I meant to write a little paragraph on this but forgot, so thanks for reminding me.
Basically, the Kremlin has a half-dozen options to stop him running — deny his signatures are legit, declare him a foreign agent, pursue criminal charges, or kill him.
But all of these, to varying degrees, risks agitating the huge number of people who got b…
I meant to write a little paragraph on this but forgot, so thanks for reminding me.
Basically, the Kremlin has a half-dozen options to stop him running — deny his signatures are legit, declare him a foreign agent, pursue criminal charges, or kill him.
But all of these, to varying degrees, risks agitating the huge number of people who got behind Nadezhdhin. Maybe Putin doesn't care, which might be valid. Maybe he thinks he can permit Nadezhdin to run, then just hamper his campaign and use fraud to make them look marginal. But there's no objectively good option here, for the Kremlin. They all carry risks.
I meant to write a little paragraph on this but forgot, so thanks for reminding me.
Basically, the Kremlin has a half-dozen options to stop him running — deny his signatures are legit, declare him a foreign agent, pursue criminal charges, or kill him.
But all of these, to varying degrees, risks agitating the huge number of people who got behind Nadezhdhin. Maybe Putin doesn't care, which might be valid. Maybe he thinks he can permit Nadezhdin to run, then just hamper his campaign and use fraud to make them look marginal. But there's no objectively good option here, for the Kremlin. They all carry risks.