A former TV journalist is barred from standing by officials due to "mistakes" on her application form.
  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    44·
    9 months ago

    The commission said 29 people have so far filed to run for the presidency. But after today’s decision, Mr Putin remains the only candidate to be able to register as a candidate.

    Not just this anti-war candidate. It appears all candidates are banned from challenging Putin.

        • vlad@lemmy.sdf.org
          3·
          9 months ago

          They ran a shitty corrupt government, tried to conquer eastern Europe, failed, renamed themselves to “Russian Federation”, and are now trying to recapture lost states while feeding people into a never ending meat grinder.

          • Arkham@beehaw.org
            4·
            9 months ago

            I feel like, if the USSR is to blame for modern Russia, then Tsarist Russia shares some of the blame as well

            • cobra89@beehaw.org
              4·
              9 months ago

              Putin is desperate to restore Russia to its former USSR glory. That’s why he wants Ukraine so badly.

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    4·
    9 months ago

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    The presidential election, which will be held in March 2024, is Russia’s first since President Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago.

    The head of Russia’s electoral commission, Ella Pamfilova, said Ms Duntsova would not be allowed to progress to the next stage of gathering thousands of supporters’ signatures.

    At the time, she told the Reuters news agency: “Any sane person taking this step would be afraid - but fear must not win.”

    Moscow has sidelined opposition figures for years, and President Putin is expected to win in March; the Kremlin claims he enjoys genuine support among Russians.

    In November, a nationalist pro-war blogger who had fiercely criticised Russia’s military strategy in Ukraine, said he wanted to challenge Putin and disrupt the “sham” poll.

    Mr Putin recently showed a rare example of caving in to popular pressure - by cutting the cost of buying chicken and eggs.

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  • vaseltarp@lemmy.basedcount.com
    2·
    9 months ago

    See here in your application you made errors. For example in the first field where it says “Name”, you didn’t write “Putin”. That is not allowed.