Role of the President of the Russian Federation in Legal Protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation
Statement of the problem: the supremacy of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and many adopted regulatory legal documents at the federal and regional levels actualize the issues related to ensuring the compliance of these acts with the Constitution of the Russian Federation. According to Article 80 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation the President is the guarantor of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Does this rule of law have a declarative character or does it hide the great work of the head of state to protect constitutional institutions? A consistent in-depth analysis of the practical activities of the President of the Russian Federation in this sphere will make it possible to show the effectiveness of his work. The purpose of the study: to identify the role of the President of the Russian Federation in legal protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. To achieve this goal, the following main tasks are identified: - to study the concepts of “protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation”, “legal protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation”, “protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation”, to show the correlation of these categories; - describe the measures applied by the head of state aimed at legal protection of the Constitution of the Russian Federation; - give examples of practical implementation of the powers of the President of the Russian Federation to ensure constitutional legality in the country. The methodological basis of the research was the general scientific methods known to science (system-structural, generalization, comparison, analysis and synthesis) and private-science methods (formal legal, statistical). Results, brief conclusions: in the process of research, the author comes to the conclusion that the President of the Russian Federation as a guarantor of the Constitution of the Russian Federation as a whole responds effectively and in a timely manner to the facts of the contradiction of federal and regional legislation of the RF Constitution. At the same time, the activities of the head of state on strengthening the constitutionality should be strengthened in connection with the constant updating of the legislation.