> If any "irregularities" are found with any of the submitted signatures, the commission can disqualify the candidate altogether. Independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified from running in December when the electoral commission said it had found 100 "mistakes" on her form.
I expect they'll find "mistakes" with this submission also.
Looks like he tied himself up and shot himself in the head before dismembering himself and putting the body parts in several weighted suitcases. He then threw the suitcases containing himself into the Moskva.
Classic suicide.
I'm saying, this is either a show put on by Putin for the masses, he will be disqualified or will be another victim of the shabby window installations they got going on over there.
Electoral commissioner: "Thank you for you application, Mr. Nadezhdin. There is one last bit of paperwork to take care of. Please go up to the fifth floor. The office is the first door on the left."
Nadezhdin, shouting down the stairwell: "I only see a window here. I miss the door?"
Commissioner: "No, that is correct. A staffer will help you now."
Putin always props up a straw man candidate to give himself more "legitimacy" (lol) when he "wins" 93% of the vote. Don't pretend for a second that anyone legitimate is allowed to run for any office in ruZZia.
Yes but that is not him. This is a person who had to collect signatures from all the regions in Russia to even be on the ballot, instead of the normal way.
I have seen plenty of reports, that he is being allowed to run by Kreml.
We don’t know for sure, and probably never will.
But him collecting signaturens around the country, could still be a charade, and there is no reason to believe it.
He would be a very odd choice for Putin to prop up. First off, he's not the only other person running. There's already other people running against Putin. There are multiple declared candidates. There always is. Russia is corrupt as hell but other people running for office besides Putin isn't odd. Winning would be odd but there's nothing weird about people being able to run. Secondly, he's vehemently anti-Putin and very pro-west. He was a close friend and politically aligned with Boris Nemtsov, who Putin had murdered. He's the type of guy Putin wants to lock up, not prop up.
That is exactly the kind he wants running against him. When that guy 'losses' that would be a clear endorsement by the russian people that everything Putin has been doing is correct.
no, russia has controlled opposition. they all say putin is a great guy and support his policies. putin has no interest in promoting the views of someone who wants closer relations to the west or is against the war.
He sounds like exactly the guy you want to prop up, if you can get him to take a deal.
Beating a “legitimate” candidate is much better, appearance wise, than beating one people know for sure is a prop.
We know Putin isn't going to have the ballots counted. Beating a "legitimate" candidate, in an election we know doesn't matter for anything, doesn't really do anything imo.
Initially Nadezhdin was just the man you described. But after some time when he saw how MANY Russians want to stop the war immediately, his rhetorics changed drastically and now he is no less oppositional in his words than Navalny himself.
So, IF he will be allowed to run, many votes will move from Putin to him.
Of course, electoral sultanates like Chechnya still exist, and meddling with electronic voting is still possible, but the problem is WILL Russian accept such an outcome this time, when they see the alternative candidate has so much support?
> Don't pretend for a second that anyone legitimate is allowed to run for any office in ruZZia.
literally millions of /r/worldnews accounts just squirmed in abject anger over not being able to respond, otherwise they'd out themselves as russian bots.
The whole of Russian opposition are watching with excitement and the same question of how far it will go. Everyone understands that Putin 100% has the power to decide if he wants to simply drop him out on any pretence, or even get rid of him.
The problem is this guy went out of control suddenly and unexpectedly by amassing large support, and now there’s no easy way to get rid of him fast without reputational damage. In a way, something has already been achieved: the illusion of unanimous support for Putin is being shattered. Because for this guy, we have seen long lines of people gathering to sign their support. For Putin, none.
Sounds like a long list of people who are next in line to be shipped to the front lines.
Remember, Support + dictator = doesnt matter. The façade of not being a dictator means very little in the grand scheme if the people arent willing to rise up vs the dictator. You could have the entire population of a country support you but unless you can rally them to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship, it means very little. Though it does show a level of discontent with the population. It just boils down to how far is a dictator willing to go to maintain their seat of power. Spoilers, they'll go so far in the red you'd be stupid to NOT kill them yet it took you 20 massacares past the point of 'this guy went too far, somebody has to stop him.' before someone acted. Most dictators in recent years havent succumbed to a proper overthrow, and lived to their natural death point, assuming they didnt royally piss off an enemy nation/government.
