The Russian Federation

Constitution of the Russian Federation

as approved by
RF President Boris Yeltsin
And Submitted To National Referendum In December 1993.
Last update: 16/11/97

REFERENDUM IN DECEMBER 1993

BODY:

We, the multinational people of the Russian Federation, united by a common destiny on our land, asserting human rights and liberties, civil peace and accord, preserving the historic unity of the state, proceeding from the commonly recognized principles of equality and self-determination of the peoples honoring the memory of our ancestors, who have passed on to us love of and respect for our homeland and faith in good and justice, reviving the sovereign statehood of Russia and asserting its immutable democratic foundations, striving to secure the wellbeing and prosperity of Russia and proceeding from a sense of responsibility for our homeland before the present and future generations, and being aware of ourselves as part of the world community, hereby approve the CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

1.  Fundamentals of the Constitutional System

2.  Rights and Liberties of Man and Citizen

3.  Russian Federation

4.  President of the Russian Federation

5.  Federal Assembly

6.  The Government of the Russian Federation

7.  Judiciary

8.  Local Self-Government

9.  Constitutional Amendments and Revisions

10. Concluding and Transitional Provisions

Gallery

1. Chronology - President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. (2 pages)

2. Who is Who

Regulations. Economy. Stock Exchange.

1. Federal Commission on Securities and the Capital Market of the Russian Federation. (3 pages)

2. Report from Center for Strategic and International Studies. (2 pages)

3. RUSSIA - Economic & Trade Overview. (2 pages.)

4. Executive and Legislative Newsletter, No. 25

5. Operations in Russia for Foreign Investors.

6. Indices and Price Charts for Russian Market.

7. New Criminal Code.

8. Regulating foreign economic activities.

General Information.

1.  Shareholders' Rights Program.

2.  Doing Business in "Wild East".

3.  Gazprom - Russia to sell gas shares overseas.

4.  Decree of the President of the Russian Federation (Taxes).

5.  Who Are They, the Saviours of Russia?

6.  Investing in a small place: Pushkin pushes for foreign investment.

7.  Radio message by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

8.  Russia to collect debt(!) from who?

9.  Stealing Russia!

10. Waves of grain at a standstill in Russia.

11. "The Fighters Have Passed Midpoint".

12. Berezovskiy's Financial Dealings Examined

13. Billions In State Assets May Be Sold Next Year

14. Mafia In Russia.

15. Who are the Chechen?

16. A brick -- the optimists' weapon.

17. The Plot Thickens.

18. Awaiting the Second Bullet.

19. Interview with the secretary of the Security Council, Ivan Rybkin.

20. Norilsk Nickel.

21. The mystery of the Russian President's "Nuclear Briefcase".

22. "The law of the jungle" in Russian business.

23. The looting of Russia. (smuggling)

24. Night Flight-the Swedish Night Club.

25. The Art Of Living Without Pay Checks.

26. "Zero Hour Draws Near"

27. "Radionov Plays the Banker".

28. Crime!?.

29. Where Cash Isn't King.

30. Russian Business Is Alive And Well ... in Cyprus.

31. Top Spy Kovalyov.

32. Russian economy shrinks.

33. Conversion of Defense Industry.

34. Aleksandr Lebed - "A General Without an Army".

35. Russian Bad Boy Bashes Big Macs.

36. Moscow Celebrates 850th Birthday.

37. Privatization Programme for 1998: More Openess.

38. Moscow's Annual Hot Water Shutdown is a Whiff of the Past.

39. Russian Conference Calls bring Excitement to Expats.

40. I Am VADIM, Lord of The Underground!

41. Uneximbank Has Connections and Influence Everywhere.

42. Russian Banks, Who's Who?

43. G.A. Zyuganov.

44. A short tour of Moscow/Russia. (2 pages)

45. Russian prisons sinking - Amnesty.

46. Russia's twelve robber barons. The Oligarchs.

47. Madness rages.

Tidbits.

1.  March 1997.

2.  April 1997.

3.  May 1997.

4.  May, June, July 1997.

5.  June, July, August 1997.

6.  August, September 1997.

7.  September, October 1997. (2 pages)

8.  November 1997 to February 1998.

9.  March 1998.

10. April 1998.

Flags.

1. Flags of Russia.

Country Information - Facts.

1. Registering Contracts in Ukraine.

2. Resource Guide to doing Business in Central and Eastern Europe. (2 pages)

3. Baltic States Good, Better, Best.

4. A White God in Minsk.

5. Lithuania. (2 pages)

6. Azerbaijan.

7. Ukraine - Standard of Life Approaches its Lowest Point.

8. Russia: Any light at the end of the tunnel?

Central Asia,
the former states of USSR.

1. Political Situation - Central Asia. (5 pages)

2. Askar Akayev, President of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan.

3. Abulfaz Elchibey, former President of Azerbaijan.

History and Present,

from Tsar Peter, Lenin, Stalin, World War II, Cuban Missile Crisis to Yeltsin.

1. From the Pre-Petrine Period (year 860) to Present.

2. Soviet Directory, an Introduction.

3. Russia. October -93.

Link To Useful Web Sites.

Contents: former USSR Part 1.
Contents: former USSR Part 2.

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