Constitutional reforms and stability of the Сonstitution: balance finding problems
The article explores consequences of revising the Constitution. Based on 25 years of experience in implementing the supreme law of the Russian Federation, various approaches to changing the text of the Constitution are analyzed. Speial attention is paid to the analysis of proposals to reform the ...
The Kantian Concept of Human Dignity Today
... dignity has undergone in post-Soviet Russia — in everyday language, in ideological doctrines, and in legal documents. While in ordinary life dignity is increasingly reduced to access to material benefits, in its legal sense — above all in the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation — anti-communist ideology has turned it into the “right” to enjoy comfortable living conditions, being almost totally divorced from duties and from morality. Such interpretations of human dignity lead to a ...
Institution of Constitutional Complaint in the Russian Federation: Some Questions of Legal Regulation
Constitutional complaint is an efficient instrument of constitutional right protection in Russia. The judicial body dealing with such complaints is
the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. However, certain problems arise due to the legislative ...
The Welfare State (Social State) in the Russian Federation as a Constitutional Principle and its Practical Implementation
The authors are investigating the content and practical implementation of the constitutional principle of the social (welfare) state in the Russian Federation, especially the relevant state measures supporting families, birth rate and migration. Legal research in this paper is also focused on the selected state projects realized ...
On distinguishing the measures of constitutional responsibility and other measures of constitutional enforcement imposed upon the executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and their officials
This article examines the measures of constitutional responsibility and other measures of constitutional enforcement. The author puts forward several proposals regarding the classification of constitutional enforcement measures imposed on the executive authorities of the constituent entities ...
The concept “people” in the Cadet Party rhetoric
The article considers the interpretation of the concept “people” by the Constitutional Democratic Party supporters. This concept is of fundamental importance for the analysis of Cadet ideology. The concept “people” was of great political value for the Cadet party. The author correlates this concept with such notions relevant ...
Transzendentalphilosophie als kritische Bestimmung des Standpunkts. Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Annäherung
... principles but, in a weaker sense, conditions of the possibility of experience. The relation between Division One and Division Two of the “Doctrine of Elements” can be demonstrated exemplarily with regard to Kant’s references to astronomy. Based on the constitutive principles of understanding, which are directed towards the field of possible experience and provide a connection of cognition through reasons and consequences, as well as the regulative principles of reason, which form maxims of research,...
The political debate on the change of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland after the parliamentary elections of 2015
In 1997, the Constitution of the Republic of Poland was adopted. Since then, constitutional disputes have continued in Poland. After the 2015 elections, they sharpened. In addition, Polish President Andrzej Duda proposed a change to the Constitution of the Republic ...
Kant and the Constitution of Russian Federation
This article is an attempt to give I. Kant “credit” for the Constitution of Russian Federation. Of course, the articles of Constitution require significant improvement so that they adhere to the letter and the spirit of Kant’s ideas on state and law. The article stresses the need to take into account two provisions ...
Some allocation issues of the principles of uncodified branches of law
The principles of law are considered within the positivist legal understanding as the normatively fixed fundamental concept of each industry. The general legal principles enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation are thought to directly apply both in codified and uncodified industries, regardless of whether they are duplicated in industry legislation or not. The article highlights a number of problems related to the allocation ...
Antecedents to the idea of constitutional control in the French legal thought of the Enlightenment
In this article, I consider the institution of constitutional control and its development during the Enlightenment. I stress that enlighteners thoroughly disapproved of French parliaments as forerunners of modern bodies of constitutional justice and explain why this was the case. In an early modern ...
The role of constitutional courts in the mechanism of public authority responsibility in Russian regions
This article focuses on the powers of regional constitutional courts relating to the legal responsibility of regional officials and public authorities in the Russian Federation. The author analyses possible participation of constitutional courts in providing a mechanism for legal responsibility of ...
Particularities of the ratification of the European Fiscal Compact in Germany
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7. The Fiscal Compact: Europe's Not Always Able to Speak German: On the Dutch Implementing Act and the Hazardous Interpretation of the ...
The transitological dimension of constitutional changes in the Slovak Republic
The transformation of constitutional legislation in post-Communist countries follows two models: "reconstruction" and "dismantling". The Czechoslovak experience of constitutional legislation transformation follows that of dismantling. One of the positive ...
Forensic characteristics of creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs
... years among the most effective tools for infiltrating information infrastructure. In the vast majority of cases, the exploitation of malicious software is associated with gaining access to systems containing confidential information and its theft, which constitutes the least costly method for delivering and executing malicious code on a recipient’s device. Given that the increase in unlawful acts related to the creation, use, and distribution of malicious computer programs is a significant factor in ...
