Filippova, N.A. Federal reform in Russia: the legal nature of divided powers and the new balance of public territorial interests.

Abstract: This article by N.A. Filippova is devoted to the studies of the federal reform in Russia, which took place 2004 to 2007. Some legal scholars even qualify this important reform as a quasi-constitutional one. The change of model of separation of powers in the sphere of joint competence of the federation and its subjects somewhat repeats the conclusions of the earlier first reform, which unfortunately was not duly recognized…