MOSCOW, September 21The exhibition «The Right to Choose. A Brief History of Russian Democracy», dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the electoral system, opened at the State Historical Museum, the correspondent reports.
“This is truly a unique exhibition and, of course, our heartfelt gratitude to the State Historical Museum, in such beauty, which history is so full of,” said the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, opening the exhibition and thanked the project partners. 
“This is an amazing combination of museum exhibits, electoral artifacts, and archival documents, and beautiful paintings and works of art were taken from the Tretyakov Gallery, from the Russian Museum, from the Museum of Contemporary History,” she added.
The head of the Central Election Commission noted that the exhibition covered many stages in the history of the development of the electoral process in Russia.
«Thirty years is only the last, modern stage of this historical, more than thousand-year process of development of democracy in Russia. And I would like everyone to see it,» Pamfilova added. 
According to the organizers, the launched exhibition project combines museum objects and archival documents, artifacts from domestic electoral practice and digital solutions in the electoral process.
The exhibition consists of six main sections: “The early feudal Russian state. The calling of the Varangians, the Novgorod, Pskov and Vyatka veche republics and the gathering of Russian lands. 862 — 1500s”, “The Moscow kingdom. Zemsky councils — the path to class representation 1540s — 1680s», «Russian Empire of the 18th–19th centuries», «From Empire to Soviets — elections in the 20th century», «Elections at the turn of the century (1989 — 1992)», «Elections of modern times. 1993 — 2022».