Candidates in the 2004 Russian presidential election

2004 Russian presidential candidates
Opinion polls

This article contains the list of candidates associated with the 2004 Russian presidential election.

Registered candidates

Candidates are listed in the order they appear on the ballot paper (alphabetical order in Russian).

Candidate name, age,
political party 		Political offices Details Registration
date
Sergey Glazyev
(43)
Independent
(campaign) 		Leader of the Rodina parliamentary group
(2003–2004)
Deputy of the State Duma
(1994–1996 and 2000–2007)
Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia
(1992–1993) 		Glazyev was Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia under Boris Yeltsin, a Communist member of the State Duma and in 2003 became co-chairman of the newly established Rodina alliance. However, he failed to win the Rodina nomination because of a power struggle with Dmitry Rogozin, and ran as independent candidate. He campaigned as a critic of economic reforms. He argued that post-Communist governments have ignored social justice and promised to improve welfare. 8 February 2004[1]
Oleg Malyshkin
(52)
Liberal Democratic Party
(campaign) 		Deputy of the State Duma
(2003–2007) 		Malyshkin was nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party, after the party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who contested the last three presidential elections, chose not to run again. Malyshkin, a mining engineer, had been an LDPR member since 1991 and the head of security of Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He was elected to the State Duma in 2003. 8 January 2004[1]
Sergey Mironov
(51)
Russian Party of Life
(campaign) 		Chairman of the Federation Council
(2001–2011)
Senator from Saint Petersburg
(2001–2011) 		Mironov was Chairman of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, and was considered a loyalist to Vladimir Putin. Prior to launching his campaign, he expressed his support for Putin's candidacy. 6 February 2004[1]
Vladimir Putin
(51)
Independent
(campaign) 		President of Russia
(2000–2008 and 2012–present)
Prime Minister of Russia
(1999-2000 and 2008-2012)
Director of the Federal Security Service
(1998-1999) 		Putin, formerly prime minister, was elected president in 2000, and ran for a second term. His popularity remained quite high during his term in office thanks to economic stability and despite controversies on media freedoms. He refused United Russia's invitation to be nominated as party candidate and ran as an independent. 2 February 2004[2]
Irina Khakamada
(48)
Independent
(campaign) 		Deputy of the State Duma
(1994–1997 and 2000–2003) 		Khakamada, the daughter of a Japanese Communist who took Soviet citizenship in the 1950s, emerged as Putin's most outspoken critic. A member of the State Duma for eight years, she lost her seat in 2003. She was a member of the Union of Right Forces, but did not run as a party candidate. "I am not afraid of the terrorists in power," she told the daily newspaper Kommersant. "Our children must grow up as free people. Dictatorship will not be accepted." 8 February 2004[1]
Nikolay Kharitonov
(55)
Communist Party
(campaign) 		Deputy of the State Duma
(1994–present) 		Kharitonov was the candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, despite not being a member of the party. A former KGB colonel, he was a member of the Agrarian Party of Russia, an ally of the Communist Party. He was put forward after Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov declined to stand for a third time. 15 January 2004[1]

Withdrawn candidates

Candidate name, age,
political party 		Political offices Details Date of withdrawal
Ivan Rybkin
(57)
Independent
(campaign) 		Secretary of the Security Council
(1996–1998)
Chairman of the State Duma
(1994–1996)
Deputy of the State Duma
(1994–1996) 		Rybkin was former chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, was nominated as a presidential candidate on 29 December 2003. On 7 February 2004, he was registered as a presidential candidate, but after his scandalous disappearance and his appearance in Kyiv in February 2004, he withdrew on 6 March.[3] 6 March 2004

Rejected nominations

Eliminated at the convention

Communist Party

Liberal Democratic Party

Declared candidates who withdrew without registering

Possible candidates who did not run

The following individuals were included in some polls, were referred to in the media as possible candidates or had publicly expressed interest long before the elections but never announced that they would run.

References

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  2. ^ "Владимир Путин зарегистрирован кандидатом в президенты" [Vladimir Putin registered as a presidential candidate]. RBC (in Russian). 2 February 2004. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Иван Рыбкин снял свою кандидатуру с президентских выборов". Archived from the original on 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  4. ^ "Аксентьев Анзори Иосифович". Archived from the original on 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
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  7. ^ "Стерлигов Герман Львович". Archived from the original on 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
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  9. ^ "ЛДПР предстоит второй тур голосования по кандидату в президенты". strana.ru (in Russian). 26 December 2003. Archived from the original on 7 May 2004.
  10. ^ a b "Футболист против дзюдоиста" (in Russian). grani.ru. 26 December 2003. Retrieved 3 March 2026 – via lenpravda.ru.
  11. ^ "Виктор Анпилов заявил ЦИКу о президентских амбициях". newsru.com (in Russian). Archived from the original on 26 December 2025.
  12. ^ "Брынцалов Владимир Алексеевич". Archived from the original on 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  13. ^ "'Mad Vlad' runs for president again". Irish Examiner. 10 December 2003. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
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