INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
hopeful Boris Nadezhdin, who is campaigning for peace with Ukraine.Nadezhdin, 60, who is running from the Civic Initiative party, must
gathered on Monday afternoon to sign papers for Nadezhdin at his headquarters, according to a Moscow Times reporter.One supporter who was
from northwestern Russia's Vologda region said he came to support Nadezhdin because he was tired of the same political landscape in Russia
told The Moscow Times from his spot in the line
Nadezhdin has gathered more than 80,000 signatures
Lines of his supporters were seen in St
Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Ufa
Nadezhdin also opened headquarters in hubs for Russian wartime emigres like Armenia, Georgia, Serbia and Israel.Several Russian opposition
figures, including allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, politician Maxim Katz and others announced their
support for Nadezhdin.Yekaterina Duntsova, a former city councilor from the Tver region who announced her bid for the presidency but was
barred for alleged document errors last month, also urged her supporters to leave signatures for the politician.Under Russian election law,
the signatures for all candidates must be reviewed by Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC).Putin, who had to collect 300,000
he could still be excluded from the presidential election even after collecting enough signatures."To be honest, I don't believe that we
will see our candidate on the ballots," one Nadezhdin supporter in Moscow told The Moscow Times when asked if she hoped that the CEC would
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