PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS CLOSE TO REGISTRATION.

On April 4, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev submitted lists containing the necessary one million signatures to the Central Election Commission (TsIK) and applied for official registration as a candidate in the June presidential election. Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of Yabloko, is expected to deposit one million signatures in support of his candidacy today. Also today, the TsIK is expected to announce that it has registered Vladimir Zhirinovsky as an official candidate. (Interfax, April 4)

Lobov Replaced as Summit Organizer.