“The meeting of the commission (CEC. - RT) ended, the documents were taken away. 15.348% marriage, two sleepless nights ahead,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Artemyev added that the defect rate should not exceed 5%.

Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia Nikolai Bulaev said that the CEC working group discovered errors in the signature sheets that were submitted for registration by the leader of the Communists of Russia party, Sergei Malinkovich, and the nominee from the Civil Initiative, Boris Nadezhdin.