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68-478: According to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (Russia), the property, together with a part of adjacent palazzo, belongs to Russian conductor Valery Gergiev . It is a small part of the vast inheritance of the philanthropist Yoko Nagae Ceschina , who died in 2015. Originally built in the 16th century, it is distinguished by its mosaics of Murano glass applied in 1886. At

136-662: A candidate has enough valid signatures, a candidate will not be on the ballot if more than 10% of the signatures are considered flawed by the Moscow City Election Commission (MCEC). Candidates nominated by political parties represented in the State Duma ( United Russia , CPRF , LDPR , A Just Russia ) could nominate their candidates without collecting signatures. However, United Russia did not formally nominate any persons, instead in an attempt to gain election support from low information voters ,

204-819: A cassation appeals to the Second Cassation Ordinary Court. On 25 March 2022, the Second Cassation Ordinary Court rejected all cassation appeals and upheld the judgements of lower courts (case No.8а-5101/2022). Several members of the organisation, including Lilia Chanysheva (the head of the Ufa branch of the organisation) and Daniel Kholodny (the technical director of the foundation's YouTube channel), were arrested and sentenced to long prison sentences. Memorial considers them political prisoners . In January 2021, former Russian banker Alexander Zheleznyak registered

272-612: A criminal case against the FBK, accusing them of laundering ₽1 billion (c. US$ 15.5 mln). Later the amount was reduced to ₽75 million (c. US$ 1.15 mln). On 5 September 2019, searches were conducted at the FBK office and at the "Navalny LIVE" studio. Soon after the 2019 Moscow City Duma election , on 12 September 2019 the SKR carried out mass raids on the FBK regional offices in 40 Russian cities. In September 2019, various state-owned companies filed lawsuits against FBK for "organizing riots", and

340-519: A land plot with total area of 20 000 m2 in Moscow Oblast, where 9 houses built, worth 500 mln rub (~US$ 7.8 mln). On August 27, the FBK published an investigation of Alexander Gorbenko's children's property. His son owns an apartment in the center of Moscow with total area of 226 m2 worth 300 mln rub (~US$ 4.7 mln), and his daughter owns an apartment in the center of Moscow with total area of 174 m2 worth 240 mln rub (~US$ 3.8 mln). On August 29,

408-628: A lot of anti-corruption investigations against Moscow City Duma deputies from the United Russia faction, the CEC and the MCEC members and Moscow City officials. Even authorities later admitted that FBK investigations had a significant impact on protest activity and election results. On July 1, the FBK published an investigation of Andrey Metelsky's, the leader of the United Russia faction in

476-581: A question of journalists how he, unable to speak Russian , found out the wire payment instructions of the Anti-Corruption Foundation after its removing from official website of the organization, Roberto Fabio Monda Cardenas was unable to explain. These payments were carried out at a time when the bank account of the Anti-Corruption Foundation was frozen at the request of the Investigative Committee of Russia . Despite

544-564: A real alternative to the current power system. FBK was founded by Alexei Navalny. The Foundation was registered on 9 September 2011 (account No. 7714013315, OGRN 1117799018204). According to Vladimir Ashurkov, the founders of the fund gained experience in public and transparent fundraising by organizing financing for the RosPil project. A significant amount was collected through the Yandex.Money payment system, which provided financial support for

612-651: A total area of 1700 m2 in Moscow, 3 houses in Moscow Oblast and 1 house in Kaliningrad Oblast. The total cost of his real estate in Moscow only is about 5.7 billion rubles (~ US$ 90 mln). On July 18, the FBK published an investigations of the head of the MCEC Valentin Gorbunov's property. His family owns two apartments with a total area of 200 m2 worth US$ 420 000 in Ika , Croatia . On July 22,

680-564: Is a non-profit organization established in 2011 by the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny . The FBK published investigations into alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian government officials. The organisation is funded by private donations. On 9 October 2019, the FBK was declared a " foreign agent " by the Russian Ministry of Justice . On 9 June 2021, the FBK was designated as an extremist organization and liquidated by

748-412: Is also involved in the RosPil project. In addition, the team includes video production manager Vitaly Kolesnikov, mailing list manager Yan Matveyev, editor Maria Zakharova, office manager Olga Bulaeva. The director of the fund from 2014 to December 2018 was Roman Rubanov . Since December 2018, the head of the legal department of the fund, Ivan Zhdanov, has been appointed director. Since February 2012,

