Constitution of Russian Federation - Definition and Overview

The current Constitution of the Russian Federation (Конституция Российской Федерации) was adopted by national referendum on December 12, 1993 replacing the previous Soviet-era Constitution of April 12, 1978 of Russian_SFSR. The document is divided in two sections:

SECTION ONE

1. Fundamentals of the Constitutional System
2. Rights and Liberties of Man and Citizen
3. Russian Federation
4. President of the Russian Federation
5. Federal Assembly
6. Government of the Russian Federation
7. Judiciary
8. Local Self-Government
9. Constitutional Amendments and Revisions

SECTION TWO

1. Concluding and Transitional Provisions

See also

• Russia
• Law of the Russian Federation

External links

• In Russian (http://www.gov.ru/main/konst/konst0.html) - The Constitution on the official Russian Government's website
• English Translation (http://www.russianembassy.org/RUSSIA/CONSTIT/)
• A site in Russian about the Constitution (http://www.constitution.ru/)

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