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Vladimir Putin’s victory could also be assured and but there are three different individuals whose names have been allowed on the poll paper.
Let’s take a fast have a look at them.
Nikolai Kharitonov, 75,is the official candidate of the Communist Social gathering. When the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg met him a number of days in the past, he had extra reward for Putin than himself.
Leonid Slutsky, 56, is the chief of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Social gathering of Russia. He’s an everyday on Russian state TV the place he voices anti-Western views.
Vladislav Davankov, 40, parliament deputy speaker.
Regardless of their vastly totally different political standings, all three broadly again the Kremlin’s insurance policies.
Notable names lacking from
the poll embrace the late opposition chief Alexei Navalny,
in addition to Ukraine struggle critics Boris
Nadezhdin (a veteran politician) and Yekaterina
Duntsova (a former TV journalist) who’ve been banned from operating.
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Native Moscow councillor Boris Nadezhdin introduced his candidacy final 12 months, producing a uncommon second of optimism for opposition-minded voters.
He was a frequent visitor on discuss exhibits on state TV and had been comparatively crucial of Moscow’s struggle in Ukraine.
However in a rustic the place many have been jailed for talking out in opposition to the struggle, he would by no means make the poll paper.
Notable names lacking from
the poll embrace the late opposition chief Alexei Navalny,
in addition to Ukraine struggle critics Boris
Nadezhdin (a veteran politician) and Yekaterina
Duntsova (a former TV journalist) who’ve been banned from operating.