Interview with Mikhail Krasnov, B. N. Yeltsin’s assistant on legal issues in 1995–1998: ... The rules laid down in the Constitution still largely determine our life today - with its gigantic state arbitrariness. It is there that the answers to today's pressing questions are contained: where is our separation of powers? in Why is there a “chief boss” the country, while other government institutions are “blown away”: there is neither a genuine parliament nor an independent judiciary?

For those who are today forty years old, the events of 1993, the dissolution of the Soviets and the adoption of the new Constitution of Russia are something ancient and obscure. That year they were young, they had other interests. Meanwhile, to know the latest history of your country, the mistakes and misses of its leaders is useful. It is not for nothing that they say: they learn from mistakes!

In the Kremlin If this is not a crisis, then what? September 27, 2018 Alexander Golts Here is the news that came in one day, for September 26. State Duma deputies adopted in the second, most important, “conceptual” reading the law on increasing the retirement age. Parliamentarians from, God forgive the opposition, were especially consistent. They resolutely and boldly voted against the anti -people's law, but at the same time also decisively supported the amendments made by Vladimir Putin.