Lyubov Sobol, a top ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, announced her withdrawal from this fall’s parliamentary elections on June 14 after lawmakers banned his associates from running for office.
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The Moscow Times: Navalny ally Sobol drops out of Duma race after Russia’s ‘extremist’ ban
Former candidates to the Moscow City Duma Lyubov Sobol (L) gestures as she speaks next to Ivan Zhdanov (R) during a rally against efforts to stop opposition candidates to register for elections to the Moscow City Duma in central Moscow on July 14, 2019.
