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| Constitution of Russia |
Presidential copy of the Constitution.
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| Ratified |
12 December 1993 |
| Signatories |
Citizens of Russia |
- For the constitution of the Imperial Russia, see Russian Constitution of 1906
The current Constitution of the Russian Federation (Russian: Конституция Российской Федерации; pronounced [kənsʲtʲɪˈtutsɨjə rɐˈsʲijskəj fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨɪ]) was adopted by national referendum on 12 December 1993. Russia's constitution came into force on 25 December 1993, at the moment of its official publication. It replaced the previous Soviet-era Constitution of 12 April 1978 of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic following the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.
Of all registered voters, 58,187,755 people (or 54.8%) participated in the referendum. Of those, 32,937,630 people (54.5%) voted for adoption of the Constitution.[1]
[edit] Declaration of adoption
Dmitry Medvedev takes the presidential oath with his hand resting on the Constitution, 7 May 2008.
"We, the multinational people of the Russian Federation, united by a common fate on our land, establishing human rights and freedoms, civic peace and accord, preserving the historically established state unity, proceeding from the universally recognized principles of equality and self-determination of peoples, revering the memory of ancestors who have conveyed to us the love for the Motherland, belief in the good and justice, reviving the sovereign statehood of Russia and asserting the firmness of its democratic base, striving to ensure the well-being and prosperity of Russia, proceeding from the responsibility for our Motherland before the present and future generations, recognizing ourselves as part of the world community, adopt the Constitution of the Russian Federation."
[edit] Structure
The constitution is divided into two sections.
[edit] Section One
- Fundamentals of the Constitutional System
- Rights and Liberties of Man and Citizen
- Federative system
- President of the Russian Federation
- Federal Assembly
- Government of the Russian Federation
- Judiciary
- Local Self-Government
- Constitutional Amendments and Revisions
[edit] Section Two
- Concluding and Transitional Provisions
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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