Wednesday, February 14
Why Boris Nadezhdin’s Short-Lived Campaign is an Own Goal for the Kremlin
Political scientist Nikolai Petrov explores how Boris Nadezhdin’s run for president made possible public expression of anti-war sentiment, which had been harshly suppressed since the very beginning of the war. The all-powerful Kremlin, having gotten rid of prominent oppositionists, missed the threat from a weak “rival.”