This decision signals the de facto start of the 2008 presidential election campaign.

This decision effectively means the start to the presidential campaign of 2008.

Our victory was stolen from us. After a court decision, we found ourselves in a difficult situation, and it is important for us at present to strengthen our organization, rather than dwell on things past.

A real political opposition was born today in Russia.

The people now in charge of the Kremlin administration are rubbing out the results of 15 years of the new, democratic Russia. Russia is ceasing to be democratic.

Our ideology ... is the one in the most demand in Russian society.