A Putin critic leaves Russia after he is barred him from running for parliament
Opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, a critic of the war in Ukraine, has left Russia after crackdown that barred him from running in this year's parliamentary election. On Monday, Nadezhdin shared a video from Paris, saying he's alive and free but not in Russia. Last month, a Russian court fined him for displaying “extremist symbols,” which he called absurd. That legal action and a “foreign agent” label prevented him from running in September’s parliamentary vote. Nadezhdin, a veteran politician to tried to challenge President Vladimir Putin in the 2024 election, was one of the few…
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