A classic of the genre: "It raises the question: is everything really all right...?" If we recall other episodes from the life of Yabloko (a Russian liberal democratic party)—for example, the fact that former Yabloko members Sergei Gulyaev (also, incidentally, from St. Petersburg) and Alexei Navalny not long ago created the nationalist movement "Narod" ("The People")—then the question arises: is everything all right with the party’s ideology? It is hard to believe that several activists all changed their political views so radically. Nationalists and fascists seem to feel very much at home in the ranks of one of the country’s oldest democratic parties. One would like to hope that Grigory Yavlinsky and Yabloko’s other leaders had no idea about the real political views of their activists or about whom the leaders of the party’s regional branches were associating with. Still, that does not absolve them of responsibility, particularly before their supporters—few in number, perhaps, but democratic-minded nonetheless. http://www.izvestia.ru/politic/article3113998/
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