Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Duma, said it would be pointless to discuss Alexei Navalny, the opposition's nominee, running for president in 2018 as he cannot register under existing laws.
Article 32 of the Russian Constitution says citizens of the Russian Federation all have the right to run and be elected. Thus when publicly elected members of the Duma turn around and limit the rights of citizens to vote, democracy. Is being abused. The state must set up an independent Supranational Committee on Human Rights Actions and Civil Rights Exercises, with half its members of different nationalities and nominated by global human rights organizations. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.
