MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. Politician Andrey Bogdanov has submitted documents to Russia’s Central Election Commission to participate in the election of the head of state in 2024 as a candidate from the Russian Party of Freedom and Justice, a TASS correspondent reports.

Bogdanov's candidacy was nominated at an early congress of the RPFJ on December 24. He already participated in the presidential race in 2008, gaining 1.30% of the votes.

The party is not represented in the State Duma. Bogdanov will have to collect 100,000 signatures by the end of January to be registered, with no more than 2,500 in each constituent entity of Russia.

The number of applicants for nomination as presidential candidates in the upcoming elections has already exceeded 30.

The Federation Council has scheduled the elections for March 17, 2024. The Central Election Commission has decided that the voting will last three days: March 15, 16 and 17. It will be the first three-day presidential election in Russia.