Court fines Boris Nadezhdin, the antiwar politician who tried to challenge Putin in Russia’s 2024 presidential race, over a Navalny photo

A Russian court fined opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin one thousand rubles on extremism charges stemming from a link he posted to a video containing a photo of Alexey Navalny, the opposition leader who died in an Arctic penal colony in twenty twenty-four. According to Meduza, Nadezhdin argued the image appeared on another person's YouTube channel and questioned the logic of treating a photograph as an extremist symbol. The ruling, combined with his designation as a 'foreign agent,' bars him from running for the State Duma, where he claimed to be leading in polls.

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