Problems of restricting the rights and freedoms of foreign citizens in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation

The analysis of the problems of legal regulation of restrictions on the rights of foreign citizens by normative act of the heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is carried out. In recent years, a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation have adopted acts restricting the employment of foreign citizens in certain areas, despite the fact that articles 55 and 62 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation provide for restrictions on rights and freedoms only by federal law. In this regard, the purpose of the study is to clarify the constitutionality of these restrictions at the level of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. To achieve this goal, the tasks of analyzing the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal and regional legislation were solved using general scientific and special legal research methods. The main conclusions are the establishment of a framework for certain norms of federal legislation and the presence of indirect restrictions on the rights of foreign citizens through the introduction of bans on their employment by business entities, which, from a formal and legal point of view, does not contradict the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The theo-retical conclusions of the study can be used in the development of regulatory and legal regulation in similar areas of application related to the restriction of citizens’ rights.