Constitutional Proceedings in the System of Procedural Forms of Protection of Public Rights

The article examines the problem of “competition” of powers of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts in the field of protection of public rights and interests. Constitutional proceedings are considered as an independent procedural form of protection, a means of administering justice. It is shown that cases of challenging normative legal acts are currently resolved both in constitutional proceedings and in the framework of administrative, civil and arbitration proceedings, there is no legal criterion for their differentiation, and any verification of a normative act ultimately raises the question of its constitutionality. It is proposed to concentrate all powers to consider these cases in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.