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The leader of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky, State Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov and the leader of the United Civil Front Harry Kasparov may claim to become a single candidate from the opposition in the presidential election. According to the correspondent of the Grani.ru, the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov announced this on Saturday. He also included himself in this list.

According to Kasyanov, until the end of spring a procedure will be developed by the opposition will determine their single candidate.

Kasyanov does not exclude that on the eve of the elections he will be called to the prosecutor’s office more than once. “You probably need to take the printout of the site compromat.ru and put the checkmarks-in what cases something has already been done, and in what not yet,” he said. “We can expect that I will be called right on this list or for some other list for giving some explanations or evidence.”

“We have a hot time now - the elections have already begun,” Kasyanov explained the interest in his law enforcement agencies.

On the eve of the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow made a decision on the so -called "Daching case", obliging Kasyanov to return to the state the cottage "Sosnovka-1". The case against the former prime minister was made after his first high -profile political statements. In early 2005, speaking at the Russian Economic Forum in London, Kasyanov drew a pessimistic picture of the development of the country's economy under the current regime. Then he stated that he had returned to politics.

The election of the President of Russia will be held on March 9, 2008. The plans to run for the highest state post, except Kasyanov, have already been announced by the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Communist Party leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov and the mayor of Arkhangelsk Alexander Donskoy.