Trouble in the Kingdom of Ends (Rev.: C. M. Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 252 pp.)
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Moral inscrutability and self-constitution in Kant (translated from the English by V. Belonogova and D. Khizanishvili, edited by V. Chaly)
This article analyses the system of inferences used by Kant in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason to demonstrate the existence of evil disposition (Gesinnung). The author be¬lieves that, in this work, Kant introduces two innovations in respect of the fundamental project presented in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. He emphasises that freedom is not justified and postulates a transcendental structure similar to the unity of transcendental apperception in order to unify all volitions...
The content of morality as an object of constitutional and legal protection
The article develops the concept of «morality» and establishes its content as an object of constitutional and legal protection. The author analyzes some legal provisions related to the protection of public morality. Another issue which is considered in this publication is the views of researchers who studied the content of morality as a matter ...
Klochkov V. V. The tory conservative party and the “constitutional revolution” of 1832—1835 in Great Britain. Monograph. Rostov-on the Don ; Taganrog : Southern federal university publishing house, 2017. 481 p.
The review analyzes the academic monograph which examines a wide range of issues in constitutional and political history of Britain in the years 1832—1835. The reviewed book is characterized by the conceptual innovation, a sound historiographical background, thoroughness and a variety of theoretical and methodological features.
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Paradoxes of Legal Procedure in Mr. K’s Complaint to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the Defense of Pension Rights of a Serviceman
... author studies some specific legal paradoxes in the implementation of the legislation on status of militaries in the concrete case of the military pensioner K. who served relevant period but did not get the right to obtain pension. The application to The Constitutional Court of Russian Federation and some aspects of the judgment of the Court are analyzed.
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Европейское пространство высшего образования: германский опыт преподавания конституционного права
... курса «конституционное право России», преподаваемого в современных российских университетах.
The author analyses the German practice of teaching the Staatsrecht (State (Constitutional) Law of Germany) course and the main structural elements of the course. On the basis of the research conducted, several conclusions and proposals regarding the optimization of the structure of the Constitutional (State) Law of Russia course ...
On the principles of the constitutional status of a people
This article deals with the types and content of principles of constitutional status of the people of the Russian Federation. Among other principles, the author distinguishes the principle of legality, the principle of harmonious combination of personal and public interests, the principle of priority of national ...
The formation of the political elite in Lithuania at the turn of the 1980s—1990s: the role of “moral politicians”
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The European Court of Justice case of Elgafaji: the interaction between EU law and international humanitarian law
... zakona «O statuse voennosluzhawih», stat'i 32 Polozhenija o porjadke prohozhdenija voennoj sluzhby i punktov 35 i 44 Polozhenija o naznachenii i vyplate gosudarstvennyh posobij grazhdanam, imejuwim detej», 15 janvarja 2009, № 187-O-O [Defining Constitutional
Court "On the refusal to deal with complaints of Grau zhdanina Konstantin Markin a violation of his constitutional rights in Articles 13 and 15 of the Federal Law" On State benefits to citizens with children ", articles 10 ...
Different forms of parliamentarism and the factors determining the variations
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The Kashubian language through time: the history of Kashubian studies in Russia
... affiliated with Saint Petersburg academic institutions, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. These materials, derived from recordings of native speakers’ oral speech as well as from written, lexicographic, and ethnographic sources, constitute an invaluable empirical foundation for the study of Kashubian. The article offers an extensive review of the history of Kashubian studies within Slavic scholarship, situating this tradition within the broader development of Slavistics. In ...
Cancel culture: cognitive mechanisms of meaning transmission in media discourse
... mobilisation → sanction → outcome fixation. The dynamic interplay between the affirmative strategies of wokeism (foregrounding justice, equality, and inclusivity) and the sanctioning strategies of cancel culture (boycott, exclusion, ostracism) constitutes a bidirectional cognitive process. On the one hand, it ensures the reproducibility and legitimisation of emergent moral norms; on the other, it contributes to the entrenchment of collective cognitive patterns that delineate new boundaries ...
Constitutional crisis in the Republic of Estonia in 1932—1934
In the early 1930s, the Republic of Estonia faced serious economic problems, and the country’s political forces proved unable to cope with the challenges of the crisis period. The flaws of the political system were embedded at the constitutional level, which forced the parliament to initiate the process of drafting amendments to the country’s fundamental law. In 1932—1933, three nationwide referenda were held: two constitutional drafts prepared by the parliament were deemed ...
