There will be three Boris Vishnevskys on the ballot papers in an upcoming Russian election. Only one of them is the true Boris. The others are trying to stop him getting up.
Expect to see some double-takes when Russian voters head to the polls in Saint Petersburg later this month.Running near-identical candidates is a common tactic in Russian electionsThe two other Borises are really called Viktor and Alexei
"This is political fraud," said Mr Vishnevsky, a 65-year-old senior member of the liberal Yabloko party. Earlier official pictures of one of Mr Vishnevsky's doppelgängers, Mr Bykov, show a much younger man with few signs of a receding hairline.
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