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Chapter V. Rights and Obligations of Political Parties
Article 26. Rights of Political Parties
Article 27. Obligations of Political Parties
Article 28. Property of Political Parties
Article 29. Financial Resources of Political Parties
Article 30. Donations to Political Parties
Article 31. Economic Activity of a Political Party
Article 26. Rights of Political Parties
In the procedure established by Russian Federation laws political parties may:
(a) freely disseminate information about their activity, carry on propaganda of their objectives and tasks;
(b) put forth initiatives relating to various issues of social life, submit proposals to bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government on political and other issues of the life of society;
(c) participate in elections and referendums in accordance with the Russian Federation laws on elections and referendums;
(d) form regional branches and other structural divisions, take decisions on their reorganization and liquidation, on granting the rights of a legal entity to local and primary organizations;
(e) organize and hold meetings, rallies, demonstrations, and other public events;
(f) found their own publishing houses and mass media;
(g) use, on an equal basis, the state-run and municipal mass media;
(h) form coalitions (associations, units) with other political parties without formation of a legal entity;
(i) establish and maintain international links and contacts with foreign political parties and associations;
(j) represent and defend their own rights and the legitimate interests of their members;
(k) engage, in accordance with the rules, in business, financial, and other activity conforming to the objectives and tasks of the political party and the requirements of Russian Federation laws;
(l) exercise the full scope of other powers provided by this Federal Law.
Article 27. Obligations of Political Parties
1. Political parties and their regional branches shall:
(a) abide in their activity by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, other laws of the Russian Federation, commonly accepted principles and norms of international law as well as the rules and the program of the political party;
(b) every year publish a report on the use of funds and other property, indicating the sources of their formation; ensure that the report is accessible for examination;
(c) every year, present data concerning their activity to the registering bodies in the scope of the data entered in the unified state register of legal entities, including information about the number of members of the political party in each of its regional branch and information about continuation of its activity, indicating the location of the permanent leading body;
(d) upon request of the registering bodies submit decisions of the leading bodies and officials of the political party as well as annual and quarterly reports within the scope of the data submitted to tax agencies;
(e) admit officials of the registering bodies to public events (including congresses, conferences) held by the political party and its regional branches;
(f) inform appropriate election commissions in advance about events to be held in connection with nomination of candidates for election as deputies or to other elected offices in the bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government and make arrangements for their officials to be present at such events.
2. A political party shall inform the registering body about the number of registered candidates nominated by the party for election as deputies and to other elected offices in the bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government (including as a member of an election bloc), and about lists of deputy candidates registered by election commissions. This information shall be presented in the form of a certified copy of the relevant protocol of election results.
Article 28. Property of Political Parties
1. Political parties may own buildings and structures, residential spaces, equipment and accessories, print shops, mass media, financial resources, and other property which is required for their activity according to their rules.
2. The owner of the property of a political party, including its regional branches, shall be the political party as a whole. Regional branches of a political party shall exercise the right of operational management of the property assigned to them by the owner. Each individual member of a political party shall not hold any ownership rights to any share of the property of the political party.
3. The property of a political party shall be used only for accomplishment of the objectives and tasks defined by the rules and the program of the political party and shall not be distributed among its members.
4. Regional branches of a political party shall be liable for their obligations with the property under their control. If a regional branch is short of the said property, the political party shall bear vicarious liability for the obligations of the regional branch.
Article 29. Financial Resources of Political Parties
1. Financial resources of a political party shall be formed by:
(a) admission and membership dues, if their payment is required by the rules of the political party;
(b) state funds provided under this Federal Law;
(c) donations;
(d) proceeds from events held by the political party, earnings from publishing and other activities conforming to the objectives and tasks of the political party as defined by its rules and its program;
(e) civil-law transactions and other proceeds which are not prohibited by law.
2. The financial resources of political parties shall be deposited in the accounts at credit institutions registered in the territory of the Russian Federation.
Article 30. Donations to Political Parties
1. Political parties may accept donations in the form of money and other property from natural persons and legal entities provided these donations are duly documented, with mandatory indication of their sources.
2. Money shall be donated to political parties only by means of non-cash transfers.
3. No donations shall be allowed from:
(a) foreign states and foreign legal entities;
(b) foreign nationals;
(c) stateless persons;
(d) citizens of the Russian Federation who have not attained to the age of 18 years;
(e) Russian legal entities with foreign participation if the foreign share of their charter (pool) capital exceeds 30 per cent as of the date on which the donation is contributed;
(f) international organizations and international public movements;
(g) bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government;
(h) government and municipal institutions and organizations;
(i) legal entities with a charter (pool) capital in which the state-held or municipal share exceeds 30 per cent as of the date on which the donation is contributed;
(j) military units, military institutions and organizations, law-enforcement bodies;
(k) charity organizations and religious associations as well as organizations founded by them;
(l) anonymous donors;
(m) legal entities registered less than one year before the date on which the donation is contributed.
4. Within one month of the date on which donations listed in Clause 3 of this article were received political parties shall return them to donors and, if the donations cannot be returned or the donors have indicated false information, the donations shall be transferred to the national budget.
5. When transferring (giving) donations Russian Federation citizens shall indicate their first name, patronymic and surname, date of birth, legal entities - all necessary data prescribed for legal entities by the rules for making non-cash settlements as well as a note about absence of restrictions on donations established by Clause 3 of this article.
6. Russian Federation citizens shall pay monetary donations to a post office, lending institution in person, out of their personal funds, producing a passport or a similar identification and shall indicate their data required under Clause 5 of this article in the payment order or money transfer.
7. A donation may be given (transferred) to a political party. A donation may also be given (transferred) to a regional branch if this is not prohibited by the rules of the political party.
8. If a donation is made in a non-monetary form, the political party or its regional branch shall arrange for establishing the financial equivalent of the donation and enter the corresponding data in the financial report.
9. The total sum of the donations received by a political party from one legal entity during one calendar year shall not exceed one hundred thousand times the minimum monthly wage established by the federal law for calculation of labor remuneration (hereafter "the minimum monthly wage") as of the date on which the donation is made, donations from a natural person, ten thousand times the minimum monthly wage.
Article 31. Economic Activity of a Political Party
1. A political party shall independently deal with the economic issues to support the activity of the party, including such issues as labor remuneration and the use of financial and material resources. Russian Federation laws on labor and social insurance shall apply to employees of a political party's apparatus working for hire.
2. In order to create financial and material conditions for accomplishment of the objectives and tasks defined by the rules and the program of a political party and for the exercise of its rights established by this Federal Law a political party may:
(a) engage in publishing activity for the propaganda of its program objectives and results of its work;
(b) sell movable and immovable property owned by the political party;
(c) sell souvenirs with the symbols of the political party.
3. A political party shall not engage in business activity other than that indicated in Clause 2 of this Article.
4. The earnings from the business activity of a political party shall not be re-distributed among members of the political party and shall be used solely for the accomplishment of the objectives defined by the party rules. A political party may use its resources for charity purposes even if this is not stipulated in its rules.
5. The economic activity of a political party, including the earnings from the business activity, shall be recorded in the consolidated financial report of the political party.
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