Constitutional and legal aspects of the organization of public authority in the Russian Federation

Introduction: the article discusses the features of the organization of public power, the effective division of power vertically and horizontally, the problems of ensuring the legitimacy of the public power system. Literature review: includes normative legal acts of the federal levels, scientific literature, as well as materials of periodicals. Materials and Methods: the normative legal basis for the study was certain provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Federal Constitutional Law «On the Government of the Russian Federation», the Message of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly in January 2020. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study are the works of scientists - specialists in the field of constitutional law, historical science, excerpts from public speeches of heads of state in different years. The methodological basis of the study is a systematic approach, a general dialectical method of scientific knowledge, as well as comparative legal and historical-legal research methods. Results: the result of the study was the identification of three separate stages in the formation of a new model of public administration in Russia, the rationale for the implementation of the principle of separation of powers and the features of the legitimation of public authority. Discussions and Сonclusions: issues related to the optimization of public authority in modern Russia are still at the forefront of scientific discussions, are actively discussed in the domestic scientific literature, the media, and form the basis of theoretical and applied research. The article draws conclusions about a significant change in the constitutional order of Russia in accordance with world standards in the field of guarantees of human and civil rights and freedoms, the principles of organization and functioning of the system of state authorities and local self-government, as well as the incompleteness of the process of forming an effectively functioning system of public authority in Russia which is largely determined by the dynamics of political practice, novelty and the need for their versatile theoretical understanding.