Seitenhistorie

...

The Russian Constitution contains the basic principles of the Russian constitutional order and is due to its supreme legal force the centre and the heart of pravovoe gosudarstvo. The principle of pravovoe gosudarstvo is central to the Russian constitutionalism but it is a "weak" principle not a "hard" one since it describes not the current state which does not tolerate any derogations but an objective that has still to be achieved. In the current state there are inter alia considerable deficiencies in the application of the laws, contradictory norms and other normative acts, big discretionary power of the executive, misbalance between the powers, dangers to the independence of judges... The legal system is still in transition. Some Russian academics observe that Russian legal scholars tend to discuss the principle of pravovoe gosudarstvo theoretically but do not apply it in reality - the current state building and legislation are not measured with pravovoe gosudarstvo. Furthermore, the Russian constitutionalism lacks wide social support by the population - there is no identification yet with the Constitution and its values. This makes the very long way to go not easier.

List

of

further

readings:

In

English:

Barry,

Donald

D.

(Ed.)

(1992):

Toward

the

"rule

of

law"

in

Russia?

Butler,

Wiliam

E.

(2009):

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law,

3

^rd edition.

Butler,

Wiliam

E.

(2003):

Jus

and

Lex

in

Russian

Law:

A

Discussion

Agenda,

in:

Denis

J.

Galligan

/

Marian

Kurkchian

(Ed.),

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and

Informal

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The

Post-Communist

Experience,

47-61.

In

German:

Luchterhandt,

Otto

(1998),

"Rechtsstaat

Russland".

Beachtliche

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schwere

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ungünstige

Perspektiven,

in:

Internationale

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12-22.

Nußberger,

Angelika

(2004):

Zur

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Rechtskultur

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in:

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32,

25.06.2004,

1-5.

Nußberger,

Angelika

(2005):

Verfassungsmäßigkeit

der

jüngsten

Rechtsreformen

in

Russland,

in:

Russlandanalysen

Nr.

57,

25.06.2004,

2-5.

Nußberger,

Angelika

(2007):

Gelenkte

Justiz,

in:

Margareta

Mommsen

/

Angelika

Nußberger,

Das

System

Putin,

82-124.

Nußberger,

Angelika

(2009):

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der

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Nußberger,

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in

das

russische

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In Russian:
Baglai, M.B. (2008): Konstituzionnoe pravo Rossiiskoi Federazii, 7th edition, 137-141.

Koslova, E.I. / Kutafin O.E. (2009): Konstituzionnoe pravo Rossii, 4th ed., 122-129.

Kudinov, O.A. (2002): Rasrabotka teorii pravovogo gosudarstva v rossiiskoi nauke nachala XX veka, in: obschestvennye nauki i sovremennost', 101-109.

Kutafin, O.E. (2008): Rossiiskii konstituzionalism.

Malfliet, K. (2008): Mozhno li schitat' sovremennuiu Rossiiu pravovym gosudarstvom. Neprikosvennyi Zapas, Debaty o Politike i Kulture, 61(5), 49-66.

Sorkin, V.D. / Lasarev, L.V. (Ed.) (2009): Kommentarii k Konstituzii Rossiskoi Federazii.