St. Petersburg Court Fines Yabloko Leader $12 for Writing Peace Slogans on Ballot
The court said Nikolai Rybakov committed disorderly conduct after he wrote anti-war slogans on his ballot during the State Duma election.
- On Friday, The Vyborgsky District Court fined Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov 1,000 rubles for writing anti-war slogans on his ballots during September's State Duma elections, ruling he acted "deliberately and out of hooligan motives."
- Yabloko, Russia's oldest liberal party, campaigned for peace in the 2026 State Duma elections but faced widespread exclusion, prompting Rybakov to write slogans like "For Peace" and "For a Ceasefire Agreement" on his ballots.
- Rybakov argued that invalidating his ballot was a lawful form of political expression, maintaining that more than 900,000 voters did the same and his actions "showed no disrespect for society."
- This conviction arrives amid mounting pressure on Yabloko, where three prominent members have received prison sentences in the past four months, most recently Yelena Perepelitsa on Thursday.
- Police accused the chairman of "ignoring society's interests" and breaking public order, while the court ruled his actions disregarded decency and propriety, displaying blatant disrespect for society.
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Moscow, Oct 9 (EFE).- Russian justice today imposed a fine of 1,000 rubles (about $12) on Nikolai Ribakov, leader of Yabloko, the only Russian party that opposes the war, for calling peace in Ukraine on the ballot he put on the ballot in the recent legislative elections. [...] The ticket Fined with $12 to the Russian opposition leader for calling peace on an electoral ballot was first published in HolaNews.
In St. Petersburg, the Ryborg Court brought administrative charges against the leader of the Yabalo party, Nikolai Rybakov, under an article on petty hooliganism and fined 1,000 rubles, and reported to the joint press service of the city's courts.
On the morning of 20 September, at the polling station in Orbeli Rybakov Street, the president of the political party, Nikolai Rybakov, fined the leader of the party for damaging the ballot papers on the ballot papers, gave TASS to the leader of the party. On the morning of 20 September, at the polling station in Orbeli Rybakov Street, he ruined four ballot papers; he wrote on them political slogans with green and red flounders, and then publish…
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