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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.