#Boris Nadezhdin

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Apparently, an anti-war candidate in Russia's upcoming election has gained a ton of popularity with the nation's youth. I find these words they have to say about him a reflection of many of my own peer's sentiments towards the upcoming US election- we want someone who will end senseless wars and put a true sense of democracy at the forefront of their leadership. It's a good grounding moment, I think. We get so caught up in nation vs nation bullshit that we tend to make the citizens who aren't a part of the government into a footnote

May follow their election alongside the US's. It could be an interesting race if Nadezhdin gets onto the ballot. If the most happens and he actually gets into office, well, that'd be a huge shake-up not just for Russia, but for global politics.

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The former head of Nadezhdin's election headquarters, Dmitry Rumyantsev, who was attacked today by observers of the Public Chamber, was detained “Around 22:00 on March 15, when Dmitry was leaving the Headquarters in Kazan at 22 Tatarstan Street, he was surrounded by 4 employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Countering Extremism (Center “E”), they said that he was detained and taken away in an unknown direction. At the moment there is no contact with him,” says his party colleague Igor Artemyev. Later it became known that Rumyantsev is located in Police Department No. 16 “Yapeev” of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Kazan. Dmitry headed the headquarters of Boris Nadezhdin in the Republic of Tatarstan and is the chairman of the unregistered branch of the Civil Initiative party. Video: Igor Artemyev

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Boris Nadezhdin barred from Russia election

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מועמד האופוזיציה הרוסית לנשיאות רוסיה, בוריס נאדז׳דין, הגיש היום 105,000 חתימות התומכות במועמדותו. הוא קורא תיגר על פוטין ובפיו תכניות שאפתניות…

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To the Children of Leningrad in the Year 2024

Kornei Chukovsky’s poem “To the Children of Leningrad” (1944), as published in the children’s magazine Murzilka in 1946. Source: dinasovkova (LiveJournal)   Kornei ChukovskyTo the Children of Leningrad The years will speed past you,Year after year after year,And you’ll become old women and men. Now you are towheaded,Now you are young,But then you shall be baldAnd grey. And even little…

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I voted against Putin yesterday and I convinced my 74 year old grandmother to vote against Putin. She said that she didn't know any of the other candidates so she would choose him. "At least he hasn't done anything awful, has he?" I calmly answered that he had started the war. "Lena! Haven't you read anything about this? The NATO started the war. Ukraine started the war by killing people in Donbass for eight years!" It was expected. Well, she's old. I didn't really want to argue. But I spent the next half an hour subtly asking leading questions, very diplomatically. "He has been in power for 25 years, isn't it too long? Is it a good thing that world leaders are so old? The USA (she is very emotional about the USA, as many elderly people in Russia are) will have to choose between Trump and Biden, they are even older that Putin, wouldn't it be better if someone younger had a say in politics, maybe 50 year olds?" "Do you remember the presidential candidate Grudinin? He has become too popular for the Kremlin's liking, so after the elections of 2018 his political career was destroyed. Do you remember Boris Nadezhdin and Irina Duntsova? They weren't allowed to participate in the elections for ridiculous reasons even though they had lots of supporters. Of course they had no chance of winning, but someone is so afraid of competition that even 10% of votes for another candidate is an unacceptable situation for them. Aren't they petty?" "Most people are going to vote for Putin anyway, what's the point of leaving your house to do the same? Have you considered voting for someone else... for diversity?" "The election commission had to provide data on the income and property of the candidates, they wrote that Putin had 54 million rubles in his bank accounts and four Russian-made cars, isn't that funny? He is one of the richest people in the world". " Maybe I could tell you a little about the other candidates, so you could make a more informed decision?" I was successful and she decided to vote for Davankov. I'm a little proud of myself, she is my grandmother, after all, I think that it wasn't much but it was an honest job. Unfortunately I can't have this kind of conversation with millions of other Russian pensioners.

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In a function room on the edge of Moscow, something unusual is happening.

A group of women are publicly criticising the Russian authorities. Their husbands are among the 300,000 reservists mobilised by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the war in Ukraine in autumn 2022.

And they want them home.

"When will our husbands be considered to have discharged their military duty?" asks Maria. "When they're brought back with no arms and legs? When they can't do anything at all because they're just vegetables? Or do we have to wait for them to be sent back in zinc coffins?"

The women met via social media and have formed a group called The Way Home. They have differing views on the war. Some claim to support it. Others are sceptical about the Kremlin's "special military operation". What seems to unite them is the belief that the mobilised men have done their fair share of the fighting and should be back home with their families.

It is an opinion the authorities do not share.

