PUBLIC CONTROL OVER THE ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES – TO THE QUESTION Dolgikh Fedor Igorevich, PhD in History, associate professor. <...> Place of employment: Moscow fiЧaЧМО ТЧНЮstrТaХ ЮЧТЯОrsТtв “Synergy”. <...> DОpartment: Theory and history of state and law chair. <...> E-mail: fdolgih@mfpa.ru Annotation: The article discusses the issues associated with the concept, goal, objectives, content of public control over the activities of political parties, as well as possible forms of this type of control. <...> The author comes to the conclusion that the need of transformation of political parties in the subject of public control and the extension to them of the relevant provisions of the Federal law "On fundamentals of public control in the Russian Federation" due to the dual nature of political parties, their role as a link between the state and society. <...> The subject of research is public control over the activities of political parties. <...> The scientific results can be used in the preparation of textbooks on constitutional law and theory of state and law. . <...> The article may be of interest to managers and employees of apparatuses of political parties, teachers and law students interested in the problems of legal regulation of activities of political parties. <...> Автор приходит к выводу, что необходимость превращения политических партий в объект общественного контроля и распространение на них соответствующих положений Федерального закона «Об основах общественного контроля в Российской Федерации» обусловлена двойственной природой политических партий, их ролью связующего звена между государством и обществом Предметом исследования выступает общественный контроль за деятельностью политических партий. <...>