A Yabloko candidate in St. Petersburg was summoned to the prosecutor's office over the words “peace” and “freedom” in a campaign video, even though she hid them

A Yabloko candidate in St. Petersburg was summoned to the prosecutor's office over the words “peace” and “freedom” in a campaign video, even though she hid them

Marina Peslyak hid the words with sound effects and added a disclaimer to the video saying that these concepts “have been recognized as extremist and cut from the campaign material.”

In the end, Peslyak still received a warning from the prosecutor's office about the inadmissibility of distributing a campaign video that could be interpreted as “discrediting” the Russian army and “extremism,” the woman told SOTAvision.

Marina Peslyak's campaign videos were never allowed on air.

Also today, the Moscow Regional Court removed Sergei Kryzhov, the leader of Yabloko near Moscow, from the State Duma election. The lawsuit was filed by Anatoly Balashov, a candidate from the Greens party. The reason was that back in 2021, Kryzhov's personal website displayed the logos of social networks, including VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, whose exclusive rights, according to the plaintiff, had been violated.

Shana Ogney from Yekaterinburg's Yabloko was fined 2,000 rubles today over posts with a pentagram and the symbols of the Vesna movement, Mediazona writes. A report under the article on displaying “extremist” symbols was drawn up over posts on X. Now she will not be able to take part in elections.

Video: Marina Peslyak / Telegram

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