Applicant
3. A candidate is an individual who holds higher professional education, attached to an organization or institution with graduate school (adjunct program) and/or doctoral program, preparing a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sciences without attending graduate school (adjunct program), or an individual holding the degree of Candidate of Sciences and preparing a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Sciences.
Source: Federal Law No. 125-FZ dated August 22, 1996 (as amended on December 3, 2011) "On Higher and Postgraduate Professional Education" (with amendments and additions coming into force on February 1, 2012)