PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISATION AND ACTIVITIES OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE AUTHORITIES OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

The article is devoted to the principles of functioning of commissioners of regional government bodies. Understanding and taking into account the principles on which the activities of subjects of power relations are based allow observing both the letter and the spirit of the law. The principles provide an opportunity to systematise the legal regulation of public relations and organise a uniform law-making process that maximises the unification of legislation. In the field of representation of government bodies and senior officials of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, it directly contributes to solving the problems of fragmented regulation of relations of representation at the local level of administration, the contradiction of the directives of state bodies, the absence of unified rules of implementation and a single terminological basis. The aim of the study is to formulate general theoretical conclusions and provisions, to develop recommendations and proposals aimed at optimising the organisational and legal framework for the activities of commissioners of regional government bodies. Federal legislation that regulates the organisation and functioning of the system of regional state bodies, fundamental and diverse regional legal acts and acts of constitutional justice bodies, treaties, regulations and provisions of inter-parliamentary associations were analysed. Approved methods of scientific cognition were used: general scientific (logical, dialectical, structural functional, systemic) and specific-legal (formal legal, interpretations of law, comparative law, legal forecasting). The principles of the institution of representation of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation were divided into two groups: general principles, which determine the general requirements for the work of the commissioner as a subject of constitutional and legal relations, and organisational principles, which determine the requirements for the work of the commissioner as a person, entering into the hierarchy of state-power relations. The article presents proposals and recommendations aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the institution of representation of regional bodies and officials. It is argued that the normative consolidation of the principles of organisation and activity of the commissioner of regional government bodies, as well as their detailing in regional normative legal acts, will help not only to specify their legal status in relation to the species characteristic, but also to increase the efficiency of their functioning, to optimise their place in the mechanism for implementing powers at the regional level.