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Behind The Hobbling Of Russia's Yabloko Party: A Swirl Of Legal Contortions
['Mike Eckel']
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
If you were asking what exactly this has to do with Russian elections, you wouldn’t be alone.
“I really can’t wrap my head around this,” Sergei Markov, a former Kremlin political adviser, said in a post to Telegram.
Yabloko’s lawyers said the lyrics were spoken by an interviewer speaking with Yavlinsky, not as part of campaign literature.
Yabloko’s lawyers pointed out that the party has used the logo for years in past elections -- well before the upcoming campaign.
As a result, Yabloko’s party list consists of young and little-known politicians.”