Marina Shishkina, leader of the federal section of the Russian Ecological Party The Greens' candidate list and a member of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, and Alexandra Kudzagova, co-chair and member of the Federal Council of the Russian Ecological Party The Greens, attend a press availability after a Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) meeting on the State Duma and regional election campaigns in Moscow, Russia. On July 30, the CEC registered the federal candidate lists of the Direct Democracy Party and the Russian Ecological Party The Greens, completing the registration process for parties contesting the State Duma elections.