Navalny Returns to Moscow, Confirms Bid For Mayor
MOSCOW. July 20. KAZINFORM Convicted Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was freed by a court on Friday pending appeal, arrived back in his home city of Moscow by train Saturday morning and announced he will run for mayor of the Russian capital in an upcoming election.
"We will go to the elections and we will win," he said.
"There is an election campaign ahead of us, seven weeks of pre-election battle," he said, and thanked all his supporters, without whose support, he said, he and co-defendant Pyotr Ofitserov would not have been released.
"We are a huge, powerful force. I'm very glad that we've started to recognize that force ourselves...I want to apologize to you for not believing so strongly in you," he said, adding he would be in his campaign headquarters every day.
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