asic Terms and Concepts For the purposes of this Federal Law, the terms and concepts used herein shall be construed as follows: 1) campaign materials - printed, audio, video and other materials containing signs of election campaign, campaign on referendum questions dedicated for public dissemination during an election campaign or during a referendum campaign; 2) campaign period - period during which election campaign or campaign on referendum questions is allowed; 3) campaign on referendum questions - activities during a referendum campaign that are aimed at encouraging or are encouraging prospective voters of referendum to support the initiative of calling a referendum or withhold such support; to vote or refrain from voting at a referendum; to support or reject the questions proposed for the referendum; 4) election campaigning - activities during an election campaign that are aimed at encouraging or are encouraging voters to vote for or against a candidate, certain candidates, a list of candidates , lists of candidates or against him (them); (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 5) residential address - address (name of the subject of the Russian Federation; name of the district, city, or other settlement; name of the street; number of the building; and number CDL-REF(2012)008 -4- of the apartment) at which a citizen is registered with the registration authorities at his temporary or permanent place of residence within the territory of the Russian Federation; 6) ballot - ballot at elections or a ballot used for voting at a referendum; 7) referendum question (questions) - question (questions), a draft law or other draft regulation in relation to which a referendum is to be conducted or conducted; 8) elective official – the President of the Russian Federation, and the head of the municipal formation elected directly by citizens of the Russian Federation residing in the territory of this municipal formation; (as amended by the Federal Law of December 11, 2004, No.159-FZ) 9) election - form of direct expression of will by citizens that is effected in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal laws, constitutions (statutes) and laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation, statutes of municipal formations for the purposes of forming a body of state power, a body of local self-government, or vesting an official with powers; 10) nomination of a candidate - self-nomination of a candidate, or an initiative of an election association nominating a candidate for election into an elective body, or a candidate for an elective state or municipal office; (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 11) guarantees of the electoral rights and the right to participate in a referendum - conditions, rules, and procedures established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, a law or other regulatory acts and intended to assure exercising of electoral rights of citizens of the Russian Federation, and their right to participate in a referendum; 12) GAS “Vybory” – State automated system of the Russian Federation “Vybory”; (Paragraph 12 as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 121) State system of registration (account) of voters, referendum participants – set of measures ensuring guarantees and exercising of electoral rights and the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to participate in a referendum aimed at collection, systematization and use of data on voters, referendum participants; (Paragraph 121 introduced by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 13) deputy - person elected by voters of the corresponding electoral district to a representative body of state power or to a body of local self-government on the basis of a universal, equal and direct electoral right by means of secret balloting; (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 14) voluntary donation of a citizen – voluntary contribution, by a Russian Federation citizen, of his own funds onto a special electoral account of a candidate, election association, special referendum account; (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 15) voluntary donation of a legal entity – voluntary transfer by legal entity of monetary funds from its settlement account to a special electoral account of a candidate, election association, special referendum account; (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 16) document equivalent to a citizen’s passport - document certifying the identity of a citizen, issued by an authorized body of the government. In the territory of the Russian Federation such documents are: a serviceman's card, a temporary card issued in place of a serviceman's card, an identity card (for persons who are on military service); a temporary identity card of a Russian Federation citizen issued for the period of preparation of a passport in the procedure approved by the authorized federal executive body; (as amended by the Federal Law of July 23, 2008, No.160-FZ); a document certifying the identity of a Russian Federation citizen, on the basis of which a Russian Federation citizen enters the Russian Federation in accordance with the federal law which regulates the procedure for exiting from and entering the Russian Federation (for persons who permanently reside outside the Russian Federation); paragraph ceased to be in force. – The Federal Law of December 30, 2008, No.322-FZ; -5- CDL-REF(2012)008 a certificate of an established form, issued to citizens of the Russian Federation who are held in detention facilities for the suspects and accused, in the procedure established by the authorized federal executive body. (as amended by the Federal Law of July 23, 2008, No.160-FZ) For foreign citizens indicated in Clause 10, Article 4 of this Federal Law – a document certifying the right of a foreign citizen to permanent residence in the Russian Federation in accordance with the federal law which regulates the legal status of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation. Outside the Russian Federation the documents which substitute the passport of a Russian Federation citizen are documents certifying the identity of a Russian Federation citizen, on the basis of which a Russian Federation citizen enters the Russian Federation, as well as other documents, on the basis of which citizens of the Russian Federation may stay in the territory of a foreign state in accordance with international treaties of the Russian Federation. 