{"id":189063,"date":"2023-11-25T04:13:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=189063"},"modified":"2023-11-25T04:13:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:13:33","slug":"jailed-russian-nationalist-igor-girkin-nominates-himself-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/jailed-russian-nationalist-igor-girkin-nominates-himself-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Russian nationalist Igor Girkin nominates himself for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Russian nationalist Igor &#8216;Strelkov&#8217; Girkin &#8211; who helped Moscow annex Crimea and downed flight MH17 &#8211; announces intention to face Putin in &#8216;sham&#8217; elections&#8230; from his jail cell<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Igor &#8216;Strelkov&#8217; Girkin announced his intention to face off against Vladimir Putin<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A\u00a0prominent ultranationalist has announced his intention to face off against Vladimir Putin in Russia&#8217;s next presidential elections.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Igor &#8216;Strelkov&#8217; Girkin is currently in custody in Russia awaiting trial on charges of inciting extremism, but has\u00a0nominated himself to run for president in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said that he hoped his bid for office would help disrupt the Kremlin&#8217;s sham election plans in which &#8216;the only winner is known in advance&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Girkin, 52, claimed in a letter published on his Telegram channel on Sunday that he understands &#8216;perfectly well&#8217; that &#8216;participating in the presidential campaign is like sitting down at a table to play with card sharps&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But he still instructed\u00a0his supporters to set up a campaign headquarters and to begin collecting signatures for his candidacy &#8211; even though he knows he would not be allowed to stand as president.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after\u00a0Girkin said from custody in August that he would make a better president than Putin, whom he described as &#8216;too kind&#8217;.\u00a0His comments at the time were laced with irony and he is considered an unlikely contender.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/02\/78006121-12765699-image-a-91_1700445784382.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Igor Girkin (pictured)\u00a0has announced his intention to face off against Vladimir Putin in Russia&#8217;s next presidential elections<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/02\/78006125-12765699-image-a-92_1700445788632.jpg\" height=\"411\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Girkin said from custody in August that he would make a better president than Putin, (pictured) whom he described as &#8216;too kind&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Girkin, who lost an appeal against pre-trial detention in a Moscow court in August, is best known in the West for his conviction in absentia by a Dutch court for his role in shooting down Malaysian passenger plane MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014\u00a0with the loss of 298 passengers and crew. He has denied he was involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer who helped Russia to annex Crimea in 2014 and then to organise pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine, Girkin said before his arrest that he and his supporters were entering politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia has cracked down on nationalist critics, who have called for a much tougher approach to fighting the war, including martial law and a country-wide mobilisation, after the failed June mutiny by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin was killed in August in a plane crash, the causes of which are unclear. Girkin, who has also served in Chechnya and Moldova, was arrested in July.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Putin has unprecedented support and that he would win an overwhelming majority if he ran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/02\/78006117-12765699-image-a-93_1700445790730.jpg\" height=\"444\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Girkin, 52, in a letter published on his Telegram channel on Sunday\u00a0said that he hoped his bid for office would help disrupt the Kremlin&#8217;s sham election plans in which &#8216;the only winner is known in advance&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Girkin, a monarchist who wrote a dissertation on the &#8216;White Russians&#8217; who fought the &#8216;Red&#8217; Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolution, is one of the most prominent nationalists who has criticised Russia&#8217;s execution of the war, which he casts as part of an existential battle with an arrogant West.<\/p>\n<p>He has called the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union &#8216;positive&#8217; but says the post-Soviet Russian elite was corrupt and working for the West to weaken Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on its Telegram channel, SOTA carried a video of Oleg Nelzin, whom it described as co-chair of a group called Russian Movement for Strelkov, reading a letter from Girkin at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The letter instructed his followers to set up a headquarters and start collecting signatures for his candidacy, SOTA said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of Girkin said in September that his criminal investigation had been extended until December 18.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12765699\/Jailed-Russian-nationalist-nominates-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian nationalist Igor &#8216;Strelkov&#8217; Girkin &#8211; who helped Moscow annex Crimea and downed flight MH17 &#8211; announces intention to face<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jailed Russian nationalist Igor Girkin nominates himself for president - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/jailed-russian-nationalist-igor-girkin-nominates-himself-for-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jailed Russian nationalist Igor Girkin nominates himself for president - News Need News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Russian nationalist Igor &#8216;Strelkov&#8217; 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