He doesn't have a chance but his visibility is a big deal. He has moved passed a point any action looks like manipulation could raise questions about putin leadership.
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FILE – Liberal Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin speaks to journalists in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, after submitting documents to Russia’s Central Election Committee for the March 17 presidential election. Thousands of people across Russia are signing petitions to support Nadezhdin’s the longshot candidacy as he challenges President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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FILE - People line up in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, to sign petitions for the candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election. Supporters lined up not just in progressive cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg but also in Krasnodar in the south, Saratov and Voronezh in the southwest and beyond the Ural Mountains in Yekaterinburg. There also were queues in the Far East city of Yakutsk, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, where Nadezhdin’s team said up to 400 people a day braved temperatures that plunged to about minus 40 Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) to sign petitions. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - People line up in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, to sign petitions for the candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election. Supporters lined up not just in progressive cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg but also in Krasnodar in the south, Saratov and Voronezh in the southwest and beyond the Ural Mountains in Yekaterinburg. There also were queues in the Far East city of Yakutsk, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, where Nadezhdin’s team said up to 400 people a day braved temperatures that plunged to about minus 40 Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) to sign petitions. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
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Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician, center, who is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election, gestures while speaking in an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. “I personally know Putin,” he said, saying he met him before he became president in 2000. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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People line up to sign petitions in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tueday, jan. 23, 2024, for the candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election. Supporters lined up not just in progressive cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg but also in Krasnodar in the south, Saratov and Voronezh in the southwest and beyond the Ural Mountains in Yekaterinburg. There also were queues in the Far East city of Yakutsk, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, where Nadezhdin’s team said up to 400 people a day braved temperatures that plunged to about minus 40 Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) to sign petitions. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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A woman who identified herself as Margarita speaks to The Associated Press in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, after signing a petition for the candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election. “I understood that these are the people who want to change the current government and I want to be a part of this,” said Margarita, a 28-year-old student who declined to give her surname for fear of retribution. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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FILE - Boris Nadezhdin, right, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run for president in the March 17 election, attends a meeting with soldiers’ wives in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Nadezhdin opposes Moscow’s military action in Ukraine, and the women were demanding that their husbands be discharged from military service. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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FILE - Boris Nadezhdin, center, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run for president in the March 17 election, meets in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, with soldiers’ wives Maria Andreyeva, left, and Paulina, right, who did not give her last name. Nadezhdin, who opposes Moscow’s military action in Ukraine, has met with women who demand that their husbands be discharged from military service. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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Alexander Rakityansky, 27, speaks to The Associated Press in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, while waiting to sign a petition for Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who Is seeking to run for president in the March 17 election. He said he went through a “period of apathy when I thought I couldn’t do anything.” Now, however, he sees Nadezhdin’s campaign as a chance to exercise his civil rights. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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People line up to sign petitions in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, for Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who Is seeking to run for president in the March 17 election. Supporters lined up not just in progressive cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg but also in Krasnodar in the south, Saratov and Voronezh in the southwest and beyond the Ural Mountains in Yekaterinburg. There also were queues in the Far East city of Yakutsk, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, where Nadezhdin’s team said up to 400 people a day braved temperatures that plunged to about minus 40 Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) to sign petitions. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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People sign petitions in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, for Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election. Supporters lined up not just in progressive cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg but also in Krasnodar in the south, Saratov and Voronezh in the southwest and beyond the Ural Mountains in Yekaterinburg. There also were queues in the Far East city of Yakutsk, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, where Nadezhdin’s team said up to 400 people a day braved temperatures that plunged to about minus 40 Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) to sign petitions. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
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Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician, center, who is seeking to run for president in the March 17 election, gestures while speaking in an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Some analysts say the surge of support for Nadezhdin has surprised even the Kremlin, although Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that “we don’t see him as a rival.” (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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BY
EMMA BURROWS
Updated 7:20 AM EST, January 26, 2024
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They have lined up by the thousands across Russia in recent days, standing in the bitter cold for a chance to sign petitions to support an unlikely challenger to President Vladimir Putin.
Boris Nadezhdin has become a dilemma for the Kremlin as he seeks to run in the March 17 presidential election. The question now is whether Russian authorities will allow him on the ballot.
The stocky, bespectacled 60-year-old local legislator and academic has struck a chord with the public, openly calling for a halt to
the conflict in Ukraine, the end of mobilizing Russian men for the military, and starting a dialogue with the West. He also has criticized the country’s repression of
LGBTQ+ activism.
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