A Strategy for the Constitutional Development of Modern Russia (Values, Goals, Risks)

The dynamics and content of the processes related to the global issues of the world order have led us to reflecting on Russia's development strategy in the context of the emergence of a multipolar world and a policy of "deterrence" exerted by the United States and its allies. It is well known that the Constitution of the Russian Federation is a basic multifunctional strategic document, the political and other significance of which is hard to overestimate The definition of a Russian constitutional development vector involves discussing and assessing compatibility of the content of the Russian Constitution with contemporary challenges At the same time, in the context of the crisis of international law, the development of constitutional principles to be applied in a foreign policy has evolved to make it possible to specify the foundations of Russia's international activity for other States participating in the global processes, to play a unifying role based on common inter-state foreign values. The current situation is aggravated by the fact that, while drafting and adopting the Constitution, Russia acted as a recipient of Western values that the United States and its allies have repeatedly neglected in relation to other nations. However, the need and the possibility of reforming the Russian Constitution cannot be assessed in a simplistic way For this reason, the risks of destabilization that may arise when attempts are made to introduce major changes to the Basic Law, need to be analyzed; it is necessary to evaluate it as a document expressing strategic objectives and priorities, its interrelation with other documents establishing strategic planning approaches, the National Security Strategy applied in the Russian Federation. On the basis of this contemplation, the paper deals with the constitutional development of modern Russia from a strategic planning perspective, describes the problem of reforming the RF Constitution while international relations are subjected to reformatting; defines the constitutional value approach to the formation of a multipolar world, and the role of domestic constitutionalism in the development of a democratic multipolar system, explores the possibilities of strategic planning for constitutional development with specific attention being paid to the objectives closely connected with national interests; and analyzes the risks associated with the formulation and implementation of the constitutional development strategy

constitutional development, value basis, reformatting of international relations, authority of international law, deterioration of legal values, new world order system, interaction of states, regional constitutionalism project, opportunity for strategic planning, Russian constitutionalism development, constitutional ideas, risk of the RF Constitution reform

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