Title of the article

Highest official in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation in the system of public authorities: novelties of legal regulation

 Authors 

Daria I. Artemova — Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Justice, Penza State University, 40 Krasnaya street, Penza, 440026, Russia, artdarya@yandex.ru

 Category 

PUBLIC LEGAL (STATE LEGAL) SCIENCES

Year,.Volume, Number 

2023, Vol. 11, № 3 (43)

 Pages 

69-79

 Article type 

Original article

 Index UDK 

342.41

 DOI 

10.21685/2307-9525-2023-11-3-7

 Abstract 

Background. The principle of unity of public authority is being implemented both in federal legislative acts and in legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the real implementation of this principle shows its restrictive interpretation, which, in fact, confines only to the unity of public authorities, i.e. only to the organizational element, without reflecting the essential characteristics of the power itself. Such an understanding carries certain risks, since it is aimed at limiting the autonomy of public authorities (its bearers), which ultimately leads to reassessing the federal principles of Russian statehood. The goal of the work is to identify the vectors of law-making policy in the essence of the principle of unity of public authority, enshrined not only in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, but also in a number of federal laws. Materials and methods. This goal is achieved through the main scientific methods and approaches developed by legal and philosophical sciences, among which it is necessary to highlight the dialectical method used to analyze the central problems arising from the topic under consideration, in conjunction with the concepts and categories developed in legal science. Other general scientific methods, such as analysis and synthesis, description and generalization, classification and analogy, deduction and induction, are applied. Results. The status of the highest official in the hierarchy of state authorities is investigated; the historical and modern stages of reforming power centralization are analyzed; the stages of forming relations between the center and its regions are revealed; the reasons are considered. Conclusions. The constituent structure of the Russian Federation as a form of territorial organization of public authority should ensure the most effective management, functioning and interaction of public authorities in the state, therefore, should be able to change synchronously with the requirements of the developing federation. The practice of recent years has shown that the transformation of the constituent structure of the Russian Federation in the interests of Russia's domestic and foreign policy can take various forms and sometimes require quick and effective solutions, which is possible only if there is an organized and effective legal model of such transformation and well-developed legal procedures based on a set of mutually agreed constitutional and legal norms.

 Keywords 

highest official, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, executive power, centralization of power

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Artemova D.I. Highest official in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation in the system of public authorities: novelties of legal regulation. Elektronnyy nauchnyy zhurnal "Nauka. Ob-shchestvo. Gosudarstvo" = Electronic scientific journal "Science. Society. State". 2023;11(3):69–79. (In Russ.). doi: 10.21685/2307-9525-2023-11-3-7