Russian Appeals Court Restores Communist Candidate to Parliamentary Ballot

A Microsoft font got a Communist candidate thrown off Russia’s ballot. An appeals court just put him back on it.

The Fourth Appeals Court in Nizhny Novgorod has overturned a Samara Regional Court ruling that removed Mikhail Matveyev, a Communist Party (KPRF) candidate and sitting State Duma deputy, from the ballot in Russia’s parliamentary elections.