Impact of Anti-Corruption Institutions of the Russian Administrative Reform on the Development of Constitutional Legislation

Abstract

The article highlights the main areas of impact of anti-corruption institutions and phenomena on theRussian constitutional law. First, the modern constitutional law is affected by the global political theory.Over the past decades, it has gained a strong academic potential to understand the processes of corruption.Nowadays, its negligence harms the constitutional legal science. The next important area ofinfluence of the anti-corruption agenda on constitutional law and relevant legislation associates with theadoption of universal and regional anti-corruption conventions. Through their controlling mechanisms,they have gradually transformed domestic legislation. Furthermore, among European institutions we mustmention the European Court of Human Rights and the Venice Commission which are beginning to use theterminology and characteristics of the theory of political corruption. However, special attention is paid tothe cases when anti-corruption standards go through constitutional law from the Russian administrativereform. For the traditional and rather conservative domestic legal theory, this influence could be the mostevident and convincing one. The examples of such influence are the institutions related to conflict of interest,declaration of assets, ensuring transparency of authorities and others. And the most important that,transforming to the constitutional legal norms and institutions, they begin to prevent political corruption,which is one of the key problems of the Russian Federation constitutional order.