Russia: Nadezhdin,'my candidacy was rejected' - Breaking news. Anti-war Russian presidential candidate said he will appeal to the Supreme Court against the rejection of his candidacy announced today by the Central Election Commission.
Putin's spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said this in relation to the case of Boris Nadeszhdin. “There are certain parameters that the candidate must meet. And what we heard today from the Central election Commission is that there were a large number of irregularities in the signatures and that many signatures were invalid,” he said.