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816-647: The Communists of Russia party", while "smart vote" supported the candidate from the CPRF Savostianov. Also, in some constituencies, Communist of Russia party candidates from Russia became more active, though they show no activity during most of the campaign. Their posters and agitation cubes were made as similar as possible to the posters and agitation cubes of candidates from the CPRF. Non-system opposition figures divided in their opinion on participation in

884-473: The Moscow City Court . On 11 July 2022, while imprisoned, Navalny announced the relaunch of the FBK as an international organization. FBK Executive Director Vladimir Ashurkov formulated the fund's strategy as pressure on the authorities in order to push them towards internal reforms, working in two directions: organizing situations in which government structures will feel pressure, and creating

952-587: The Renaissance palazzi on the canal were once too covered in polychrome and gilt decorations, with elaborate plaster and stucco work. Later during the 1920s, Palazzo Barbarigo served as the headquarters of Pauly & C. – Compagnia Venezia Murano , one of the oldest glass factories in Murano. Part of the Palazzo Barbarigo is today a showroom and shop for Murano glass. The palazzo follows

1020-759: The Sakharov Prize ($ 50,000) that was awarded to him. On 4 October, allies of Navalny said they were relaunching his regional network to fight the mobilization and war , saying it would be a "partisan underground" movement. On 1 June 2023, the Ministry of Justice added the Anti-Corruption Foundation International to the list of undesirable organisations ; earlier in December 2022, the ACF International

1088-433: The "golden mile", with a total area of 372 m2 worth 600 mln rub (~US$ 9.4 mln) and a house in Moscow Oblast with total area of 4000 m2 worth 4000 mln rub (~US$ 62.5 mln). The Moscow "Golden mile" is an extremely expensive part of Moscow between Ostozhenka street and Prechistenskaya embarkment, where the price of an apartment start from US$ 25 000 per m2. On August 22, the FBK published an investigation of Vladimir Regnatsky's,

1156-579: The City of Moscow two apartments in the center of Moscow with total area of 246 m2 in exchange of his old apartment with total area of 58 m2. On September 4, the FBK published an investigation of the deputy of the Moscow City Duma Kirill Shchitov's property. He owns an apartment in center of Moscow, on the "golden mile", with total area of 180 m2 and one more with total area of 122 m2, and also two luxury cars. On September 5,

1224-577: The FBK published an investigation of Alexei Shaposhnikov's, the chairman of the Moscow City Duma, property. He owns an apartment in the center of Moscow with a total area of 270 m2 worth 95 mln rub (~US$ 1.5 mln). On August 20, the FBK published an investigation of Ilya Platonov's, the son of the former chairman of the Moscow City Duma Vladimir Platonov, property. He owns an apartment in the center of Moscow, on

1292-599: The FBK published an investigation of the deputy of the Moscow City Duma Lyudmila Stebenkova's property. She owns an apartment in the center of Moscow with total area of 197 m2 worth 80 mln rub (~US$ 1.25 mln) and owned 1 more apartment with total area of 178 m2 which she sold in 2005. On September 3, the FBK published an investigation of the deputy of the Moscow City Duma Stepan Orlov's property. He received from

1360-539: The FBK published an investigation of the member of the CEC Boris Ebzeev's property. His grandson at the age of 4 bought an apartment worth 500 mln rub (~ US$ 18.5 mln), and at the age of 7 a house in Moscow Oblast. On August 12, it was revealed that the MCEC member Dmitry Reut bought an apartment worth 22 mln rub (~US$ 0.8 mln) from the city of Moscow on unknown conditions. The cost of the apartment exceeds his income for previous years by 2 times. On August 15,

1428-462: The FBK published an investigation of the vice-mayor Pyotr Biryukov's property. Along with his family he owns 17 apartments in the center of Moscow, 22 luxury cars and a farm estate in Moscow Oblast total worth of 5.5 bln rub (~US$ 86 mln). On September 6, the FBK published second investigation of the vice-mayor Natalya Sergunina's property. Her daughter's husband, Aaron-Elizer Aronov, owns the "Aviapark" mall worth of 4.3 bln rub (~US$ 67.2 mln). Besides,

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1496-503: The FBK published second investigation of Andrey Metelsky's property. He owns and manages a motorcycle shop "Alpine", while the Russian legislation prohibits deputies from doing business. On August 30, the FBK published an investigation of the vice-chairman of the CEC Nikolay Bulaev's property. Along with his daughter he owns 3 apartments in Moscow with total area of 392 m2 worth 220 mln rub (~US$ 3.4 mln). On September 2,

