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PROBLEM: Russian election officials on Monday formally barred  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny  from running for president  prompting calls from  him  for a boycott of next year's vote.
 Navalny  is implicitly barred from running for office because of a conviction in a fraud case which has been viewed as political retribution.  He  could have run if  he  was given a special dispensation or if  his  conviction was cancelled.
 Incumbent Vladimir Putin  is set to easily win a fourth term in office in the March 18 election  with  his  approval ratings topping 80%.
 Putin  foe clears first step in bid for Russian presidency
Over the past year   Navalny  has mounted a grassroots campaign which reached out to the most remote corners of  Putin 's heartland.
 Navalny   41  is the most serious challenger that  Putin  has faced in all  his  years in power  and the court cases against  him  have been widely seen as a tool to keep  him  from running for office.
In a pre-recorded video message that was released minutes after the Election Commission handed down the decision  Navalny called on  his  supporters to boycott the vote.
"The procedure that we're invited to take part is not an election "  he  said. "Only Putin and the candidates  he  has hand-picked are taking part in it."
Central Election Commission chief Ella Pamfilova told  Navalny  ahead of its vote to bar him that "maybe we would be interested if you were running " but said the conviction doesn't allow the commission to put him on the ballot.
Speaking before the vote   Navalny  told the commission that  their  decision to bar him would be a vote "not against me  but against 16 000 people who have nominated me  against 200 000 volunteers who have been canvassing for me."
The involvement of Ksenia Sobchak  a 36-year-old star TV host  could raise public interest in the race. While Sobchak has denied colluding with the Kremlin  she could attract some of  Navalny 's supporters and help boost attendance.
Sobchak criticized  Navalny 's call for boycotting the vote  saying Monday that the "election is the only way to change something  and boycotting them is inefficient and harmful."

SOLUTION: Russian officials bar Navalny from running for president

PROBLEM: Anthony Scaramucci  has nicknames for  his  former White House colleagues including "Sith Lord" Reince Priebus and "creature from the Black Lagoon" Steve Bannon.
 Scaramucci  also opened up about the interview with Ryan Lizza  the New Yorker writer who has since been fired amid sexual misconduct claims.
 Scaramucci  also compared Reince Priebus to Star Wars villain Darth Sidious. (Lucasfilm  Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
"Of course I used the f-bomb a few times. I'm prone to do that . . . And I'm making some jokes and I'm playing for laughs  because that's my personality "  Scaramucci  told Vanity Fair.
 Scaramucci  told Vanity Fair that  his  whirlwind experience in the limelight was "very painful " though  he  reiterated  his  support for Trump. (Alisa Molotova/Getty Images)
The firing came shortly after reports that  his  wife was leaving  him  over her hatred of Trump  though the pair are now back together.
 Scaramucci  told Vanity Fair that  his  whirlwind experience in the limelight was "very painful " though reiterated  his  support for Trump.
 He  told the Star that  he  had stayed off of the airwaves after  his  firing because  he  didn't want to be a distraction  but has recently reemerged in the wake of allegations of internal White House chaos such as those in Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury."
"I got wind from the president and  his  family that this was a good opportunity for me to go back on television  to advocate for the president like I was doing during the campaign and transition and obviously  the short time I was in the White House "  he  said.

SOLUTION: Scaramucci calls former White House colleague 'Sith Lord'

PROBLEM: This piece is also set within the context of the rise of the British âradical socialistâ  âdemocratic socialistâ and Leader of the Labour Party   Jeremy Corbyn MP . (According to  his  followers  Corbyn âalmost wonâ the British election in June 2017.)
With the rise of the British âShadow Prime Ministerâ and Member of Parliament  Jeremy Corbyn  there's been a strong emphasis on the words âdemocratic socialismâ. This is a relatively new emphasis; though the words âdemocratic socialismâ do date back decades.
Indeed  some of  Corbyn 's followers have also had the audacity to claim that  Corbyn  is a âsocial democratâ who believes in âsocial democracy.â This means that the supporters of  Corbyn  are intentionally â perhaps cunningly -- fusing democratic socialism with social democracy. Corbynites even cite the Scandinavian countries as being an influence on  Corbyn . However  there's a small and inconvenient fact here: no Scandinavian government is democratic-socialist  let alone outright socialist. Sweden  Norway  and Denmark are all parliamentary (representative) democracies with constitutional monarchies; with two Kings and a Queen as heads of state. These countries are also run by Social Democratic  Liberal  and Conservative parties.
Take the Democratic Socialists of America  which was formed 1982 and is still with us today. In the past  the DSA has endorsed Jesse Jackson  Bernie Sanders  Barack Obama and  more recently  Britain's very own  Jeremy Corbyn .
I mentioned earlier that many of  Corbyn  supporters state that  Corbyn  is a âsocial democratâ who believes in âsocial democracyâ. So it's worth noting that the Democratic Socialists of America has its roots in a split with the Social Democrats  USA. The SDUSA was deemed to be too âright-wing.â The group which arose from the split was called the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC); and that group led to the Democratic Socialists of America.
The Democratic Socialists of America endorse what Michael Harrington called the "left-wing realismâ which is âfound today in the Democratic Party.â Similarly  many Marxists  Trotskyists and communists back the left-wing realism which is found in  Jeremy Corbyn 's Labour Party.
And like the activist group Momentum within the Labour Party (which once said that it "exists to build on the energy and enthusiasm from the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaignâ)  the DSA places its cards on the table in this way:

SOLUTION:
What Is 'Democratic Socialism'?