Electoral and legislative features in the 2016 State Duma elections

Elections to the lower house of the Parliament of the Russian Federation, as a rule, arouse the greatest interest among candidates, voters and political scientists of the country. Indeed, every campaign of this level is a cross-section that demonstrates the development of the political system in terms of various aspects of its existence: party groupings, election rules and procedures, funding, violations, and much more. Along with this, the key role is played by legal acts regulating the preparation, progress and summing up of the election campaign. All participants of the political field focus on the legal aspects in particular. First of all, the transformation of the electoral legislation is of concern as it has undergone significant changes especially since the 2016 campaign, the most recent elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The study of the features of the transformed legal sources in the elections of the Duma of the seventh convocation is the purpose of this work.