Today, the Yabloko party is the only officially registered political force that actually opposes the Russian government. While police violence against protesters has raised the stakes against participants of opposition protests, criminal prosecutions of potential participants in this year’s parliamentary elections have severely reduced the ranks of the Russian opposition – including, of course, Alexey Navalny.
Open Democracy: ‘We consider Alexey Navalny’s ideas destructive and dangerous for Russia’
Police officers detain Sergei Mitrokhin, a leading member of the liberal opposition Yabloko party, during a protest against the city's plan to knock down Soviet-era apartment blocks and redevelop the old neighbourhoods, in front of the Russian Federation Council in central Moscow on June 28, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Natalia KOLESNIKOVA
