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Constitution of the Russian Federation 2022 - Russian Federation - Russia and the Republics Legal Materials - Second Series
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Preview Page We, the multinational people of the Russian Federation, united by a common fate on our land, affirming the rights and freedoms of man and civil peace and harmony, retaining the historically-formed State unity, proceeding from generally-recognized principles of equality and selfdetermination of peoples, honoring the memory of ancestors who transmitted to us love and respect for the Fatherland and faith in good and justness, renewing the sovereign Statehood of Russia and affirming the inviolability of its democratic foundations, endeavoring to ensure the well-being and prosperity of Russia, proceeding from a responsibility for the Motherland to the present and future generations, aware of being part of the world community, adopt the Constitution of the Russian Federation. SECTION ONE Chapter 1. Foundations of the Constitutional System Article 1 1. The Russian Federation - Russia is a democratic federated rule-of law State with a republic form of government. 2. The names Russian Federation and Russia are of equal significance. Article 2 Man, his rights and freedoms are the highest value. Recognition of, compliance with, and defense of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen shall be the duty of the State.
William E. Butler, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London, attached to University College London, is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Founder and Director of The Vinogradoff Institute.
An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 3,500 books and articles on Russian, Soviet, Kazakhstan, Ukrainian, Uzbekistan, and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He has acted as Counsel to the EBRD, European Union, World Bank, United Nations, and Department for International Development of the United Kingdom on individual law reform projects.
The recipient of numerous honors for his service to Russian and international law, Professor Butler is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Associate of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and Member of the Russian Academy of Legal Sciences. He has been elected to his fourth term as a member of the Russian International Court of Commercial Arbitration. In 2003 Professor Butler was awarded the G. I. Tunkin Medal by the Russian International Law Association.
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