Content of Constitutional Principle of Irremovability of Judges in Interpretation of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

2016 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Yuliya Makeeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
The Russian Federation

scholarly journals Addressing local government issues in the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation during the implementation of municipal reform in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-147
Author(s):  
Aleksey Andreevich Amiantov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Municipal Reform ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Regional Authorities ◽  
Legal Consequences

The presented study is devoted to the study of the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in relation to issues of local self-government in the context of the municipal reform of 2014-2015. and its legal consequences. The aim of this work is to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the identified problems of the work of local authorities in the period following the start of municipal reform. The research methodology is built by combining descriptive analysis elements and a case study. It is concluded that the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has consistently maintained its position on the constitutional nature of the reform of local authorities. The provisions of the relevant regulatory legal acts are limited only partially and only in relation to first-level municipalities - municipal authorities of settlements. Given the deprivation of the latter a significant part of the powers and the observed transition to a singlelevel system of local self-government, the adoption of these restrictions does not significantly affect the implementation of the reform. Of fundamental importance is the position of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation regarding the new powers of regional authorities in relation to municipalities. The increase in the arsenal of legal instruments of the influence of the leadership of the constituent entities of the federation on the heads of local self-government was not interpreted as a violation of the constitutional principle of the independence of municipalities. The latter opens up the possibility for further legalization of the process of embedding municipal bodies in the structure of the informal “power vertical”.

scholarly journals The Constitutional Principle of Uniform Economic Area and Centralization of Public Finance in the Russian Federation: Analysis of the Russian Federation Constitutional Court’s Rulings

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-175
Author(s):  
Elena Ryabova
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Fiscal Federalism ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Economic Area ◽  
Russian Constitution ◽  
The Russian Federation

The paper is devoted to the issue of centralization in public finance in Russia, and highlights one of the problems of interpretation of the Russian Constitution clauses. The Rulings of the Russian Federation Constitutional Court from the period 1997–2006 created legal grounds for the process of centralization and reduction of the regional powers regarding budgeting and taxation. But all arguments of the Court are debatable. Wherein, the centralization is justified by the constitutional principle of uniform economic area. The author argues that the Russian Constitution does not have clauses establishing the uniform budget and tax systems directly, and any model of intergovernmental relations might comply with the Russian Constitution. Uniformity of economic area does not imply uniformity in taxation and budgeting in the sense of sameness. Study of foreign practices shows different approaches to the understanding of uniformity in economy, and in taxation and budgeting. The contemporary Russian public finance law is formed under the influence of the Constitutional Court’s legal positions, and the process of centralization is still evolving. The Russian history of intergovernmental relations (1991–1997) shows another model of fiscal federalism – the decentralized federalism. Replacement of the fiscal federalism models is determined by the political considerations, not by constitutional requirements.

scholarly journals Problems of the implementation of social state and the constitutional reform 2020

POPULATION ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Oleg Boldyrev ◽  
Yulia Nenakhova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Social State ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation

The 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation enshrined the principle of social state, a number of social rights of citizens and other provisions of a social nature. However, according to many researchers, the actual situation, including mass poverty and extreme property differentiation of the population, and the dominant vector of social policy, which is reflected in commercialization and "optimization" of the social sphere, raising the retirement age, strengthening the selective character of social assistance, etc. speak of the dismantling of the welfare state. At the same time, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation does not adequately fulfill its function of protecting the Constitution and, in particular, ensuring the constitutional principle of social state and social rights of citizens, does not recognize the legislative norms that normatively formalize such reforms as unconstitutional, sometimes — as in the case of considering the constitutionality of increasing retirement age in 2018 — actually avoiding consideration of the case on the merits. The draft Law on Amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation "On Improving Regulation of Certain Issues of Organizing Public Authority", proposed by the President of Russia in the winter of2020, was substantiated, inter alia, by considerations of the development of social state, ensuring the social rights of citizens and the corresponding social obligations of the State. The article shows which of the key social problems could be solved within the framework of the previous version of the Constitution; the question is examined whether their solution requires its changing. It is shown that the Law on Amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation adopted in the spring of 2020 does not solve a number of the key social problems in modern Russia, and does not make enough use of foreign experience in constitutional regulation of the social sphere. Based on the experience of other countries, the article proposes a number of norms, the constitutional enshrining of which could to a greater extent ensure implementation of the principle of social state.

scholarly journals Proportionality as a constitutional principle of limiting human and civil rights and freedoms in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Podmarеv ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Principle Of Proportionality ◽  
The One ◽  
Restrictive Measures

