MOSCOW: Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday (Feb 15) rejected two legal challenges by anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin following his disqualification from next month's presidential election.
Boris Nadezhdin, a representative of the Civil Initiative political party who plans to run for Russian president in the Mar 2024 election, speaks during a session of the Central Election Commission in Moscow, Russia Feb 8, 2024. Announcing the court's judgement against him, Nadezhdin said he would appeal against both decisions and file a further claim against the refusal of the electoral commission to register him.
"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," he said. The Kremlin says he was never a serious rival and that the election commission has simply applied the rules.
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