Former FSB officer Igor Strelkov (Girkin), arrested in an extremism case, called on his associates to start a campaign to nominate him as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation. He stated this in a letter from the pre-trial detention center, which was read by the co-chairman of the “Russian Movement for Strelkov” Oleg Nelzin, writes Sota.
Strelkov, the letter says, asked to form an initiative group that would collect signatures in his support. Strelkov also called on “all Russian patriotic forces, public and political organizations” to support him. “This is our chance to unite in the face of external and internal threats,” Strelkov wrote in the letter.
The day before, the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov reportedthat Igor Strelkov will participate in the “primaries for the election of a single candidate for the presidential election from the left and patriotic forces.”
Strelkov has been under arrest since July on charges of extremism due to posts on social networks. He did not admit guilt. The investigation classified the case.
Being a criminal defendant does not prevent him from running for president, but if Strelkov is convicted, he will not be able to take part in the campaign.
Igor Strelkov (real name Girkin) is a former FSB officer who participated in the armed conflict in Donbass in 2014. Strelkov calls himself the man who pulled the “trigger of war” in Ukraine in 2014. For several months in 2014, he headed the “Ministry of Defense” of the self-proclaimed DPR.
A court in the Netherlands in November 2022 sentenced Strelkov in absentia to life imprisonment, finding him guilty in the case of the crash of a Malaysian Boeing in the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. According to the prosecution, Strelkov requested from Russia the supply of a Buk air defense system, which was subsequently used to shoot down a plane carrying 298 people.
2023-11-18 17:41:00
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