[Russia] - Ex-Presidential Hopeful Nadezhdin Resigns as Municipal Deputy

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Former presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin has stepped down from his position in local government, Russian media reported
Wednesday.Nadezhdin, who earlier this year tried to mount an anti-war campaign for the 2024 Russian presidential election before election
authorities barred him from running, had served as a deputy of the Dolgoprudny city council in the Moscow region.His resignation from that
position comes two days after Rosenergobank asked a Moscow court to declare the politician bankrupt, though it was not immediately clear if
was not made under pressure from external actors and that he did not have any plans to run for political office outside the Moscow
reports citing anonymous sources close to Nadezhdin, the former presidential hopeful resigned in order to serve as an election observer
during regional elections on Sept
8
Russian law prohibits politicians from acting as observers in elections.On Tuesday, Nadezhdin and his supporters, together with the Civic
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