Leader of Russia's Pravoe Delo party, Mikhail Prokhorov, also owns the New Jersey Nets basketball team. Image by Flickr user NBANets (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). On June 22, 2011, the Russian Ministry of Justice refused to register PARNAS, the People's Freedom Party (an independent liberal party led by prominent opposition leaders with over 46,000 members) on the grounds of formal procedural violations.
22 июня 2011 года Министерство юстиции РФ отказалось зарегистрировать ПАРНАС – Партию Народной Свободы, мотивируя отказ нарушением формальных процедур по сбору подписей.