Russia’s renown dissident and former political prisoner Vladimir Bukovsky, on the photo, has been nominated to run for presidency at 2008 elections.
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Vladimir Bukovsky Nominated to Run for Presidency
Russia’s renown dissident and former political prisoner Vladimir Bukovsky has been nominated to run for presidency from the opposition at 2008 elections, Prima-News reported. Bukovsky, 64, has agreed to the offer already.
”Russia needs its own Vatslav Gavel today, rather than just another successor from Lubyanka,” said the joint statement of the opposition initiators’ group. “That is why we are nominating Vladimir Bukovsky as the candidate to the Russian Federation’s president.”
”We are sure Vladimir Bukovsky deserves being one of contenders, of whom Russia’s opposition will choose a single candidate for elections of 2008,” the statement emphasized.
Bukovsky agreed to run for presidency in Russia. “Our favorite toast has always been ‘To our hopeless cause.’ Today this business appears hopeless. That is why I agree to it,” Bukovsky explained.
In 1976, Vladimir Bukovsky left the Vladimir prison to be expelled from Russia and exchanged for Chile’s General Secretary Luis Corvalan. Still citizen of Russia, Bukovsky has been living in Britain ever since. He predicts great obstacles en route to the presidency. “It is for ten years already that they don’t let me enter Russia even as tourist, though there are no legal grounds for it. Polonium-210 probably awaits me, but I won’t be stopped even by it,” Bukovsky said.
Apart from Bukovsky, former CEO of Yukos Viktor Gerashchenko and former PM Mikhail Kasyanov have also expressed readiness to run for presidency from the opposition.
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