YABLOKO disputes the results of the parliamentary election in courts
Press release, March 10, 2004
The Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO has finished its analysis of the bulk of its copies of voting protocols from electoral districts at the parliamentary elections of December 7, 2003 and is filing lawsuits asking the courts to invalidate the election results at 170 out of the total 225 district electoral commissions.

Maxim Reznik: the leader of United Russia should have become Prime Minister to make the party responsible for state policy
Press release, March 1, 2004
According to Reznik, "all this represents merely some elements of a PR campaign aimed at increasing the interest of the electorate in the forthcoming elections."

Sergei Ivanenko: Proposing a non-political figure for the post of Prime Minister demonstrates that the course of the country has not changed
Press release, March 01, 2004
The President has made it clear that he will directly guide the government even more than in the past, and will himself determine the country’s course.