Cost of parliamentary elections in Russia 2011-2021
In 2021, the cost of the legislative election in Russia amounted to over 21.4 billion Russian rubles. The expenses included the organization of three-day elections as well as on measures of sanitary-epidemiological safety due to COVID-19, such as protective screens and provision of citizens with masks and gloves. To compare, approximately 10.35 billion Russian rubles were spent on the previous parliamentary election, which took only one day.