Russia needs to amend the law on ‘foreign agents’ to prevent their close relatives from participating in elections, according to the Avanti business association, which noted the need to stop a “Belarusian scenario.”
The proposition aims to prevent the wife of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, from participating in upcoming elections. Following Navalny’s imprisonment, some have suggested that his spouse should follow in his footsteps.
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