Legal encyclopedia. Letter D

STATE SOVEREIGNTY

The Russian Federation is a sovereign state.

GS RF - the independence and freedom of the multinational people of Russia in determining their political,

Economic, social and cultural development, as well as territorial integrity, the supremacy of the Russian Federation and its independence in relations with other states.

Sovereignty of the Russian Federation is "a natural and necessary condition of existence

Statehood of Russia, which has

Centuries-old history, culture and established traditions "(Declaration on State Sovereignty of the RSFSR of June 12, 1990).

The prerequisite for the formation of a sovereign state is the nation as a historical and cultural union of people.

The multinational people of Russia are the only bearer of sovereignty and the source of state power.

The Russian Federation is composed of the rights of individual peoples of Russia, and therefore the Russian Federation guarantees the right of every people of Russia to self-determination within the territory of the Russian Federation in the national-state and national-cultural forms it has chosen, the preservation of national culture and history, the free development and use of their native language etc.

Structural elements of GS RF:

1) Independence and independence of the government of the Russian Federation;

2) the supremacy of state power throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, including its individual subjects;

3) territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. Independence and Independence

Government authorities of the Russian Federation assumes that the Russian Federation independently determines the directions of both domestic and foreign policy.

In order to ensure the right of the RF government to an independent definition of politics, economics and other spheres of society, the Constitution establishes:

1) the completeness of the power of the Russian Federation in dealing with all issues of state and public life, except for those that it

Voluntarily transferred to the jurisdiction of the subjects of the Russian Federation;

2) the supremacy of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the laws of the Russian Federation throughout its territory;

3) the exclusive right of the people to own, use and dispose of the national wealth of the Russian Federation;

4) plenipotentiary representation of the Russian Federation in foreign relations;

5) the right of the Russian Federation to exercise its powers in all forms provided for by law.

The supremacy of state power in the Russian Federation is the rule of the federal state authorities in regulating Russia's internal relations with its subjects.

The highest legal force in the Russian Federation is possessed by: the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws and federal laws in relation to the laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation.

The sovereignty of the Russian Federation presupposes the integrity and independence of the territory of the Russian Federation.

The territory of the Russian Federation includes the territories of individual administrative-territorial units that have a certain degree of statehood - subjects of the Russian Federation,

However, the territory of the Russian Federation is a single whole and is indivisible.

Subjects of the Russian Federation are not entitled to withdraw from the Russian Federation, thereby changing its grants, they are entitled to establish and change only administrative-territorial

Borders within the Russian Federation.

The Russian Federation has its own official state symbols that determine its sovereignty in relations with foreign

States.