World order, imperialism and the “theory of the fourth world”. Part one
The article constitutes the first part of a broader study devoted to the analysis of Fourth World theory and the evolution of the contemporary world order. This first part presents the results of a brief analysis of the differences and specific features in the scholarly ...
Citizens’ appeals within the system of documentation management of the executive authorities in 1960s — 1970s
... all citizens’ particular daily needs, such as electricity and food products supply, public utilities. The data collected from the Krasnodar Region Archive, The Nizhny Novgorod Region Archive and The Saint Petersburg Archive allow considering what constitutes the principal sources of the documents on the history of everyday life. The important information can be found in the complexes of documents, each of which concerns a particular type of letter, such as covering letters from an editorial office ...
Mass media and technologies of influence on the electoral behavior of citizens
... use of state media to secure public support for government policies remains relevant for Russia. The article analyzes the activities of the online version of the state publication Rossiyskaya Gazeta in covering the topic of voting on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, with the aim of identifying the main techniques used to influence citizens’ electoral behavior. The empirical basis of the study, conducted using content analysis, consists of 471 materials related to the topic ...
Transdisciplinarity as a mechanism of educational innovations: synthesizing pedagogical experience
Due to the relatively recent emergence of transdisciplinarity in the educational sphere, the mechanisms of innovations, whose philosophical basis it constitutes, remain insufficiently studied. The aim of this article is to present a systematic experience in which transdisciplinarity serves as a mechanism for educational innovations and contributes to achieving new quality educational outcomes or obtaining ...
‘I did know who they were’: The red horse and the white poodle in Viktor Sosnora’s The Latvian Ballad
... and the white poodle featured in Victor Sosnora’s poem The Latvian Ballad. These characters, mentioned in the final verses of each odd-numbered stanza, provide the leitmotif of the poem. Their appearance in the fictional world of The Latvian Ballad constitutes the primary event of the text. The title, indicating the genre and setting a national or local context, also significantly influences the meanings attributed to the red horse and the white poodle. The analysis pays particular attention to ...
The cognitive model of ‘NARCISSISM’ as represented in Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray
... elements such as trajectory and landmark when analysing the verbalisation of the model in question. This way, it becomes possible to describe the processes of focusing and defocusing and thus identify the most prominent features of characters in the novel constituting the immediate circle of the narcissist. The research enabled the description of a three-level cognitive model of ‘NARCISSISM’ derived from Wilde’s text. Two blocks are distinguished in the model at the basic level: ‘the narcissist’s ...
Poetic figurativeness as a foreign culture cognition instrument
... poetic exploration of the world. The identification of abstractions as conceptual domains-sources of poetic exploration of reality allowed for the complementation of the thesis about the “unidirectional” nature of metaphorical conceptualization and constituted the novelty of this research.
poetic figurativeness, metaphorically used word, conceptual domain, source domain, target domain, foreign culture space
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The Boundaries of Ecological Ethics: Kant’s Philosophy in Dialog with the “End of Human Exclusiveness” Thesis
... Nature Is Almost Certainly False. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
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Popa, E., 2021. Human Goals are Constitutive of Agency in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Philosophy & Technology, 34, pp. 1731-1750.
Quarfood, M., 2006. Kant on Biological Teleology: Towards a Two-level Interpretation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences,...
Open Use of Reason: Socrates and Kant
... form of self-sacrifice for the good of society; this led the Sophists to relativism and Socrates to the discovery of rational thinking. The conclusion is that openness, interpreted as accessibility of knowledge and the possibility of its development, constitutes the key component of rationality.
Addey, C., 2014. The Daimonion of Socrates: Daimones and Divination in Neoplatonism. In: D. A. Layne and H. Tarrant, ed. 2014. The Neoplatonic Socrates. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,...
The Transcendental Deduction of Categories as Philosophical Proof
... idea of Kant’s transcendental deduction in the Critique of Pure Reason as well as its Hegelian reading in the Science of Logic and reformulation as the very method of philosophy in the Philosophy of Right. I show what in the Kantian argumentation constituted the basis for Hegel’s own interpretation and transformation. In so doing, I highlight a ‘red thread’ between the two ideas of the transcendental deduction. I conclude by proposing a formal account of Kant’s and Hegel’s ideas and ...
Pure and Impure Philosophy in Kant’s Metaphilosophy
... Second, I critically examine four different readings of Kant’s views about the status of ‘impure’ philosophy: (a) that it is not genuine philosophy; (b) that it is bad or inferior philosophy; (c) that it is instrumentally valuable; and (d) that it constitutes an indispensable part of Kant’s philosophy, both in a theoretical and practical sense. I argue that Kant is best interpreted as endorsing readings (c) and (d). Third, I offer some concluding remarks.
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