This article is devoted to international cooperation of Russia with the partner structures of foreign states on a bilateral basis and developing relations on a multilateral basis within international organizations concerned with the assurance of civil rights and election and referendum problems. Representatives of the CEC of Russia are constantly engaged in activities of international organizations elaborating the topics of actualization obligations in the electoral domain.The main aim the article is to show the international standards of democratic elections: periodic and mandatory, free, genuine, fair, open and public elections based on universal and equal suffrage and held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures assuring to voters the freedom of voting with effective judicial protection, effective civic (public) and international monitoring.