On Prospects of Human Rights Development in Russia: Issues of Theory and Practice (A Review of Talks at an Interregional Roundtable)

The review acquaints the readers with the main ideas and approaches to the development of human rights in Russia in theoretical and practical aspects that were voiced in presentations of Russian scholars and legal practitioners (from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, and Yekaterinburg). At the round table session the participants discussed modern trends in human rights: the rights in the sphere of bioethics, the relationship of the concepts of legal and social state, the development of the ideas of constitutionalism in the Russian political and legal thought, the search for an equilibrium between the private and the public interest in the context of freedom of information, constitutional guarantees of property rights, issues of implementation of electoral rights.