Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who tried unsuccessfully to run against Vladimir Putin in a presidential election last year, was declared bankrupt by a Moscow court on Thursday, state media reported.
Acting on a petition filed in May 2024 on behalf of Rosenergobank, which itself went bankrupt in 2017, the arbitration court found Nadezhdin had unfulfilled obligations to the bank totalling 77.4 million roubles ($918,700).
The 61-year-old, who held a seat in Russia’s parliament from 1999 to 2003, tried to run on an anti-war ticket against Putin in a March 2024 presidential election. But he was barred from standing when the Central Election Commission said it had found irregularities, including names of dead people, in the…
