Russia’s Supreme Court has barred the liberal Yabloko party from contesting September’s parliamentary elections, removing the only officially registered party that openly opposes Moscow’s war in Ukraine from the ballot. Supreme Court judge Vyacheslav Kirillov granted the claims seeking to annul the registration of Yabloko’s federal list of candidates for the State Duma, which carried 269 names. The ruling annuls its federal list; Yabloko had also put forward 135 candidates in single-mandate constituencies. Once a leading liberal force in post-Soviet Russia, Yabloko now holds a handful of regional seats and has not won representation in the national parliament since 2003. Pro-Kremlin parties, led by United Russia, are widely expected to dominate the September vote.