CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MECHANISM FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF MINORS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The object of the study is the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of minors in the Russian Federation. The subject of the study is the constitutional and legal mechanism for the protection of the rights of minors in the Russian Federation. The author analyzes in detail the constituent parts of the constitutional and legal mechanism of protection of the rights of minors in the Russian Federation: regulatory and institutional subsystems. Based on the analysis, the author identifies the state authorities, whose functions include the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of children in the territory of the Russian Federation. A special contribution of the author to the study of the topic is a comprehensive analysis of the powers of public authorities to protect the rights and legitimate interests of children in the Russian Federation. The methodological basis of the study was the dialectical method of knowledge of social and legal phenomena, as well as private scientific methods: analysis of theoretical sources and legal sources; comparison; generalization. The main conclusion of the study is the definition of the concept of constitutional and legal mechanism for the protection of the rights of minors in the Russian Federation.