Meduza’s sources close to the Kremlin say Putin’s team registered an antiwar party as an experiment and shut it down, banning Yabloko from the ballot, when the polling came back
Igor Ivanko / AFP / Scanpix / LETAYabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov outside the Supreme Court building after the ruling was announced. August 10, 2026 On July 29, Russia’s Central Election Commission registered the liberal party Yabloko for elections to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament. On August 7, however, another party, Rodina, filed suit at Russia’s Supreme Court demanding that the decision be overturned.