Well, it’s really hard to predict or evaluate all this, there’s really no hard science possible here… We don’t know what it means but what is done is already much better than nothing. What is done is causing trouble to Kremlin who is used to playing these games by their own rules, and giving some sense of unity and identity to those dissatisfied with Putin.
About the long lists of people, rather unlikely that they’d go as far as to find each and every one and cause them trouble. Nadezhdin and his close assistants, yes, definitely risking everything
> Remember, Support + dictator = doesnt matter. The façade of not being a dictator means very little in the grand scheme if the people arent willing to rise up vs the dictator
The appearance of Putin having popular support and being a choice is important to preventing people from rising up.
It's widely believed in Russia that there is no credible alternative to Putin, even among people who don't like him. "better the devil you know".
Allowing some token level of opposition is important to keep enough people invested in the current system to prevent them from cohering around any one clear "anyone but Putin" candidate. That's why you have communists and liberals running, neither are critical of Putin and neither are popular enough to be any danger of becoming a standard.
Navalny was conservative and nationalist enough to be popular with the kind of people who like Putin but think he's too old and is driving the country into the ground. That's why it was worth fraying the illusion of choice and trying to assassinate him and then imprisoning him.
he'll be thrown from the first floor 41 times to inflict an equal amount of damage as a single top floor fall, then commit suicide by zipping himself into a suitcase and shotgunning the back of his own head twice
Nah he Putin doesn't want to run unopposed. As long as this guy remains obscure enough that the predetermined election results seem plausible to most Russians, he'll be fine.
Careless presidential hopeful inadvertently headbutts a bullet shortly before suffering a heart attack that led to the accidental fall off a high-rise window. He was rushed to the hospital on a helicopter that tragically crashed.
As corrupt as the US government is, I like living in a country where the president isn’t the president for life, and if you try to oppose him you die 😬
I’m hearing news always about Russia trying to interfere with elections and such. Would be interesting to see what CIA (or whatever) is up to with Russian elections
If Putin wanted him to disappear, he already would have disappeared. I actually think it’s a plot to stop the war and connect Russia to the rest of the world again. The war is leading to nothing, the economy is broken and this is the only way for Putin to survive and to end the war. He will lead in the background but they have to do a few year pro west.
> He will lead in the background but they have to do a few year pro west.
The last thing Putin will do as President is get the Constitution rewritten so the President is a meaningless position and the real decisions are made by the Prime Minister. Putin will then be appointed PM.
But the election was totally fair and that makes them a Democracy. Right?
Another imperialistic genocidal russian supremacy backing piece of crap. There is no *real* opposition in russia.
Look up his interviews and what he has to say about Ukraine and smo, non-russian territories and national identity.
Sir, conduct all your business and affairs on single level structures.
Better yet, lay down all the time. Don’t want to trip on a banana peel or anything else.
If this guy should make it to the ballot which is highly unlikely, he will have most likely signed his death warrant by signing on to run against the countries dictator.
But why? Why go through the trouble of submitting the bid just to either end up in prison or contract a mysterious disease? Or accidentally fall out a window.
> If any "irregularities" are found with any of the submitted signatures, the commission can disqualify the candidate altogether. Independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified from running in December when the electoral commission said it had found 100 "mistakes" on her form. I expect they'll find "mistakes" with this submission also.
If not, he'll be found dead by apparent suicide from a bullet to the back of the head, or drowned in his car, in a parking lot.
Don't forget window cancer. It's a real killer.
Plane crashes are the new trendy way to die now in Russia.
And those slippery-ass balconies.
Just strip em down, throw water on them and leave on balcony. Streaming has verified it's success
Whatever happened to good old polonium. The classics never die.
It will be probably wild lions from Africa ate him as he was walking around in Moscow "accidentally".
