51. Is information in reports from political parties and/or candidates to be made public?

Art. 35 - "(3) The consolidated financial statement of a political party shall be posted by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation at its special website on the general public information & telecommunication network not later than two months after deliver of such statement by the political party. Information about the results of the audit of consolidated financial statement of political party shall be brought to the attention of the relevant political parties and posted by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation on aforementioned website, as well as published in Russian periodicals."

Source: Article 35 (3), Federal Law on Political Parties of the Russian Federation, 2001 (as of December 5, 2017)

Art. 74 - "(2) Within 30 days of official publication of the general election results political party shall present to the CEC the final financial report. Following documents shall be appended to the final report: primary financial documents confirming all receipts and expenditures of an electoral fund of a political party, documents fixing the unspent money and (or) confirming the closing of the said account as well as documents provided for in part 5 Article 68 of this Federal Law, or their copies.

(3) Within thirty days from the day of official publication of the general election results, a regional chapter of a political party, candidate (in case he/she established the electoral fund) shall present to the election commission of a subject of the Russian Federation, DEC the final financial report. Appended to the final financial report shall be primary financial documents confirming all receipts and expenditures of an electoral fund of a regional chapter of political party, documents fixing the unspent money and(or) confirming the closing of the said account as well as documents provided for in Clause 5 Article 68 of this Federal Law, or their copies.

(7) Respective election commissions shall pass out copies of financial reports stipulated in parts 2 - 4 of this Article to the media for publication and place them on the Internet within five days of the receipt of the said documents. Within three days the nation-wide or regional print media outlets shall publish financial report supplied to them by, respectively, the CEC or the election commission of a Russian Federation subject, DEC."

Source: Article 74 (2), (3) and (7), Federal Law on Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, 2014

Art. 62 - "(8) Government-owned newspapers are obliged to publish information on the receipt and expenditure of election funds transfmitted by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. The following information shall be subject to mandatory publication as well as posting on the official website of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation: 1) any financial operation which involves expenditure of sums from an election fund in an amount exceeding 200 thousand rubles; 2) legal entities which made voluntary contributions to the election fund in an amount exceeding 400 thousand rubles; 3) the number of citizens who made voluntary contributions to the election fund in an amount exceeding 40 thousand rubles; 4) sums returned to contributors and reasons for return; 5) the total amount of money received to the election fund and the total amount of money expended from the fund."

Source: Article 62 (8), Federal Law on the Presidential Elections in the Russian Federation, 2002

The information is to be made public both for political parties in between elections as well as well as for political parties and candidates in relation to specific elections (Parliamentary and Presidential).