In Russia, antiwar opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin acknowledged his chances of running for the presidency against Vladimir Putin next month “have plunged completely to zero” after Russia’s Supreme Court rejected legal challenges to his disqualification. Nadezhdin’s candidacy was thwarted last week when election authorities claimed there were irregularities in some of the signatures collected for his application. Nadezhdin said his campaign had nonetheless been successful in advancing an alternative to Putin.
Boris Nadezhdin: “We have opened up a great breach. We have shown that a huge number of people in the country do not support the course that is being implemented now. A huge number of people want Russia to be peaceful and free.”