In Russia public criticism of anything related to the war comes with a risk. Most of the speakers choose their words very carefully. They know there's a string of laws in place now in Russia for punishing dissent. Their frustration, though, is palpable.

"To begin with we trusted our government," Antonina says. "But should we trust them now? I don't trust anyone."

Members of the group are here to share their stories with a local councillor, Boris Nadezhdin. He has been critical of the "special military operation" from the outset.

Curiously Mr Nadezhdin is one of the few government critics who has been allowed onto national television since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He's an occasional guest on TV talk shows.

Right now, the politician is trying to get on the ballot for the presidential election. He maintains that the war has damaged Vladimir Putin's domestic popularity.

"Putin was very popular in Russia because after the 1990s he brought stability and security," Mr Nadezhdin tells me. "Stability and security were the main reason for supporting Putin. Now more and more people have already understood that stability and security are finished."

Russian women campaigning for the return of their mobilised husbands, sons or brothers have come in for criticism from different quarters. Opponents of the war have little sympathy. They condemn the men for obeying the mobilisation order and for taking part in the war.

Supporters of the Kremlin portray the women as Western stooges.

In a recent interview with the Fontanka news site, Russian MP Andrei Kartapolov, who heads the Russian Duma's defence committee, claimed that the call for demobilisation was the work of "[Russia's] enemies". He appeared to suggest that the Ukrainian military or the CIA was behind it.

Mr Kartapolov also invoked World War Two.

"Can you imagine a delegation of wives coming to the Kremlin in autumn 1942 and telling Stalin: 'Let those men who were called up in 1941 go home. They've been fighting for a year already.' No-one would ever have thought of doing that."

Maria Andreeva, whose husband and cousin have been drafted and despatched to Ukraine, finds Mr Kartapolov's comments insulting.

"He dares to liken the special military operation to the Second World War," Maria tells me. "Back then Russia's aim was survival. We'd been attacked. There was full mobilisation and martial law. It's the total opposite of what is happening now."

Maria says that she is not only campaigning to bring back her family members. She wants to prevent more Russians being called up and sent to the front line.

"We do not want a second wave of mobilisation," she says. "We're against civilians being used in a military conflict. And we want all Russian citizens to understand this could affect them, too.

"Some people act like ostriches. They stick their heads in the sand and try not to think about what's happening. I can understand them. It's hard to accept that, in your country, the state doesn't need you to be happy - it just treats you as biological material. But if people want to survive, sooner or later they need to recognise this and say that they don't agree."

How likely is a "second wave" of mobilisation in Russia? Last December President Putin appeared to rule it out - for now. Live on Russian TV the Kremlin leader claimed that in 2023 the Russian authorities had managed to recruit nearly half a million volunteers to fight in Ukraine.

"Why do we need mobilisation? As things stand there is no need," the Kremlin leader concluded.

Of course, "as things stand" doesn't mean "never going to happen". Situations can change.

For example, in March 2022 President Putin declared: "Conscripted soldiers are not participating and will not participate in the fighting. There will not be an additional call-up of reservists, either. Only professional soldiers are taking part."

"Partial mobilisation" was announced six months later.

To raise awareness Maria and other wives of mobilised reservists have started a new tradition. Every Saturday they don white headscarves and travel into the centre of Moscow. Near the Kremlin walls they lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Red carnations are placed by the Eternal Flame. It is their form of peaceful protest.

On its Telegram channel The Way Forward explains that these flowers are for honouring "the lives of loved ones. To honour the memory of those killed in all wars. To honour the memory of our guys."

The group also believes that flower-laying is a way of saying "never again".

But how aware is Russian society? How much interest is there from the public in what the families of mobilised reservists are saying? Antonina says that since her partner was drafted, she hasn't felt much support from those around her. When he received his call-up papers in October 2022, he'd asked friends to keep an eye out for Antonina.

"They invited me to celebrate new year with them a year ago," she says. "But all evening they kept telling me that my husband was a total mug for going there [to Ukraine]."

Antonina claims that, despite being diagnosed with stomach ulcers, her partner was deployed to an assault unit in Ukraine. She says that he telephoned her on 4 December.

"He was crying. He was frightened. It sounded like he was saying goodbye."

She says he called again on 13 December. That was the last time she heard from him. Antonina says she's since been told that her partner was wounded in action.

"There are some people who want to fight. Who volunteer for it and sign contracts," Antonina says. "Let them fight. But send us back our husbands who don't want to be there. They've done their duty to the motherland. Send them home.

"I used to have enormous respect for Vladimir Putin. Now I'm more neutral. I still find it hard to believe that he knows this kind of thing is happening. But if he really does see us as traitors and outcasts for wanting our husbands back, I don't understand why he'd have this attitude towards citizens who once voted for him."

