Парламентаризм в России: проблемы истории и современности

Abstract

Russian Parliament – is the institutions with complicated historical destiny. First attempts to establish a two-chamber parliament in Russia as a relatively independent legislative and representative institution were made by M.M. Speransky 210 years ago. His constitutional project was only partially implemented in 1906 when the first State Duma of the Russian Empire started its activity. The ten-year experience of the first Russian parliament revealed the major institutional problem that in the long run became one of the key causes for the destruction of Russian state system in 1917. That was the problem of “the responsible Ministry” that made itself felt again in the constitutional design in 1993. The distribution of the control, answerability and responsibility functions in the “triangle”: “president – government – parliament”,– in the Constitution currently in force needs to be closely analyzed from the point of view of political practices. And very likely some amendments will have to be made.