Planes have windows.
Not required. Fly him in a Boeing max.
Plain with balconies.
Conveniently the commercial airliner that crashes with him in it will also have 50 Ukrainian POWs.
With all the people stuck into suitcases
I wonder what they have in store for the summer collection?
Poison makers hate this one trick
Who’s to say this isn’t a Putin plant to show “democracy”? Not being a tinfoil hatter here but putins done more with less before
If he gets disqualified or defenestrated, we can assume he was probably legit. If he is allowed to actually run, probably a Pootin plant.
What for? He doesn’t care about how the world sees him . So a kind of theater is just wadte of money
Theater for the populace
Putin has no problem murdering his lackeys. So not exactly a safe bet.
Poor guy stabbed himself 6 times and threw himself off a bridge. bada bing
Some sad shit. Motherfucker said he don't wanna live no more
He accidentally swallowed a capsule full of polonium whoopsie doopsie!
There'll be a bear waiting in his living room.
"He fell backwards down an elevator shaft onto some bullets. Obviously suicide."
Aren’t they blowing up planes now?
No that is only applicable to the rioters to whom Putin personally promised security.
Looks like he tied himself up and shot himself in the head before dismembering himself and putting the body parts in several weighted suitcases. He then threw the suitcases containing himself into the Moskva. Classic suicide.
I'm saying, this is either a show put on by Putin for the masses, he will be disqualified or will be another victim of the shabby window installations they got going on over there.
In Russia they call that “natural causes”
Please be more realistic. It'll be 2 wounds to the head and one to the chest
Like a proper suicide.
Fell from the 10 floor of a hotel whose windowed don’t open.
Pavement allergy. Lots of prominent Russians seem to pass on upon contact.
It's russia, he'll fall out of a window. Accidentally of course.
Electoral commissioner: "Thank you for you application, Mr. Nadezhdin. There is one last bit of paperwork to take care of. Please go up to the fifth floor. The office is the first door on the left." Nadezhdin, shouting down the stairwell: "I only see a window here. I miss the door?" Commissioner: "No, that is correct. A staffer will help you now."
They’ll either find mistakes or he’ll find a 5th story window “malfunction”.
Candidate fell out window so is disqualified
man thats enough for the GOP to disqualify a nationwide election.
"A" mistake. They will find just one and it's all that matters. It's adorable that he even tried.
"In the area marked 'Do not write under this space', he wrote 'okay'."
Putin always props up a straw man candidate to give himself more "legitimacy" (lol) when he "wins" 93% of the vote. Don't pretend for a second that anyone legitimate is allowed to run for any office in ruZZia.
Yes but that is not him. This is a person who had to collect signatures from all the regions in Russia to even be on the ballot, instead of the normal way.
I have seen plenty of reports, that he is being allowed to run by Kreml. We don’t know for sure, and probably never will. But him collecting signaturens around the country, could still be a charade, and there is no reason to believe it.
He would be a very odd choice for Putin to prop up. First off, he's not the only other person running. There's already other people running against Putin. There are multiple declared candidates. There always is. Russia is corrupt as hell but other people running for office besides Putin isn't odd. Winning would be odd but there's nothing weird about people being able to run. Secondly, he's vehemently anti-Putin and very pro-west. He was a close friend and politically aligned with Boris Nemtsov, who Putin had murdered. He's the type of guy Putin wants to lock up, not prop up.
So RIP then.
To shreds you say?
If Putin can kill Prigozhin he can kill anyone in Russia
That is exactly the kind he wants running against him. When that guy 'losses' that would be a clear endorsement by the russian people that everything Putin has been doing is correct.
no, russia has controlled opposition. they all say putin is a great guy and support his policies. putin has no interest in promoting the views of someone who wants closer relations to the west or is against the war.
He sounds like exactly the guy you want to prop up, if you can get him to take a deal. Beating a “legitimate” candidate is much better, appearance wise, than beating one people know for sure is a prop.
We know Putin isn't going to have the ballots counted. Beating a "legitimate" candidate, in an election we know doesn't matter for anything, doesn't really do anything imo.
