Dmitry Mikhailichenko - about the role of Nadezhdin

Political scientist Dmitry Mikhailichenko writes :

“Boris Nadezhdin shows consistency, and completely. He bravely listens to the refusal of the Russian Central Election Commission to register him as a presidential candidate and is determined to appeal this decision. A genuine Don Quixote of the system, who, however, for most normal people appears rather as a positive character. <…> But no one considers Nadezhdin crazy (unlike the hero Miguel de Cervantes), and this is very good.

<…> In general, Nadezhdin played his role well. The potential for consolidation of Russian citizens with a similar position was shown. And he is significant. It’s not for nothing that Gurulev spoke about “20% of citizens who need to be “somehow destroyed.”

After all, no one knew Nadezhdin 4-5 months ago, and now neo-Byzantine sociologists <...> give him a rating of 10.4%. Nadezhdin is not lying at all when he talks about millions of citizens who were ready to vote for him.

<…> If we speak at the level of elite generalizations: political administrators and methodologists have shown that there should not be a complete securization/silovikization of politics in the country. Actually, that’s why they needed Nadezhdin, and not for the legitimacy of the elections.”