ArmInfo. Boris Nadezhdin, a former member of the State Duma of Russia, has started collecting signatures for his candidacy for the post of President of Russia. It is noteworthy that signature collection is being carried out not only in Russia, but also in such countries as Armenia and Georgia, where a large number of Russian citizens who do not support the war in Ukraine have gone.
Today, a number of telegraph channels uniting immigrants in Yerevan began disseminating a recording of Nadezhdin's headquarters about the collection of signatures in Yerevan. "Yesterday we started the process of collecting signatures and were shocked at how many people wanted to sign in support of the candidate! We will continue this process, so come with an internal Russian passport and invite your friends! Our volunteer pickers will help you on site. The collection of signatures will last until January 25 inclusive. Please note that we really need signatures from people with regional registration (that is, all regions except the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Because the required number has already been collected in these cities)", they say.
Let us note that former member of the State Duma of Russia Boris Nadezhdin began collecting signatures for nominating his candidacy for the presidency of the country. The CEC registered an initiative group to nominate Nadezhdin and allowed it to collect signatures on December 28, five days after it rejected the initiative group of Ekaterina Duntsova, who then called on her supporters to vote for Nadezhdin.
Nadezhdin was a State Duma member in 2000-2003 from the Union of Right Forces party. Since 2008, he was a member of the political council of the Right Cause party until he left the party in 2011. In 2015, he unsuccessfully participated in the primaries of United Russia for elections to the State Duma from its "liberal wing"; in 2021, he also unsuccessfully ran for the Duma from A Just Russia. Nadezhdin is regularly invited as a liberal guest on Russian television talk shows. He explains his participation by the need to convey "reasonable ideas" to the public "in an environment of general insanity." After becoming the president, Nadezhdin promises to bring Russia back to Europe and "stop this story with Ukraine".
The start of collecting signatures in support of his candidacy aroused great enthusiasm both among oppositionists remaining in Russia and among oppositionists who had gone abroad: huge queues formed at the collection points. Russian opposition figures called for support for the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin for the post of President of Russia.