In his naivety, filled with pacifism and also patriotism, Borís Nadejdin may have come to think that he would succeed in shoring up his presidential candidacy against that of Vladimir Putin and that on March 17 he would not be proclaimed president, of course, but the most voted candidate after the master of the Kremlin. The more than 100,000 signatures obtained in just a few days were of no use to Nadejdin. Everything was given and blessed, and the bureaucrats of the Central Electoral Commission found enough anomalies – mainly a few “dead souls” not erased from the census – to reject Nadejdin’s aspirations. The rejection of the candidate became public just ten days ago, and some Russians may have come to think that Nadezhdin’s removal from the presidential race had something to do with his activism against the war in Ukraine. Or perhaps also with his political ties: Boris Nadezhdin was a confidant of Boris Nemtsov, ex-deputy prime minister of Boris Yeltsin and a significant member of the Liberal International who was shot dead in February 2015 a few meters from the Kremlin.
2024-02-17 16:18:24
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