THEORETICAL AND LEGAL GROUNDS FOR THE USE OF THE CATEGORIES "STATE CONTROL" AND "STATE SUPERVISION" REGARDING THE ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES
The article deals with topical issues of terminological consolidation in the legislation of the Russian Federation of the control over the activities of political parties carried out by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. The article analyzes the main laws and by-laws, which disclose the content of control and supervisory activities related to political parties. The author studies the opinions contained in the doctrinal sources on the relationship between the concepts of "control" and "supervision". The provisions of legal acts that do not fully agree with each other in terms of the terminology "control" and "supervision" in relation to the activities of political parties are determined. Conclusions are drawn: about the terminological conflict of laws of the Russian Federation related to the control over the activities of parties carried out by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation and the need to adjust it; about the content inconsistency of such control with the category "control"; about the expediency of renaming this type of control to supervision.