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Abuse of official or positional advantages

14 October 2026, 01:00

Abuse of official or service position — should be understood as: involving persons who are subordinate or otherwise in a service dependency, other state or municipal officials to carry out activities during working hours that contribute to the nomination and (or) election; use of premises occupied by state bodies or local self-government bodies for carrying out activities contributing to the nomination and (or) election, if other candidates or registered candidates cannot use these same premises under the same conditions; use of telephone, facsimile and other forms of communication, information services, office equipment that ensure the functioning of state institutions or local self-government bodies for collecting signatures and conducting pre-election agitation; (As amended by Federal Law No. 55-FZ dated March 30, 1999) free or on preferential terms use of transport means owned by the state or municipal ownership. This provision does not apply to persons using the specified transport in accordance with federal legislation on state protection; conducting signature collection or pre-election campaigning by government or municipal officials during official (reimbursed from state or municipal funds) business trips; preferential access (compared to other candidates, registered candidates) to mass media listed in paragraph 1 of article 39 of this Federal law, for the purposes of conducting signature collection or pre-election campaigning¹.

Federal Law No. 124-FZ of September 19, 1997, "On the Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation," as amended on March 30, 1999, Article 28, paragraph 5 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 1997. No. 38. Item 4339. ↩

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