The aspiring Russian anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin lost two legal challenges to his disqualification by Russia’s Supreme Court, all but ensuring his inability to participate in the upcoming presidential election, Nadezhdin said on Feb. 15. Nadezhdin was the only potential candidate to openly speak out against Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. He had his […]
The Russian Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin, who sought to challenge the signature collection requirements set by Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC), Russian propaganda agency RIA Novosti said on Telegram on Feb. 15. Read also: Does Putin have nothing to fear? The Kremlin’s three primary goals before the […]
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin‘s main opponent in the Presidential election, Boris Nadezhdin, was prevented from registering, Russian media outlet SOTA reported on Feb. 8. Read also: Russia wants small victories on the front ahead of Putin’s ‘reelection’, Zelenskyy It was noted that Nadezhdin’s staff provided 105,000 signatures in support of him, but the commission recognized […]
Russian anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin said on Wednesday he had submitted 105,000 signatures of support to the Central Election Commission (CEC), technically enough to challenge incumbent Vladimir Putin in the March presidential election. Putin’s victory is widely seen as a foregone conclusion, but Nadezhdin has surprised some observers with trenchant criticism of what the Kremlin […]
Russian anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin has collected more than 100,000 signatures, surpassing the required threshold to be registered as a presidential candidate in the upcoming Russian presidential election, Nadezhdin’s campaign website showed on Jan. 23. Despite reaching more than the minimum requirement, Nadezhdin’s campaign said they would continue collecting more signatures, setting a new target […]
The Russian opposition has called for the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin, who is publicly opposed to the full-scale war and President Vladimir Putin‘s policies, RFE/RL and other outlets reported on Jan. 22. Nadezhdin, who previously served in Russia’s parliament, has attracted attention for repeatedly voicing his opposition to the war on television. He called the […]