Modern Approach and Prospects of Development of Legal Literacy and Legal Consciousness of Citizens
Issues of organisational and methodological support of raising legal culture and legal consciousness of citizens are considered in the paper, illustrations are given of a positive experience of holding events aimed at raising legal literacy and public legal education in some regions of the Russian Federation. The results of a sociologicall poll carried out at a social poll service, the poll questions being: level of awareness of citizens about their rights and sources for obtaining legal information by citizens, are presented. Data on citizens in the regions of the Russian Federation who received free legal aid, on holding the All-Russian day of legal aid to children and mass legal awareness-raising events held in the regions of the Russian Federation in 2016 are presented, also presented is an express analysis of those events carried out in the course of their monitoring. The paper presents a coverage of successful projects carried out in a number of educational institutions in the field of legal and civic education and related to the formation of legal space in school, and contains an extensive overview of federal and regional-level regulations in this field.