Since September, deputies’ signatures have been being collected in the State Duma to remove from the Russian Constitution the ban on state ideology and the principle of priority of international law over domestic legislation. Higher School of Economics professor and constitutional law specialist Juliana Demesheva reviews the suggested legislation. It seems that such a controversial piece of legislation might have appeared as a result of confusion between cause and consequences. One cannot assign a subservient role to the Constitution and change its norms every time the necessity of resolving a political issue arises.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:43:20 +0000