Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2015 8) 1576-1579 ~ ~ ~ УДК 342.76 Restrictions of Constitutional Rights and Freedoms and Legal Obstacles in Their Implementation Elena R. Zaitseva and Vladislav Yu. <...> Panchenko* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 03.03.2015, received in revised form 12.05.2015, accepted 17.06.2015 The article is devoted to the ratio of restrictions of rights and freedoms and legal obstacles as the phenomena of legal life. <...> It makes conclusions that the legal restrictions of rights and freedoms as a general rule cannot be regarded as legal obstacles; restrictions that do not meet the constitutional conditions of legality are legal obstacles that are surmountable judicially, while the judicial assessment is a judicially signifi cant criterion of the difference between legal restrictions and obstacles. <...> Keywords: legal obstacles in realization of rights and freedoms, restrictions of rights and freedoms, rights and freedoms of man and citizen, constitutional law, legal regulation, theory of law. <...> The article was prepared with the fi nancial support of the Russian Humanitarian Scientifi c Fund, project No. 14-33-01293. <...> The whole complex of fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution of Russia can be divided into the rights and freedoms, the implementation of which does not require special regulation, and fundamental rights and freedoms that cannot do without a special law implementation mechanism to provide for them in the process of law-making and law enforcement activity. <...> Realization of rights and freedoms of an individual is is a procedural and legal mechanism for their implementation that revealed through the order, structure (subjects, objects, the nature of © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved connections between them), a variety of social and legal factors, forms, methods, conditions and guarantees for the implementation of the constitutional provisions in accordance with the democratic procedures, principles of and social justice1 legality . <...> A category of juridical (legal) obstacles in the realization of rights and legitimate interests enables to determine, among all the circumstances that affect the process of the law implementation, the legal factors (conditions, that block (fully or partially), hamper implementation process of the legal opportunities * Corresponding author E-mail address: panchenkovlad@mail.ru # 1576 # circumstances) the Elena R. Zaitseva and Vladislav Yu. <...> Restrictions of Constitutional Rights and Freedoms <...>