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From constitution to law: Implementing the 2020 Russian constitutional changes

Noble, B; Petrov, N; (2021) From constitution to law: Implementing the 2020 Russian constitutional changes. Russian Politics , 6 (1) pp. 130-152. 10.30965/24518921-00601008. Green open access

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Abstract

Although 4 July 2020 saw the coming into force of constitutional changes in Russia, this was far from the end of the story. Most clearly, these changes to the 1993 constitution required implementation, including through amendments to, and the writing of new pieces of, federal legislation. In part, this process was the mundane work of legal bureaucrats, tweaking and creating many pieces of legislation to reflect the new constitutional text. But the implementation process also reveals much more about the broader constitutional reform project. This article reviews the implementation process, discussing its complexity, the improvisation shown when fleshing out certain new constitutional details, its relationship with other political developments, and the chasm laid bare between Putin’s promise of the rebalancing of power in his 15 January 2020 Address to the Federal Assembly versus the reality of reform in practice.

Type: Article
Title: From constitution to law: Implementing the 2020 Russian constitutional changes
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.30965/24518921-00601008
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.30965/24518921-00601008
Language: English
Additional information: © Ben Noble and Nikolay Petrov, 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Russia, constitutional reform, law-making, State Duma, legislative bills
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121183
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