REGARDING POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN MODERN RUSSIA

The paper aims at analyzing the reasons for the lack of civic motivation to improve the system of political decision-making and political participation as a basis for the implementation of the constitutional principle of democracy.Analyzing the data of sociological studies conducted by Russian Public Opinion Research Center in 2005, 2012 and 2018 on interest in politics and on manifestations of political participation during periods of electoral activity, the authors conducted a secondary study on the dialectics of interaction between the authorities and citizens in the political and legal space of Russia, using the method of comparison and grouping (3,000 respondents as of January, 2018).The results of the study illustrate the rather active political participation of citizens: it is large-scale, intensive, and at the same time autonomous and conventional. The parameters of the political participation of this study are characteristic of the most active period – the presidential election campaign.Thus, the political participation of citizens in elections is traditionally massive, which was confirmed by the percentage of those who voted in 2018 (the turnout was over 67%) and in 2012 (the turnout was 65.4%). However, the preservation of the activity of political participation in the post-election period is considered unlikely (as evidenced by the decrease in the percentage ratio), which illustrates the political fatigue, fragmentation and periodicity, characteristic of a country with a statist form of political management.