Principles, institutions and law of political governance in Russia
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Constitution of the Russian Federation
A special copy of the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, on which the President of the Russian Federation takes the oath
Overview
Original title
Конституция Российской Федерации
Jurisdiction
Russian Federation
Ratified
12 December 1993
Date effective
25 December 1993
System
Federal semi-presidential republic
Government structure
Branches
Three
Head of state
President
Chambers
Bicameral (Federal Assembly: Federation Council, State Duma)
Executive
Prime Minister-led Government
Judiciary
Judiciary (Constitutional Court, Supreme Court)
Federalism
Federation
Electoral college
No
Entrenchments
9
History
First legislature
12 December 1993
First executive
9 August 1996
Amendments
4 (plus 11 alternations on Federal subjects)
Last amended
4 July 2020
Location
Kremlin, Moscow
Commissioned by
Constitutional Assembly
Signatories
Constitutional referendum by the citizens of Russia
Supersedes
Constitution of the RSFSR
Full text
Constitution of Russia at Wikisource
Politics of Russia
Law
Constitution
Russian Criminal Code
Tax Code
Mental Health Law
Presidency
President Vladimir Putin (list)
Presidential Administration
Security Council
State Council
Executive
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (list)
Government
Cabinet (56th)
Legislature
Federal Assembly
Federation Council
Members
Chairwoman: Valentina Matviyenko
State Duma
Members (8th convocation)
Chairman: Vyacheslav Volodin
Judiciary
Constitutional Court
Supreme Court
Prosecutor General
Legal system
Law enforcement
Elections
Central Election Commission
Presidential elections
Legislative elections
Gubernatorial elections
Regional elections
Local elections
Electoral geography
Political parties
Federalism
Federal subjects
Heads of federal subjects
Regional parliaments
Local government
Foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister: Sergey Lavrov
Diplomatic missions of / in Russia
Nationality law
Passports
Visa requirements
Visa policy (history)
Russia and the United Nations
United Nations Security Council
P5
Union State
EAEU
CIS
SCO
BRICS
APEC
EAS
G20
United States
Finland
China
India
Ukraine
EU
NATO
Arctic policy
Related topics
Administrative divisions
Armed forces
Civic Chamber
Accounts Chamber
Opposition
Human rights
Political abuse of psychiatry
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The Constitution of the Russian Federation (Russian: Конститу́ция Росси́йской Федера́ции) was adopted by national referendum on 12 December 1993. The last reform was in 2020, see 2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia.
Russia's constitution came into force on 25 December 1993, at the moment of its official publication, and abolished the Soviet system of government. The current Constitution is the second most long-lived in the history of Russia, behind the Constitution of 1936.
In miniature book version.
The text was drafted by the 1993 Constitutional Conference, which was attended by over 800 participants. Sergei Alexeyev, Sergey Shakhray, and sometimes Anatoly Sobchak are considered as the primary co-authors of the constitution. The text was inspired by Mikhail Speransky's constitutional project and the current French constitution.[1] The USAID-funded lawyers also contributed to the development of the draft.[2]
It replaced the previous Soviet-era Constitution of 12 April 1978, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (which had already been amended in April 1992 to reflect the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the sovereignty of the Russian Federation), following the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.
^Sergey Shakhray - The Voice of Russia on YouTube
^"USAID In Russia". usaid.gov. United States Agency for International Development. 18 September 2012. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
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