While preparation and holding of the Presidential Elections in the Russian Federation the election commission of the Russian Federation subject shall:

1) coordinate operation of election commissions within the Russian Federation subject;

2) ensure interaction of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation with the state authorities of the Russian Federation subject;

3) perform control over observance of voting rights of the Russian Federation citizens within the Russian Federation subject; 4) provide for compliance with the conditions of pre-election activity set by this Federal Law, other federal laws for all candidates within the Russian Federation subject; (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005)

5) form territorial election commissions and appoint their chairmen;

6) provide for unified use of GAS “Vybory” within the Russian Federation subject in accordance with the procedure set by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation; (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005)

7) ensure production of election ballots in the respective Russian Federation subject and their transfer to territorial election commissions in compliance with the decisions of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation;

8) provide for delivery of absentee voting certificates, other election documents to subordinate election commissions;

9) distribute the means given by it for financial support of preparation and holding of the Presidential Elections in the Russian Federation, including distributing a part of these means among territorial election commissions, control the proper use of these means and the means received by election funds of the candidates;

10) set the unified numbering of polling stations within the Russian Federation subject;

11) ensure compliance with the technological equipment (polling booths, ballot boxes) standards approved by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation for precinct election commissions, with the procedure for storage, transfer to the archive and destruction of election documents upon expiration of their storage terms; (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005)

12) control observance of the unified procedure for the electors’ votes counting, for defining the voting and elections results within the Russian Federation subject;

13) hear reports of executive bodies of the Russian Federation subject and local government bodies on the issues related to preparation and holding the Presidential Elections in the Russian Federation;

14) define the voting results in the Russian Federation subject and transfer the report on the voting results to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation; (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005)

15) consider complaints (applications) concerning decisions and actions (omission) of territorial election commissions in this Russian Federation subject and of their official persons, take justified decisions in respect of the complaints (applications);

16) provide for informing the voters of the terms and procedure for performing election activities, of the candidates and political parties having nominated candidates, of the course of the election campaign; (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005)

17) control observance of the procedure and rules of holding the election canvassing within the Russian Federation subject;

18) control receipt and spending the means of other election funds of the candidate stated in article 58, clause 10 hereof and weekly submit the data on these funds receipt and spending to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation;

19) exercise other authorities in accordance with this Federal Law, the Federal Law On Basic Guarantees of Voting Rights and the Right to Take Part in a Referendum Belonging to the Russian Federation Citizens.