The Impact of Political Absenteeism on the Constitutional Legitimation of Government in Russia

The article examines the actual problem of many democratic countries of the world, expressed in the growing level of political absenteeism. Statistical data on the results of elections of various levels of government in recent years are analyzed, and general trends and patterns of the electoral process in modern Russia are revealed. It is declared that the refusal of the country's population to participate in elections can simultaneously act both as an inert approval of the activities of government bodies and consent to their decisions, and as a form of protest and extreme discontent, which together can affect the constitutional delegitimization of elected bodies.