On the Relevant Problems of the Constitutional Liability of Supreme Government Authorities and Officials in View of the Introduced Amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the amendments made to the Constitution of the Russian Federation from the point of view of their influence on the development of the institution of constitutional legal responsibility, the issues of constitutional consolidation of certain measures of state coercion, the emergence of new forms of implementation of constitutional and legal responsibility and possible problems of their application are examined. The aspects of the preservation of incomplete regulation of the key provisions of the grounds for the application of constitutional and legal sanctions affecting the functioning of the system of checks and balances are touched upon. At the same time, theses were put forward on the importance of the constitutional consolidation of the responsibility of judges of higher courts, the expansion of the subject and institutional composition of participants in the implementation of measures of constitutional and legal responsibility of the highest bodies of state power of the Russian Federation, the inherent tendencies towards the expansion of this legal institution and the degree of enrichment of the substantive value of the introduced innovations. The selected vectors for building state power, building relationships between them and measures of mutual responsibility, laid down by the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, are proposed for understanding.