Sementsov V.A. Constitutional foundations human rights activities in the aspect of organizations of free legal aid

Human rights activity is a special direction in the field of public law research. With the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, human rights activities have acquired a solid legal basis in the form of separate provisions that serve as principles in specific areas and areas of protection of civil and other rights. At the present stage, taking into account the development and significant modernization of many aspects of legal activity, especially in the light of the existing problems associated with the unfavorable epidemiological situation, it has become necessary to pose new tasks to science, the solution of which is necessary to increase the level of legal protection of citizens.
The purpose of the study is to develop the constitutional foundations of human rights activities in the aspect of organizing free legal aid in a pandemic. Research objectives: conducting a comprehensive study of the constitutional provisions defining the principles of human rights activities; adaptation of sectoral legislation regarding the organization of free legal aid to the conditions of the pandemic; identification of promising areas for further improvement of the rules and conditions for providing such assistance; development and justification of author's proposals to change the categories of citizens using free legal aid and the list of issues within which such assistance should be provided.
The conducted research is based on traditional general scientific and private scientific methods, including dialectics, analysis, synthesis, generalization, logical, system-structural, system-functional, comparative legal, formal legal, etc.
The results of the study were a set of new provisions that expand scientific ideas about the constitutional foundations of human rights activities and the specifics of their implementation in a pandemic.
The opinion is put forward and justified on the need to expand the list of categories of citizens entitled to receive free legal aid, as well as on the expediency of changing the range of legal issues in connection with which legal aid should be provided free of charge.

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