Tchirkin, V.I. New procedure of elections to the State Duma of Russia (inofficial legislative initiative).

Abstract: Federal elections, which were held in Russia in 2003-2004 and their results called for discussion of a possible reform in the Russian election system. In this article Professor V.E. Chirkin states his proposals on how to reform this system. He considers that there is need to change the election system that Russia had taken from the German model and that Russia should come to the preferential election system. This article also contains the study of the main features and principles of the preferential election system.