1564-408: The FBK revealed that pro-government journalist Vladimir Solovyov has an Italian permanent residency . On August 1, the FBK published an investigation of the vice-mayor Natalya Sergunina's property. Sergunina is responsible for the election process in Moscow. The FBK estimates Sergunina's (along with close relatives) undeclared real estate value at 6.5 billion rub (~ US$ 100 mln). On August 12,

1632-621: The FBK shortly after as another legal entity. On 16 April 2021, the Moscow prosecutor office requested the Moscow City Court to designate organizations linked to Navalny including the FBK and his headquarters as extremist organizations, claiming: "Under the disguise of liberal slogans, these organizations are engaged in creating conditions for the destabilization of the social and socio-political situation." In response, Navalny aide Leonid Volkov stated: "Putin has just announced full-scale mass political repression in Russia." On 26 April 2021,

1700-604: The MCEC, these 32 unknown candidates managed to collect the necessary signatures. However, Muscovites did not see any signature collectors for the candidates from Communists of Russia or pro-United Russia 'independent' candidates in the streets of their city. Later, an opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta revealed that the same headquarters coordinates the actions of candidates from Communists of Russia and pro-United Russia 'independents'. Starting from July 2019, numerous approved and unapproved rallies in Moscow took place. Rallies on Sakharov Avenue on July 20 and August 10, 2019, became

1768-546: The Moscow City Duma, property. He has been a deputy in the Moscow City Duma since 2001. His son and 75 years old mother owns hotels Maximilian (bought for 5.36 mln €), Tirolerhof (3.6 mln €), Mozart (7 mln €), Strudlhof (24 mln €) in Austria, multi-apartment complex "Lefort", built near the MosMetro station under construction Lefortovo , auto center network "Obukhov", 2 "Tanuki" restaurants, hotel "Foresta" and 4 apartments with

1836-407: The Moscow branch of CPRF Valery Rashkin stated that in constituencies 7, 25, 32, 36 victories of United Russia's candidates were caused by few (or even one) polling stations with an abnormally high percent of votes for the United Russia's candidate. For example, polling station 1753, constituency 32 (Likhachev - 171, Melnikova - 930). He also doubted the integrity of the electronic voting, which

1904-431: The Moscow prosecutor office ordered Navalny's network of regional offices to stop its activities, pending a ruling by the court on whether to designate them and the FBK as extremist organizations. The move was condemned by Germany and Amnesty International . On 9 June 2021, Vyacheslav Polyga, judge of Moscow City Court , upheld the administrative claim of the prosecutor of Moscow city Denis Popov and, rejecting all

1972-750: The Renaissance pattern of design on three floors: an open loggia gives access to the canal surmounted by a piano nobile with open loggias and decorated columns, with a " secondo piano nobile " (secondary floor) above. The comparatively modern mosaics probably cover original windows, and obliviate the original design. 45°25′52″N 12°19′50″E  /  45.431°N 12.3306°E  / 45.431; 12.3306 Anti-Corruption Foundation The Anti-Corruption Foundation ( ACF or FBK ; Russian : Фонд борьбы с коррупцией (ФБК) , romanized :  Fond borby s korruptsiyey (FBK) ; lit.   ' Foundation for combating corruption ' )

2040-562: The United Russia. On 26 July 2019, the "Liberal Mission" Foundation published a report entitled “Results of the nomination and registration at the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma on 8 September 2019”. According to the authors of the report Alexander Kenev, Arkady Lyubarev and Andrey Maximov, the results of registration of candidates for the MCD indicate electoral commission's inadequacy and injustice, suggesting that there

2108-499: The activities of the fund. In case of an increase in voluntary contributions, it is planned to develop the staff of the fund's projects, giving a special role to the anti-corruption "RosPil". Moreover, all business representatives support the fund financially as individuals. According to Navalny, in order to help potential donors decide to support the fund and similar projects, the first of those who have already done so will announce their names. And Vladimir Ashurkov suggested that later

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2176-440: The building company, belonging to Aronov, did not fulfill its social obligations to build a school and museum nearby. The government responded to these investigations with criminal prosecution and mass raids on the FBK offices. The results show the success of the "smart voting" strategy: none of the United Russia candidates had 50+% (in 2014 there were 16 such candidates), and only one had 45+% support. All 6 close cases, when

2244-407: The candidates questioned. The candidates submitted to the MCEC statements confirming the validity of signatures from signatories, whose signatures were rejected on the grounds of handwriting examination. The candidates also submitted to the MCEC an opinion of professional handwriting experts on the insolvency of the MCEC examination. Despite this, the MCEC did not change the decision. In protest, one of

