On Modern Problems and Development Prospects of Public Inspections and Public Control Groups in the Russian Federation: Constitutional and Legal Analysis

Abstract

The present article is focused on the constitutional and legal analysis of modern problems and prospects for the development of public inspections and public control groups in Russia. The author examines the place and role of the above-mentioned entities in the mechanism for organizing and implementing this institution of civil society. The analysis of the main approaches in the legislation regarding the regulation of the legal status, powers, organization and activities of public inspections and public control groups is carried out. Among the problems of the development of these subjects of public control, the following have been formalized and inves-tigated: the lack of consolidation of this institution of civil society in the Constitution of the Russian Federation; weak unification of regional legislation and municipal regulations governing their organization and activities; their lack of real powers; lack of elaboration in legislation and scientific literature of specific forms and types of public control measures for of them; insufficient funding for their activities; weak use of modern digital technol-ogies, foreign practice, as well as the experience of the functioning of people’s control groups in the USSR; lack of elaboration of a system of measures of responsibility for countering their legitimate activities. The system of measures to resolve these problems and the main directions of development of these subjects of public control are substantiated.