LEGAL REGULATION OF STATE FUNDING OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MECHANISM OF POLITICAL COMPETITION Dolgikh Fedor Igorevich, PhD in History, associate professor. <...> Department: Theory and History of State and Law chair. <...> E-mail: fdolgih@mfpa.ru Annotation: The article analyzes the impact of state funding of political parties on the mechanism of political competition. <...> Discusses the purpose of providing state funding, the Foundation for its grant, examines the place .. of state funding in the structure of revenues of leading political parties of Russia. <...> The subject of the research is public funding of political parties as a source of income. <...> The purpose of the study is to analyze the impact of public funding of political parties in the political competition. <...> In this regard, the objectives are: to analyze the dynamics of change of volumes of state financing of political parties of Russia; to consider the bases for granting public funding and purpose of public funding of political parties; to analyze which political party received the most benefits under the current system of public funding. <...> The scientific results can be used in the preparation of textbooks on constitutional law, theory of state and law, history of Russian state and law. <...> The article may be of interest to managers and employees of apparatuses of political parties, professors and law students with an interest in the funding of political parties. <...> Рассматриваются цели предоставления государственного финансирования, основания для его предоставления, анализируется место государственного финансирования в структуре доходов ведущих политических партий России Предметом исследования выступает государственное финансирование деятельности политических партий как источник поступления финансовых средств. <...>