PoliticsRussian opposition leader Nikolai Rybakov fined 1,000 rubles for writing ‘For Peace’ on ballot
A St. Petersburg court fined Yabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov 1,000 rubles for administrative petty hooliganism. The court said he marked his ballots and placed them in the ballot box. Rybakov acknowledged invalidating them, saying this expressed his longstanding political position. Yabloko had urged supporters to spoil ballots in protest.
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Russian opposition leader Nikolai Rybakov fined 1,000 rubles for writing ‘For Peace’ on ballot