Ewolucja formowania składu Rady Federacji Zgromadzenia Federalnego Federacji Rosyjskiej
Evolution of the Creation of Composition of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Summary/Abstract: The Constitution of the Russian Federation of 5 December 1993, establishing a bicameral parliament (the Federal Assembly), does not provide specific rules for determining the composition of the upperchamber — the Council of the Federation. The authors of the Constitution restrict themselves todeclaration that this authority shall consist of includes two representatives from each subject of the Russian Federation (one from the legislative and one from the executive body of state authority), while the adoption of the procedure for its selection has been left for federal laws. The solutions establishedso far in this respect have proved to be unstable. The Federal Law of December 5, 2012,adopted the current procedure for creating the composition of the Council of Federation, the fourthsince its inception. All the solutions so far existing which are presented chronologically in the articlerefl ected different concepts of representation of the Federation’s subjects and were usually dictatedby current policy goals. They were of a unique character in comparison to the methods used forcreating compositions of second chambers in other federal countries. Moreover, they were subjectof permanent and lively disputes between the Russian constitutional law and political science theorists, also described in the article.

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