Russian presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin says 400,000 copies of campaign newspaper confiscated by police
Russian presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin says that 400,000 copies of his campaign newspaper have been confiscated by police in Russia’s Republic of Udmurtia.
After printing, the newspapers had been handed over to the delivery company Baikal Service, which was to send them to Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod for distribution. Nadezhdin wrote that when his team asked Baikal Service for an update, a representative told them that police had taken the entire print run. The representative then cut off communication with Nadezhdin’s team.
Sources in Nadezhdin’s Kazan headquarters told Idel.Realii that the papers had been seized as “extremist material,” according to information from the delivery company.
In early February, Nadezhdin said that over 60 accredited printing houses in Moscow, the Moscow region, Voronezh, and Nizhny Novgorod, refused to print his campaign newspaper.
On February 8, Russia’s Central Election Commission refused to register Nadezhdin as a candidate in the country’s upcoming election.
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