About federal districts in the Russian Federation
In the article, based on the analysis of legal literature and legislation regarding federal districts in the Russian Federation, several judgments are made: The Russian Federation, as a subject of international law, is a federal state; the elements of the federal structure of the Russian Federation are: the state - the Russian Federation; the subjects of the Russian Federation; an exhaustive list of subjects of the Russian Federation is regulated in Article 65 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation of December 12, 1993, with subsequent amendments and additions; for inclusion of federal districts in the list of elements of the federal structure There is no legal justification for the Russian Federation; an exhaustive list of federal districts is provided for in a subordinate regulatory legal act, namely, in the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation «On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District» № 849 of May 13, 2000.