LEBEDEV Valerian Alekseyevich,

Doctor of Juridical Science, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Honored Official within the sphere of higher professional education of the Russian Federation, Professor of Constitutional and Municipal Law Department of Moscow State Law Academy named after O. E. Kutafin, Moscow. Bld. 9., str. Sadovaya Kudrinskaya, Moscow, 123995. E-mail: lebedev_va@bk.ru

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The problems highlighted in this article associated with the development of legislative and executive power in the Russian Federation. The author shows how the Constitution of the Russian Federation fundamentally changed the political-territorial division of the country, greatly expanding the powers of the entities of the Russian Federation, also including, establishment and activities of their own state authorities. The actual creation of the system of public authorities is based on the principle of separation of powers. But quite often, the process hasn’t legal “support” at the federal level. The situation goes in its own way in this regard in different regions of the Russian Federation. The article traces the idea that within a single state, conducting common policies, mutually operate three branches of government, and each of them performs its function, based in circumscribed by the law to its field.

the Constitution of the USSR, the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Constitution, statutes of subjects of the Russian Federation, the legislature, the executive power, the system of bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, the Constitutional Court.