 Since Khudyakov was nominated by the non-parliamentary party, he had to collect 100,000 signatures in his support to register.On 22 January 2018, Roman Khudyakov handed the collected signatures to the CEC, but immediately announced the withdrawal of his candidacy from the election and the support of the incumbent President Vladimir Putin.On 8 July 2014 Khudyakov declared that the image of Apollo driving Quadriga on the portico of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on the 100-ruble banknote constitutes as pornography and should only be available to people older than 18 years of age.