“I wrote a statement about withdrawing my candidacy from the elections due to the discovery of a foreign account that I did not manage to close,” TASS quotes him.
Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev said that Bogdanov decided to withdraw from the presidential race.
Also, the chairman of the Russian All-People's Union, Sergei Baburin, announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy from the presidential elections. He did this immediately after submitting signatures for registration to the CEC.
A candidate for the presidential elections in Russia from the non-parliamentary Democratic Party of Russia (DPR), Irina Sviridova, was unable to collect the required number of voter signatures in her support.