As you may remember, when you vote for a political party, you secure an annual stream of funding for it (if the party wins more than 3% of the vote).
Since January 1, 2015, your vote has been worth 110 rubles a year for party officials.
United Russia: 3,560,891,070 rubles per year, or 296,740,922.5 rubles per month.
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF): 1,385,936,200 rubles per year, or 115,494,683 rubles per month.
LDPR: 843,096,760 rubles per year, or 70,258,063 rubles per month.
A Just Russia: 956,500,380 rubles per year, or 79,708,365 rubles per month.
Yabloko: 247,755,970 rubles per year, or 20,646,330 rubles per month.
I wanted to add private donations to the chart rather than state funding, but even where they do exist, the bar is so thin compared with budget money that it is completely invisible.
Looking at the dreary existence of these so-called “systemic parties” (parties officially allowed within the Kremlin-controlled political system), I personally have no idea what they spend this money on.
Take even the smallest recipient—Yabloko. 20,646,330 rubles per month. That is roughly what the ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) had for a whole year. The entire country should be buzzing from the kind of activity you could launch with a budget like that. And as for the CPRF and A Just Russia, there is nothing more to say.
Do you understand where the parties spend those 110 rubles a year that they receive for your vote?