(FILES) Boris Nadezhdin, the Civic Initiative Party presidential hopeful, attends a meeting at the Central Election Commission in Moscow on February 8, 2024. Russian police on July 13, 2026 arrested an anti-war Kremlin critic who once tried to run against President Vladimir Putin and who planned to take part in parliament elections in two months. Boris Nadezhdin, 63, shot to fame in Russia in 2024, when he unexpectedly gathered support to stand against Putin in that year’s presidential elections. He was barred from doing so after a short campaign. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)
Russian police on Monday arrested an anti-war Kremlin critic who once tried to run against President Vladimir Putin and who planned to take part in parliament elections in two months.
Boris Nadezhdin, 63, shot to fame in Russia in 2024, when he unexpectedly gathered support to stand against Putin in that year’s presidential elections. He was barred from doing so after a short campaign.
He is one of the few Putin critics in Russia who publicly criticises Putin’s rule and Moscow’s Ukraine war who is not in prison or exile.
“The police came,” Nadezhdin said on Telegram.
