LEGISLATION NOVELS ON APPEALS IN THE СOMMUNITY OF INDEPENDENT STATES

The subject of present study is changes in the laws on citizens’ appeals in the Community of Independent States in the last 5 years. There is a more detailed analyses of rules that’s provided legal entities with constitutional right to appeal; rules on electronic appeals; rules on new (non-traditional) appeals arising in the Internet. Subsequent to the results of the analysis the following points are main conclusions: 1) in recent years, three CIS countries’ laws on appeals fully set forth in a new wording, and the rest laws have changed significantly; 2) legislations of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine contain most of the novels, while for Russian legislation it is typical to establish new forms of appeals into subordinate regulation; 3) almost all CIS countries recognize electronic appeals, but their detailed legal regulation is absent; 4) an electronic digital signature is mandatory for electronic appeals in five countries of the CIS; 5) fundamentally new types of appeals that involve the collection of votes by Internet and estimate activity of authorities have emerged in the CIS countries. Such appeals can be submitted only by means of official sites in the Internet and are the least understood in legal theory, while their place in the system of the constitutional right to appeal is not defined.