( Reuters ) - The Fair Russia party, the smaller of two political blocs backing President Vladimir Putin, will not nominate its own candidate for a presidential election in March, the party's leader said on Friday.
"Our party with 99.9 percent probability will not put forward its own candidate in the presidential election and we are determined to support another candidate who is running in the election," Interfax news agency quoted Sergei Mironov, the Fair Russia leader, as saying.