Digital Mechanisms of the State Duma and Citizens Interaction and Their Role in Ensuring the Legitimacy of Decisions Taken

The scientific research examines the interaction specifics of the State Duma and citizens with the help of website and social media platforms, working with individual appeals from citizens through the departments for complaints and appeals handling and through the direct communication between deputies and voters. The article also evaluates the effectiveness of using online reception rooms, online surveys and video broadcasts, monitoring social networks, developing and improving a personal account on information portal “the State Duma Reception”. Purpose: a theoretical and methodological analysis of the digital mechanisms’ implementation of interaction between the State Duma and citizens in the Russian Federation, as well as the definition and the study the role of these mechanisms in the process of ensuring the legitimacy of the decisions taken by the state. Methods: empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic; private scientific methods: legal and dogmatic and interpretation of legal norms. Results: the study revealed the need to define criteria for the effective interaction, to establish the impact of digitalisation, to determine the role of digital technologies and to identify risks and threats associated with the use of digital technologies.