25 YEARS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: IMPLEMENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL MODELS

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the analysis of several issues related to the implementation and development of constitutional models. The author emphasizes and highlights the role of the current Constitution as a political and legal instrument providing purposeful administration of diverse changes associated with the change of political, economic, legal and, in the end, socio-political order in general. It is noted that constitutional models set forth in the Basic Law of the State in their organic totality provide for a "future plan" for Russia and establish guidelines for the development of the society and the State. Special attention is paid to the consideration of the reasons influencing the quality of implementation of constitutional models. The key reason involves the objective features of the cultural and historical context under which the 1993 Constitution began to operate. Implementation of Constitutional objectives started during the period when legal and institutional basis corresponding to the new constitutional determinations did not exist, and old and new ideas concerning approved and acceptable future, strategy and tactics of the country's development were coexisting and competing in both social consciousness and consciousness of elites. The persistence of such competing perceptions and corresponding models of the desired future still influence the quality and completeness of "constitutional intentions" implementation. The paper shows that the analysis of constitutional models implementation strongly requires the use of cross-disciplinary approaches, since any research with regard to the "constitutional plan" and its factual implementation, and, even more, the search for the reasons of the current state of affairs, necessarily goes beyond the scope of the subject area of constitutional law, namely: political science, social psychology, history, economics.