กก Three more candidates have been registered for the upcoming Russian presidential election.

กก The Russian Central Election Commission approved on Saturday the Yabloko bloc leader Grigory Yavlinsky, famous film director Stanislav Govorukhin, and Ella Pamfilova, leader of the Civil Dignity movement.

กก The same day, the Commssion rejected the application of a businessman for a second time, saying he had not collected the 500-thousand signatures required to make him an eligible candidate. On Thursday, the Commission rejected the ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, citing his failure to report all his assets.