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A Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine is rejected as a presidential candidate
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Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election, holds his phone waiting the beginning of the meeting of the Russia's Central Election Commission in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. Russia's Central Election Commission holds a meeting where it decides whether an opposition presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin is qualified to run in the March election. - photo by AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko
MOSCOW (AP) — 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. Boris Nadezhdin, a local legislator in a town near Moscow, was required by law to gather at least 100,000 signatures in support of candidacy. The Central Election Commission declared more than 9,000 signatures submitted by Nadezhdin’s campaign invalid, which was enough to disqualify him.