The constitutional modernization of political institutions of Russian statehood

The article is devoted to actual problems of constitutional mod­ernization of political institutions of the Russian statehood. The article notes that the modernization of the state involves the gradual development of mechanisms for the implementation of political power in the unity of the state and municipal forms of its realization, ensuring and protecting the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, and embodying the highest value of the entire system state. The ar­ticle deals with the constitutional order of Russia as a statelegal expression of civil society; the specificity of the modernization of political institutions of gov­ernment is analyzed as the search for a balance of centralization and decentraliza­tion. The author analyzes the problem of movement from the "state management" to the selfgoverning democratic institutions and the specific development of the participation of citizens in managing the affairs of the state. The conclusion is that the modernization of the political institutions of the Russian state naturally is associated with the development and improvement of the forms of realization by citizens of their constitutional right to participate in managing state affairs.