19:45, 26-Feb-2018
Russia Presidential Election: Key candidates to meet in debate
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Seven candidates in total will take part in the marathon three weeks of debates. Here are several of the key players.
Ksenia Sobchak, daughter of Vladimir Putin's political mentor, is running under the slogan "Against all". She describes herself as a patriot and a nationalist, and said she will remove the body of Vladimir Lenin from Red Square if she wins.
Politician and entrepreneur Pavel Grudinin, was selected as a candidate from the Communist Party. He is slammed by some left-wing politicians as representative of the "bourgeois class".
Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, however, has promised to amend the Constitution of Russia and restore Russia's borders to the USSR as of 1985.