Abstract: cThe article examines the role of constitutional (charter) courts of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the constitutional-legal support of the unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation as basic constitutional values. The work has been made with the use of the following methods: analysis, synthesis, system approach, formal and comparative legal method, and model building. The author draws a conclusion about the inferiority of constitutional (charter) courts as subjects of ensuring previously mentioned values. The courts primarily provide values that are associated with regional interests, while they are capable of damaging the unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. The author proposes three ways of solving present-day problems and filling the gaps of the legal regulation of the constitutional control in our country.

Abstract: The object of this article is the social relations in the area of ensuring the constitutional legal unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation as the fundamental constitutional values. The subject of this research is the concept of the constitutional legal guarantees of such values, as well as their scientific classification. The author reviews the aforementioned guarantees as the variety of constitutional legal constructs that execute a number of provisional functions: increase of efficiency of realization of the constitutional values, consolidation of their priority position within the constitutional legal hierarchy, their constitutional security from the threat of violation. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the author’s attempt to formulate the original definition of the constitutional legal guarantees of the unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, and provide the scientific classification. The notion of the guarantees is examined from the perspective of their content, complex of provisional functions, peculiarities of the objects and subjects of security. The classification of the guarantees is being realized based on the five classification aspects: depending on the objects of security, subject of security, legal force, validity area, and duration.