"Russian Election Officials Bar Anti-War Candidate Boris Nadezhdin from Challenging Putin"

Russia's election commission has rejected Boris Nadezhdin, an anti-war challenger, as a candidate in the upcoming presidential vote, citing flaws in the signatures he submitted with his candidate application. Nadezhdin, who has been critical of Putin's war in Ukraine, has vowed to challenge the decision in Russia's Supreme Court. The commission's decision leaves only candidates viewed as acceptable to the Kremlin running in the election, with Vladimir Putin facing three other candidates.