Russia elections: Protesters arrested on final day of vote set to give Vladimir Putin fifth term - BBC News

Picture caption: Nikolai Kharitonov is portrayed in a marketing campaign video strolling to his imagined new job within the Kremlin

Whereas we all know from earlier elections {that a} Vladimir Putin victory is kind of assured, there are three others whose names have been allowed on the poll paper.

Let’s take a fast take a look at them.

Nikolai Kharitonov, 75,is the official candidate of the Communist Occasion. His get together stays Russia’s second hottest, greater than 30 years because the fall of the Soviet Union. It attracts its assist from a small however loyal base of these nostalgic for his or her Soviet previous.

Leonid Slutsky, 56, is the chief of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Occasion of Russia. He’s an everyday on Russian state TV the place he voices anti-Western views.

Vladislav Davankov, 40, is the candidate for the New Folks, which is ostensibly a liberal, pro-business get together.

Regardless of their vastly totally different political standings, all three broadly again the Kremlin’s insurance policies – and none stands an opportunity in opposition to the incumbent.

Notable names lacking from
the poll embody the late opposition chief Alexei Navalny,
in addition to Ukraine conflict critics Boris
Nadezhdin (a veteran politician) and Yekaterina
Duntsova (a former TV journalist) who’ve been banned from operating.

Picture caption: Boris Nadezhdin was barred from operating greater than a month earlier than the election

Native Moscow councillor Boris Nadezhdin introduced his candidacy final 12 months, producing a uncommon second of optimism for opposition-minded voters.

He was a frequent visitor on speak exhibits on state TV and had been comparatively crucial of Moscow’s conflict in Ukraine.

However in a rustic the place many have been jailed for talking out in opposition to the conflict, he would by no means make the poll paper.