Taribo E.V.

The article discusses the problems of access to challenging constitutionality of normative legal acts. Analysing the list of subjects authorised to initiate an abstract constitutional normative control, the author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to ease the requirements for the admissibility of requests sent by parliamentary groups, requests of legislative and executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and also comes to the conclusion that it is expedient to introduce the right to appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation to public organisations protecting public interests. In the author's opinion such an expansion of opportunities to initiate judicial constitutional normative control could become an additional incentive for constitutional modernisation of the state and would contribute to development of civil society.