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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.

“The collection of signatures has gone unexpectedly well for us,” Nadezhdin told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday in Moscow. “We didn’t expect this, to be honest.”

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[-] Audiotape@lemm.ee 83 points 5 months ago

Too bad he‘ll fall out of a window anytime soon

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 55 points 5 months ago

Nah man, this guy will only get like 32% of the vote and Putin will get 119%.

[-] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Having accidentally shot himself twice in the back of the head.

[-] Jeredin@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Into a barrel of plutonium…

[-] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

“He was shot twice in the back of the head with a double barrel shotgun - worst case of suicide the sheriff had ever see “ -can’t remember where I heard this.

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

Gary Webb?? (journalist that wrote about Iran-Contra)

[-] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I’m thinking something something racism in Texas in the 80s/90s, but I found this too: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30669104/

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

He fell on those bullets

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Right after a “dose” of tea.

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

What's really hoping to get away from these "hilarious" jokes everything russia is mentioned in reddit.

Like fuck, come up with something new.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 5 months ago

I get it. It's not that Putin's good or anything, but these jokes are decades old now.

[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Well with Navalny as precedent, it seems like they'll throw him in a gulag rather than kill him

[-] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

He didn't learn from Navalny's example. Clearly there has to be a stronger message to anyone who might come after this guy.

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