Yabloko: the anti-war party barred from Russian elections

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Russian voters will go to the polls over three days to elect a new State Duma in the first parliamentary elections since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] Perhaps unsurprisingly, Vladimir Putin's United Russia party is leading in the polls. The only anti-war party, Yabloko, has been banned while candidates deemed to have "undesirable" opinions have been disqualified or jailed. We went to a Yabloko meeting to find out what young voters think of the party. ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe Follow us: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Channel4News Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/

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