WEAK FOUNDATION: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ASSESSMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN 1993 CONSTITUTION

The article is devoted to the analysis of the controversial assessments of 1993 Russian Constitution made at its 25th anniversary. Author also focuses on the ideas contained in article “The letter and spirit of the Constitution” by the President of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, published on October 10, 2018 in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Summarizing the assessments of the ongoing discussion, author comes to the main conclusion: light changes are not enough to improve the 1993 Russian Constitution. Russia needs a new basic law, adequate to the new historical realities