included in mid-July 2021. Because of the work of Open Petersburg, Pivovarov was twice fined 50 thousand rubles.

At the end of May, Pivovarov was taken off the plane at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, when the oppositionist was preparing to fly to Warsaw on vacation, taken to Krasnodar and arrested. against him, two days after the liquidation of Open Russia, A case was opened because of a post on Facebook about the United Democrats project, which the investigation linked with Open Russia (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code).