The Kremlin banned two politicians from the ballot who sought to run on an antiwar agenda and attracted genuine - albeit not overwhelming - support, thus depriving the voters of any choice on the “main issue of Russia’s political agenda,” said political analyst Abbas Gallyamov, who used to work as Putin’s speechwriter.
Little suspense in Russian election after Putin crushed dissent
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Abbas Gallyamov, a former Putin speechwriter who became a political analyst, said on Facebook Thursday that the decision to keep Nadezhdin off the ballot showed that “all of Putin’s mega-popularity, which official sociology constantly broadcasts, all that ‘rally around the national leader’ that Peskov regularly talks about is, in fact, a highly artificial and unstable structure that does not withstand any contact with reality.”
A Russian politician who's calling for peace in Ukraine is rejected as a presidential candidate
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