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A Russian court convicted Lev Shlosberg, a senior Yabloko opposition figure, of discrediting the Russian military for opposing the Ukraine war and sentenced him to 11 years and one month in prison; in a separate ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Yabloko’s removal from the parliamentary ballot, highlighting the Kremlin’s intensified crackdown on dissent ahead of elections.
Russia’s Supreme Court upheld the removal of Yabloko from the September State Duma ballot, the country’s lone openly anti-war party, and a Pskov court sentenced Yabloko deputy chair Lev Shlosberg to 11 years in a penal colony for calling for a ceasefire and for “false information about the army.” The verdicts, viewed by critics as political repression, followed arrests of supporters outside the court, with Amnesty International condemning the outcome as retaliation against anti-war speech.
Russia’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling banning the anti-war Yabloko party from the September parliamentary elections, removing the only registered opposition party from the ballot, while deputy leader Lev Shlosberg was sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony for discrediting the military; observers say the verdicts reflect a Kremlin-driven crackdown on dissent ahead of the vote, with police detentions reported outside the court.
A Pskov court sentenced veteran opposition politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years and one month in prison for 'discrediting' the Russian military and spreading 'fake news' about the war, combining wartime penalties with a prior 2025 foreign-agent conviction. Shlosberg rejected the charges as politically motivated, and independent outlets cited procedural irregularities in the trial amid broader political crackdown in Russia.
Lev Shlosberg, a prominent anti-war politician and deputy head of Yabloko, was sentenced to 11 years and one month in a penal colony for allegedly discrediting Russia’s armed forces and spreading false information about them. The verdict comes as Yabloko faces a ban from September’s parliamentary elections, underscoring a wider crackdown on dissent ahead of the vote, with the party planning an appeal.