Russian opposition figure Nadezhdin flees to France after Kremlin pressure
Boris Nadezhdin, a Russian opposition politician and critic of President Vladimir Putin, announced on Monday that he had fled Russia for France. In a video posted on Telegram with the Eiffel Tower visible in the background, Nadezhdin said, “I have some good news: I’m alive and free. Unfortunately, not in Russia.”
Nadezhdin, 63, a former liberal lawmaker, had been one of the few prominent critics of Putin and Russia’s war in Ukraine still operating inside the country. He attempted to run for president in 2024 but was barred from the ballot after election officials claimed his submitted signatures contained too many irregularities. This year, he sought to stand in September’s parliamentary elections but abandoned his campaign after being labeled a “foreign agent” by Russia’s Justice Ministry on July 10.
Authorities briefly detained Nadezhdin in early July and later fined him 1,000 rubles (about $13) for displaying “extremist symbols” — a charge stemming from a 2023 video in which a brief image of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared. Navalny, designated an extremist by Russian authorities, died in prison in February 2024. After the fine and the foreign agent designation, Nadezhdin said his legal avenues for opposition politics in Russia were exhausted. “My possibilities to conduct opposition politics in Russia by legal means are exhausted,” he stated, adding that he had been “silenced” and did not want to endanger his supporters.
Nadezhdin’s departure leaves few high-profile Kremlin critics still inside Russia. Most have been jailed, exiled, or, in Navalny’s case, died in custody. According to the independent monitoring group OVD-Info, more than 2,000 political prisoners are currently held in Russian jails.
In a separate development on Monday, a Paris administrative court rejected an appeal by Xenia Fedorova, a pro-Kremlin commentator and former head of RT France, against her expulsion order. The court upheld measures including house arrest, daily police check-ins, and a six-month asset freeze. Fedorova’s lawyer said she was already abroad and would not return to France unless the expulsion order was suspended or overturned. French authorities had accused her of acting as “a conduit for disinformation campaigns” aimed at destabilizing public order.
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