INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) on Tuesday agreed to give pro-peace presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin an extra day to resolve
thousands of errors in endorsement signatures before it decides whether to officially register him as a candidate in the March presidential
his campaign team that election officials say contain flaws
of the remaining nominated but not registered candidates who submitted signatures..
today [CEC] decided to postpone from Feb.7 to Feb
to consider the registration of all remaining nominated candidates," election chief Ella Pamfilova said in a statement."Since the share of
invalid signatures identified by experts turned out to be quite significant..
it will take more time to familiarize candidates with the conclusion of the working group," she added.Nadezhdin had said earlier that it was
in Ukraine.The Kremlin has said it does not view Nadezhdin as a rival to President Vladimir Putin, who is widely expected to win his fifth
