Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will head the democratic coalition ballot in the 2016 State Duma elections, anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny announced earlier today at the group's forum in Moscow.

According to politician Ilya Yashin, the coalition plans to invite "two special individuals" to join Kasyanov to head the group's candidate list. Yashin promises that these people will be "famous" and sure to "attract votes for our coalition."

According to Kasyanov, whom Navalny called the best prime minister is Russia's modern history, the democratic coalition anticipates that its potential electorate numbers 6 million voters.

For the 2016 elections, the collective opposition will participate as a coalition in the form of the Party of People's Freedom, or “Parnas.” In this way, the opposition solves the problem of amassing huge numbers of signatures, which are necessary to participate in the elections.

Mikhail Kasyanov headed the Russian government from 2000 to 2004.