2312-486: The candidates, Lyubov Sobol , went on a hunger strike on July 13. On the other hand, the MCEC registered 32 candidates from Communists of Russia party, which has very low popularity (during 2016 election to the State Duma it collected 2%). This party is regarded by experts as a spoiler for CPRF . These candidates are almost unknown in Moscow, mostly students, housewives and low-skilled workers. According to

2380-467: The case file including the text of the administrative claim was classified as a state secret . According to advocate Ivan Pavlov , Alexei Navalny was not a party to the proceedings and the judge refused to give him such status; at the hearing, the prosecutor stated that the defendants are extremist organizations because they want a change of power in Russia and they promised to help participants of

2448-562: The courts partially satisfied them in the amount of ₽5 million (c. US$ 78 000). On 8 October 2019, the police filed a lawsuit against FBK for "costs of maintaining order during rallies" in the amount of ₽18 million (c. US$ 280,000). On 9 October 2019, the FBK was declared a " foreign agent " by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation due to payments from the United States and Spain . One of these payments

2516-418: The difference between two leading candidates was less than 600 votes, resulted in the victory of United Russia's candidate (constituencies 7, 9, 30, 32, 34, 36). However, political analysts Ivan Bolshakov and Vladimir Perevalov suggest that a high assessment of this strategy is emotional rather than scientific. They conclude that the success of the opposition can be explained by the combination of two factors:

2584-478: The elections. Alexei Navalny offered a "smart vote" tactic, which boils down to voting for the most popular candidate among the parliamentary opposition or the independents, in order to prevent a United Russia domination. They marked with a (*) in the list below. The FBK has issued many anti-corruption investigations in support of the "smart vote". Mikhail Khodorkovsky made a site with candidates' opinion on detainees during 2019 Moscow protests . His site

2652-452: The executive director of the fund has been Vladimir Ashurkov , who was forced to leave Alfa Group to work at FBK. FBK created its own media, 'Leviathan', in order to have a possibility to register for press conferences of Vladimir Putin and make a request to authorities. Since 2016 it has been publishing one news item per day. The name 'Leviathan' was taken from Leviathan , 2014 award-winning film by Andrey Zvyagintsev . FBK has made

2720-692: The fact that the Anti-Corruption Foundation gave the money back, Ministry of Justice of Russia refused to remove the Anti-Corruption Foundation from the register of "foreign agents". On 15 October 2019, the SKR again carried out mass raids on the FBK regional offices in 30 Russian cities. In February 2019, FBK published an investigation that reported that in December 2018, mass food poisoning of children occurred in kindergartens and schools in Moscow. FBK blamed Concord Food Plant LLC, Moskovskiy Shkolnik LLC and VITO-1 LLC for this, which he linked with Yevgeny Prigozhin . Subsequently, Moscow schools No. 760 and No. 1554 assessed fines against Moskovskiy Shkolnik due to

2788-519: The following films: 2019 Moscow City Duma election Election to the 7th convocation of the Moscow City Duma took place on the United Voting Day on 8 September 2019. The elections were held under first-past-the-post voting system, which saw 45 deputies being elected in their respective single-member districts amidst the 2019 Moscow protests , which saw huge rallies in support of independent opposition candidates. The term of

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2856-403: The fund "not to depend on one source of funding". In April 2012, the creators estimated the fund's annual budget at approximately $ 300,000. If more funds are available, the fund will expand. In 2013, the fund raised 23 million rubles through donations. In 2014 the budget was 28.5 million rubles; in 2016, it was 45 million rubles. The first public sponsors of the fund on 13 February 2012 were

2924-450: The head of Security and Anti-Corruption Department of Moscow City, property. Regnatsky is one of those officials who "approves" rallies and is responsible for their dispersing. His mother owns an apartment in the center of Moscow, on the "golden mile", with total area of 146 m2 worth 200 mln rub (~US$ 3.1 mln). On August 26, the FBK published an investigation of the vice-mayor Alexander Gorbenko's property. Along with his son and wife he owns

2992-462: The increase in protest sentiments, which reduced the electoral base of the pro-government nominees, and the decrease in the level of competition inside the opposition, due to both the “smart voting” strategy and disqualification of candidates. These factors ensured the flow of votes away from the administrative candidates and weak opposition members to the most powerful opposition candidates. “Smart voting” contributed to this victory, but did not determine

