Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is calling for a boycott of the country’s next presidential ballot after election officials barred him from running. Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) voted Monday to bar Navalny from running in the March 2018 presidential election because of his conviction on criminal charges that the anti-corruption blogger and his followers say…

Russian anticorruption activist and opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says he has gathered enough endorsements to run in the country’s next presidential election as his supporters organized rallies in 20 cities across Russia to secure the signatures. An outspoken Kremlin critic, Navalny is barred from running in the March 18, 2018, election because of a criminal conviction…