Yabloko member Elena Perepelitsa sentenced to four years for funding Navalny group

Elena Perepelitsa, affiliated with the liberal Yabloko party that opposes the war in Ukraine, was sentenced by a Russian court to four years in a penal colony for donating to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, an entity the Kremlin has classified as a foreign agent and extremist group. One outlet announced the verdict, noting that Perepelitsa told the court she did not intend to finance extremist activity. The case adds to a recent wave of prosecutions targeting Yabloko members, including deputy leader Maxim Kruglov, who received a seven-year sentence for alleged false statements about the army, and deputy chairman Lev Shlosberg, sentenced to over eleven years for discrediting the armed forces.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the government has increasingly used extremist labels and wartime censorship laws to suppress dissent, prompting many opposition figures to flee the country. Those who remain face heightened legal risks for anti-war expressions and other forms of opposition.