Prokofiev V.N.

The author identifies the constitutional-legal status of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The article describes the specific features of the presidency institution in Kazakhstan. The huge role of the President in the state power structure is emphasized and a comparative analysis of the presidency institutions of Russia and Kazakhstan is carried out in this article. Methods. The research is based on a complex of scientific methods of understanding phenomena: comparative jurisprudence, method of dogmatic analysis of legal acts etc., which in total allowed disclosing the problems of constitutional-legal status of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the factual finding of a combination of elements of a super-presidential form of governance. Scientific novelty consists in disclosing the content of legal status of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the legal statuses of the head of state doctrinal, actual, normative, the analysis of specific features of the presidency in the Republic of Kazakhstan, its standard and actual statuses. The article provides an assessment of constitutional-legal status of the President of Kazakhstan in the ratio with the administrative-legal status, the analysis of status positions in the context of the constitutional basics of the “President” institution as the head of state and the highest public official carrying out the functions of public administration.

Purpose. The article reviewed the issues of constitutional legal interaction between the President of the Russian Federation and "civil society" in the sphere of protection and promotion of human rights and freedoms. Methods. A complex of scientific methods of events cognition is a methodological basis of the research. They are comparative law, dogmatic method analysis of legal acts, etc., which together have allowed revealing constitutional and legal interaction between the President of the Russian Federation and "civil society", protection and promotion of human rights and freedoms. Results. Based on the results of the analysis the author defined constitutionally legal forms and limits of the activities of the President of Russia in the sphere of protection and promotion of human rights and freedoms and civil society in the same area. Regarding the current state and prospects of development of such interaction, the author identified three main groups of its forms: financial, economic, organizational and stimulating, and, in addition to the constitutional limits, drew attention to the so-called "law on unwanted organizations" a powerful legal tool, which requires very careful treatment. Scientific novelty. The novelty and originality consists in discovering groups of mutual influence of the President of the Russian Federation and "civil society" in the sphere of observance and implementation of individual freedoms and civil rights, revealing the basic forms of interaction integrated into the system of the Presidential actions in relation to the civil society and their consideration as a general concept of civil society functioning for the first time.