Russian Supreme Court grants lawsuit to cancel registration of Yabloko party's candidate list for State Duma elections

MOSCOW. Aug 10 (Interfax) - The Russian Supreme Court has granted a lawsuit to cancel the registration of the federal list of Yabloko party candidates for the State Duma, an Interfax correspondent reported.

"The lawsuit shall be granted," the judge said, reading out the court judgment.

An administrative lawsuit seeking to cancel the registration of the federal list of candidates for the ninth State Duma nominated by the Yabloko political party was filed with the Supreme Court on Friday. The Rodina party filed the lawsuit.

During the trial, representatives of the plaintiff, the Rodina political party, said that during the submission of documents and campaigning Yabloko "breached intellectual property, copyright, legislation countering extremism, and funding rules."

Earlier, a representative of the Central Elections Commission (CEC) said the CEC had received information from Russia's financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring about foreign funding of some of the candidates.

"Rosfinmonitoring's reply: in the run-up to the election campaign, in July-August 2026, there is information that some of the persons on the [Yabloko] federal list received foreign funding," the CEC representative said. Some of Yabloko representatives had received money from the United States, Germany, United Arab Emirates and other countries.

The Yabloko party did not receive funds from foreign sources, money was transferred as donations from Russians who, in turn, received that money from abroad, the party's lawyer Gadzhi Aliyev said.