Voters in Russia’s 2nd city St. Petersburg will face a confusing option at the surveys in between opposition political leader Boris Vishnevsky and 2 various other prospects named Boris Vishnevsky that look really similar to him.
“My ‘increases,’ who became ‘Boris Vishnevsky’ in time for the political elections by altering their initial and also last name, have currently transformed their appearance. They’ve expanded beards as well as mustaches, and also I think they’ve gotten some retouching as well,” the initial Vishnevsky tweeted.
According to the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, both affirmed “looter” candidates, Boris Ivanovich and Boris Gennadievich, transformed their names soon prior to the political election from Victor Bykov and also Alexei Shmelev.
The only method to inform the 3 guys apart is by their ages and also patronymics, stemmed from a Russian’s papa’s first name and also usually noted on the ballot.
The initial Vishnevsky previously linked the arrival of the two candidates to his selecting popularity as well as expressed confidence in citizens’ capability to inform him besides the looters.
This month’s elections are an examination for the pro-Kremlin United Russia event, which is looking for to get over historic unpopularity to hang onto its majorities in parliament as well as regional legislatures.
Observers say a recent wave of police raids as well as detentions of opposition figures, as well as tightened election regulations that locked out allies of incarcerated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, are an attempt to get rid of the field of United Russia’s opponents.
Vishnevsky, a member of the liberal Yabloko party, previously faced what seemed a collaborated character assassination by an infamous pro-Kremlin “troll manufacturing facility” accusing him of sexually bugging his university students.