“Learned from Navalny’s mistakes’: Nadezhdin rules out protests against Putin. “That would mean exposing my supporters to the police and the batons of the Russian National Guard,” he said.
The 60-year-old emphasized the differences between his political approach and that of his predecessor Alexei Navalny. Unlike Navalny, who called for mass protests to protest his exclusion from the presidential election, Nadeszhdin favors change through the electoral system.