3060-464: The international non-profit Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) in the United States. On 11 July 2022, Navalny announced the relaunch of the FBK as an international organization with an advisory board including his wife Yulia Navalnaya , Guy Verhofstadt , Anne Applebaum , and Francis Fukuyama ; Navalny also stated that the first contribution to Anti-Corruption Foundation International would be

3128-497: The largest political rallies in Russia after the 2011–2013 protests and the rally on 27 July 27 established a record high for the number of detainees. The protests were accompanied by massive administrative arrests of unregistered independent candidates and two criminal cases: the obstructing the work of election commissions case and the riots case (also known as the Moscow case). Positive articles about pro-United Russia candidates began to appear in district newspapers six months before

3196-425: The names of those who financially support the fund will not be made public, except for cases when the donors themselves ask for it. Ashurkov said that Alfa Group's top manager Alexei Savchenko appeared on the list of sponsors thanks to his acquaintance with him. Navalny noted that the fund has no other sponsors from Alpha. Political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky noted the interest of representatives of big business in

3264-506: The new Duma will be five years. The Moscow City Election Commission organizes 3,616 polling stations, of which 3,440 are at the places of residence, and 176 are at places of temporary residence (hospitals, sanatoriums, places of temporary detention of suspects and accused, and other places of temporary stay). Candidates for registration must collect voter signatures in their support in the amount of 3% of all constituency voters (from 4,500 to 5,500 signatures). However, regardless of whether

3332-582: The official start of the race, thus allowing to identify them. Pro-United Russia candidates received 800 mln rubles (~12.5 mln USD) from funds affiliated with United Russia for their campaigns. All other candidates had significantly less resources. Pro-United Russia candidates actively used outdoor advertising and promoted in various media. Shortly before election day, fake "smart vote" (see below) posters with wrong candidate began to appear. For example, posters were actively distributed in constituency 15, stating that "Navalny supports candidate Ostrikov from

3400-400: The opposition, highlighting Mikhail Fridman . As a funding strategy for the fund, Navalny stated the collection of small donations, but with the involvement of a wide range of donors, emphasizing the importance of mass support. The FBK project managers are Ruslan Shaveddinov , Ilya Pakhomov. The legal department includes: Alexander Pomazuev, Vladlen Los, Evgeny Zamyatin. Valery Zolotukhin

3468-436: The overall outcome of the elections. Its quantitative effect amounted to 5.6% of the vote. Moreover, while “smart voting” played a decisive role in the victory of several candidates, it deprived of victory approximately the same number of opposition representatives. Constituencies 12, 16, 24 among other candidates contained spoilers to opposition candidates with the same surnames (and even name in const. 16). In constituency 10

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3536-548: The party endorsed several self-nominee ( independent ) candidates due to United Russia's unpopularity amongst the Moscow electorate. In an attempt to potentially prevent a number of independent candidates (affiliated with the United Russia) to be elected for the Moscow City Duma, opposition politician Alexey Navalny launched the “ Smart Voting ” project, which urged Russian citizens to strategically vote towards any presumably strongest candidates who were not supporters of

3604-534: The petitions of the defense, decided to recognize Anti-Corruption Foundation as an extremist organization, to liquidate it and to confiscate its assets; a similar decision had been taken against the Citizens' Rights Protection Foundation; the activity of the Alexei Navalny staff was prohibited (case No.3а-1573/2021). The case hearing was held in camera because, as indicated by advocate Ilia Novikov ,

3672-431: The project for a year. In parallel, the founders of the fund are working on the idea of involving on a permanent basis professional lawyers and economists in the search for and suppression of corruption schemes in the public procurement system. The contractual basis will allow to get some guarantees, in contrast to the scheme for working with volunteers. On 3 August 2019, the Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) opened

3740-603: The protest with payment of administrative and criminal fines and with making complaints to the European Court of Human Rights . On 4 August 2021, First Appellate Ordinary Court located in Moscow upheld the decision of the court of first instance (case No.66а-3553/2021) and this decision entered into force that day. On 28 December 2021, it was reported that Anti-Corruption Foundation, Citizens' Rights Protection Foundation and 18 natural persons including Alexei Navalny filed

3808-404: The same amount. The Court of Appeal upheld this decision. In July 2020, Navalny said that he saw no reason to raise money to pay the "huge amount". He announced that the FBK would be liquidated, and that he and Sobol "until the end of Putin's power" would have to live with blocked accounts and bailiffs seizing any of their property in favor of "Putin's chef". Navalny said that he intended to revive

