Youth Parliamentarism in Modern Russia: Transformation of the Political and Legal Nature

The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that modern Russian political science has not yet developed a reasonable approach to the essence of the main institutions of articulation and aggregation of interests of young citizens of the country, which during the post-Soviet period are youth parliaments. To date, youth parliamentarism in the Russian Federation has gone a long way in its development, becoming an effective tool for recruiting youth activists into the ranks of regional political elites. Thus, the state of the domestic variation of the institute of youth representation on the federal and regional scales continues to be in the focus of public opinion, which is why it is chosen as the subject of research of modern political theory.
The purpose of the scientific article is to study the political and legal nature of the institute of youth parliamentarism in modern Russia and its modern transformations.
The objectives of the research are: to clarify the political significance of the institutions of youth representation in the political process of modern Russia, to analyze its socio-political potential, to justify the objective and subjective conditions for the institutionalization of youth parliamentarism, to formulate priorities for its development in the Russian Federation.
Methodology. To solve the purpose and objectives of this scientific article,comparative, historical, structural and functional methods, as well as the method of content analysis, have been used.
Results. The article presents the author's vision of the transformation of the essence and content of modern political representation of the interests of Russian youth. It is argued that youth parliamentarism in modern Russia has a dual political and legal nature. The peculiarity of the Russian model of youth parliamentarism is recognized as the deviation of the Russian "political class" from the integration of the broad masses of young people into political activity, which significantly distorts the process of developing youth representation in the subjects of the Federation and in Russian municipalities.
Conclusions. It is pointed out that it is necessary to take political and legal measures for the development of youth parliamentary structures as one of the factors of the formation of civil society in modern Russia. One of the main priorities may be the introduction of an elective procedure for the formation of youth parliaments and the activation of their cooperation with public organizations and associations that are popular among young people.

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