The Participation of the Russian Federation Citizens in the Elections as the Form of the Implementation of the Constitutional Right of the Russian Federation Citizens to Participate in Management of State Affairs: in some Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

The work raises the problem of instability, frequent change of electoral law in Russian Federation. The holding of the elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation is each time regulated by a new law is noted. The article examines the compliance of the provisions of the Basic Law with the norms of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Examples of the creation of excessive conditions for acquiring passive electoral rights in the constituent entities of the Federation are given, and position of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation when some considering appeals regarding the constitutionality of federal or regional legislation is investigated. The article considers the amendments introduced in 2004 by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to the Federal Law N184-FZ3, affecting, in the opinion of a number of authors, the right to free expression of will in the form of elections as a form of the citizen's constitutional right of participating in the state affairs. The judges' of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation point of view in relation to the above-mentioned legislative changes is analyzed. It is shown how some decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation contribute to the evolution of constitutional law in terms of theoretical foundations and principles, as well as the exclusion of norms recognized as unconstitutional from federal legislation. Author illustrated how the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation did protect the Russian citizen's constitutional right, recognizing the current legal regulations as depriving citizens of the opportunity to exercise the constitutional right to freedom of thought and speech As far as the constitutional right to seek, receive, transmit, produce and disseminate information freely in any legal way. The relevant international experience was studied in the verdict of the European Court, which recognized the violation by the national law of Great Britain of Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

the state affairs management, Russian citizen's constitutional rights, the Constitutional Court of the RF, the European Court of Human Rights, the Constitution of the Russian Federation, suffrage, referendum, elections