Part taken by the institution of notary in protecting the constitutional rights and legitimate interests of citizens

The paper examined operation of notaries (in Russian Federation generally and in the Siberian Federal District, in particular) with the review of large statistics data and the latest amendments to the legislation of Russia, in order to protect the constitutional rights of private citizens and legal entities. In the recent years, considerable attention in our country has been given to the issue of implementing CAT (computer-assisted techniques) and communications and their proper operation, as a means to ensure the citizens' rights that enables their minimizing the time and material costs for exercising their rights. The country formally legalized a landmark approach that the notaries are expected to apply in working with electronic documents. Implementing the State policy in this domain shall be entrusted to the Russian Federation Ministry of Justice. From January 1 st, 2015 significant amendments were made to the “Basics of Notary Operation”, in particular, the Russian Ministry of Justice has increased powers for their regional bodies and for the notary chambers in the RF constituent regions in the field of surveillance over the notaries, and established additional requirements for people aspiring to a position of notary, and procedures of interacting with the local self-rule bodies concerning the records taking and filing the data on the completed notary operations.