Regional elections in the Nizhny Novgorod region in 2002: legal framework, parties, technologies and results

The article deals with the organization of the election campaign to the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region in 2002. The author reveals the role of political parties and peculiarities of application of electoral technologies and determines the most significant aspects of the results of the elections to the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Parliament in 2002.