The Moscow City Election Commission's federal ballot for the State Duma election of 18 to 20 September lists ten parties, and Yabloko, the liberal party that has campaigned against the war since 2022, is not among them. Russia's Supreme Court cancelled the party's federal list on 10 August and threw out its appeal on 17 August. Yabloko filed a supervisory complaint to the court's Presidium on 2 September, arguing that Russian law sets no shortened election deadline for deciding one.
A remedy with no clock cannot restore a party to a ballot in five days. Meduza counted Yabloko's registered single-member candidates falling from 135 to 119 by 11 September after courts removed sixteen, including six in Sverdlovsk Oblast whose candidacies ended in administrative cases over alleged extremist symbols in old social media posts. Regional lists went ahead in four of the six regions where the party sought seats.
One national ruling took the federal line. The district slate is being thinned case by case, which needs no single decision anyone can be held to. Russian officials had floated an October call-up as early as June , and the generals' request for men waits on this vote.
