09:21, 4 July 2016

Gannushkina and Vitishko on the pre-election list of "Yabloko"

Evgeny Vitishko. Photo: © http://ewnc.org/

The "Yabloko" Party has put forward a coalition list of candidates for the State Duma, as well as candidates in 185 single-member constituencies, said the party's press service.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the voting to the State Duma is scheduled for September 18, 2016, – the united voting day.

The regional group for Chechnya is headed by Svetlana Gannushkina, a rights defender and the Chair of the "Civil Assistance" Committee; the group that combines the Krasnodar Territory, the Crimea and Sevastopol – is headed by the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko.

Vitishko is also nominated to the State Duma in the Tuapse single-member constituency of the KrasnodarTerritory, said the message posted on July 3 on the website of the "Yabloko".

The party plans to submit the documents for registration of its candidates to the Central Election Commission (CEC) on July 8. The candidates from "Yabloko" have no need to collect signatures to get registered for the elections, says the message.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.