[3] Before the 2007 parliamentary elections, the Russian Central Electoral Commission decided that the Russian Ecological Party "The Greens" would not be able to stand, due to an alleged large number of faked signatures (17%, more than the allowed 5%) in their supporters' lists.
[8] On May 15, 2021, an extraordinary party congress was held at the President Hotel in Moscow, which was attended by more than 80 delegates from 53 regions.
The congress also elected co-chairs of the party of pilot-cosmonaut Sergey Revin, chairman of the council of the Bashkortostan regional branch, Deputy of the State Assembly - Kurultai of the Republic of Bashkortostan Rufina Shagapova, chairman of the Council of the regional branch of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, member of the Krasnoyarsk City Council of Deputies Sergey Shakhmatov and director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Kronotsky State Reserve" Peter Hairpin.
[9] On April 29, 2021, the official website of "The Greens" party published a statement of its chairman Panfilov A.
[10] saying that a group of people headed by some A. Komarov on instructions of the state authorities conspired to seize the party with the aim of preventing it from participating in the 2021 Duma elections.