Lawmaking in the Republic of Crimea: The Current State and Prospects

The paper examines the issue of the lawmaking development in the Republic of Crimea as a subsystem of lawmaking in the Russian Federation in modern conditions. The author analyzes historical stages of development of the Crimea legislation from the 1991 Referendum to the adoption of the new Constitution of the Republic of Crimea in 2014 and the factors contributing to the effectiveness of lawmaking technologies.

Using the methods of synthesis and comparison, as well as the formal legal method, the author identifies two models of development of lawmaking in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The author draws attention to the rule-making policy in the regions and determines the role of the RF Constitutional Court decisions in improving regional legislation.

From the standpoint of the theory of organization, the author considers lawmaking as a higher stage of development of lawmaking activity and a peculiar form of legal activity. Considerable attention is paid to the study of the concepts of interaction between lawmaking systems of the Republic of Crimea and the Russian Federation.

Lawmaking in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is an integral part of the unified law-forming process of the federal State. The Republic of Crimea, like other constituent entities of Russia, is endowed with lawmaking competence. At the same time, regional lawmaking should be a logical continuation of the federal one with due regard to regional peculiarities. And in no case it can confuse, complicate, contradict, duplicate federal rule-making.

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