President Vladimir Putin signs legislation that bars members of"extremist" organisations from running for office, a decision allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny say aims to sideline them from parliamentary election this year.
Russia's legal information portal showed on Friday Putin had signed the bill on barring staff, members and sponsors of "extremist" groups from running in parliamentary elections. Leaders of such groups will not be able to run in parliamentary elections for five years, while members and those who helped finance their work will be banned from running for three years.Navalny, Putin's most prominent domestic critic, barely survived a near fatal poisoning with a Soviet-designed nerve agent last summer that he blames on the Kremlin.
"I hope I can say today that my success of the last year was that I have kept away from feeling like a 'caged animal,'" after the "many strange things that happened to me," Navalny said.List of 'terrorist and extremist' groups
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