17) law - federal constitutional law, federal law, law of the subject of the Russian Federation; 18) voter - a Russian Federation citizen who is entitled to an active electoral right; 19) election campaign - activity aimed at the preparation and conduct of elections, which is carried out in the period from the day of official publication of the decision of an authorized person, state body, body of local self-government authorized to do so to call elections to the day when the election commission that organizes elections presents a report on the expenditure of funds allocated from the appropriate budget for preparation and conduct of elections; (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 20) election campaign of a candidate, election association - activity aimed at the achievement of a definite result in election that is carried out from the day of the nomination of a candidate, list of candidates to the day when the candidate, election association, or their authorized persons submit the final financial report; (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 21) election commission - collegiate body formed in the procedure and within the time limits established by the law to organize and carry out preparation and conduct of elections; 22) superior election commission - election commission organizing and carrying out preparation and conduct of elections with respect to other election commissions carrying out preparation and conduct of the same elections; 23) subordinate election commission - election commission organizing and carrying out preparation and conduct of elections with respect to other election commissions organizing and carrying out preparation and conduct of the same election; 24) election commission organizing elections- election commission charged by the law to direct activities of all election commissions on preparation and conduct of elections; 25) election association - political party which has the right to participate in elections under the federal law as well as a regional branch or some other structural division of a political party which has the right to participate in elections of the appropriate level under the federal law. At elections of bodies of representative bodies of municipal formations for single-seat and (or) multi-seat electoral districts, heads of municipal formations by election association statutes of which provides for participation in elections and which is established in the form of public association or public movement and registered in accordance with the law at a level corresponding to the level of the election or at a higher level or relevant structural subdivisions of this public association. At this such public association or modifications or amendments to its statute providing for participation in elections must be registered not later than in one year before the voting day or, when elections to a body of local self-government are called because of early termination of its powers, not later than in six months before the voting day. These time requirements do not apply to other modifications and amendments to the statute of a public association; (Paragraph 25 as amended by the Federal Law of April 5, 2009, No.42-FZ) CDL-REF(2012)008 -6- 26) active electoral right (right to elect) - right of a Russian Federation citizen to elect to bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government; 27) passive electoral right (right to be elected) - right of a Russian Federation citizen to be elected to bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government; 28) electoral rights of citizens - constitutional right of citizens of the Russian Federation to elect and be elected to bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government and the right to participate in nomination of candidates, lists of candidates, in election campaigning, in observing of the conduct of elections, the work of election commissions, including establishment of voting results and election results, in other election activities, in the procedure stipulated by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, this Federal Law, other federal laws, constitutions (statutes) of the subjects of the Russian Federation; 29) ceased to be in force. – The Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ; 30) electoral district - territory formed (determined) in accordance with the law, from which citizens of the Russian Federation directly elect a deputy (deputies) , an elective official (elective officials); 31) single electoral district - electoral district which includes the entire territory in which the election is held; 32) multi-seat electoral district - electoral district in which several deputies are to be elected and in which voters vote for each of the deputies personally; 33) single-seat electoral district - electoral district in which one deputy is to be elected; 34) referendum campaign - activity aimed at preparation and conduct of a referendum, which is conducted in the period from the day when the referendum initiative group is registered to the day when the referendum commission that organizes the referendum, presents a report on the expenditure of funds allocated from the appropriate budget for preparation and conduct of the referendum or to the day when the conduct of the referendum is refused; 35) candidate - person nominated in the procedure stipulated by this Federal Law, other laws as a candidate for a seat distributed by means of direct elections, or membership in a body (chamber of a body) of state power or body of local self-government or a person registered by corresponding election commission as a candidate; 36) registered candidate - person registered as a candidate by corresponding election commission; 37) commission - election commission, referendum commission; 38) referendum commission - collegiate body, formed in the procedure and during the period stipulated by law, that organizes and prepares a referendum; 39) superior referendum commission - referendum commission charged by law, statutes of municipal formation to organize and carry out preparation and conduct of a referendum, with respect to other referendum commissions carrying out preparation and conduct of the same election; 40) subordinate referendum commission - referendum commission charged by the law, statutes of municipal formation to organize and carry out preparation and conduct of a referendum with respect to other referendum commissions organizing and carrying out preparation and conduct of the same referendum; 41) referendum commission organizing a referendum - referendum commission charged by the law, statutes of a municipal formation to direct activities of all referendum commissions on preparation and conduct of the referendum; 411) electronic voting complex – automated complex GAS “Vybory”, designed for carrying out of electronic voting, automated counting of voters, referendum participants, establishment of voting results and preparation