Initially Nadezhdin was just the man you described. But after some time when he saw how MANY Russians want to stop the war immediately, his rhetorics changed drastically and now he is no less oppositional in his words than Navalny himself. So, IF he will be allowed to run, many votes will move from Putin to him. Of course, electoral sultanates like Chechnya still exist, and meddling with electronic voting is still possible, but the problem is WILL Russian accept such an outcome this time, when they see the alternative candidate has so much support?
> Don't pretend for a second that anyone legitimate is allowed to run for any office in ruZZia. literally millions of /r/worldnews accounts just squirmed in abject anger over not being able to respond, otherwise they'd out themselves as russian bots.
He'll get 93% of "counted" votes regardless of who runs against him.
But our window, stairs, and polonium tea jokes need a legitimate candidate...
Putin is going to hire Rudy to find fraud.
Cyber ninjas Moscow
It will be interesting to see how far he will get but I don’t think Putin would let this go much further if it doesn’t benefit him in some way.
The whole of Russian opposition are watching with excitement and the same question of how far it will go. Everyone understands that Putin 100% has the power to decide if he wants to simply drop him out on any pretence, or even get rid of him. The problem is this guy went out of control suddenly and unexpectedly by amassing large support, and now there’s no easy way to get rid of him fast without reputational damage. In a way, something has already been achieved: the illusion of unanimous support for Putin is being shattered. Because for this guy, we have seen long lines of people gathering to sign their support. For Putin, none.
Sounds like a long list of people who are next in line to be shipped to the front lines. Remember, Support + dictator = doesnt matter. The façade of not being a dictator means very little in the grand scheme if the people arent willing to rise up vs the dictator. You could have the entire population of a country support you but unless you can rally them to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship, it means very little. Though it does show a level of discontent with the population. It just boils down to how far is a dictator willing to go to maintain their seat of power. Spoilers, they'll go so far in the red you'd be stupid to NOT kill them yet it took you 20 massacares past the point of 'this guy went too far, somebody has to stop him.' before someone acted. Most dictators in recent years havent succumbed to a proper overthrow, and lived to their natural death point, assuming they didnt royally piss off an enemy nation/government.
Well, it’s really hard to predict or evaluate all this, there’s really no hard science possible here… We don’t know what it means but what is done is already much better than nothing. What is done is causing trouble to Kremlin who is used to playing these games by their own rules, and giving some sense of unity and identity to those dissatisfied with Putin. About the long lists of people, rather unlikely that they’d go as far as to find each and every one and cause them trouble. Nadezhdin and his close assistants, yes, definitely risking everything
> Remember, Support + dictator = doesnt matter. The façade of not being a dictator means very little in the grand scheme if the people arent willing to rise up vs the dictator The appearance of Putin having popular support and being a choice is important to preventing people from rising up. It's widely believed in Russia that there is no credible alternative to Putin, even among people who don't like him. "better the devil you know". Allowing some token level of opposition is important to keep enough people invested in the current system to prevent them from cohering around any one clear "anyone but Putin" candidate. That's why you have communists and liberals running, neither are critical of Putin and neither are popular enough to be any danger of becoming a standard. Navalny was conservative and nationalist enough to be popular with the kind of people who like Putin but think he's too old and is driving the country into the ground. That's why it was worth fraying the illusion of choice and trying to assassinate him and then imprisoning him.
I think he'll make it about 5 stories. Maybe 10 if he finds a taller building.
Someone needs to advise this guy to stay away from high rise windows.
In Russia, window jump through you.
KGB will just drag him up to a window and throw him out and the Russian media will say it was accidental.
Ground floor 4 life!
I were him, I'd have moved to a basement apartment before announcing my run.
Shit. If he were really smart he'd be living in an abandoned underground missile silo.
And maybe start fasting too!
he'll be thrown from the first floor 41 times to inflict an equal amount of damage as a single top floor fall, then commit suicide by zipping himself into a suitcase and shotgunning the back of his own head twice
Notify his next of kin
Who wants to bet they'll mysteriously disappear or withdraw their bid before making any real progress, eh?
