Only four candidates will be on the ballot for Russia’s presidential elections in March after the Central Election Commission (CEC) rejected the applications of the only anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin. Chairperson Ella Pamfilova told a meeting of the commission that the CEC declined to register presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin of the Civic Initiative party as well as Sergey Malinkovich of the Communists of Russia party and self-nominees Rada Russkikh and Anatoly Batashev. Nadezhdin injected an unexpected element of excitement into an otherwise predictable election that was seen as a fo…