Did the Kremlin Really Get Scared of Yabloko and Its Supporters? And How Much Would the Party Have Received in the September Elections If It Had Not Been Removed...

Did the Kremlin really get scared of Yabloko and its supporters? And how many votes would the party have received in the September elections if it had not been removed from the ballot? Maxim Katz explains in the new episode of “What Happened”

Yabloko was the only party that went into the September elections with an anti-war slogan. But the Kremlin crushed its election campaign by removing the party from the ballot, and two Yabloko leaders at once — Maxim Kruglov and Lev Shlosberg — in the summer of 2026 were sentenced to actual prison terms.

Why is the Kremlin acting so harshly toward a party that received 1.34% of the vote in the last parliamentary elections? Vladislav Gorin discusses this with politician, blogger, and media manager Maxim Katz, who himself was a member of the Yabloko party in 2016–2020.

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Yabloko was the only party that went into the September elections with an anti-war slogan. But the Kremlin crushed its election campaign…