According to the press secretary of Vladimir Putin’s campaign headquarters, Andrey Kondrashov, for the moment, more than 538,000 signatures have been collected in support of the incumbent president as a presidential candidate. The headquarters intends to collect another 200,000 signatures.
RIA Novosti reports that the collection is being conducted in all 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, in 267 settlements, where 2,500 volunteers are working at 625 locations.
