MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti) - Some 20 members of Russia's Communist Party gathered in central Moscow Friday to protest against authorities' refusal to register its candidates for the upcoming elections in Daghestan, a republic in the North Caucasus.
Earlier this week Daghestan's election commission denied registration to the party's regional branch for the elections to the republic's legislature scheduled for March 11, 2007. The republic's Supreme Court upheld this ruling.
Protesters who gathered near the Daghestani government's office in Moscow branded the registration refusal as "political terrorism" against the party.
Alexander Veshnyakov, the head of the Russian Central Election Commission, said move is due to drawbacks in the republic's election legislation.
