The Essence of the Restriction of Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms in the Russian Federation

The purpose of the study. The article is devoted to the problem of determining the essence and mechanism of action of restrictions on human and civil rights in the Russian Federation. The article lists the generations of human rights and the content of human and civil rights in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, gives a brief description of them. The doctrinal approaches of the definition of «restriction of rights» are considered and specific examples from law enforcement practice are given. The purpose of the study is a theoretical and practical assessment of the essence of the mechanism of restriction of human and civil rights in the Russian Federation. The article uses dialectical, historical, formal-legal, logical, comparative-legal and other methods of knowledge. Conclusions. In the Russian Federation, there is no uniform approach to determining the essence of the mechanism of restriction of human and civil rights and freedoms. The rights enshrined in Chapter two of the Constitution of the Russian Federation may be limited and are limited due to various objective circumstances, while the legislator has not developed a clear mechanism for restricting rights, in connection with which we can see that in some cases restrictions of rights are expressed in the establishment of specific frameworks, and in others – a complete ban on the commission of certain actions.