40. If there are limits on the amount a political party can spend, what is the limit?

Art. 71 – “(3) The maximum allowed expenses from the electoral fund of a political party 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. ...

(5) The maximum sum of all expenses from the electoral fund of a regional branch, 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;

Source: Article 71 (3) and (5), Federal Law on Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, 2014

For Presidential elections:

Art. 58 – “(3) The maximum limit of a candidate’s total expenses out of his electoral fund shall not exceed 400 million rubles.”

Source: Article 58 (3), Federal Law on the Presidential Elections in the Russian Federation, 2002