Problems of establishing additional guarantees for the realization of the right of citizens to appeal in the regions

Abstract

The subject of this study is the normative legal acts of the subjects of the Russian Federation regulating additional guarantees of the implementation of the constitutional right of citizens to appeal in the subjects of the Russian Federation and municipalities, as well as the problems of establishing additional guarantees by regional legislators. The value of the study lies in identifying regulatory gaps at the federal level, contradictions of some regional norms to federal legislation, as well as their features. The author formulated specific proposals for the prospective improvement of legislation on citizens’ appeals, established the limits of regional laws and their place in the mechanism of realization of the right of citizens to appeal.

The reasons are indicated and the expediency of increasing the terms of consideration of appeals in a foreign language or in dot-relief font of the blind is justified, the declarative and abstract nature of a number of regulations, defects of rulemaking in the acts of the subjects of the Russian Federation are noted. Regional legislators, when proclaiming additional guarantees, should avoid arbitrary changes to the current system of norms, strive for reasonable stability of legal regulation, regulate and unify such guarantees more clearly. The necessity of attributing a number of regulatory norms to the competence of the federal legislator, including for the purpose of their unified application in all subjects of the Russian Federation, is noted.

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