Facing a situation in which there is growing popular discontent and increasing dysfunction in institutions, Vladimir Putin has tried to save the situation by pushing through amendments to the constitution. But just as constitutional...
As it was informed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has approved the first reading of an expanded extremism bill aimed at further quelling opposition activists and politicians...
But in restoring what is very much a Leonid Brezhnev-style constitution, the Russian regionalist says, the Kremlin leader is unwittingly recreating some of the conditions which led to perestroika but in a country which can only aspire to...
The great Russian novelist Victor Serge wrote a series of novels highlighting “the victory in defeat” and “the defeat in victory” that many Russian rulers and revolutionaries have experienced, a...
The most important change in the Russian Constitution that Vladimir Putin has called for has almost been lost sight of in all the coverage of what has been taking place, Vitaly Portnikov says. That change is Putin’s desire to have...
What happened: On January 15, 2020, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin addressed the Federal Assembly and proposed to amend the Russian Constitution, redistributing political power to the Parliament and the State Council, which...
In today’s message to the Federal Assembly of Russia, President Vladimir Putin proposed a large-scale constitutional reform, which should significantly change the architecture of the state. Putin himself intends to decline to...
Valery Korovin, a member of the Izborsky Club, has asked Russia’s Civic Chamber of which he is also a member to press for amending the Russian Federation Constitution to include a declaration that the Russian nation is the unique...
On October 21, 2016, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) handed down a decision that may trigger what challenges Moscow’s view of the country and that many Russians and non-Russians are likely to see as...
A constitution is not just words on paper but a living and breathing document that is given meaning by those who use it. That is certainly true in the Russian Federation where the words contained in the 1993 basic law provide little...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
