THE BASIC PREMISES OF IMPROVEMENT OF METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS TO DEVELOP LEGAL REGULATION IN THE AREA OF CHILD PROTECTION IN RUSSIA M.V. Fedorov, S.B. Zinkovskiy The Department of Legal Theory and History of Law and State Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia 6, Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, Russia, 117198 The article is devoted to the justification of the wide use of scientific approaches and methodological tools within the legislative activity, particularly in the area of protection of children’s rights. <...> Legal regulation on protection of the rights of the child involves study of mechanisms of such regulation, of instruments used in these mechanisms from a theoretical and practical point of view, as well as the formation of the program of action for the development of a legal mechanisms to protect the rights of the child with a list of appropriate measures. <...> Contemporary international legal documents are based on the recognized importance of the full provision by the states of implementation of internationally recognized guarantees in this area. <...> The perspectives of development of legal regulation in the area of protection of child’s rights lies generally in the frames of international legal policy in this area but strongly provides the respect of the national interests and the promotion of Russian legal and conceptual models which are sometimes even more appropriate, effective and progressive than their foreign analogues (1). <...> Key words: scientific and methodical provision, methodological tools, children’s rights, protection of children’s rights, methodology, methods, legislative basis. <...> Legislative activities and legal regulation are based on the legal traditions of the society, an integral part of which are the achievements of the legal science. <...> The preparatory work at legislative reform, as a rule, expresses the conduct of an integrated theoretical-legal justification for special items and objects of legal regulation. <...> Such a justification, in turn, can not ignore the existing conceptual approaches, typical for the general theory of law and other legal sciences. <...> Legal regulation on protection of the rights of the child involves study of mechanisms of such regulation, of instruments used in these mechanisms from a theoretical and practical point of view, as well as the formation of the program of action for the development of a legal mechanisms to protect the rights of the child with a list of appropriate measures at the legislative, programmatic, managerial and executive levels required to provide its efficiency. <...> Urgency, scientific and practical significance of the issue under study is confirmed by the content of a number <...>