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Russia’s ruling party United Russia wins a record supermajority in the State Duma with about 58% of the vote and near-60% turnout, in an election critics say excluded genuine opposition and invited no OSCE observers; residents of annexed Ukrainian regions participate, while the Communists win seats regionally and Western critics decry the process and ongoing war.
Russian hockey star Alex Ovechkin appears in a United Russia campaign ad alongside Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ahead of Russia’s parliamentary elections, continuing his history of publicly backing Putin and drawing online criticism and media coverage.
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.
A Moscow court barred Yabloko, Russia's sole liberal anti-war party, from the upcoming parliamentary elections after a suit by pro-Kremlin Rodina alleging extremism and copyright violations, expelling a key opposition candidate as dissent is increasingly suppressed ahead of a vote many expect to favor the Kremlin.
A Russian anti-war candidate from the Yabloko party, Kirill Rumyantsev, says he and his family have received death threats and calls to withdraw ahead of the September State Duma elections; he has filed a police report and plans to remain in the race.