Constitutional Changes and a New Stage of Russian Federalism Development
https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2021-1-44-61
Abstract
The amendments and additions to the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993, approved by popular vote, should be considered as the significant advance in the development of the legal foundations of the Russian state, including a wide range of issues, related to the Russian model of federalism and its implementation in the practice of state and municipal administration. These changes can hardly be regarded as one of the stages of the federal reform, especially since the final goals of this reform were not clearly stated earlier and even now remain very uncertain. Nevertheless, as it’s shown in the article, some of these changes can have a significant impact on the nature and mechanism of functioning of the Russian federal state, in particular, on the activities of state and municipal government bodies. The article suggests that constitutional changes and additions in 2020 can significantly strengthen the democratic and social nature of the state. At the same time, it’s argued that these changes should not be given the status of “finiteness”. It is obvious that the federal reform in the country, no matter how it is regarded, has not exhausted its potential, which in the foreseeable future may give an impetus to the further development of the legal foundations of Russian federalism, including the sphere of its constitutional regulation.
About the Author
E. M. Bukhvald
Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
BUKHVALD Evgeny M. - Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Chief Researcher – Head of the Center for Federal Relations and Regional Development
32, Nakhimovsky Av., Moscow, 117218
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Bukhvald E.M. Constitutional Changes and a New Stage of Russian Federalism Development. Federalism. 2021;(1):44-61. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2021-1-44-61
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