The presidential race cost the federal treasury 5 billion rubles, according to CEC member Evgeny Kolyushin.
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Elections Bills Tallied
The Central Elections Commission ended the 2008 election campaign today by confirming the financial accounts of the participants, the organizers and the local election commissions. The candidates spent a combined total of 400 million rubles on their campaigns. The law allows each candidate to spend that amount on campaigning, so the campaigns can be considered inexpensive. Another 5 billion rubles were spent from the federal budget. The CEC will submit the account of that money to the State Duma.
LDPR presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky has the most expensive campaign. The party allotted him 160 million rubles, and he spent all except 3.609 million rubles of that sum. Zhirinovsky spent 121 million rubles on television and radio and 22 million rubles on printed matter and 625,000 rubles on print media. He received 9.35 percent of the vote. In 2004, when Oleg Malyshkin ran for president from the LDPR, he was allotted only 25 million rubles.
Democratic Party of Russia candidate Andrey Bogdanov has a campaign fund of only 4.85 million rubles. He spent 811,000 rubles collecting the 2 million signatures necessary to get his name on the ballot. He did so effectively, with few signatures disqualified, and economically, at 40 kopecks a piece. The remaining money was spent on “payment for work (services) of an informational and consultative nature.” He received 1.3 percent of the vote.
Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov spent 61.25 million rubles. Only 2.5 million rubles went to broadcast media, while 50.5 million rubles were spent on printed matter. He spent 11,000 rubles on consultants. Zyuganov received 17.72 percent of the vote.
Dmitry Medvedev spent only 37 million rubles fromhis campaign fund of 190 million rubles. He received 70.28 percent of the vote.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 28, 2008
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