GENEVA: The United Nations on Wednesday called on Russia to lift its ban on the anti-war party Yabloko running in September’s parliamentary elections. “We are deeply concerned about the barring of Yabloko, one of Russia’s oldest political parties, from the September parliamentary elections,” said a statement from the UN Human Rights Office. “We call on the authorities to overturn the ban,” it added. On Monday, Russia’s Supreme Court barred Yabloko from the elections, upholding a legal action brought by a pro-Kremlin nationalist party.
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GENEVA: The United Nations on Wednesday called on Russia to lift its ban on the anti-war party Yabloko running in September’s parliamentary elections.
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