Russian pro-war nationalist Igor Girkin, nicknamed Strelkov, was nominated by an initiative group to run for president of Russia, but the notary, who was supposed to certify the candidacy, did not appear, reports Ukrainian Pravda.

As Meduza writes with reference to the Telegram channel, 556 people have signed up for Strelkov’s candidacy (a minimum of 500 signatures is required).

On the other hand, the signatures could not be processed and certified due to the absence of a notary public.

“Tomorrow we will do everything, today it didn’t work out with the notary, but tomorrow we will legalize it. Today, unfortunately, they couldn’t,” said Strelkov’s wife, Myroslava Reginska.

Four notaries, with whom the initiative group had an agreement to certify signatures, refused to come to the meeting, the organizers of Strelkov’s campaign headquarters reported, the SOTAvision project reports.

Representatives of the Central Committee of the Russian Federation “did not show their presence [la ședință] – it is unlikely that they will be able to accept such documents,” the Telegram channel “Caution, news” reports, citing Meduza.

As a matter of fact, Ihor Girkin, who is in a pre-trial detention center awaiting trial for calling for extremism, announced in November that he wants to run for president.

On December 7, the term of detention of the Russian nationalist was extended for another six months.

A former officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB), where he helped Russia annex Crimea in 2014 and later organized pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine, Girkin said before his arrest that he and his supporters would enter politics.

“I understand very well that in the current situation in Russia, participating in the presidential campaign is like sitting down at the table and playing with cheaters,” Girkin said in a letter published on his Telegram account.

Girkin said he did not believe that he would be allowed to run for the elections, but hoped that his attempt to unite patriotic forces would thwart the Kremlin’s plan to hold a “simulation of elections” in which “the only winner is known in advance.”

“This is our chance to unite in the face of external and internal threats,” Girkin said in a letter titled “I will run for office.”

Who is Igor Girkin?

Girkin, who also served in Chechnya and the Republic of Moldova, was arrested in July.

Girkin, a monarchist who wrote a thesis on “White Russians” fighting the “Red” Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolution, is one of the most prominent nationalist critics of Russia’s conduct of the war, which he sees as part of an existential battle. with the arrogant West.

He called the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 “positive” but said the post-Soviet Russian elite was corrupt and working for the West to weaken Russia.

In May, Girkin said that despite his criticism of Putin’s failures, “Putin is currently the only legitimate figure in the Russian Federation.”

In August, he said he would make a better president than Putin, describing the Kremlin chief as “too kind” and “too trusting” of Russia’s security and military chiefs.

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