Members of Youth Yabloko are being denied registration

News - Moscow

Today the leader of Moscow "Youth Yabloko" Kirill Goncharov was rejected from municipal elections. The Election Commission declared more than 30% of his signatures invalid. Earlier two other Youth Yabloko's activists were denied registration.

Goncharov says that "this decision is strictly political and it has nothing to do with the signatures or their quality". Russian authorities are trying to get rid of competitors before the start of the election campaign.