Ukraine war briefing: Russia bans voting against the war

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Russia has banned voting against the war in September’s elections. The supreme court upheld a suit brought by a small pro-Kremlin nationalist party, Roblina, and stripped voters opposed to the war of their last option on the ballot: Yabloko, the country’s only remaining anti-war party. The court banned Yabloko’s entire list of federal election candidates from standing for the State Duma of Russia’s parliament. With most of Vladimir Putin’s opponents jailed, exiled or dead, Yabloko is the only li