INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Two presidential hopefuls announced Tuesday that they will not be running in the March election and called on supporters to cast their vote
conservative party, said he was withdrawing from the race shortly after submitting the 100,000 signatures of endorsement required by
had parliamentary representation in 1995,said its would-be candidate Irina Sviridova had failed to gather the required 100,000 signatures of
endorsement and thus could not qualify to run.The party's chairman Alexander Zorin told state-run media that the party will support Putin in
which is scheduled for March 15-17.
