MOSCOW, June 28 All candidates Governors of the Moscow Region must publish in the media information about their income, as well as about property registered to themselves or family members, according to the calendar plan of events for the preparation and conduct of the election of the Governor of the Moscow Region, scheduled for September 10, 2023.
«Transmission to the media of information about registered candidates, as well as information about income and property of registered candidates, his wife (spouse) and minor children in the amount established by the election commission of the Moscow Region (after registration of a candidate)», — the document says.
At the moment, five candidates are known to have submitted documents to participate in the elections. The very first to visit the Mosoblisbirk was the incumbent governor of the region Andrei Vorobyov, nominated by the Moscow regional branch of the All-Russian political party «United Russia». He came to the election commission on June 17.
Further, the documents, according to data published in the official Telegram channel of the Moscow Regional Electoral Commission, for the post of Governor of the Moscow Region were submitted by Alexander Naumov from the Moscow regional branch of the political party «Communist Party of the Russian Federation», Kirill Zhigarev from the Moscow regional branch of the political party LDPR — the liberal democratic party of Russia and Anatoly Nikitin from the regional branch of the Socialist political party «A Just Russia — Patriots — For Truth». Boris Nadezhdin, nominated by the regional branch of the All-Russian political party «Civil Initiative» in the Moscow region, was the last to apply.
In 2023, information about the income of the current governor and other candidates for this post for the past year was not published in the public domain.
Decree on suspension of publication of officials' declarations was published on 29 December. The President introduced these requirements for the period of a special military operation. As Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the head of state, told reporters earlier, the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the ban on posting on the Internet and transmitting to the media data on the incomes of officials, which must be published under the law on combating corruption, applies only to those who work in new regions. In February, Putin signed a law on the publication of declarations of deputies and senators in an anonymized (generalized) form without personal data from March 1, 2023.