Dobrynin,N.M. Federalism in Russia: evaluation of its condition and ways to solve existing problems.

Abstract: It has been more than ten years since new Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993 enshrined the bases of Russian federalism. However, as N.M. Dobrynin notes, one cannot say that Russia has become a truly federal state. And the problem is not limited only to the imperfections of constitutional provisions and their declarative character, but is also obvious in realization of constitutional provisions in national legislation and in practice. And we should be really sorry, that instead of a basic reconstruction of the Russian state towards the true federalism, we’ve only had a mere “federal redecoration”…