ON August 10th several hundred mostly young people gathered in front of(在……前面) Russia’s Supreme Court. The pavement was covered in chalk messages: “For Yabloko, for peace”; Alexei Navalny(阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼，俄罗斯反对派领袖)’s slogan “Russia will be free”; and in Ukrainian, “We have no fear, we have love”. They listened on their smartphones to the court’s proceedings, as it decided whether to allow Yabloko (Apple), Russia’s oldest liberal party and the only openly anti-war one, to run in legislative elections set for September 20th.(他们通过智能手机收听法庭审理，法庭正决定是否允许亚博卢参加选举。) The party’s electoral manifesto(宣言；声明) consists of 43 words, the first two sentences in capital letters: FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM! FOR A LIFE WITHOUT FEAR!
8月10日，数百名以年轻人为主的人聚集在俄罗斯最高法院前。人行道上写满了粉笔字：“为了亚博卢，为了和平”；阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼的口号“俄罗斯将获得自由”；还有乌克兰语的“我们无惧，我们有爱”。他们通过智能手机收听法庭审理过程，法庭正在决定是否允许亚博卢（意为“苹果”）——俄罗斯最古老的自由派政党，也是唯一公开反战的政党——参加定于9月20日举行的立法选举。该党的竞选宣言只有43个词，前两句用大写字母写成：“为了和平与自由！为了无恐惧的生活！”
Several young people sat in a row(成一排；连续地), eating apples. Someone holding a green apple and a Russian flag was hoisted(升起；吊起) above the crowd. A woman with dyed orange hair sat showily(显眼地；张扬地) reading Kafka. After a few hours the judge, Vyacheslav Kirillov, disqualified(取消资格；使不合格) Yabloko from the elections for the Duma(杜马，俄罗斯议会下院), the lower house of Russia’s legislature. “Whereas previously it was forbidden to speak out against the war, now it is forbidden even to simply speak out in favour of peace,” notes Dmitry Kisiev, a political strategist in Moscow.(过去禁止反战言论，现在连支持和平也不允许。)
几个年轻人坐成一排，吃着苹果。有人举着青苹果和俄罗斯国旗，被人群高高抬起。一位染着橙色头发的女子故作姿态地坐着读卡夫卡。几个小时后，法官维亚切斯拉夫·基里洛夫取消了亚博卢参加杜马（俄罗斯议会下院）选举的资格。“过去是禁止公开发声反对战争，现在连公开支持和平都不行了，”莫斯科政治策略师德米特里·基谢夫指出。
The case against Yabloko was a lawsuit(诉讼；官司) filed by Rodina (Motherland), a Kremlin-controlled nationalist party, accusing it of(指控它……) “extremism”. “‘Yabloko are national traitors. They are people who embrace(拥抱；欣然接受) Western values and are demanding our surrender(投降；屈服),” Alexei Zhuravlyov, Rodina’s chairman, said after filing the suit. It also accused Yabloko of copyright violations for using old Soviet pacifist songs and for displaying photos of the bombing of Hiroshima(广岛，日本城市，1945年遭原子弹轰炸), allegedly infringing(侵犯；违反) the copyright of the American army.
针对亚博卢的案件是由“祖国党”（意为“祖国”）提起的诉讼，该党是克里姆林宫控制的民族主义政党，指控亚博卢“极端主义”。“亚博卢是民族叛徒。他们是拥抱西方价值观并要求我们投降的人，”祖国党主席阿列克谢·茹拉夫廖夫在提起诉讼后表示。诉讼还指控亚博卢侵犯版权，因其使用苏联时期的和平主义老歌并展示广岛原子弹轰炸照片，据称侵犯了美国军队的版权。