Annotation

This article draws attention to the fact that the process of conducting election campaigning on social media in Russia has not yet received comprehensive legislative regulation. Therefore, case law is of paramount importance. In this regard, materials from judicial practice are of great importance. Based on their analysis, it is concluded that the distribution of both informational and campaign materials through one account does not always allow for a distinction to be made between them based on their campaign purpose. In this regard, according to the author, in the future it may become necessary to limit the use of social media accounts created during the election campaign for campaigning purposes to those created during the election campaign. The author proposes, by analogy with the legal regulation of other forms of campaigning, to include in the Federal Law “On the Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in Referendums of Citizens of the Russian Federation” a separate article dedicated to the conditions for conducting pre-election campaigning on social networks.