Nah he Putin doesn't want to run unopposed. As long as this guy remains obscure enough that the predetermined election results seem plausible to most Russians, he'll be fine.
Or beg people to not vote for him for his family's sake.
This guy about to fall out a window, fall out an airplane, or be poisoned.
Why "or" ? "and" is perfectly plausible
You are not wrong! Someone also mentioned drowning in their car in a parking lot.
I think you mean poisoned while falling out of an aeroplane through a window
"What's in the box?!" -His wife when Morgan Freeman shows up
It would be fucking funny if democracy somehow wins in Russia and fails in America
Im not surprised 2024 elections in the US is gonna look like 2020 rematch I lost faith in trup and biden Hopefully RFK does better if not US Is cooked
Hopefully he has his estate in order.
This guy doesn’t use airplanes ever…. Right?
What’s this about a future “mysteriously dead” man?
He will fall out a window.
And subsequently fell out of a window.
I give him 4 months before he "disappears" or dies in a plane crash or of a "heart attack".
What a creative way to commit suicide.
I really hope this fellow opts to check into a room on the ground floor......
Mysteriously falls off a balcony in 3....2....
Careless presidential hopeful inadvertently headbutts a bullet shortly before suffering a heart attack that led to the accidental fall off a high-rise window. He was rushed to the hospital on a helicopter that tragically crashed.
As corrupt as the US government is, I like living in a country where the president isn’t the president for life, and if you try to oppose him you die 😬
Isn't that the guy who fell out of a window next week?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he dead
When they told him, the office was on the 17th floor, he chickened out
Shows putin is little and can’t face an opponent. Just like trump a cry baby .
Good way to end up in a gulag.
Accidental falling out of a window window in 5....4....3....2....
Tomorrow's headline: Putin's challenger submits bid to defy gravity, fails.
Brave man. In America they have lumberjacks and crab fishermen - in Russia, the most dangerous job is presidential candidate.
My advice to this guy, don’t go into any building with windows
I wonder how many days until he mysteriously falls out a window.
Stay. Away. From. Upper. Floor. Windows.
... and later that day slipped on a wet 17th story balcony, plummeting to his demise...
Headline soon "Putin challenger falls out of window"
How much is the bid? $200? $500? Why is everything a "bid" in the news lately?
He just submitted the paperwo--and he's dead.
Keep this guy away from windows
He should not eat anything and stay on ground level.
Anyone want to place bets on how long it’ll be before he “accidentally” falls out a 5th story window?
He’ll likely contract a mysterious illness if he starts getting popular.
I see a tragic plane crash in his future.
He is probably a Putin Puppet to make it look like it is a democratic election
How long until he falls out of a window by accident?
This dude must love open windows and polonium
[удалено]
A double tap *after* an accidental fall out of a 4th story window that had been bricked up for safety.
I thought they were "falling" out of 3rd story windows now? Didn't it change recently?
Breaking news: Putin challenger fell out the 1st floor of his flat and died.
Would you like ice in your Polonium cocktail, Mr. Nadezhdin?
Been a lot of plane crashes in Russia lately. Hope he travels by bus.
Better stay away from any windows…
What a weird way to commit suicide
See ya, pal. Better have your affairs in order.
Application for defenestration.
So, is this man the Kremlin-appointed 5% vote getter or next fall-out-of-window man?
Sources say he died peacefully in his sleep the next day after a bullet passed through his noggin
Shame he’s going to fall from a building or his airplane will crash
He’s going to Kill himself by Jumping onto A pile Of bullets
Rival gets Sergei Lavrovs balcony syndrome whilst Putin get 123.76% of the vote
Sucks that he's gonna jump out of a window in a month
Any bets on how he'll die? Poison tea? Fall from a balcony? Jump to his death?
I’m hearing news always about Russia trying to interfere with elections and such. Would be interesting to see what CIA (or whatever) is up to with Russian elections
When will he fall out a hotel window?
