He has a website and claims that he has 200 924 collected signatures of which 109 361 are sorted (whatever that means: verified?) Yesterday was the last day for collecting them.
https://nadezhdin2024.ru/
Telegram https://t.me/s/BorisNadezhdin
We will see what happens.
is Alexey Gromov: Deputy chief of staff of the Presidential Admnistration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Gromov
Accorsing to Medusa https://meduza.io/feature/2024/01/26/lyudey-potyanulo-na-novoe-eto-ochen-nepriyatnyy-effekt the staff wanted a controlled “liberal” politician in the election, but then the project got its own momentum and now they don't know what to do.
He now has 159 217 verified signatures.
and is trying to raise money for his campaign.
He obviously has the support of some in the Kremlin. We’ll see how it goes.