On improving the Institution of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation

Abstract

In the conditions of dynamically developing public relations, the coordinated work of human rights institutions is unthinkable without improving the legislation regulating the institution of the Commissioner for Human Rights. In this article, the problems of legal regulation of the status of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. The practical significance of the study lies in the discovery of the shortcomings of the existing norms governing the legal status of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, as well as the procedure for appointing and dismissing him from office. This topic is of particular relevance, since the Constitution of the Russian Federation clearly establishes that the observance and protection of human and civil rights and freedoms is the responsibility of the state, an important role in which is assigned to the Commissioner for Human Rights as a guarantor of ensuring state protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, their observance and respect by state bodies, local self-government bodies and officials.