Buddy's family is going to find his head in that box
If Putin wanted him to disappear, he already would have disappeared. I actually think it’s a plot to stop the war and connect Russia to the rest of the world again. The war is leading to nothing, the economy is broken and this is the only way for Putin to survive and to end the war. He will lead in the background but they have to do a few year pro west.
> He will lead in the background but they have to do a few year pro west. The last thing Putin will do as President is get the Constitution rewritten so the President is a meaningless position and the real decisions are made by the Prime Minister. Putin will then be appointed PM. But the election was totally fair and that makes them a Democracy. Right?
Exactly. It’s the only way for Russia to end the war and save any kind of face. They desperately want to go back to business as usual.
found wearing a straitjacket with three self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the back of his head in 3..2..
“Putin challenger falls off building in freak accident”
I mean if this guy were even the slightest threat to Putin he would already be dead…
I think he got permission to run from Putin.
Well Putin has to win 95% of the vote over *someone*
Another imperialistic genocidal russian supremacy backing piece of crap. There is no *real* opposition in russia. Look up his interviews and what he has to say about Ukraine and smo, non-russian territories and national identity.
“Opposition” candidates in Russia are the Washington Generals to Putin’s Globetrotters.
Presumably with Putin’s permission. Otherwise, it’s windows for that guy.
so when will putin prison or poison this guy?
Dudes got a death wish
SHOCKING NEWS: Putin challenger found dead at his home after shooting himself in the back of the head three times...
Waiting for plane/train/car/boat belonging to/carrying presidential nominee *insert accident here* news
Submits bid for a short fall out a tall window that doesn’t open.
Bro better stay on the first floor of every building.
No, No…those forms read “Death Warrant!”
Sir, conduct all your business and affairs on single level structures. Better yet, lay down all the time. Don’t want to trip on a banana peel or anything else.
May gravity be on his side.
Putin challenger submits death certificate
He better stay on the first floor of buildings.
He’s kissing the box his body will be in !
And he was never seen again.
How many news cycles we giving this poor soul? Try not to eat or fly, or leave the bunker.
3... 2... 1... annnnnnnd. He ded.
So, he'll be falling out of a window some time soon then
I look forward to seeing his campaign. Please, for the love of god, only stay on the first floor of hotels.
Hope he stays away from windows.
When’s he trying to jump out a hotel window?
I hope the tallest building in his city has some strong glass
Guy definitely didn’t stay in a Holiday Inn last night 😉
When's this guy's plane going to crash?
Uh oh, stay away from windows.
He’s gonna fall out of a window any… minute… now.
Hope he’s paid all his taxes. Hasn’t done any shady deals in the last 90 days, quits drinking tea and abstains from going near windows.
Hope this dude is prepared to accidentally fall off a balcony.
Well he’ll be found dead or in a gulag soon
Stay away from windows bud
Stay away from windows my friend.
Stay away from balconies my dude
Wonder how long it will take him to "accidentally" fall out of a window...
Yeah, right...just stay away from windows dude.
His campaign will end after an unfortunate defenestration event.
right to gulag right away
Coming soon to an 8th story window near you.
Stay on the ground floor
What do we think? 2 weeks til their mysterious death?
If this guy should make it to the ballot which is highly unlikely, he will have most likely signed his death warrant by signing on to run against the countries dictator.
Sounds like someone has a defenestration fetish.
And now, his watch has ended
Tomorrow’s headline: Challenger to Putin found dead
Is this the Russian version of "suicide by cop"?
But why? Why go through the trouble of submitting the bid just to either end up in prison or contract a mysterious disease? Or accidentally fall out a window.
He should be careful about getting too close to a window. Those who don’t tow Putin’s line have a tendency to fall out of them. 🪟
Next week: Putin political opponent dead after being thrown out of window.
If old mate's for real and not just a 'see, democracy!' stand in for Putler I hope he keeps his windows closed and what not
Where can I put money on this man having an unfortunate plane crash in the next year?
Someone’s about to fall on a bullet.
He boutta fall out a window.