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☆ Russian war critic Boris Nadezhdin barred from running in presidential election
  + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Boris Nadezhdin, a representative of Civil Initiative political party who plans to run for Russian president in the March 2024 election, visits an office of the Central Election Commission in Moscow, Russia February 8, 2024. Russia's electoral authorities have barred war critic Boris Nadezhdin from running in the presidential election next month, saying that he had submitted too many defective signatures in support of his bid. CEC Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova said Thursday that "the decision has been made," Russian state-owned news agency Tass reported. Nadezhdin." The decision to bar his candidacy will come as no surprise to close watchers of Russian politics and Kremlin critics.
Persons: Boris Nadezhdin, Nadezhdin, Ella Pamfilova, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin, Peskov Organizations: Civil Initiative, Commission, Russia's, CEC, Kremlin, Reuters, CNBC Locations: Moscow, Russia, Russian
☆ Boris Nadezhdin: Anti-war presidential candidate ignites Russian anger
  + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Clare Sebastian | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Dozens, if not hundreds of people lining up in freezing conditions to try to ensure an anti-war presidential candidate has enough signatures to get on the ballot for the vote in March. Key endorsements from other Russian opposition figures, including associates of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny have helped. The candidate is Boris Nadezhdin, on the surface an unlikely opponent for Vladimir Putin. People give their signatures in support of Boris Nadezhdin, who plans to run for Russian president in the March 2024 election, outside his campaign office in Moscow on January 23. Evgenia Novozhenina/ReutersHe went on to become an adviser to opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, assassinated within view of the Kremlin in 2015.
Persons: Alexey Navalny, Boris Nadezhdin, Vladimir Putin, He’s, oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Evgenia Novozhenina, Boris Nemtsov, “, Putin, ”, Russia’s, I’m, Nadezhdin, Elizaveta, Yulia Morozova, Ivan, Elena, Anna Chernova Organizations: CNN, Reuters, Kremlin, Civil Initiative Locations: Russia, London, Paris, Georgia’s, Tbilisi, Moscow, Ukraine, Bryansk, “, Russian
☆ US citizen working as journalist detained in Russia
  + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Mariya Knight | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Atlanta CNN —A US-Russian dual national working for Radio Free Europe has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, the US-funded news organization reported Wednesday. Alsu Kurmasheva is currently employed as a journalist and editor for the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and is based in Prague. According to her employer, Kurmasheva was detained on June 2 in the city of Kazan in Russia while waiting for a return flight to the Czech Republic. According to RFE/RL, Kurmasheva is an accomplished journalist who has been writing about the life of ethnic minorities in Russia’s Tatarstan and Bashkortostan regions for many years. He’s the first US journalist to be accused of spying by Moscow since 1986, when US reporter Nick Daniloff was detained on a similar charge.
Persons: Alsu Kurmasheva, Kurmasheva, Jeffrey Gedmin, Vladimir Putin, ”, Evan Gershkovich, Nick Daniloff, Gershkovich Organizations: Atlanta CNN, Radio Free, Radio Liberty, RFE, ” CNN, US State Department, Wall Street Locations: Russian, Radio Free Europe, Russia, Prague, Kazan, Czech Republic, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Ukraine, Moscow
☆ Judge blocks sale of machine gun converters after U.S. sues
  + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
U.S. District Judge Nina Morrison in Brooklyn on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order against Rare Breed Triggers LLC and Rare Breed Firearms LLC, and their owners Lawrence DeMonico and Kevin Maxwell. The department said this meant the devices qualified as machine guns under federal law, and said the devices did not qualify for limited exceptions permitting their sale. Rare Breed operates in Fargo, North Dakota, and, according to court papers, Maxwell is also its general counsel. AR-15 style rifles have been used in many recent mass shootings. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department will do "everything in its power to protect the American people from gun violence and to hold accountable those that flood our communities with illegal guns."
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