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Kremlin critic Boris Nadezhdin submits the documents to Russia's Central Election Commission needed to register as a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in March. The would-be challenger to Vladimir Putin shot to fame with promises to end the conflict in Ukraine and the previous week announced he had passed the 100,000 signature threshold to register. Russia's Central Election Commission will review his application and make a decision about whether he can run. IMAGES
French expats living in Moscow cast their ballots in the presidential run-off between centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his challenger Marine Le Pen, after a fractious campaign that has seen the far right come its closest yet to winning power. IMAGES
Russian president Vladimir Putin holds a press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Moscow, as Macron visits the Russian capital amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
Moscow, Feb 3 (EFE), (Camera: EFE/EPA ARCHIVE).- Russian police have arrested more than 1,400 people from various places during overnight protests to support jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, a rights monitoring group said on Wednesday.The OVD-Info that keeps track of political persecutions in Russia said the police detained 1,145 protesters from Moscow streets.Nearly 250 were arrested in St Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city. More than a dozen people were detained from several other places.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS IN MOSCOW ON JANUARY 2.
While President Donald Trump busies himself with his apoplectic rejection of Joe Biden as president-elect, world leaders have swiftly moved on. In a sign of Biden's legitimacy, leaders of major democracies have stepped up to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden in recent days. Doubtless salt to his wound, Trump's favorite network--Fox News--and media outlets across the board have also declared Biden the projected winner of the election. Business Insider reports that as a whole, EU leaders and even Israel and Turkey have congratulated Biden. Only Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Xing Ping, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have yet to join in.
US President Trump arrives at the official residence of President Sauli Niinisto of Finland ahead of his talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
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