LEGISLATIVE (REPRESENTATIVE) STATE AUTHORITIES OF SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AS AN OBJECT OF PUBLIC CONTROL

The purpose of the article is to give definition of legislative (representative) state authority of a subject of the Russian Federation and to analyze various forms of public control over the activity of the legislative (representative) state authority of a subject of the Russian Federation. Methodology: dialectics, analysis, synthesis, deduction, formal legal method, method of inter-sectoral legal researches. The key author's conclusions are: Firstly, at the federal level, there has not been adopted so far a regulatory legal act fixing the legal status of public councils under legislative (representative) state authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation, their main rights and obligations, procedure for their formation, and it, in its turn, shows major deficiencies on the legislator's part. However, a number of regional legislators have made an attempt to independently settle the issue of formation of public councils under legislative (representative) state authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation by fixing the relevant provisions in special regional laws on public control bases in a subject of the Russian Federation. Secondly, many regulatory legal acts adopted at regional level, fixing the procedure for recall of deputies of representative authorities of a subject of the Russian Federation, are recognized, as of today, by judicial authorities as partly invalid or void. Thirdly, the forms of public control mentioned in the article are not of exhaustive nature and can be expanded by relevant lawful subjects of the Russian Federation, but these forms of public control, at their efficient and combined application, can be an efficient instrument for control over power on the part of civil society. Scientific and Practical Importance. The conducted research develops and specifies forms of public control. As exemplified by various forms of public control over activity of legislative (representative) state authority of a subject of the Russian Federation, revealed were deficiencies on the legislator's part, preventing efficiency of legal regulation.