The Supreme Court recognized the CEC's refusal to admit Grudinin to the State Duma elections as legal

"The decision of the CEC to recognize as lawful, to dismiss Grudinin's complaint," the judge quoted TASS as saying.

On July 30, Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Yuri Afonin said that the party had appealed in the Supreme Court against the exclusion of Pavel Grudinin by the Central Election Commission of Russia from the federal list of the political force for elections to the State Duma.