Boris Nadezhdin has become a dilemma for the Kremlin as he seeks to run in the March 17 presidential election. The question now is whether Russian authorities will allow him on the ballot.

The stocky, bespectacled 60-year-old local legislator and academic has struck a chord with the public, openly calling for a halt to the conflict in Ukraine, the end of mobilizing Russian men for the military, and starting a dialogue with the West. He also has criticized the country’s repression of LGBTQ+ activism.

“The collection of signatures has gone unexpectedly well for us,” Nadezhdin told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday in Moscow. “We didn’t expect this, to be honest.”

  • SonnyVabitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    2 years ago

    Having accidentally shot himself twice in the back of the head.

    • Jeredin@lemm.eeEnglish
      101·
      2 years ago

      Into a barrel of plutonium…

    • TryingSomethingNew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

      “He was shot twice in the back of the head with a double barrel shotgun - worst case of suicide the sheriff had ever see “ -can’t remember where I heard this.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      Right after a “dose” of tea.

    • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
      34·
      2 years ago

      What’s really hoping to get away from these “hilarious” jokes everything russia is mentioned in reddit.

      Like fuck, come up with something new.

      • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        I get it. It’s not that Putin’s good or anything, but these jokes are decades old now.