Introduction. The 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation allows for the possibility of restricting rights and freedoms of individuals and establishes imperative conditions (principles) for the introduction and operation of these restrictions. One of these constitutional principles is the principle of proportionality: the rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen can be limited only to the extent necessary to achieve the goals specified in part 3 of Article 55. Theoretical analysis. The principle of proportionality of restrictions to certain goals is currently declared by the constitutions of many states, and is also part of the international legal criteria for restrictions on human rights. Some conceptual issues of the content of the constitutional principle of proportionality are resolved by the Constitutional Court of Russia. In its most general form, the principle of proportionality means that: the measures (means) used to restrict rights and freedoms must be conditioned by constitutional goals; restrictive measures (means) should not be greater than necessary; restrictive measures (means) should not lead to disproportionate, excessive restrictions. Empirical analysis. The analysis of the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Russia shows that in each specific case, the Court determines the necessary measure to restrict a particular right (freedom), comparing, weighing the constitutionally recognized values (on the one hand, the rights of a certain person, on the other, the rights of other persons, the interests of the state, public interests), as well as assessing the adequacy of the legal means used to achieve any constitutionally established goal (s) of restriction. The conclusions reached by the Court regarding the proportionality or disproportion (excess) of the restriction of this or that right are binding not only for the legislator, but also in some cases for the law enforcement officer. Results. It is concluded that the implementation of the constitutional principle of proportionality of restrictions in lawmaking and law enforcement means that when establishing and applying restrictions on rights and freedoms to achieve a certain constitutional goal (goals), exclusively necessary measures (means) must be provided and used in this situation. The principle of proportionality of restrictions is one of the criteria for assessing the constitutionality of the restriction of any right or freedom, as well as one of the guarantees against arbitrary (unreasonable, excessive, unconstitutional) restrictions, since it presupposes the existence of certain boundaries (limits, frameworks, conditions) of lawmaking and law enforcement.

scholarly journals The Right to Education In Terms of the Functions of Labour Law

2017 ◽  
pp. 85-92
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

The right to education is a fundamental human right guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and international human rights instruments. At the same time, there are some difficulties for those who combine work and studying. The Labour Code of the Russian Federation stipulates guarantees and compensations exclusively for workers obtaining degrees of respective levels for the first time. Getting a degree of the same level of education by workers can become impossible. The author considers the issues of realization of the right to education by a worker who has already had a respective degree. On the basis of international law, the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and also decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation the author concludes that there should be a differentiated approach to determining the amount of guarantees provided to employees combining work with studying. From the author’s point of view, only workers obtaining respective degrees for the first time should enjoy material guarantees. At the same time, non-material legal guarantees should be applied to all workers combining their works with studying. Otherwise those workers who obtain degrees of respective levels not for the first time don’t enjoy a constitutional principle of equality and can suffer from impossibility of realization of the right to education.

scholarly journals Constitutional-legal conditions for application of international treaties of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Egor Krivosheev
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government

This article discusses the questions of application of international treaties concluded on behalf of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, federal executive branches, or authorized organizations. The subject of this research is the constitutional norms of the Russian Federation and other normative legal acts that regulate the procedure for concluding, executing and terminating the international treaties of the Russian Federation, legal provisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, as well as scientific works on the topic. Special attention is given to the analysis of the constitutional principle that the international treaties of the Russian Federation are part of the legal system of the country. The author reveals the gaps in the current legislation of the Russian Federation specifying the constitutional provisions on the conditions for application of international treaties in the Russian Federation. It is established that the 2020 constitutional reform has improved the mechanism for protecting state sovereignty, and led to formulation of the constitutional-legal condition for application of the decisions of intergovernmental bodies adopted based on the provisions of international treaties of the Russian Federation. The article makes recommendations for the improvement of constitutional-legal regulation of application of international treaties of the Russian Federation. The conclusion is drawn on the existence of mandatory (compliance of the international treaty with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, its formalization, enactment, and consent to its universal binding), as well as optional (publication of domestic acts for application of the international treaty) constitutional-legal conditions for application of international treaties of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals BASICS OF THE JUDICIAL CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT IN RUSSIAN AND BRAZILIAN FEDERAL STRUCTURE

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Игорь Семеновский ◽  
Igor' Semenovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Review ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Federal Supreme ◽  
Federal Structure

This article is devoted to the comparative analysis of bases of legal regulation of the constitutional proceedings and enforcement in the Russian Federation and the Federative Republic of Brazil, whihc are the Member States of BRICS. The author provides a brief overview of the constitutional regulation of the judiciary and a comparative analysis of the models of judicial constitutional control in Brazil and Russia; examines in detail the legal regulation of judicial constitutional control of the two states, including a review of the constitutional regulation of judicial procedures used by the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil. The article contains a few examples of the application by the highest bodies of judicial constitutional control of the constitutional principles of the federal structure and analyzes some decisions of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil and Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which have influenced the development of federalism in these states. On the basis of the study of the basic laws and other acts the author has made a conclusion about the similarities and differences in the legal regulation of judicial constitutional control in the sphere under consideration. So, he marked even more rigid interpretation of the Constitution by the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, unlike the Russian practice, to the consideration of cases on conformity with Brasilian Constitution, state legislation and other normative-legal acts. For example, Brazilian and Russian federalism specifies and examines the constitutional principle of the Federal structure – the principle of symmetry. The conclusion is that the approach of the Russian legislator and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is more variable to regulate the issues and opportunities change the criteria of construction of models of organization of state power at the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation with greater freedom in determining the internal structure then in Brazil.

Features of Judicial Practice in the Russia as the Basis of Precedent

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-106
Author(s):  
V. V. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Law Making

The article is devoted to the analysis of judicial practice as the basis of law-making activity in the Russian Federation, on the basis of which it is possible to create a precedent. Case law in Russia is Advisory in nature and is not mandatory for law enforcement practice. Courts use the signs of case law in their decisions in the reasoned part. Signs of case law is a ruling of the constitutional court of the Russian Federation and regulations of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

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