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.

La Corte Suprema russa vieta a Yabloko la partecipazione alle elezioni parlamentari di settembre, che si presentava con la pace in Ucraina al primo punto del p…

Russia’s highest court has ordered the only party opposing the Kremlin’s military action in Ukraine to be removed from the ballot in next month’s parliamentary election.