Representatives of the Central Election Commission and Rosfinmonitoring supported the accusations against Yabloko.
🔸 The hearing on the lawsuit against Yabloko has been going on for almost five hours. A few minutes ago, it was the turn of a Central Election Commission representative, who stated violations in the party's campaigning and supported the accusations previously voiced by the plaintiff's representatives. He believes Yabloko should be disqualified from the elections for copyright infringement.
🔸 A representative of Rosfinmonitoring also supported the accusations. In his statement, he stated that the federal list of Yabloko deputies includes individuals whose accounts received funds from foreign sources.
🔸 It also became known that this morning the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilovaasked to suspend printing of ballots for the State Duma elections.
"There may be some adjustments," — she explained.
🔸 The judge is presiding over the hearing Vyacheslav Kirillov, who has already taken part in high-profile political cases, including recognizing the Memorial society as “extremist” and dismissing the lawsuit Alexey Navalny to the prison administration and the Federal Penitentiary Service. Journalists from the "We Can Explain" project foundthat the judge owns a 100-square-meter apartment in a prestigious area of Moscow and a Lexus RX.
🔸 The plaintiff is the chairman of the Rodina party. Alexei Zhuravlev He didn't show up to defend his arguments - his lawyers did it for him.
🔸 "Apple" accuse of overspending on online campaigning and extremism for calling for peace with Ukraine. Retorting to the latter, the party chairman Nikolay Rybakov He cited a quote from Putin, who spoke of the need for peace talks. Rybakov also described the plaintiff's actions as an attempt to turn the judicial system into a tool for purging the political arena.
🔸 The lawsuit also accuses copyright infringement during campaigning, including for a line from the song "Let There Always Be Sunshine." However, while the hearing is ongoing, the heir of the song's author, the composer, Arkady Ostrovsky, said Novaya Gazeta said that it does not object to the use of this song in the Yabloko election campaign.
🔸 Meanwhile, the Rodina party website closed for technical work that is supposedly necessary for the preparation of “new materials.”
🔸 More than 150 thousand people are watching the broadcast of the meeting.
🔸 Around 500 Yabloko supporters are still standing outside the Supreme Court building. Among them are many students and high school students.
🔸 How рассказал A correspondent for the Telegram channel "Ostorozhno Novosti" (Beware, News) was asked by security forces to hand over a young man's phone, which he had used to photograph two riot police officers with machine guns. After reviewing the photos, the police examined his messaging messages and Telegram subscriptions.
According to RusNews, the young man released only after the security forces were surrounded by a crowd.
🔸 Also сообщаетсяthat security forces have been “talking” for more than half an hour with two girls who were standing with Yabloko campaign materials.