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Monday, December 25, 2017
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Monday, December 25, 2017
Russian officials bar opposition leader from running for president
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMOSCOW — Russian election officials formally bar Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president.
The Central Election Commission votes that the anti-corruption crusader isn’t eligible to run.
Navalny is implicitly barred from running for office because of a conviction in a fraud case which has been viewed as political retribution. He could have run if he was given a special dispensation or if his conviction was canceled.
Incumbent Vladimir Putin is running for a fourth term in office and is widely expected to win the March 18 election.
Navalny is the most serious challenger that Putin has faced in all of his years in power.
— AP
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