“The Candidate”: Maxim Pakhomov’s film about an election campaign in St Petersburg
A documentary by Maxim Pakhomov, published in September 2021, shows an election campaign through the eyes of an opposition candidate. Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, a human rights activist, ran for the State Duma in a single-member district in St Petersburg on the Yabloko ticket without being a party member. He explains that he stood in place of those who had been barred from the election.