The problem of the departization of state power in the Russian Federation after 1993

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to consider departization of the top executive officials in the Russian Federation after 1993 as a systemic legal and political problem, which in the new historical conditions has acquired a slightly different connotation than in the late Soviet years. The subject of the research is contradictions related to the necessity of compliance of the top leaders of the executive bodies of the Russian Federation with the outdated legislative norms and requirements to departization in the conditions when the objective situation dictated to the government officials and loyal governors the need to consolidate under the auspices of the new “party of power”. Scientific novelty and relevance of the research lies in the almost complete absence of works devoted to the study of the process of departization of the Russian executive power in 1993–1999, based on the consistent application of the principles of historicism, as well as formal and legal, systemic and problem-chronological approaches. The study of this issue allows us to better understand the roots of the contradictions of the modern political system of the Russian Federation. In the course of the study it was concluded that the time from the end of 1993 to 1999 can be considered as a certain transitional period when the society was gradually getting rid of the rudiments of the former one-party dictatorship, and the weakened post-Soviet bureaucracy had no incentives and resources to build a new “vertical of power”. Therefore, the legislation regulating the party and political status of the federal and regional chiefs was not distinguished by its integrity. This circumstance left the question about the prospects of official departization of heads of executive bodies of power.