An unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of defiance, creating a dilemma for the Kremlin
FILE - People line up in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, to sign petitions for the candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who is seeking to run in the March 17 presidential election. Supporters lined up not just in progressive cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg but also in Krasnodar in the south, Saratov and Voronezh in the southwest and beyond the Ural Mountains in Yekaterinburg. There also were queues in the Far East city of Yakutsk, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, where Nadezhdin's team said up to 400 people a day braved temperatures that plunged to about minus 40 Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) to sign petitions. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
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