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The memory of a true martyr will live on forever.

A true martyr has died today. A great hero who fought to save his people.

A man who will enter the history books as a hero of Russia. As a man who fought to the very end to give hope.

His name will be remembered for a century, alongside other great heroes of Russia who to varying degrees fought against fierce powers and who on some occasions died heroically. Mihhail Gorbachov, Boris Nemtsov, Mihhail Kodorkovsky, Leo Trotsky, and Boris Nadezhdin.

Let every bell ring his name for a hundred years, in every transliteration in the world.

Олексій Навальний.

Алексей Навальный.

Alexei Navalny.

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Citizens claim that Putin is a foreign spy. Is €50 billion for Ukraine a lot?

You are watching news from the weekly rally at the Russian embassy in Lisbon. Today is February 10th, 14:30.

On February 8th, brave female citizens of Russia and supporters of the public figure Svetlana Lada-Rus filed a statement against Vladimir Putin to the FSB, the State Duma, and the Federation Council. They demand an investigation of his actions for state treason, espionage, and foreign influence. In their statement, they used everything that Russian propaganda says, but shown that it is Putin himself who is a threat to Russia's sovereignty and security with his decisions and laws. They claim that "in the country, by force … a constitutional order not declared by the Constitution of the Russian Federation was established — totalitarianism." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6c3gUtzYg

They not only sent the appeal themselves but also called on supporters to send this statement to the same institutions, as well as to protect human rights defenders and unite. Since the recording of this appeal, their Telegram channel "People's Tribune" has almost doubled in size. https://t.me/narodnaya_tri_buna

On January 30th, the "Committee-2024" Facebook group published a response from the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia to the collective statement of citizens. Based on 320 complaints about violations in the collection of signatures by Putin for his nomination, it proves the invalidity of more than 75,000 signatures. This is more than 23%, but instead of disqualifying Putin as was done with Boris Nadezhdin, the CEC started threatening the applicants. https://www.facebook.com/100093266363900/posts/pfbid02qXRoghN5TZ6YhrhMHfVNxSeJhJSDkAmmhhjPf9LurXe5LGCBJGqH17K983G4PcaLl

Such appeals are useful because they help gather evidence of power usurpation in Russia and also show the presence of citizens dissatisfied with the government, thereby motivating new people to resist the regime.

The united democratic forces continue the campaign to delegitimize Putin. Sign the "Usurper" petition and help ensure that when Putin is no longer spoken to or traded with, he ceases to be useful to his surroundings. Then he can be handed over to the International Criminal Court. Link in the description. https://www.change.org/illegitimate

In Ukraine, Russian troops continue to kill civilians and destroy residential buildings, hotels, cafes. Recent shelling of Kyiv and Kharkiv, fires, casualties. On January 22nd, actor Vladimir Fedinchuk was killed in battle. https://vikna.tv/ru/dlia-tebe/vijna-v-ukrayini/vladimir-fedinchuk-umer-chto-izvestno-o-smerti-aktera/

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov said that the war costs Ukraine $100 million a day. https://forbes.ua/ru/news/viyna-koshtue-ukraini-100-mln-na-den-reznikov-04092023-15789

On February 1st, leaders of all EU member states agreed on a €50 billion aid package for Ukraine for 4 years. Of this, €33 billion are loans and €17 billion are grants. The money is intended to cover current expenses, including salaries, pensions, and infrastructure reconstruction. https://www.dw.com/ru/strany-evrosouza-soglasovali-vydelenie-50-milliardov-evro-pomosi-ukraine/a-68143057

Military aid from the USA is delayed.

The total amount of donations collected in 2 years of full-scale invasion on the official website of the Ukrainian fundraising platform United 24 recently exceeded $600 million. Your donations Ukraine will not need to repay after the war ends. https://u24.gov.ua/

Help activists and help Ukraine!

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Még ki se esett az ablakon

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In the aftermath of Russia’s latest round of one-sided “presidential elections,” Kremlin authorities presented the public with results similar to those seen in places like North Korea — 87% in favor of the dear leader, at least officially. Yet pinpointing the true extent of support for Putin among Russians actually presents a challenge, as conventional opinion polls lose relevance when society is in the grip of a military dictatorship. However, researchers of public sentiment have observed a fascinating trend: when asked to envision the ideal leader for their country, even Russians who express staunch loyalty to the ruling regime and its policies describe someone vastly different from Vladimir Putin. Moreover, when contemplating a vision of the Russian state’s future, they advocate for a course diametrically opposed to their country’s current trajectory.

