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Yabloko says two Moscow Duma candidates were detained before the election
Yabloko said Friday that two of its members running in the lower-house Duma elections in Moscow had been detained separately. The charges facing Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno and Grigory Grishin remain unclear, while Artyom Snegovsky, who had been detained earlier, was released.
Russia's liberal party Yabloko said Friday that Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno and Grigory Grishin, candidates in the Duma elections in Moscow, had been detained. According to the party's press service, the two candidates were detained separately during the day and taken to local police stations.
It remains unclear whether any charges have been brought against Shatunovskaya-Byurno and Grishin. Another Yabloko candidate, Artyom Snegovsky, was detained Tuesday and faced accusations of “discrediting” the Russian army over his social media posts. Snegovsky was later released from police custody.
Yabloko's position in the elections
Yabloko's federal candidate list for the elections was removed from the register by a ruling issued by Russia's Supreme Court last month. The list had been submitted for the parliamentary elections scheduled for the end of September. Yabloko representatives running in single-member constituencies, however, can continue to contest the election.
Under Russia's electoral system, 225 of the State Duma's 450 seats are distributed among political parties that receive more than 5 percent of the vote on nationwide party lists. The other 225 seats go to the candidates who receive the most votes in single-member constituencies.
Vyorstka reported that at least 19 Yabloko candidates running in single-member constituencies had been barred from the elections over various violations. Details of the violations were not disclosed.
Yabloko is Russia's oldest liberal party and the only registered political party in the country campaigning on a pro-peace platform.
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