Yesterday, its recent coordinator, Andrei Chernykh, left the Democratic faction of the Legislative Assembly, announcing his transition to United Russia. For his colleagues, this decision came as a complete surprise: on Monday, Chernykh, speaking at a meeting of the bureau of the regional council of the St. Petersburg Yabloko, once again spoke about the need to unite all democrats and was full of creative plans. And on Wednesday it became clear what these plans were...