Before and during the elections, various factors challenged the perception of widespread support for the president: the surge in popularity of anti-war candidate Ekaterina Duntsova, who was not permitted to collect signatures in support of her candidacy; the sharp rise in recognition of little-know Boris Nadezhdin, who was not permitted to campaign despite having collected far more than the required 100,000 signatures; and the lines of voters gathering to cast a ballot at exactly 12:00 on Mar. 17 in connection with opposition calls for anti-Putin Russians to come out and demonstrate their numbers. However, what's most intriguing is that the call for change isn't just coming from the president's opponents, but also from his supporters.

In the fall of 2023, the independent Public Sociology Laboratory (PS Lab), alongside colleagues from the polling firms Khroniki and ExtremeScan, conducted eight focus groups with wage workers from four regions across Russia. These sessions delved into discussions on the country's economic situation, the presidential elections, and the “special military operation,” the Kremlin’s official euphemism for its ongoing war in Ukraine. Later in the fall, PS Lab ethnographers ventured into three Russian regions, engaging with individuals from diverse communities to probe their sentiments towards the war. Throughout these expeditions, researchers also conducted “in-depth interviews” with Russians.

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𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐮𝐞𝐬

There are a lot of opinions that Russians even didn't try to stop war. But if you don't see results it doesn't mean that we don't try to do something. (By the way, the most influential people in the world—leaders of Europe countries and USA try to do something too, but there is still no result. In this logic, does it mean that all this time they did nothing too? Also, they do things even worse when forbid to ordinary russians to go to their countries-because then they have to continue live in Russia and pay taxes, that government use to continue war).

I want to tell you about one of attemps to change situation—about what was happening in Russia before elections.

In January was going election campaign of Boris Nadezhdin—the only anti-war candidate. And dispite the fact, that he wasn't popular candidate before, when people found out that he is against the war, his popularity quickly became very big. By the way, the same story was with Ekaterina Duntsova, but she wasn't even admit to the collection of signatures of supporters for further nomination as presidential candidates.

In Putin's dictature regime the system of collection signature is different. You should collect 300 THOUSANDS of signatures if you are a self-nominated candidate and 100 THOUSANDS if you are candidate from political party(in democratic countries there are usually only 1-7 thousands of signatures you need). The aim of this system isn't in that it would be possible to collect so huge number of signatures. The aim of this system is to allow participate in election only for that candidates who Putin want to allow. It is almost impossible to collect so much signatures in couple of weeks. But Russians did it. Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate from politic party had to collect 100 thousands of signatures. Until the end of signatures collecting company he got 158 THOUSANDS of signatures—and would collect even more, if they had more time. Also I want to remember that to sign after a candidate on the signature sheet in addition to the signature the voter personally puts his last name, first name and patronymic, year of birth, address of residence, series, number of a passport or a document replacing a citizen’s passport. And people really wrote all of these without fear of repressions.

People all over the country were for hours staying on the freeze in huge queues to sign after the anti-war candidate.

𝕃𝕖𝕥'𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕠𝕨 𝕚𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕤!❤️‍🔥

Materials for this video I took from Telegram channels of Boris Nadezhdin and channels of his signature collection headquarters'

#politic #Russia #Ukraine #war #society #meetings

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'Rare Moment of Unity': Russian Diaspora Collects Signatures for Pro-Peace Presidential Hopeful VILNIUS, Lithuania — Not Only Coffee, a small coffee shop in the bohemian district of Užupis, has seen an unprecedented flow of visitors to its basement in the past two days.  The basement, which is usually ignored by visitors, now acts as a collection point for signatures endorsing Russian presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin, whose stance against the war in Ukraine has united thousands of Russians. Read more | Subscribe to our channel

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A survey by the Center of Studies of Russia's Political Culture (CIPKR) on January 11 and 12 found Putin had 60 percent support compared with 0.3 percent for Davankov, 4 percent for Kharitinov and 3 percent for Slutsky.

The major difference was that at the time former State Duma Deputy Boris Nadezhdin was a presidential candidate, and he got the backing of 7 percent of respondents in the poll of 1,004 people that had a 6.6 percent margin for error.

Nadezhdin was an ally of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and entered the race as a candidate for the Civic Initiative party and spoke out on the campaign trail against the war in Ukraine.

But on February 8, Nadezhdin was barred from running due to alleged "irregularities" in the signatures of voters supporting his candidacy, according to Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC). Nadezhdin needed to gather 100,000 signatures across at least 40 regions in order to be a candidate.

Kremlin opponents have frequently been prevented from running in elections in Russia on the grounds of supposed technical infringements.

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Russian anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin collects enough signatures to register as presidential candidate

Russian anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin has collected more than 100,000 signatures, surpassing the required threshold to be registered as a presidential candidate in the upcoming Russian president Source : kyivindependent.com/russian-a…