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In Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, searches were carried out at the home of the head of the regional branch of Yabloko, Maksim Petlin, and party member Yegor Tkachenko, reports the press service of Yabloko.

Law enforcement are conducting investigative operations with Petlin and Tkachenko. Both have not been in contact.

The party said that so far it is not known whether any charges have been brought against Petlin and Tkachenko.

Earlier, the head of Moscow’s Yabloko branch, Kirill Goncharov, reported that Tkachenko’s phone and laptop were taken and he was then taken away in an unknown direction.

Yabloko links the detention of its members to the upcoming elections to the Sverdlovsk regional parliament. The regional branch was planning to participate in the elections and had compiled a list of 48 candidates for the local parliament.

18:24 For several hours now, a lawyer has not been allowed to see those detained, reports the Yabloko party press service.

It is assumed that they are being held at police department No. 1. Although the lawyer provided all the necessary documents, they are not being allowed in.

Yabloko also learned of another person who was detained: party supporter Elizaveta Kabak.

  • Last week, two Yabloko members who intended to run again for regional parliaments this year were fined under the article on displaying banned symbols (Part 1, Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). Being held liable under this article bars a person from standing in elections for a year.
  • For example, the head of the Karelia branch of Yabloko, Emilia Slabunova, was fined one thousand roubles (approx. US$11) over a photo of Alexei Navalny in a 2020 post, while Alexander Shishlov, the leader of Yabloko’s faction in the Saint Petersburg legislative assembly, was fined one and a half thousand roubles (approx. US$16) over a video interview with Grigory Yavlinsky in which Navalny’s surname was mentioned.
  • If these decisions come into force, Slabunova and Shishlov will not be able to stand again this year for the legislative assemblies in their regions. Shishlov gave up his current mandate so that another party member could take his place.