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General Prosecutor’s Office calls for removing Yabloko candidates from Duma elections

TASS · · 149 words
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What to know about General Prosecutor’s Office calls for removing Yabloko candidates from Duma elections

The Prosecutor General's Office and the Rodina party have petitioned the Supreme Court to remove the Yabloko party from the State Duma elections. The request is based on allegations of foreign funding and violations of anti-extremism legislation, which Yabloko representatives have asked the court to dismiss.

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What happened

The Prosecutor General's Office supports the petition to remove the Yabloko party from the State Duma elections due to foreign funding and a number of other violations, a TASS correspondent reports from the courtroom of the Supreme Court, where the claim is…

Why it matters

"We believe that there are all grounds to satisfy the claim in accordance with the law, and we ask that Yabloko be removed from the State Duma elections," the prosecutor said.

Common ground

He cited receiving foreign funding and violating legislation on combating extremism among the grounds.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

The Prosecutor General's Office and the Rodina party have petitioned the Supreme Court to remove the Yabloko party from the State Duma elections. The request is based on allegations of foreign funding and violations of anti-extremism legislation, which Yabloko representatives have asked the court to dismiss.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “He cited receiving foreign funding and violating legislation on combating extremism among the grounds.”
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While the general event of the Prosecutor General's Office supporting the removal is corroborated, the specific grounds (foreign funding and anti-extremism legislation) are not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets, although the snippet for claim 0 mentions 'all reasons for the par[ty]'. No second independent source confirms these specific grounds.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, with the upper house being the Federation Council. It was established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993. The Du…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Duma
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Novgorod Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day. Acting Governor of Novgorod Oblast Aleksandr Dronov was elected for a full term in office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Novgorod_Oblast_gubernato…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saak Albertovich Karapetyan (28 March 1960 – 3 October 2018) was a Russian deputy attorney general of Armenian descent. He was killed in a helicopter crash in October 2018 at age 58.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saak_Karapetyan
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Claim 2: “the claim is being considered [in the] courtroom of the Supreme Court”
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Multiple sources confirm the case is being handled by the Supreme Court. One source explicitly mentions a 'Supreme Court hearing' and another mentions 'Russia’s Supreme Court takes up lawsuit'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — People's Front (Russian: Народный фронт, romanized: Narodnyy front, NF), formally All-Russia People's Front (Russian: Общероссийский народный фронт, romanized: Obshcherossiyskiy narodnyy front, ONF), …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Russia_People's_Front
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dawn (Russian: Рассвет, romanized: Rassvet) is a Russian political party formed by the rejected presidential candidate Yekaterina Duntsova.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(Russia)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko (RUDP Yabloko; Russian: Российская объединённая демократическая партия «Яблоко», romanized: Rossiyskaya obyedinyonnaya demokraticheskaya partiya "Yabloko", …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabloko
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Claim 3: “Alexey Zhuravlev, chairman of the Rodina party and a State Duma deputy... filed a petition with the Supreme Court requesting that Yabloko be removed from the elections to the State Duma.”
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Wikipedia confirms that Aleksey Zhuravlyov is the chairman of the Rodina party and a member of the State Duma. However, the specific act of him filing this particular petition to remove Yabloko is not corroborated by a second independent source in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aleksey Aleksandrovich Zhuravlyov (born 30 June 1962) is a Russian nationalist politician and member of the State Duma. Since 29 September 2016 he has been chairman of the Rodina political party. His …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Zhuravlyov_(politician…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Following the Russo-Ukrainian war on 24 February 2022, anti-war demonstrations and protests broke out across Russia. As well as the demonstrations, a number of petitions and open letters have been pen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-war_protests_in_Russia_(2…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Vladimir Ivanovich Netyosov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Нетёсов; born March 7, 1970, Voronezh) is a Russian statesman and political figure. Since October 3, 2025, he has been a senator of the Federati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Netyosov
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Claim 4: “The Prosecutor General's Office supports the petition to remove the Yabloko party from the State Duma elections”
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Two independent web search results confirm that the Russian Prosecutor General's Office supported the removal/disqualification of the Yabloko party from the elections.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation is a unified federal centralized system of bodies responsible for supervising compliance with the Constitution of Russia and the implementation of law…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_Office_of_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Prosecutor General of Russia (also Attorney General of Russia, Russian: Генеральный прокурор Российской Федерации, romanized: Generalʹnyy prokuror Rossiyskoy Federatsii) heads the system of offici…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor_General_of_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Prosecutor General of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Генеральний прокурор України, romanized: Heneralnyi prokuror Ukrainy, IPA: [ɦeneˈrɑlʲnɪj prokʊˈrɔr ʊkrɐˈjinɪ]) heads the system of official prosecution in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor_General_of_Ukraine
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