Egupov V.A. Registration as a form of restriction of the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to freedom of movement and choice of place of stay and residence  

Abstract: The research object is the range of social relations appearing in the sphere of registration of citizens of the Russian Federation. The research subject includes the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation related to the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to freedom of movement and choice of place of stay and residence within the Russian Federation and the provisions of the Federal Law “On the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to freedom of movement and choice of place of stay and residence within the Russian Federation” which, in the author’s opinion, restrict the abovementioned right. The purpose of this article is to define the essence and the social function of registration, to analyze administrative-legal regulation of registration as a government activity aimed at fixation and generalization of notifying information about the citizens for the purpose of ensuring the necessary conditions for exercising of rights and freedoms by the citizens and fulfilling their duties to other citizens, the state and the society, and clarifying the reasonability of registration as a form of the citizens’ constitutional rights to freedom of movement and choice of place of stay and residence restriction. The research methodology is based on the dialectical approach together with the critical analysis of the imperfections of the current legislation in the sphere of registration. Moreover, the author applies the comparative-legal and the formal-logical methods. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the attempt at a complex analysis of the provisions of the current legislation in the sphere of registration. The author concludes that registration in democratic states, which Russia according to its constitution belongs to, shouldn’t be a form of restriction of the right of law-abiding citizens to freedom of movement and choice of place of stay and residence within the country. A notifying character of registration should exclude administrative liability for the absence of registration for law-abiding citizens and at the same time it should oblige the persons of no fixed abode and the persons potentially dangerous for the society and the state to register at their place of stay without any delay. The control over the performance of this obligation should be carried out by the Federal Migration Service bodies and the internal affairs bodies.

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