(as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ of July 21, 2005)

1. A candidate may appoint up to 600 agents. A political party which nominated a candidate may appoint up to 100 agents. The specified persons shall be registered by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation within three days after a written statement of the candidate or of the political party concerning agents’ appointment or a written statement of a citizen expressing his consent to be an agent is received by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. Such statements shall specify the agent’s surname, first name and patronymic, his date of birth, principal place of employment or service, position (or occupation, if there is no principal place of employment or service), place of residence, serial number, number and issue date of the passport or an equivalent identity document. The list of a candidate’s agents shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation in hard copy and in a machine-readable form according to the form as established by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

2. No candidates for election at any level, persons occupying government offices or elective municipal offices, heads of local administrations or election commission workers shall be eligible for appointment as agents of a candidate. Persons in any governmental or municipal service may be appointed agents provided that they are relieved from their official duties while they exercise the powers of an agent. A person in any governmental or municipal service may be registered as an agent provided that he submits a copy of the relevant order (directive) relieving him/her from his official duties (including for the period of the annual paid leave) to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

3. Agents shall receive ID cards from the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. Upon the agent’s request, the employer shall provide him/her with an unpaid leave of absence for the period during which he exercises the powers of an agent.

4. Agents shall conduct campaigning activities for the benefit of the appointing candidate or political party. No agent shall have any powers of an observer. (clause 4 as amended by Federal Law No. 64-FZ of April 26, 2007)

5. A candidate or a political party appointing agents may at any time recall the agents and appoint other agents instead of them by serving a notice to this effect on the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation and the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation shall annul the ID cards previously issued to the recalled agents. An agent may at any time resign his powers at his own discretion by returning his ID card to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation and by serving a notice to this effect on the appointing candidate or political party. The information about agents who were recalled or resigned their powers shall be published by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

6. The powers of agents shall commence on the date of their registration with the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation and cease upon the loss of a candidate’s status by a self-nominated candidate who appointed them or by a candidate nominated by a political party, save as otherwise provided by Clause 5 of this article, but not later than the date when the general results of the election of the President of the Russian Federation are officially published or, if complaints against violations hereof are being investigated by a court, not later than on the date when the judgment comes into force.

7. Agent’s registration shall be cancelled by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation in case the agent acquires any status incompatible with the status of an agent. The relevant candidate or political party shall be notified of such decision within three days as from the date the decision is made.