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Russia’s Supreme Court upheld Monday a ruling barring liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin from running in the upcoming presidential election. Nadezhdin, a city council member in the town of Dolgoprudny near Moscow, was nominated by the Civic Initiative party to run in an election President Vladimir Putin is all but set to win. “For now, we are guided by Russian law.” …

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MOSCOW — A liberal Russian politician on Thursday lost an appeal contesting the decision by election officials barring him from running in next month’s vote that President Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win. Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday turned down Nadezhdin’s appeal against technical aspects of last week’s decision by the Central Election Commission to bar him from …

Russian antiwar presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin said a “majority” of people in Russia want the conflict with Ukraine to end and promised to challenge the electoral body’s decision barring him from running in the March elections against incumbent Vladimir Putin. In an interview with Al Jazeera on Friday, Nadezhdin said the Central Election Commission ruling was a “political decision”, which …

Who is Boris Nadezhdin, Putin challenger barred from Russia's presidential polls?

Russia’s Vladimir Putin may be running for president again, but it doesn’t look like he’s going to have much competition. As per The Guardian, Nadezhdin wrote in his election manifesto that Putin made a “fatal mistake by starting the special military operation” in Ukraine. “You can call it God or fate, but there’s a tangible force driving my campaign,” Nadezhdin …

Russian anti-war, Putin critic Nadezhdin barred from presidential elections

Russia’s main election authority on Thursday refused to allow a politician opposing Moscow’s military action in Ukraine on the ballot for the upcoming presidential election. The Central Election Commission declared more than 9,000 signatures submitted by Mr. Nadezhdin’s campaign invalid, which was enough to disqualify him. Speaking at the Election Commission on Thursday, Mr. Nadezhdin asked election authorities to postpone …

Who is Boris Nadezhdin? The Russian presidential challenger banned from running against Putin

TALLINN, Estonia — Antiwar politician Boris Nadezhdin was rejected Thursday as a candidate in next month’s presidential balloting by Russian election authorities, a strong signal from the Kremlin that it won’t tolerate any public opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. Central Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova said the ballot will have only four names — the fewest number of candidates …

Boris Nadezhdin, who has won support for his criticism of the Ukraine war, vows to challenge poll commission’s decision. Russia’s presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin has said his bid to run in elections in March has been blocked, and that he will challenge the decision of the election commission in the country’s highest court. Running on the ticket of the small …

Russian officials accused Boris Nadezhdin to have submitted invalid signatures to run against President Putin in March. The Central Election Commission of Russia has found flaws in documents backing Boris Nadezhdin’s bid to run in next month’s presidential vote, he has said. The CEC informed the aspiring antiwar candidate on Monday that it had found 15 percent of the signatures …

Moscow: Russian anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin said on Monday that a working group of Russia's Central Election Commission had found 15 per cent of the supporters' signatures he submitted to back his election bid to be invalid. That figure, if confirmed, is three times higher than the allowable error rate and would provide grounds for the commission to disqualify …

Putin win seen as forgone conclusion, but Boris Nadezhdin’s opposition to Russia’s war in Ukraine has won him significant support. Boris Nadezhdin, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, has submitted the documents needed to register as a candidate for Russia’s presidential elections in March. The 60-year-old local councillor, who has promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, said on Wednesday …

They have lined up by the thousands across Russia in recent days, standing in the bitter cold for a chance to sign petitions to support an unlikely challenger to President Vladimir Putin. “We didn’t expect this, to be honest.” Nadezhdin’s name is a form of the Russian word for “hope,” and although he is highly unlikely to defeat the still-popular …

They’ve lined up by the thousands across Russia in recent days, standing in the bitter cold for a chance to sign petitions to support an unlikely challenger to President Vladimir Putin. “We didn’t expect this, to be honest.” Nadezhdin’s name is a form of the Russian word for “hope,” and although he is highly unlikely to defeat the still-popular Putin, …

Russia: Anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin attempts brave challenge to Vladimir Putin

The 60-year-old former opposition lawmaker Boris Nadezhdin is waging a long-shot campaign to unseat Vladimir Putin as Russian president, and he claims that his call for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine has given his candidacy a boost. In order to be recognized as a candidate, Nadezhdin, who occasionally appears on state TV and criticizes the government before being …

MOSCOW — A Russian presidential hopeful opposing Moscow’s military action in Ukraine met Thursday with a group of soldiers’ wives who are demanding that their husbands be discharged from the front line. Longtime Kremlin critic Boris Nadezhdin, who serves as a local legislator in a town near Moscow, is collecting signatures to qualify for the race to challenge President Vladimir …