3876-480: The second half of the year", which provides most of the planned annual budget of the fund ($ 300,000). According to Vladimir Ashurkov and Navalny, the negotiations took place for three months, and some of those with whom they took place eventually decided to refrain from making contributions to the fund. However, many of those who ended up supporting the project, despite not being bound by any contractual obligations, promised to make regular donations. This allows to plan

3944-454: The son of the founder of PJSC VimpelCom , businessman Boris Zimin (confirmed that he had already given 300,000 rubles and will give about the same amount every month) and former manager of Alfa Group Vladimir Ashurkov (confirmed that gave 300,000 rubles). On 30 May 2012, the list of the first 16 sponsors of the fund was announced: According to Navalny, "they have already transferred 4.4 million rubles, and guaranteed another 4 million for

4012-438: The strongest opponent is a CPRF candidate. However, some strong candidates, even nominated by political parties represented in the State Duma, were excluded from the race. In constituency 43 no pro-United Russia candidates are registered. After the verification of the signatures collected by the candidates, the Moscow City Election Commission (MCEC) refused to register most of independent opposition candidates. The claimed reason

4080-540: The supply of low-quality food. In April 2019, Moskovskiy Shkolnik filed a lawsuit against FBK, Navalny, FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol , who was in charge of the investigation, and its former employee Natalya Shilova, who was involved in the investigation. In October 2019, the Moscow Arbitration Court ordered Navalny to pay 29.2 million rubles as compensation for lost profits and damage to professional reputation. The court ordered Lyubov Sobol and FBK to pay

4148-429: The surname of the candidate from Communists of Russia party is also similar to the surname of the candidate from CPRF. By 22:30 September 9 the data input of the results was halted, and renewed only in the early morning, around 3-4 a.m. of September 10. In the constituency 15, where the leader of the United Russia's faction Andrey Metelsky tried to re-elect, the input renewed only around 5:30 a.m. The leader of

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4216-451: The time it was owned by the proprietors of one of the glass factories, who were inspired by the exterior mosaics on the facade of St Mark's Basilica to apply those to the palace. When the mosaics were installed, the then new owners were decried by their more aristocratic neighbours as nouveaux riches , and their taste garish and out of keeping with the genteel decay of the neighbouring buildings. However, it should be remembered that many of

4284-519: Was an unequal approach and even discrimination in the process of registering candidates. The current constituencies' boundaries were adopted on 30 April 2014. According to independent experts, they contain marks of gerrymandering . The list of constituencies and candidates. In central, southwestern and northwestern constituencies the independent opposition candidates had strong chances (see also 2013 Moscow mayoral election , districts where Navalny had good results), in most of other constituencies

4352-471: Was declared a "foreign agent". After the death of Navalny in a Russian prison in February 2024, his wife Yulia Navalnaya leads the organization. FBK is funded by money transfers from its supporters; mostly these are donations from ordinary people. According to Ashurkov, "constant fundraising is a necessary condition for the functioning" of the fund. The creators want to build a system that will allow

4420-448: Was heavily criticised due to mentioning Valeria Kasamara among the supporters of the detainees, what was seen as a hypocrisy given her support by the United Russia and Sobyanin . Dmitry Gudkov made a short list of worthy candidates. They marked with a (¤) below. Garry Kasparov called to boycott the elections. During the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections campaign the FBK published

4488-410: Was practised in constituencies 1, 10 and 30, and resulted in an abnormally high percentage of votes for the United Russia's candidate. The results for constituency 30 are suspicious not only due to electronic voting results, but also due to results in the neuropsychiatric dispensary (polling station 2047: Rusetskaya - 122, Yuneman - 6, Zhukovsky - 23), given that the final lead of Rusetskaya over Yuneman

4556-477: Was the high percentage of rejected signatures (exceeding permissible reject rate is 10%). Independent candidates accused the MCEC of forgery in verifying signatures aimed at prohibiting the opposition to participate in elections. During the verification some personal data of the signers was entered with errors. In addition, a significant part of the signatures was invalidated on the grounds of a so-called handwriting examination, which scientific validity and impartiality

4624-473: Was the payment of US$ 50 made by Yuriy Maslikhov, a Russian citizen residing in the United States. In an interview with journalists, Yuriy Maslikhov stated that he had transferred the money from his PayPal account as an individual and he had been carrying out such donations earlier. Two other payments totalling ₽ 138,505.41 (c. US$ 2170) were carried out by Spanish citizen Roberto Fabio Monda Cardenas through CaixaBank on 6 and 17 September 2019. Answering

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