The Gold Standard of Public Monitoring in the Mechanism of Public Control over Voting at Elections and Referendums

2024 is the year of the 10th anniversary of adoption of the Federal Law, On Fundamentals of Public Control in the Russian Federation that was developed as a framework law, i.e., the law that introduced general principles of design and implementation of control by the civil society over the activities of government authorities at all levels, state and municipal institutions, other authorities and legal entities that perform publicly relevant functions. Public monitoring of voting at elections and referendums implemented with the use of the Gold Standard procedure and methodology is one of the most successful public control practices in the Russian Federation.