Police in central Russia have physically stopped an opposition activist from standing for election by blocking his entrance to a local government building as he arrived to register his candidacy.
Dmitri Krasichkov, an anti-corruption campaigner in Lipetsk, a small city 300 miles south of Moscow, won last year’s elections to the city council but the results were declared void by officials, regional media reported. He had planned to stand in elections this autumn.
Video showed an officer in uniform and a man believed to be a plainclothes police officer wrestling him away from the doors of the election committee building “Let me go, I’m an independent candidate,” Krasichkov shouted before he was arrested. The deadline for candidates to register was today.
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