Russia's top court bans only anti-war party from September election

Fact-check index: 88/100 — The core facts—Russia's Supreme Court barring Yabloko, the only liberal anti-war party, from September's parliamentary elections—are directly supported by both cited sources, while the 'why it matters' framing and hypothesis are reasonable but not explicitly stated in the source material.

• Russia's Supreme Court on Monday barred Yabloko from contesting next month's (September) parliamentary elections — France24 states this nearly verbatim ('Russia's Supreme Court on Monday barred the country's only anti-war party, Yabloko, from contesting September's parliamentary elections'); BBC corroborates the ban and timing though it attributes the ruling to 'a Moscow court' rather than specifically the Supreme Court.
• Yabloko is Russia's only liberal, anti-war party — Both BBC ('Russia's only liberal, anti-war party') and France24 ('the country's only anti-war party') confirm this description.
• No party campaigning against the war in Ukraine will appear on the September ballot — A logical inference from Yabloko being the 'only' anti-war party and now being barred, but neither source explicitly states that zero anti-war parties remain on the ballot.
• Neither the BBC nor France24 report cites the court's stated legal grounds for the ban — Confirmed by the provided source text — neither article gives a legal rationale for the ruling.
• The ban reflects a Kremlin effort to lock in a wartime political consensus — Explicitly labeled a 'Hypothesis' by the article itself and not asserted or sourced from either report; presented as speculation, not fact.