The administrative legal guarantees of the freedom of conscience in the Russian Federation

The features of the legal regulation of the exercise of freedom of conscience in the Russian Federation are considered in the article. For this purpose, an attempt is made to analyze the norms of constitutional, administrative and administrative procedural legislation, which contain guarantees of freedom of conscience. It is concluded that these guarantees are directly or indirectly aimed at regulating the process of exercising freedom of conscience. The conclusion is formulated as well that administrative and legal guarantees are a set of imperative administrative and legal conditions and means that acting within the rule of law allow unhindered exercise of ideological (including religious) beliefs, determine the non-bringing of a person to administrative responsibility or exemption from it and (or) from punishment.