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While much of the world is celebrating Valentine’s Day with cards, chocolates and flowers, some in Russia have seized on current geopolitical tensions to undermine the romantic holiday and paint it as an example of Western “excess.” Soon after being disqualified from the presidential election, Communists of Russia party chairman Sergei Malinkovich urged lawmakers to “launch a legislative attack on the excessive and dubious holiday,” according to the RTVI broadcaster.

Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) on Thursday disqualified pro-peace presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin from running in the March election over what it said were errors in endorsement signatures.

Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered three more candidates for the upcoming presidential election in addition to incumbent dictator Vladimir Putin. Source: RIA Novosti, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet Quote: "As a result of today's CEC meeting, it became clear that there will be four candidates on the ballots in the presidential election.

Nadezhdin has spent weeks criticising long-term President Putin and the Kremlin's military offensive in Ukraine, which is nearly into its third year.

Two French volunteer aid workers have been killed in a Russian drone attack in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, Paris has confirmed.

Boris Nadezhdin, the anti-war Russian presidential hopeful, could be barred from challenging Vladimir Putin in elections next month after officials found “errors” in his entry form.

MOSCOW -Russias election commission has found irregularities in the list of signatures that anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin submitted to back his bid to run against Vladimir Putin in an upcoming... -February 02, 2024 at 05:26 am EST - MarketScreener

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's election commission has found irregularities in the list of signatures that anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin submitted to back his bid to run against Vladimir Putin in an upcoming election, the TASS news agency said on Friday. Nobody expects Nadezhdin, 60, to win if he is allowed to run, given Putin's long dominance and control of the state.

MOSCOW -Russias election commission has found irregularities in the list of signatures that anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin submitted to back his bid to run against Vladimir Putin in an upcoming... -February 02, 2024 at 05:26 am EST - MarketScreener

Boris Nadezhdin’s ‘ethical standards’ questioned as he is accused of faking signatures of supporters