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This sentence conflates parties eligible to run without signatures with parties that actually submitted candidate lists.

The Central Election Commission said there were 12 parties entitled to participate in the 2026 State Duma election without collecting signatures. Interfax, citing the CEC on 28 May 2026, reported: “12 parties” could take part without signatures. An earlier CEC-backed Interfax report from 26 September 2025 even lists all 12, including Civic Platform.

Separately, the CEC later said it had certified the candidate lists of 11 parties that actually nominated candidates. That is a different figure, and it reflects who filed to run, not how many parties were legally exempt from signature collection.

So the claim that there were “only 11 such parties” is inaccurate: the correct count for parties exempt from signature collection was 12.

Multiple contemporaneous reports place Vladimir Putin’s appearance at the United Russia convention on 28 June 2026.

On 25 June 2026, Interfax reported that Putin might attend the United Russia congress scheduled for 28 June. Then, on 28 June 2026, Interfax reported that Putin was speaking at the party’s congress that day.

That directly contradicts the caption’s date of June 23, 2026.