Zatonsky, V.A. Legal mentality, sense of justice and legal activity of the people within the context of higher efficiency of the Russian statehood.

Abstract: Currently most people in the Russian society lack even the basic legal knowledge. Thus, while the totalitarian regime was demolished, its offsprings remain in the people’s views and minds. Many Russians still retain the old attitude to state and power, and at the same time greatly distrust the government and the law. One of the examples of this attitude could be constant “attacks’ on part 3 of Art. 81 of the Russian Constitution, providing that the President cannot serve more than 2 consequent terms…