PoliticsCourt fines antiwar politician Boris Nadezhdin over Navalny photo

A court has fined Boris Nadezhdin, the antiwar politician who sought to challenge Putin in Russia’s 2024 presidential race, over a photo of Alexey Navalny. Nadezhdin says the trial’s real purpose is to silence him and prevent him from running for the State Duma. He says a guilty verdict would strip him of the right to run, even though polls currently show him winning the race. He calls the proceedings absurd and farcical, questioning why Navalny’s face is treated as an extremist-organization symbol.

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