The article offers an analysis of the institutions that limit passive suffrage in Russia. The author considers direct suffrage restrictions, such as party-affiliation as a factor limiting the passive suffrage, the institutions of the electoral pledge, the electoral threshold, the municipal electoral quota, frequency and timeliness of the elections. Since the beginning of the 2000s ruling groups in Russia have been trying to limit passive suffrage by an experiment. Institutions for the implementation of passive electoral rights have been limited as far as the situation permits. Electoral novel legislations in 2011–2013 can be described as «line improvement» caused by the crises in election system. The article makes predictions about the prospects of further changing institutions limiting passive suffrage. The policy of passive suffrage restriction is fraught with further political destabilization and crisis of the present Russian authorities’ legitimacy. Russian civil society and political parties are concerned with significant liberalization of the electoral legislation. Almost all opposition parties offer similar suggestions about liberalization of passive suffrage.