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Russia could disqualify candidate hoping to stand against Putin over 'errors' in his bid for presidential election (www.lemonde.fr)

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Boris Nadezhdin, 60, sparked queues all over Russia in January when supporters submitted signatures so he could be registered as an official candidate in the presidential election. On Wednesday, he handed in more than the 100,000 required signatures to the Central Election Commission, which is expected to rule next week on whether he will be allowed to stand.

Now his hopes of challenging the current president could be dashed by claims that the signatures are from deceased individuals.

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[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because if you make it too obvious you’ll have the fourth Russian revolution in the last 120 years.

October revolution in 1905 to remove a lot of power from the czars, one in 1917 to completely remove the czars from government, another in 1917 to put the Bolsheviks in power and lead to the Soviet Union. Who knows what would happen were the current populace to overthrow Putins sham democracy

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who knows what would happen were the current populace to overthrow Putins sham democracy

Zombie Thatcher and Reagan take over Russia.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We should pitch their corpses into that Siberian hell pit that gets brought up occasionally

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I dunno, I'd be worried that would be the thing that reanimated them...