1. A political party which nominated a federal list of candidates shall create an electoral fund to finance its own election campaign. A regional branch of such political party in a subject of the Russian Federation shall be entitled to create its own electoral fund, at the decision of the duly authorized governing body of the political party if the federal list has a regional group corresponding to this subject of the Russian Federation (including those belonging to a group of subjects of the Russian Federation) or a regional group(s) corresponding to a part (parts) of this subject of the Russian Federation. A candidate nominated for a single-mandate electoral district shall create his/her own election funds. Political party which nominated candidates only in single-mandate electoral district, candidates on the federal list of candidates, do not create their own election funds.

2. Electoral funds of political parties shall be created exclusively at the expense of:

1) internal funds of the political party; such funds shall sum up to no more than fifty per cent of the maximum allowed by this Federal Law;

2) donations of citizens and legal entities; such donations for each citizen and legal entity shall not exceed respectively 0.07 and 3.5 per cent of the maximum allowed by this Federal Law;

3. The maximum for electoral funds of political parties shall not exceed 700 million RUB. This sum shall not include expenditures made by regional chapters of this political party from their own electoral funds.

4. Electoral funds of regional chapters of political parties shall be created exclusively at the expense of:

1) internal funds of the political party, its regional branch (but not the funds in the electoral fund of the political party); such funds shall sum up to no more than fifty per cent of the maximum allowed by this Federal Law for electoral funds of regional branches of political parties;

2) voluntary donations of citizens and legal entities; such donations for each citizen and legal entity shall not exceed respectively 2 and 20 per cent of the maximum allowed by this Federal Law for electoral funds of regional chapters of political parties;

5. The maximum sum of all expenses for electoral funds of a regional branche, in the federal list of which a regional group(s) corresponds to a subject(s) of the Russian Federation (corresponds to the all single-mandate electoral districts at the territory of this subject) including inside a group of subjects, shall not exceed:

1) 15 million RUB- in a subject of the Russian Federation where no more than 100 thousand registered voters reside;

2) 20 million RUB - in a subject of the Russian Federation where more than 100 thousand but fewer than 500 thousand registered voters reside;

3) 25 million RUB- in a subject of the Russian Federation where more than 500 thousand but fewer than 1 million registered voters reside;

4) 35 million RUB - in a subject of the Russian Federation where more than 1 million but fewer than 2 million registered voters reside;

5) 55 million RUB - in a subject of the Russian Federation where more than 2 million but fewer than 5 million registered voters reside;

6) 100 million RUB - in a subject of the Russian Federation where fewer than 5 million registered voters reside; 6. If the regional group of the federal list of candidates corresponds to a part of the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation (not to all single-mandate electoral districts, formed on the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation), the maximum amount of all expenditures from the regional electoral fund cannot exceed the product of the number of single-mandate electoral districts, corresponded to the regional groups, and the number obtained by dividing the respective maximum limit of all expenditures from the regional electoral fund, as provided by part 5 of this Article, divided to the total number single-mandate electoral districts on the territory of the Russian Federation.

7. If the regional group (regional group) of the federal list is excluded from the federal list, but at least one regional group corresponded to the one single-mandate electoral district of the subject of the Russian Federation remains in the federal list, the maximum amount of all expenditures from the regional electoral fund shall not be reduced, as by Part 6 of this Article.

8. Candidate electoral funds can be established only at the expenses of:

1) internal funds of the political party (if a candidate is nominated by a political party), except for finds of party electoral fund (if this party established the fund for its federal list). Such funds shall sum up to no more than fifty per cent of the maximum allowed by this Federal Law for candidate funds.

2) internal funds of candidate; such funds shall sum up to no more than fifty per cent of the maximum allowed by this Federal Law for candidate funds.

3) voluntary donations of citizens and legal entities; such donations for each citizen and legal entity shall not exceed respectively 2 and 20 per cent of the maximum allowed by this Federal Law for candidate funds;

9. The maximum for candidate electoral funds shall not exceed 40 million RUB.

10. The list of agencies, organizations and individuals who are not allowed to make donations to the election funds established by paragraph 6 of Article 58 of the Federal Law "On Basic Guarantees". (As amended by Federal Law No 355-FZ of 24.11.2014.)

11. Non-profit organizations, referred to in subparagraph "f" of paragraph 6 of Article 58 of the Federal Law "On Basic Guarantees” shall not be entitled to make donations to the election fund only if obtained by these non-profit organizations, funds or other property were not returned them to list these funds or other property have transferred to foreign countries, agencies, organizations or individuals referred to in paragraphs second - seventh of subparagraph "p" of paragraph 6 of Article 58, of the Federal law "On Basic Guarantees” (in the case of failure to return were not listed (transferred) in the Russian Federation, income), until the day of making donations to the election fund.

12. The right to dispose of the electoral fund of a political party belongs to a political party, which created this fund. The right to dispose of election funds of the regional branch belongs to the regional office in agreement with the person authorized by the governing body of a political party. The right to dispose of candidate electoral funds belongs to a candidate, as well as the authorized representative of the candidate for financial matters, acting on behalf of the candidate on the basis of notarized power of attorney. Authorized representative on financial matters shall be registered by DECs. Registration is done on the basis of the statement of the candidate to appoint its authorized representative on financial matters, the written consent of the citizen to be such authorized representative, notarized power of attorney and upon presentation of the passport or document replacing the passport. The term of office of the authorized representative for financial matters begins from the date of his appointment and expire after 90 days from the voting day, and in case on trial with the participation of the candidate - from the day following the date of entry of a court decision into force.

13. Electoral funds of political parties shall be spent exclusively for the following purposes only:

1) to finance activities organized to collect signatures of voters; including salaries for persons collecting signatures;

2) to finance campaign activities, to pay for informational and consulting services;

3) to pay for other services (work) rendered by citizens and legal entities, and for other expenditures immediately related to campaign activities;

14. Electoral funds of regional branches shall be spent for the following purposes only:

1) to finance campaign activities unless they require the use of paid air time and paid print space in the nation-wide media; to pay for informational and consulting services;

2) to pay for other services (work) rendered by citizens and legal entities, and for other expenditures immediately related to campaign activities.

15. Technical support of collection of signatures, campaigning and other activities aimed at ensuring a certain election results of deputies of the State Duma shall be financed by political parties, their regional branches exclusively from their respective electoral funds (including internal funds) accumulated in line with the procedure set forth by this Federal Law.

16. Technical support of collection of signatures and other activities aimed at ensuring a certain election result of deputies of the State Duma shall be financed by candidate exclusively from candidate electoral fund accumulated in line with the procedure set forth by this Federal Law.

17. A political party shall not be obliged to pay from its electoral fund for the use of the real estate and movables (with an exception of equities, printed materials and office supplies) provided they were at the disposal of this political party on the day of official publication of notice of elections of deputies of the State Duma.

18. A political party shall use for its election campaign only those means, which were transferred, to the special electoral accounts of their electoral funds before the day of elections in line with the procedure set forth in this Federal Law.

19. In the event of additional nomination of federal lists, candidate lists for single-mandate electoral district under circumstances specified in part 11 of Article 50 and part 14 of Article 51 and part 7 of Article 56 of this Federal Law, the maximum for electoral funds of political parties shall be increased in 1,5 times.