Constitutional reform 2020 in Russia and its political and legal consequences (some notes)

Abstract

The article analyzes not only the process of adoption and entry into force of the 2020 constitutional amendments, but also examines their content, identifies a number of their significant features, and predicts their impact on the further development of the public administration system. The constitutional amendments of 2020 were aimed not only at improving certain aspects of the functioning of public authority, but also at regulating certain areas of the socio-economic, cultural and moral life of Russian society and the state. The features of the organization and activities of the highest bodies of state power are considered, the political and legal significance of the adopted amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and their impact on the system of public power are substantiated, proposals are formulated aimed at improving the existing procedure for introducing constitutional amendments. Assessing the constitutional changes, the author considers them as the beginning of a comprehensive constitutional and legal reform, which has as its purpose the further modernization of the constitutional text up to the adoption of a new Russian Constitution.