PROVIDING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO PARTICIPATION IN ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS FOR PERSONS IN CUSTODY OR CONVICTED

Abstract

Securing a number of basic provisions in the field of direct democracy, the Constitution provides for the need of detailing the standards of federal laws. These laws, along with the relevant provisions of the Constitution created the basis for the relative autonomy of the system of law and legislation norms of objective suffrage regulating public relations related to the realization of citizens rights to vote and to be elected and to participate in the referendum. Analyzing Russian law, international law and jurisprudence, the authors examine particular realization of electoral rights of suspects, accused and convicted. The article presents statistics on the election campaign in detention centers for the period from 2011 to 2013, and makes suggestions of improving the existing legislation.