Russian court upholds ruling barring anti-war candidate from vote
Russian politician, the Civic Initiative Party hopeful Boris Nadzhdin speaks to journalists after the meeting at the Central Elections Commission, on February 8, 2024, in Moscow, Russia.
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Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling barring opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin from running in this month’s presidential election, Nadezhdin said on Monday.
Nadezhdin was barred from standing when the Central Election Commission said it had found irregularities, including names of dead people, in the list of supporters’ signatures he had presented in support of his candidacy.
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Kremlin says German military call verifies Western ‘plans for strikes on Russian territory’
The Kremlin said a call between German military officers that was leaked by Russian media last Friday showed that the German military department “is substantively and specifically discussing plans for strikes on Russian territory,” Russia Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday.
“In itself [the military’s conversation] suggests that within the Bundeswehr plans to launch strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation are being substantively and specifically discussed … Everything here is more than obvious,” Peskov said, news agency Tass reported.
Russian media leaked a 38-minute recording last Friday in which senior German officers discussed the possibility of sending long-range missiles to Ukraine, as well as the possibility of attacking the Crimean Bridge that links the Russian mainland with annexed peninsula Crimea.
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned agency Sputnik, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Chad’s Transitional President Brice Mahamat Idriss Deby (both not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 24, 2024.
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The Kremlin spokesperson said the audio recording raised the question…
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