8,000 People Apply to Join Anti-War Yabloko Party Amid Duma Race Removal

8,000 people apply to join anti-war Yabloko amid its removal from Russia’s State Duma race. That’s twice the party’s current membership.

Yabloko has received 8,000 applications to join the party over the past two weeks, Kirill Goncharov, head of the party’s Moscow branch, said in an interview with the independent journalist cooperative Bereg.