ON THE ISSUE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE OMBUDSMEN IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Building an effective system for protecting the rights and legitimate interests of citizens is closely linked to building an effective and complementary system of State human rights defenders. The Institution of the Ombudsman acts as a link between citizens and the State in matters of protecting the rights and legitimate interests of citizens. The above determines the relevance of the research topic, which is aimed at studying the problems that arise in the process of building an effective mechanism for protecting the constitutional rights of minors in the Russian Federation. This article analyses the activities of the Commissioner for human rights of the Russian Federation, as well as specialized Ombudsman: the Ombudsman under the President of the Russian Federation on the rights of the child and the Commissioner of the President of the Russian Federation on protection of the rights of entrepreneurs. The implementation of the research tasks was achieved on the basis of an analysis of the legislation and practice of the activities of the institutions of commissioners.