Historical Traditions and Values as Foundation of the Russian Legal System

Abstract

The amendments in 2020 to the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993 were a decisive step towards strengthening sovereignty in the international arena and the reception in the Russian Federation of historical traditions and value attitudes characteristic of Russia in any historical form of its statehood. The unity of state ideology, which is directly prohibited in the chapter «Fundamentals of the Constitutional System» of the Basic Law of Russia, has become the subject of special attention of the developers of the text of constitutional novels due to the impossibility of amending chapters 1, 2 and 9. Additions and changes made to chapters 3‑8 positively influenced and significantly softened Art. 13 (part 3), but did not completely eliminate the problems and contradictions between constitutional norms and the objective need to restore the ideological sphere in the Russian state, before the growing aggressive expansion of alien values imposed by a number of unfriendly countries. The discourse taking place in the scientific community and at all levels of public power in the state on the issue of the invariability of chapters 1, 2 and 9 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation leads to the idea of the advisability of revising the current constitutional act in the future. At the present stage, positive prospects are noted in solving ideological, socio-economic, geopolitical and other problems, as well as developing an effective strategy in the field of national security of the Russian Federation, which is greatly facilitated by the updated and improved Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020.