Особенности конституционного судебного контроля в Российской Федерации и Литве

ENThe article analyzes the peculiarities of the constitutional judicial control in the Russian Federation and Lithuania. The aim of the study is to disclose the system of regulatory legal acts that regulate the basis of constitutional judicial authority, systems of bodies of constitutional judicial control of the Russian Federation and Lithuania, and definition of distinctive features of these systems. The article analyzes rules of the consti tutional court proceedings, considers the main differences in the powers of the constitutional courts of the Russian Federation and Lithuania. In addition to that, the changes in the system of constitutional courts and the powers of constitutional courts regarding the consideration of complaints about violations of human and civil rights and freedoms are analyzed in the historical context. The article formulates proposals to improve the current legislation of the Russian Federation and Lithuania regulation the implementation of the constitu tional judicial control. The conducted study made it possible to determine that the nature of the activity of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania is mainly political, while the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is human rights-based. Keywords: Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Constitutional Court of Lithuania, constitutional judicial authority, constitutional judicial control, constitutional judicial control bodies. [From the publication]