THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
This article discusses certain aspects of the constitutional right to access to information. The most important normative legal acts related to this right are considered, as well as the specifics of securing the right to access to information in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The author analyzes and compares the right to access to cultural values with the right of everyone to participate in cultural life and use cultural institutions, with the right to information, with freedom of creativity and the right to education. The author comes to the conclusion that the constitutional right is ensured by certain constitutional and legal guarantees, which find detailed expression in certain branches of legislation, which emphasizes the complex (intersectoral) nature of the right to access to information and the system of legal guarantees ensuring its implementation, therefore, the proper realization of the right to access to information through the use of a state mechanism.