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Authorities in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod have accused the communist KPRF party of illegally using the image of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in its cartoon election leaflets.

Authorities in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod have accused the communist KPRF party of illegally using the image of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in its cartoon election leaflets.

The leaflets contain a character bearing “a 100-percent resemblance” of the Russian premier, Alexander Ivanov, the deputy head of the city’s election committee, told Kommersant daily.

“You could also recognize representatives of other political parties in the cartoon,” he said, pointing to caricatures of Sergei Mironov of A Just Russia and Vladimir Zhirinovsky of the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party.

The committee asked police to decide if the cartoon breached Putin’s image rights since the 59-year-old had not granted KPRF permission for such use.

Putin earlier allowed the ruling United Russia party to use it, although it is President Dmitry Medvedev who heads the party’s list of candidates in next month’s general election.

KPRF said it would challenge the move because permission is only required for the use of photographs, while a caricature is a “collective image in which everybody is encouraged to see whatever they wish.”

It is “an initiative of local bureaucrats who want to take the propaganda material out,” said KPRF’s senior lawyer, Vadim Solovyov.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was a “matter for the lawyers.”

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