of protocol of precinct election commission of election results; (Paragraph 411 introduced by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 42) observer – citizen of the Russian Federation authorized to monitor the conduct of voting, vote counting and other activities of the commission during the conduct of voting, establishment of voting results and election results, referendum, including the commission's activity on verification of correctness of establishment of voting results and results of elections, referendum; -7- CDL-REF(2012)008 43) foreign (international) observer - person representing a foreign or international organization that is entitled to monitor preparation and conduct of elections and referenda in the Russian Federation in the procedure stipulated by law; 44-45) ceased to be in force. – The Federal Law of July 23, 2011, No.259-FZ; 46) mass media organizations – TV and (or) radio broadcasting companies and editorial offices of print periodicals; 47) bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation - legislative (representative) bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation subjects elected directly by citizens of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, this Federal Law, other federal laws, constitutions (statutes), laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation, higher officials of the subjects of the Russian Federation (heads of the high executive bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation), other bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation stipulated by constitutions (statutes) of the subjects of the Russian Federation; (Paragraph 47 as amended by the Federal Law of December 11, 2004, No.159-FZ) 48) federal bodies of state power - the President of the Russian Federation, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, other federal bodies of state power provided for by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and elected directly by citizens of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal laws; 49) bodies of local self-government – bodies directly elected by population of municipal formation and (or) formed by representative body of municipal formation in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, this Federal Law, other federal laws, statutes of municipal formations, vested with powers to solve issues of local significance; (Paragraph 49 as amended by the Federal Law of August 22, 2004, No.122-FZ) 50) absentee certificate - absentee certificate for voting at elections, referendum; 51) right to participate in a referendum - constitutional right of citizens of the Russian Federation to vote for referendum questions and participate in other activity on preparation and conduct of a referendum; 52) mass media representative - person carrying an editorial ID card or some other document certifying his powers as a representative of a mass media organization; 521) register of voters, referendum participants – information resource of GAS “Vybory” containing aggregation of personal data on voters, referendum participants; (Paragraph 521 introduced by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 53) referendum - form of direct will expression of citizens of the Russian Federation on major issues of the national and local significance for adoption of a decision thereon, effected by means of voting of citizens of the Russian Federation entitled to participate in a referendum; 54) local referendum - referendum conducted in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, this Federal Law, other federal laws, the constitution (statutes), law of the subject of the Russian Federation, the statute of the municipal formation among citizens of the Russian Federation entitled to participate in a referendum, whose place of residence is within the boundaries of the municipal formation; 55) referendum of the Russian Federation - referendum conducted in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Federal Constitutional Law "On the Russian Federation Referendum," this Federal Law among citizens of the Russian Federation entitled to participate in a referendum, whose place of residence is within the territory of the Russian Federation and citizens of the Russian Federation residing outside the territory of the Russian Federation; 56) referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation - referendum conducted in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, this Federal Law, other federal laws, the constitution (statutes), law of the subject of the Russian Federation among citizens of the Russian Federation entitled to participate in a referendum, whose place of residence is within the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation; 57) occupation - income earning activity of a candidate confirmed by documents as well as the status of a non-working candidate: a pensioner, unemployed person, student (with the CDL-REF(2012)008 -8- indication of the name of the educational institution), housewife, temporarily non-working person; 58) information on convictions of a candidate - information on convictions that were not withdrawn or spent, with indication of the number (numbers) and the name (names) of the Article (Articles) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the basis of which a candidate was convicted and the Article (Articles) of the Criminal Code adopted in pursuance of the Fundamental Criminal Legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics, the Article (Articles) of the law of a foreign state if the candidate was convicted under these legislative acts for actions qualified as crimes by the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation currently in force; 59) list of candidates - single list of candidates nominated by an election association, in elections to legislative (representative) body of state power, representative or some other elective body of local self-government as well as the said list certified or registered by the election commission organizing the election; (as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 60) referendum participant – citizen of the Russian Federation entitled to participate in a referendum; 61) Federal Law - federal constitutional law, federal law. 62) electronic voting – voting without paper ballots with the use of automated complex GAS “Vybory”; (Paragraph 62 introduced by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ) 63) electronic ballot – ballot prepared with the use of program-technical means in electronic format and used for electronic voting. (Paragraph 63 introduced by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)
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