Annotation

The article examines the role of the applicant's subjective interest (i.e., a state in which the applicant has rights that are violated) in the consideration of constitutional complaints by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The article focuses on the conditions for accepting a constitutional complaint or the conditions for issuing a final decision in the form of a ruling (recognizing a norm as either non-compliant or conditionally compliant with the Constitution of the Russian Federation). Based on an analysis of the current regulation of constitutional proceedings and the practice of its application, the article concludes that the assumption of subjective interest serves as a condition for accepting a constitutional complaint, and subjective interest itself is a sufficient but not a necessary condition for issuing a ruling recognizing the norm challenged by the applicant as non-compliant with the Constitution of the Russian Federation (or conditionally compliant with it in the identified constitutional-legal sense).