The candidate who turned out to be very popular against ‘Putin’s war’

boris nadezhdin He is a spartan Russian. The amount of steel and debris is very high for this time. disqualified Thursday presidential race This has been done due to irregularities in the signatures submitted in support of his candidacy sole candidate till Russian presidency What is criticized the warFor which he has been showered with criticism and insults from propagandists on Russian national channels.

But, although he promised to end mobilization, return Russian troops home, and release political prisoners, he did not advocate returning to Ukraine the territories stolen since 2014: from the opposition and from Ukraine. Some considered him a Kremlin toy, In the weeks when his candidacy seemed possible, he won unexpected popular support Long queues at the door of their headquarters to sign in their favor in cities like Krasnodar, st petersburg, Saratov, Voronezh And ufa, So much so that the officials have said a lot.

Russians won’t be able to vote for him. Boris Nadezhdin announced that the Central Election Commission (CEC) has banned him from taking part in the March elections. Nadezhdin has announced that he will appeal to the Supreme Court: “Participating in the presidential elections is the most important political decision in my life. not to give up,

Nadezhdin, 60, who had hoped to run as a candidate for the Civic Initiative party, not only opposes the invasion of Ukraine and now calls for dialogue. this t In favor of “cooperation with Western countries”, On his website, he describes himself as “a physicist, businessman, lawyer and politician” and someone who wants to lead Russia “out of totalitarianism and militarization.”

yes criticized Expansion of Ban on abortion and ban on LGBT movement As “complete nonsense”, he was compared to the “Middle Ages”. His life journey goes from Putinism to disillusionment. He was an interventionist in Putin’s campaign to return him to the Kremlin in 2012, but in 2020 he spoke out against controversial constitutional amendments that would have given the current president the ability to remain in office until 2036.

Nadezhdin Met with the wives and mothers of Russian soldiers mobilized this month, He was one of the few political figures to do so, and the movement is becoming increasingly important in an ecosystem in which the Kremlin has deemed dissent extinct.

The so-called ‘pacifist candidate’ surprised some analysts with his sharp criticism of the war. Experienced as a television talk show host, Called the attack a “fatal mistake”., His disqualification from the electoral race is not a surprise. The CEC previously said it had found flaws, typographical errors and inaccurate data in the signatures collected by Nadezhdin and his allies in support of his candidacy. The agency also suggested that some of the alleged signatures were those of dead people.

Nadezhdin defends the integrity of his electoral bid: “We collected more than 200,000 signatures throughout Russia. We carried out the collection openly and honestly: queues at our headquarters and collection points were seen all over the world.”