Boris Nadejdine announced on Wednesday that the Supreme Court had rejected his appeal against the refusal to register his candidacy for the presidential election in March. He had seen his candidacy rejected at the beginning of the month by the Central Electoral Commission on the grounds of irregular signatures of support.
“The last two months have probably been the most trying of my life,” he said on Tuesday. Vladimir Putin, 71 years old, in power for a quarter of a century, will not face any real opposition - especially in the current offensive against Ukraine.