Another Russian presidential candidate withdraws from election race

The candidate for the presidential elections in Russia from the Russian Party of Freedom and Justice, Andrey Bogdanov, submitted an application to the Central Election Commission to withdraw from the election race, Report informs via TASS.

"They accepted documents from Andrey Vladimirovich Bogdanov, he wrote a statement about the resignation, so to speak, of the powers of a presidential candidate and withdrawal from the presidential campaign," Deputy Chairman of the Commission Nikolay Bulayev said at a meeting of the Central Election Commission.

Earlier, the chairman of the Russian All-People's Union party, Sergey Baburin, refused to further participate in the election race.